American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-06-26

that the nominee will neglect no step
necessary to retain stalwart support.
To the doubtful voters it will be even
less satisfactory; but in their compare
tive freedom from party tres these will
turn their eyes hopefully, as the De-
mocracy does with confidence, to Gin
cinnati for the looming man," who is
to purge the Executive Department of
the Government of its corruptiOns and
its subservience to ''the machine"
even as a Democratic Congress has
purged the Legislative Department of
its extravaganza and of the lobby
Detroit Free Press.
| General Garfield is well known in this
city personally, and has many friends
socially. He is an affable gentleman,
but with very deep-seated and bitter
partisan prejudices, while he has more
ability then Hayes whom he foisted into
the Presidency. He will hesitate at
nothing to achieve party success. Al
ways living in strong Republican
district, and having had his own way,
he is intolerant toward his political oppo-
nents. He is man of scholarly attain
ments, but lacks executive aptitude.
Nor, in the language of Murat Halstead,
the Cincinnati Commercial, "does he
possess the edge and point of character
essential to a large leadership" He has
many weak points in his record, which
will now be brought prominently before
the public, his political opponents hav-
ing heretofore been blind to his faults
and handling them with great deal of
leniency. He will run about as well in
Ohio as any other Republican, but he is
not as strong with the masses as Foster.
Garfield has many bitter enemies within
his own party, and his success in
political life comes from the fact of his
being a resident of strong stalwart
District. Had he lived in close
District he would have been retired
long ago. When he gets under fire
through the State, the flash of triumph
his friends expect will vanish into a
wall of despair Cleveland OHIO Plain
dealer.
The ticket is Garfield and Arthur
combination and Conkling. The Con-
vention was shamed into permitting the
brilliant New York Senator to name the
second man on the ticket. The Chicago
Convention was in session one week.
The Presidential possibilities of the
Secretary of the Treasury lie buried be-
meath the treachery of alleged friends
and the cold indifference or contempt
of his party; the Presidential corpse OF
Blaine after this second defeat, is for
ever shrouded in corruption and despair.
The departing Convention leaves behind
it the recollection of bowling thugs and
thieves, of debauched delegates and
ambitious candidates to attack and injure
the most illustrious name the party
holds, and disgraceful wrangles marked
the week, and the week planted resent
ments which will bear bitter fruit in
November. These are among the re-
suits of the weeks work. The most
notorious self-seeking candidates, bear
ing names not without tarnish, made
most venomous and malignant attack
upon the commanding candidate, who
had not asked for the nomination, and
of these assailants Garfield is the heir.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
1t required no extraordinary sagacity
to foresee that the three principal con-
testants at Chicago would destroy each
other and SO fix on Mr.. Garfield as the
most probable recipient of the highest
honor. In some points of view there is
ground for general congratulation. As
to ability, he is equal to the Presidency
in these degenerate days, and superior
to the present incumbent; but for one
or two blots on his character while
member of Congress, no objection to
him could fairly be urged on the score
of integrity. The most obnoxious point
in his history outside his Credit Mobilier
is the fact that he was one
of that obnoxious eight of the Electoral
Commission banded together to stife
the numerous frauds at the base of the
title, and a conspicuous
champion to thwart the public will and
cheat Samuel j. TiIden out of the
Presidency. The nomination of Ches-
ter A. Arthur for Vice. president, who
was dismissed from office by the Presi-
dent, was simply a sop extended to
Conkling to appease him, and instead
of adding strength to. will weaken the
ticket, especially in New York.-Boston
Post.
Out of this seething mass of corrup-
ton James A. Garfield, of Ohio, has
been thrown to the surface, and has
been named as Republican candidate
for President. Garfield is man of
more than average ability. He stands
IS equal of the most dangerous man
in the Republican party. He has been
, long time in Congress, and was re-
Gently elected to a seat in the United
States Senate. He is the successor of
Joshua r. Giddings in the House of
most damaging proofs of his venality
md jobbery in legislation, his constitu-
ents have chung to him and pushed him
forward. Garfield is known to be one
If the most corrupt men in Congress.
His record is saturated with legislative
niquitics, and from the day that he en-
cred public life he has been alder and
lbetter of the most pronounced rascal
ties that were ever engineered through
Congress. He stands forth as politi-
al jobber, base, criminal and unscru-
,ulous. The record is against him, and
he Republican press will be required
o whitewash him xnd defend him. He
s as corrupt and rotten as Blaine.
The more his record is aired the more
epulsve it will appear, and the Demo-
ratio party has abundant cause for fe-
over the decision of the Chi
ago Convention Indianapolis Sentinel.
When the Republicans wanted
wo-thirds vote in the United States
senate, they turned out Senator Stock
on, of New jersey, who had n much