Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-08-09
A PIrIFUL CASE.

country will ever be President.
 PIrIFUL CASE.
 If MT. Curtis could have Lis choice To doubt man of his refined and sen Sltive nature would, says the Phllsdel phia Bulletin, choose the scorn ,.s- good and true men rather than their pity. To make himself, by his own folly, the ob. !ect of common pity; to place himself m the public pillory where all men who love honesty and consistency must pity him; this Is a bitter lot for a man who has stood in MT. Curtis place in this country. Whit;ier's terrible pity for Daniel Webster falls upon him:
 ''EevIle him not-the Temptsr hath
 snare for all;
 And pitylLg tears. not scorn and wrath
 "Of all s' loved and houored. naught
 Save power remains
 .ali"I angels pride of thought
 Silll strong In chains.
 Then pay the reverence of o,d days
 To hIs dead fame;
 Walk backward with averted gaze
 And hide the shAme.'
 And Mir Curtis is to be pitied. The record that confronts him with its damn ing evidence of his political rnsincerity Is not an old one. There is no need to grope back to former days to learn the hollowness Of hIs political pretensions. It is his record of yesterday, made by himself in the open sight of all men, that condemns him to the pity of his fellOw-men. His own rare gift of cul- tured elOquence Is the snare that has humbled him in the eyes of the coun- try. Ills words spoken only last month before the great assemblage at Chicago are new and fresh. There has been no tIme for any doubt or confusion about the facts; no time for Mir. Curtis to change his mind. What I have written 1 have written" is his hopeless comics sion. What MT. Curtis publicly de- ciared tO be his faith in June, Mr. Cur tis publicly repudIates in July. His fall is the fali of iucifer-tha, fall that was n the meek Quaker poets mind when he wrote:
 'ScarE, would tLe angels laugh To mark
 hr.rl' soul driven.
 EIrad-isu ,,ird. down the endless dark
 From hups and heaven"'
 The whole country already knows ;h- sal pIt!fUl story. Public opinion will differ sS ro some ct it's features. Some will hold that Mr. Curtis had honest intentions when he walked the enthusiasm OI the CnlcagO convention with his brilliant tribute to the Repub- | lcan party which he has deserted and l his terrible arraignment of the Demo | cratic party which he has joined. These | will be driven to the theory of pOlitico- l insanity to explain bis woeful | end. Others will doubt the sincerity of l his Chicago speech and believe that he l was even then contemplating the fatal | plunge that be was about tn make, hid l ing his pitiiul purpose behind the mas | queTaGe of his eloquent words. It mat l ters very lIttle now whether one theory | or other is the true one. The sad result l for Mir Curtis is the same. He has ! sacrificed what ought to be, and what . he has probably believed to be, the l dearest possession of the honest man, l next tp his self-respeci, the confidence 1 and respect cf millions of the best men | or tis country. Whether his seltrespct ! has ne down with the crash or not, II 1 k nothing but the force of habit that 1 holds II mp.
 There Is no way of rescuing MT. Curtis l ftum the horrible plight into which be | has cast himself. George William Curtis. 1 hand in hand with Thomas A. Hendricks! IL l. a spectacle that Satan himself might pity. George William Curtis, the | Apostle of haman freedom, human rights, human equality; the man whose special glory 1t has been that he has ccnspicuuusly "AmericaD l. patriotism and American devotion tO l liberty, ,"-this man, with all his brilliant record and all his professed loyalty-a month aco,-to the party that has al- ways been ihe party of the best instincts, of tine highest desires Of the American people, tni- man giving himself over, with all be ever was and ever can be, tO elevate to the Presidency of the United Sta;es.-for that IS the immediate chance that be takes,a man whose whole rec ord k black with the open avowal Of every political principle that NIT. Curtis ever denounced. The open enemy of fine black man. whom be hated, Teviled md bclled with q bitter animosity, Mir. Curtis takes Mir Hendricks to hIs im- maculate bosom, with no sense of polit- ical defilementi The disloyal accOmplice of traitors when his country was appHr- entIy ID her death-thrOes, Mir. Curtis reaches up his prettily gloved hand to pnt the crown upon his headi Who can look on while this honored and distin- guished fayOrite of the Republican party makes his league with Thomas A. Hendricks and fan 10 pity him?
 Mr. Curtis stands alone Tn his bad emiucnce. He wears brand that no other American wears to-day. Out of the whole great council of the Repub- hcan party that voiced the will of that party m Chicago last month. he alone has gone over to the camp of his life long enemy. Most of the men who gathered round him. yesterday, m New Nork. are men long known for their dalliances with the Democracy. Many of them have not voted the Republican ticket for years. Most of them are of very small importance. None of them share Mir. Curtls' peculiar misfortune. For the most part, nobody cares whether they support NIT. Hendricks. with his pr1-slavery, copperhead record or not. But the Republican party did care for NIT. Gurus. It hOnored his gifts and 1t believed in his political in- tegrity. IL has heard his professions at Chicago and his denial of them at New York. and 1t lets him go to his own place with profound pity. His glory ls departed:
 When faith is lost. when honor dIes.
 The man is d-adr
 BURLINGTON Hsvkeye Rep: People of intelligence will continue to believe what George William Curtis has said of