American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-09-11
For CONGRESSMAN, FOURTH DIST
HON. o. n. SINGLETON,
Of Madison.
Gen. B. F. Butler for Hancock.
OF Madison.

1CUs Ne ouiIcF tOT F1dnCOCk-
G.'n. Benjamin L. Butler, who
has not voted a Democratic ticket
for twenty years, has come out for
speech made in Faneuil Hall, Bos>
ton, GU the 2Sih ult. All parties
agree that Gen. Butler is very
able man. although he has been
accused OF being somewhat given
TO tricks TO secure his own personal
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. He joined the
X publican party after the war
broke out, and after lis close was
by that party Elected to Congress
several times in succession. Lat
terry he has been acting with the
Greenback party, and has twice
been the nominee of that party for
Governor of Massachusetts,. For
Years the Republicans have been
swearing by him. He was their
oracle, the great expounder of their
principles, their cherished leader in
many Il tilt agains. the foremost
Knights of the Democracy. Now
lie has come cut for Gen. Hancock,
the gallant leader OF the Democrats
ic party in this Presidential con-
test. When Mr.. Butler. left the
Democratic party the Republicans
applauded with all their might and
Indignantly resented any intima~
tion that he might not have been
strictly honest in the changing of
his political coat.
1t is therefore 10 be presumed
that the Republicans will not doubt
his honesty now, bat will give him
as uaroh-4...--i.-<scs, ..s. NAL arns /!
this time as they did at the tine
when his desertion Of the Democra-
cy made them clap their hands
with glee and triumph.
Butler is the same now as he was
then. He hasn't changed at all. Il
he was honest then, he is honest
now. When he joined the Repub-
licans he did so, as he sal ], because
The Democratic party had become
corrupt. aud he pitched into Its rec
ord TO prove that it had become so,
ut lively rate. After he Joined
the Greenbackers, he held up tine
dirty linen of both the Republican
and Democratic parties for the in
rpection CT the people, and now he
cUrnes back 10 the Democratic party
because lie believes that afiiiction
and disaster have purified it and
because long and uninterrupted
lease OF power has made the Repub-
llcln party corrupt, ayaricious. and |
dishonest in all its pretensions and
dealings with the great questions at
issue before the people.
Thus has Gen. Butler returned to |
the Democratic pdrty-liis first |
love. The Republicans can ill af |
ford to spare him, as their men of
brains are becoming few and far
between, bat such is the inevitable
logic OF this campaign. Much as
desired 10 stay in the Republican
party, the nomination of GIrfield at
Chicago has driven them out, His
record is of such a characterize
indefeEsible, SO atrociOus, and his
nomination was so uncalled for, so
outrageous-5uci n LIBEL III on the
-stainlc 5 candidate that the mas
ses of the party demanded should
he nominated at Chicago-.hat the
men OF ability. of honor and fair
'eds, who see the merits and advan.
tdgcs OF moral and political con,
sistency, Indignantly refuse 10 sup
port him. IL is the Republican
party's own fault that they cannot
hold their Iormer leaders. Fear,
Iuiiy corrupt itself, to start with,
and then 10 nominate such a Lead
ing corruptiJnist as Garfield it is no
son'ier III It it's "nene, Meme, TekeI.
oPhdTst"" has already been written
iIjJn the wall.