American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-10-08


: poly samy.
How do thc Independents OF TIVE
years ago feel as TO the iseu!arit,
Of the present tick It and its nomi
ua.ionsi
want fair count. It SCENT
that no amount of experience vii
ever teach a sorehead which IS til,
iair end of goat.
MISSION of the independents
each individual to see how badly h:
can fool the rest Of The party as t.
his politics, and his Intentions foI
the future.
WHY is it that proposition has
been made to get Ben Fields, nj
honest colored republican, off the
board of commissioners, and put
en- an independent?
WHY does the independent parl
of the Mail not float its state ticket
from the masthead! Are they
ashamed of it, or IS there hot some
disagreement in camp?
CoLoNE- Handy says he started
out upon a salary of thirty dollars
| per month, and has continued to
rise unit! reaching his present pc
sition. Lives Of all great men re-
mind us, SC.
On, no! No bo5tailed conven-
tons tor us. We do without any
convention at all. As Crockett said
to the coon, we say: "Come down,
! OIlIe," and he comes. We then say /:
/ ''Go up, colonel" and lie goes.
WHO introduced the so>cal!ed
''boucbon resolution" into the coun-
t. convention, which denied the
right to vote to all except true and
tried democratsf Judge j. w.
Downs, the present speaker for the
independents.
THE Mail seems to be fighting the
battles of the radical party OH the
tax question. Who is the editor of
the confusion part of the NGds Ir
he is republican we wish to know
him, as we desire TO see livcIe
publican on that side.
WANTED, a solicitor, to forever
sever tho marital connection now
existing between colonel Inlepend-
ent and Miss Greenback. Solicitors
applying are informed that an AFT
davit as 10 pon>collusi0n will DO
furnished by the plaintiff.
The tax levy in this county il, 1874, wns
81 10 on the 81 600. See auditors report
So says the confusion part of the
Mall. Well, show it to US, We
have looked and can't see it. How
is that for high? See tabulatcd
statement elsewhere iii this issue.
WILL captain. Emmett Ross tell
the public through bis part of the
Maa the proposition that colonel
VIM. Handy made to him when he
engaged him as clerk in writing
up the census, as he has told it 10 |
gentlemen on the streets? |
What about the fifteen dollars?
81 SAY. Bill, Of a Teller tried to
cheat you out'n fifteen dollahs oh |
your hard earnin's, would you sell
dat same Teller half our house fur
d0IlahA fur three |
nm den lib wild himf"
mo, Jim. Why, what's de mat
tab now7"
"Nuffn'r'
WHY is It that the Independents
ire SO scarce on the street this
week? Because the Mail char ed
asst week that three men controlled
Ire last election and two thousand
TOtes, and as almost the last mcth-
r's son of them are old democratic
they think the Hat made
strike at them.
COLONEL Handy never sought
he. nomination, lie says. Then
was mistaken when they
Tipped out OF the independent eau
us, and said that colonel Handy
lad made speech before them, in |
ghich he stated that he was the
nan to nominate for the Legislature, ,
Or ne represented the mercantile
he legal and the working men.
II SAY, Bill, dat man kurnu'
handy won't do"
"What dc matter wild you now, :
im7'
"Didn't you hyar him say in HIS |.
pecch dat he was homes, and when
G was census boss he wouldn't !,
teal anythink." .
sDon'r you let dat fool you, nIg> ;,
er. Dere wasn't nuflin' in dat Of !,
$ ter steal.' a
ssi don't know bout dat, Bill. =
ap'en Emmett Ross say he tried =,
II go fur him fur fifteen dOllahs !,
lille he was his clerk" ~
,Irat;c., real estate IN 1871. a
State tax, l1m. iS3,l IS is. d