The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-09-15

~ Ills letter 10 NTkONGF. OF
ne Louis. IS a manly declaration of his feal
ne 70 the Democratic party, and his letter
&c Sherman on the election of 1876 is gre
r State paper, worthy of the better DAYS of Il
Sc republic, and which shows him to be n
B. only man of political information, but q
Of active mind which looks ahead which ma
y ters great questions as they arise, and d
al terElines his action on mature reflection
le his letter of acceptance aud all his writing
l. stamp him as one of those rare men
L Peiitieal life who has never yet made
n mistake
g Dir Garfield, on the other hand. ha
e made so many mistakes, to say the least O
] them, that the best his friends can do fo
a hlm Is to quote the questionable compliment
OF Judge Black: Never did so good man
make so bad a politician" And vet some
OF them pretend to believe that Garfield il
: the equal of Hancock as a soldier and his
superior as statesman, when neither is
rue A Southern gentleman was recently
iskel, why Is 1t that you rebels do not for
lgiVe Garreld If you are really in earnest
labolt forgiving Hancock. who whipped Won
In he war? He answered we do forgive
Mr.. Garfield very freely for all that he ever
Euld 20 US during the war. But the truth is
we never heard of him during the war we
neye heard of his doing ANYTHING to Us to
| fprgKe, and we ara innlinad 70 iiava that
| ii an the Union soldiers had been Ike Gat@
| field, it would have been Bull Run from
| beginning to end.
| And when / hear Garfield compared to
Hancock as a soldier, it reminds me of a
sorry | read recently in Western news
Iaper: The wife had called on the hus-
| tant to cut some wood for the stove After
long struggle he managed to get off about
| swo sticks and then coming into the house,
ne said ''Wife, I was never intended to
cut wood, | AN a soldier, and | must 90 out
to help fight the Indians on the frontier"
''WAll John,' said the wife, eff you are a
solder you ought to go and help fight the
Indians, but John. if you don't do better
fighting the Indians than you do cutting
wood, it will take just about 125 such sol |
diers as you to whip one squaw, and you
will have to throw red pepper in her eyes
at that" Now, | think it will take just |
about l25 such staff butterflies as Garfield |
to make one such superb soldier as the hero |
of Gettysburg. Nor is he the equal of
HancOck as a statesman. In all the ele- |
ments essential to great political leader, |
and especially an executive officer integrity |
of character, frmness of purpose, strength |
of intellect, honesty of principle, clearness
of judgment, and GOODNESS i'll difficulties,
Hancock is certainly far superior to the
man whose friends can only shield him from
crime by claiming that he is an indocent,
overgrown boy, who could not escape the
tolls of Oake Ames, nor keep out OF the
clutches of DeGolyer
The American people will be slow to be-
lieve that man of giant intellect can be
duped by sharpers into receiving brides. If
he had been swindled out of his money, the
world might believe it, but to be swindled
into receiving money that did not belong to
him, passes credulity Garfeld's own de-
fence of himself in the Credit Mobilier
natter, admits enough to convict him. He
admits receiving money from Cakes Ames,
which he was not to return if he became a
tockholder in the Credit Mobilier. He
dmits that Oak Ames had reason to believe
lie would become stOckholder, and that he
leld this money nearly two years, until he
earned from Judge Black there would be
rouble about it before he decided not to
become a stakeholder. He admits, too, that ,
le knew whence the profits OF the stock
we're to come, and this without the damning :
of Cakes Ames, and without the :
oncIusiYe finding of the Poland Committee 5
onvicts him of moral turpitude in receiv-
ng the money and hesitating whether he {
Tould keep it or not, until threatened with /
Exposure. To elect such man to the
Presidency would set an example to debauch !
be ,--segit or t'41 ffH9 fy t0-ese"hfi5hfn9
be Spartan rule that detection and not !
heft constitutes the crime of larceny But
party which produced the Credit Mobilier I
teal, which generated the whisky rings )
nd covered them from conviC ton which s
reduced Belknap and the Post Trading s
.eals. and which stole the Presidency of :
.atesmen to call forgery clerical error u
hich got up premium for lying, in which q
gnes jerks and Eliza PinkstOn took first a
nd second money-is fifty represented by |,
5 leaders noY before the country. But the a
lachine Republicans do not represent all t,
republicans. There are honest men in the l.
epublican party, and they are ashamed of Fl
eng associated with such leaders. =
Garfield, with his name blaokened with f.
redit Mobelier stocks and DeGoyler con- f.
acts, is the machine candidate for Presi- W
ent. Chester Arthur, expelled from Office n
II his custom house frauds, is their candi- Il
ate for Yice-P PRESIDENT. Il
Marshall Jewell, leather dealer, who, e
lille Minister to Russia, disgtaoed his il
,untry by taking advantage of his Off a
al position to learn their valuable method a.
the Executive Committee. And Pat m
rson, the twin brother of Garfield in
redit Mobilier business, is superintendent al
Education, in New Hampshire; to show h,
} doubt how honest they are in the plat II
rnl declaration about public schools A b,
ting leadership for party who stole the c
once, and are II" dol. nrenar- ;.
g to steal it again. The people are tired 7,
corruption. They are tired of that N
welsh uncertainty which comes from the
Iercise Of unconstitutional and arbitrary .,
ethods of government. They are tired of e.
lie usurpations and the reckless extrava- =
nee of the Republican party. They wish q,
return once more to the honesty, the r
onomy, the simplicity and the certainty
Democratic men and Democratic meas Ia
res. h.
The Republican party is alarmed at the n
ospeets and for this reason recently held a
! extraordinary meeting at 9th Avenue m
otel in New York City, to avert the dam O.
II if possible. In
It was molly crowd gathered together az
ual to the witches stew in Macbeth. But II
)nkling, the Achilles of the party, was not Y
ere. He was no doubt sulking in his ii
Mt and grieving over the charm of his ID
st Briseis. John Logan was there, and in ca
S remarkable vernacular lifted the bloody NJ
irt and spread it to the breeze. John W
herman was there, and pretending to fear 81
ey would be crushed out in the South, he ii
Idly said, "let US wait until we can
unit them out" John is an adept at the iu
uniting out business, which he practised &C
we'll in New Orleans in 1876. But he III
ust find another Agnes jerks to assume si
e maternity of his productions before he p:
tiers on his next counting out scheme. CT
nd Mr.. Blaine, of Maine, was there, and e1
ter he finished begging for money to at de
mpt to bride the honest voters of Maine,
proceeded to misrepresent Gen. Han Sc
ok. Failing to appreciate the modesty of Is
gentleman, because Gen. Hancock did pc
It puff himself in his letter of acceptance, "
charged Gen. Hancock with being ne
hamed of his military record. I do not tn
sh to speak unkindly of Mr.. Blaine, but de
1T he a nice man to criticise the military th
cord of any ones He is nice man, who ag
longed to Artemus Wards Battalion, who ar
rived his country with substitute and W
Is ready to sacrifice all of his wife's rela- w
ms, to talk sneeringly about a gallant ri
Idier, who, after repelling the most be
rious confederate charge of the war, fell at b
Q head of his column And let me say,
that our mother earth sell j a