American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-07-24
POLITICAL POINTS,

mo stain on his record as q SOL
dier, no reproach against his character
as citizen. Hancock is as completely
the antithesis of Garfield as honesty is
of dishonesty. We want the agreeable
variety of q President with pure hands.
-Erchange.
If Credit Mobilier' crushed
Schuyler Colfax, why not GarfeldF
COlfax was more sensitive, and shrunk
away from its crushing effects. Gar
field, with more brass in his makeup,
checked it through. TheRldical party
consigned the one to obscurity while it
Indiana Sentinel.
- Colfax and Garfield were in the
Credit Mobilier dicker to precisely the
same extent. The people of Indiana
have not been very clamorous for the
Cakes Ames' terrible exposures. Nor
to do for Garfield what he has not been
able to do for himself.-Erchange.
- The cool way the third-termers
drop into line and undergo reconstruc-
ton reminds one of the old salt who was
navigator. 81 know every rock, snag
and obstruction in these waters" and
just then, with a thud, the vessel
struck, "and that" he imperturbably
added, lis the very worst of them. -
st. Louis Times.
The charges made against Cen
eral Hancock thus far are decidedly
dana ring. Item, he is a gentleman;
item, a graduate of West Point; item,
an Episcopalian; item. corset-wearer;
item, he was engaged in an expensive
Indian war; item, Mrs. Surrat. was
hung. These things are enough to
make an American citizen forswear the
land of his birth. Chicago Times.
- The New York Herald tells
General Garfield that ''if he has moth
ing to confess or explain, if the whole
Credit Mobilier story and whole De
Golyer story are malicious fab
rications," he should begin proceedings
against the New York San. and we
suppose other papers that have quoted
the records against him, for libel. The
is a good one. If injustice
has been done the Republican candl-
date, the courts would doubtless protect
and vindicate him.
General Garfield, it appears, is
I" too judicial minded to be bitter
partisan This is an improvement on
his condition in 1876, when he was
visiting statesman in Louisiana, and pre-
tended to believe the terrible tales of
Eliza Pinkston and Madison Wells.
Also upon his condition in 1877, when
he was member of the Electoral Com
and decided that the truth was
in Oregon, but Gtiunde in
Y. World.
Mr.. Blaine's nomination for Pres
ident was twice defeated by the pre-
vailing belief that his hands were not
quite clean. A candidate whose private
character is not above suspicion is a
heavy load for a party to carry in close
canvass. If the facts in Mr.. Garfield's
record and the opinions of Republicans
in 1873 about his connection with the
Credit Mobilier bribery had been as
well known to the country three weeks
ago as they are to-day, he could not
have been nominated. The number of
everywhere who are ask
ing themselves whether Mr.. Garfield is
a fit man to receive the votes of honest
men for President is very large.-N Y.
Sun.
We have "got'' you on that ticket,
You never sought states
men for your candidates. You prefer
to be the "war party" You put Grant
in two terms because he was Union
soldier; you put Hayes in one term be-
cause he was Union soldier; you nOmi-
mated Garfield because he was Union
soldier We now give the country a
Union soldier. the superior of all these
men. We now give the country Union
soldier whose orders and letters during
an important period Of our history show
him to be also statesman. You can
not match him. You have not matched
him. Go back to your old moldy drivcl
about "rebels" and loyalty. and you
will make your defeat only more over
The people OF the United
States, through the length and breadth
Of the Union, will show you that they
will not put up with bilious Republican
leaders who have never advanced be-
yond the year 1864, and who see no
hope for office except in the generation
of disunionism. hatred and sectional
ism. That party is the party OF dis
union which fails to recognize all sec
tons of our country as equally Ameri-
can, equally true to the Constitution
and the laws. -LoutsviVe Courier-Jour-
nai.