American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-08-21
POLITICAL POINTS.

The betting in New York is all
in favor of Hancock. Hancock men
are offering commission of ten per
cent for the securing of opportunities
to bet on their candidate. N Y En-
press.
-IfGeneral Hancock would whisper
into the ear of Mr.. Carl Schurz that
Democratic success would not disturb
him in his present relations to the Gov
eminent, we venture the opinion that q
large majority of the Hessians fears
concerning the danger of such success
would disappear.-HarrisJurg (Pa)
Patriot.
The people have the voice of
statesman in the clear, unequivocal,
ringing sentences of General Hancock
letter. There is found the very ex-
preston for which the public has been
waiting. The Democratic candidate
neither mouths his phrases nor seeks to
cover with a veil OF weak words the
purpose of his speech. He is direct
and to the point.--Bost0n Globe.
- The st. Louis Times. in speak
ing of Hancock's letter of acceptance,
says: .It is admirably short, plain
and to the point There is no effort at
fine writing about it. Every voter in
the country who understands the En-
glish language can understand every
proposition it contains. 1t is just such
a letter as was to be expected from the
frank character of the man, Just such q
letter as the gravity of the occasion de-
manded."
- General Burt, who was post
master at Boston under Grant, has
come to the defense of Cakes Ames
against the aspersions of the Republi-
can press. He says that Ames told the
truth in his testimony concerning Gar
field, and that, although he is out of
politics, he is unwilling to hear the
memory of his deceased friend traduced
by the supporters of the Chicago candi-
date for the latter's benefit. General
Burt has always been Republican and
has never voted Democratic ticket, but
this year he is undecided as to his line
of duty. ...- ......
General Hancock's brief but
pointed discussion of the public policy
that most directly affects our great but
long lahguishing material interests is
replete with philosophy and statesman
ship. The declaration that public Of
flee is a trust, not a bounty bestowed
upon the holder, is not as elaborate as
George William Curtis would make it
to express his views of civil-service
reform, but it has the merit of telling
the truth in the blunt way that gives
the air of sincerity; and when he next
reminds the country that civil-service
reform must first be established by the
people in filling the electoral offices, he
the sincere friends OF a
better civil-service how to strike the
only deadly blow that can be directed
against the present evil. PHILADELPHIA
Times.
- The New York Evening Post
thinks the Democrats would be no i'm
Dlovement upon the Republicans in the
because they have been
twenty years out of Office and are
hungry. The beauty of this argument
s that like rum it grows stronger by
keeping. Supposing the Republicans
successful this year, the Democrats will
De four years hungrier in 1884, and
hence more dangerous. and so on, in
progression, until event.
tally, according to this argument, they
will probably have to be chained up to
,eep them from devouring postoffices
md custom-houses bodily without
auce. Logic is a great thing. but
When it makes the rule of the Republi-
an party a necessity as long AS our
orm of government stands, it is going
little too far.-BOstoa Post.