American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-06-05
POLITICAL POINTS.

POLITICAL POINTS.
The St. Louis Globe- Democrat,
which, it is needless to say, is a Grant
paper, remarks: "If Zach Chandler
were alive now, little Genie Hale
would take the prccaution TO put iron
plates in his pantalOons before talking
against Grant. The old man wouldn't
stand any nonsense"
The Republicans are getting no
more harmonious very fast. If only
one-half of what the Sherman papers
say of Blaine, and the Blaine papers say
of Grant, and the Grant papers say of
Blaine and Sherman is at all true, all
those distinguished Republicans should
be candidates for at least three terms
apiece in the penal institutions of the
country.-N. =. World.
The action of the House of Repre-
sentatives, under Democra tic control,
in refusing to unseat Yocum, prompts
the Washington correspondent of the
New York Herald to say that the Dem
ocrats are not as INSCRIPTIONS as the
Republicans used to be when they had
the majority, and when the rule was
laid down by the late Thaddeus Stevens,
who, being asked on one occasion how
he was going to vote, replied: (Which
is our rascalP I'll vote to seat him, of
course. "-Detroa Free Press
Does anybody imagine that Mr..
Blaine's first Administration would be
any Improvement on the second Admin
istration of General GrantP Certainly
not. General Grant as President per-
mitted and encouraged great scandals,
and there is no reason to doubt that he
would permit and encourage them
again. But if he has permitted crimes
and protected criminals, he has not
committed crimes nor is he criminal
He is not very sensitive nor a very
scrIpulous man, perhaps, but he has
given nobody the right to say that he Is
not an honest man. Can anybody say
as much of Mr.. BlaineP-N. Y. World.
- When a few weeks ago, in some
of the Southern States, Republican
Conventions were marked by brawls
and by other disgraceful proceedings,
the general tone of the press and of the
country was apologetic. But when the
tactics and conduct of the ignorant col
ored men of the South were transferred
to Chicago, and the Cook County Re-
publican Convention was conducted in
a manner that indicated a mixture OF
ignorance, boorishness, childish folly
and domineering dogmatism, there was
proceedings from bald disgrace, or the
participants therein from the charge of
outrageous folly.
Mr.. Blaine declines the second
place on the Grant ticket, even in adj
vance of any offer of it to him. We are
sorry for the gifted boomer of Maine,
but since the Indications in the Western
States that Sherman and Grant are co n
bining against him we have feared that
he might take some such discouraging
view of the prospects of his party. And
yet he would do well to think twice
about it. A Vice-Presidential nomina-
ton in the hand is worth two Presiden-
tial nominations in the bush; and it is
much better to be beaten on a Vice
than on Presidential
Y. World.
- At the conference of the colored
Methodist Episcopal Church in st.
Louis recently, DIR. Turner, the editor
printed at Philadelphia, said in the
course of speech: 1.-The negro will
not be satisfied till he is invited into
the parlor instead of the kitchen of the
white man. when he is his equal in in
telligence and in wealth. Poverty is
not the equal of wealth, nor ignorance
the equal of intelligence; but when the
poor man grows rich and the ignorant
man intelligent, then all barriers to
social equality on account of color
should give way, and social equality be
between those in wealth
and intelligence equal" DIR. Turner's
were loudly applauded.
The irrepressible Blaine partisans
ire pursuing their object with an I'M
disregard for the august
claims of the ex-Presidential chief COM
,etitor and for the peace of the party.
They are instigating meetings in all
hose districts in Pennsylvania where
heir leader possesses some strength, at
which resolutions are passed instruct
ng the delegates to vote for Mr.. Blaine.
t is assumed that these direct instruc-
ions from delegates immediate con-
tituents will outweigh the prior in
tructions of the State Convention and
him in disregarding the latter.
t is bold playing; but Mr.. Blaine is a
'old man, and he recognizes that if he
ais to break the solid Grant line of
at Chicago, his cause is
ost.-t. Louis Republican.