Show A despicable POLITICAL CUSTOM tm los angelee california herald states that a gentleman of that city recently wrote to gen sherman bherman a aking asking king if it is a fact that gen stoneman failed to sustain the honor of t the he union army at macon he lelo received the following reply of course it is not the fact but if I 1 undertook to correct errors made purposely to deceive I 1 would have to leave this world by the first train VV NV to gen stoneman has haa been running as a political candidate and as a matter of course has been lied about by his hla opponents it is a disgraceful fact tact that in this country neither a candidate for office nor any one who takes a prominent part in supporting him can reasonably hope to 6 escape slander blander irom from the pro feas ional nal nai politicians on the other side athas it has been just jush J ush the bame game during the canvass just closed in utah tido the so called Libe liberal rail ralp stump speakers are politicians in the commonly accepted sense bense of the term familiar with political tricks and i ao ac customer cub cus tomed lomed to political nta lion tion and they have exercised the tactics of their tribe ad libi tum but if the representatives of the peoples peopled party were to under undertake take tahe to correct errors mad made e purposely to deceive by those liberal orators they would have to retire from any other duty and employ their whole time at the business wo we have the consolation of knowing that there was no way for fur advantage to be taken of the principles or utterances of the peoples speakers except by warping garbling and misquoting mis quoting them ana and the very gentlemanly prevaricators who descended to ania this common but dr despicable kind of war wan fale faie are perfectly welcome to the a advantage they have gained by it the election returns are satisfaction enough to the peopled peoples party and their representatives |