American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-06-21
PRESS COMMENTS.

Boston Post: Hayes now seems to take
kind of childish pleasure in assuming the
! responsibility of vetOes of Congressional
bills, and. having excited this puerile van
ity, the stalwart jockos find it much easier
| to get their chesnuts pulled out of the IRE
than formerly it was. The novelty of this
but we see no signs of its stopping as long
as Chandler and Co. stroke Hayes's head
for doing their dirty work for them.
st. Louis Globe Democrat Grant organ) !:
Talk about "nepOtism" under Grant; but
| just make John Sherman President of the
United States, and the trtle meaning, not
only of the word, but of the system, Which
it represents, will be understood. 1t will be
not nephews only, but "his sisters and bis
of the war, while Sherman was Senator, he
got every male relative he had on earth
placed on the Government payroll, and
them among the killed, wounded or miss
ing.
Chicago Tribune (anti- Grant,: The St.
Louis Globe Democrat interprets the result
of the late judicial election in Chicago to
mean that the Sherman boom is not very
strong in this city. Well perhaps it is not.
But the election does not show il. The de-
feat of the Republican ticket by an over
whelming majority was mainly due to the
fact that it had some men on 1t who repre-;
scented too exactly the kind of political
morality which prevailed in Washington
during part of the Grant regime. There
was, in fact, too much Whisky Ring politics
about the Republican ticket. Does the Globe
Democrat comprehend?
Chicago Times: Zach Chandler is credit
ed with the assertion that the nomination of
Foster in place of Taft has lost ten thousand
votes to the Republican ticket in Ohio. The
Michigan Senator's opinion is affected, Of
course, by his devotion to Grant, and the
general acceptance of the theory that the de-
feat of Taft is a victory for Grants enemies.
But an open confession of the weakness of
the ticket is curious "send- off" for the
Chairman of the National Republican Com
mittee to give it. If Mr.. Chandler has no
positive evidence wherewith to sustain his
opinion of Eos er's relative weakness, he
may be suspected of a desire for his over
throw at the polls and willingness to assist
in it as means Of demonstrating the weak
ness of Sherman Is Presidential candidate
Chicago Times: 1t was downright mean
on the part of the Buckeye Bourbons to put
u couple Of soldiers on their ticket, one of
them having lost a leg at that. Charles Fos-
ter wanted all the soldier vote for himself,
but it will be apt to be remembered, since
man is an emotional animal, and the memo
ries of the war can not be blotted out, that
while Foster was measuring dry goods at
Fostoria, chasing the nimble penny, and
capturing it, too, Ewing and Rice were both
at the front, doing good service for the
Union The memories of the war are going
to be revived with vengeance in Ohio.
There are vast number of people in Ohio,
as elsewhere, who lock always to men, and
can never discern principles or platforms
back of them. These people will remember
that Charles Foster staid at home to make a
fortune while General Ewing went to the
front to offer his life for the Union. And
that this same Charles Foster now says.
Behold the undismayed patriot-it is l."
Behold the blOod-stained traitor-it is
Ewing" Charles Foster would give doz-
en- bolts of cotton rather than buck his head
in the current canvas against Brigadier.