American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-04-09
POLITICAL POINTS.

Philadelphia Press: This way, Ma
homes menu was the little general s
battle-cry in front of Petersburg. The
Virginians seem to be going his way
again." They were then fighting for
secession. What are they doing now?
They were then killing boys in blue.
1t is hoped that they are not continu-
ing this reasonable practice Cincin-
natl Enquirer.
AS far as it was practicable Presi-
dent Garfield hasreconciled the irrecon-
cilable. The Northwest has three Cab
met officers, New England one, the
Middle States two and the South one.
There were special reasons in each case.
President Garfield, it may be surmised,
appointed Blaine to please Blaine, Win
dom to please Conkling. Lincoln to
please Grant and Logan, James to please
the Civil Service Reformers, Hunt to
please the South, MacVeagh to tickle
the Camerons without displeasing their
opponents in Pennsylvania and Kirk
wood to please himself. Charleston (S.
CO. Net1s.
The official pamphlet of the Re-
publican National Committee contain
ing the account of the Chicago Con-
vention shows that the vote which
nominated Garfield CANCELS from
from Blaine, 90 from Sherman, 10 from
Washburne, IL from Edmunds. z from
Grant and from Window. When the
time came for Presidential recogni-
ton of the work done at Chicago the
votes of Window became equal, after
the manner of lotteries, to the 2l5 of
Blaine, and, on the same principle. the
Z Grant votes embodied in Robert Lin
coin turned out to be worth more than
the Ills 98 of Sherman, Edmunds
and Washburne. But what is to be
done with the original and faithful ?
who started Garfield and stuck to him
through the thick of Conkling's
rhetoric and the thin of Eugene Hales
oratory?-M. y World.
1t is interesting to see the Re-
publicans go for the man they resorted
to unheard-of frauds and crimes to put
into the Presidency. The Boston 1rar-
eller says: "Imperator Titus was the
delight of the human race, but Presi-
dent Hayes has not been the delight
of that part of the human race which
does its voting in these United States.
He is the completest specimen of
that our Presidential history
affords. Policy ruined him. He
wished for a second term as soon as he
had entered on 'one-term' Presidency;
and to clear the way for a denomination
he supposed it would be necessary to
set up something that should be pecu-
liarly his own, and that could be pOlit-
ically patented. He found his level
when his term was about half over, and
himself altogether used up. There
never was a dcader man in the Presi-
Dental chair than General Hayes in
1881"
The nominations of Mr.. Evarts
and of Mr.. Thurman as Commissioners
to the Monetary Conference WI III is to
be held in Paris in April will con- land
the cordial approval of intelligent men
Of all parties. Mr.. Evarts has made a
special and thorough study of the sab
ect of the bi-metallic- standard during
his term of service as Secretary of
State. That the conference in question
is to be held at all is largely due to his
and his presence at its sess-
ions cannot fail to have decisive in
fiuence upon the results of the confer
ence. He will find in Mr.. Thurman a
coadjutor cordially in sympathy with
the views which he is known to enter
.ain, and what may be called the Amer
can side of the grave questions to be
discussed at the conference will be pre-
;ented, we may be sure, in man.
ler to command the respectful
not only of the States which
1ow hold to the bi-metallic standard,
out of England and of Germany also
~ Y. World.
"A correspondent has hastily COM
,iled classified list of the chloride of
,ffice seekers" that are acting as sub
'titutes for the alleged Hancock
lordes," who, in case of his election,
we're to have infested Washington. The
'esult is given as follows:
Number of men who attended school and
college with Garfield ..-.............-....1 1850
Number of men who held him in their laps
while an infant ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 800
Number of men who gave him good ad-
vice ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. --.... $50 |
Number of men who loaned him money in
the happy days of his youth --.-.-.----.- ~ |
Number of mon who recolect rescuiny
him from drowning. .......-...-.-....... 81 |
Number of men who pulled him out of
sinl-holc, into which he had rolled when -,
Sumbcr of men who loaned him horses to
ride to church - -.-.-.'....-... 40 |
humber of men who know him when he
was IA ................,......,.s,3 $3.50 |
Number of those who rccolccted to have
President ............... .....-.. ...---s $500 |
sumbcr OF captains of canalboats under
whom Garfield worked as driver of the
Number of men who worked with him I'm
the canal boat business -. -..-----.- 1S2 |
Number of editors who - first nominated"
him for the Pre- sidency .----- so |
lumber of writer's who had editorials writ
ten nominating him but left out by
pressure of other matter. go .-.---.. Oh
Detroit Free Press.