The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1860-07-24
Political News.

tlCkCL VIII De run IN Indiana.
Hon. j. B. Haskin declines to be a
candidate for re- election to Congress.
Hon. John Hickman, of Pennsylvania,
supports Lincoln cordially.
Hon. Thos. Corwin is supported for
reelection to Congress in the Seventh
District, by general consent.
An immense Bell and Everett ralifca-
ton meeting was held in Baltimore on
the 18TH
VIM. B. Street, of Oskaloosa, formerly
Fillmore man, but recently democrat,
supports Lincoln and Hamln.
Mr.. Douglas has been enthusiastically
greeted by his friends on his trip to Bos
ton.
The Republicans Of the 18th District
! ofOhio nominated Jno. Sherman for Con-
gress by acclamatior.
The Republican Club of Marine, Mad
ison county, H., now numbers Isl mem
bers, of whom 70 voted for Douglas two
years ago.
Col. Van Trump, of Lancaster, Ohio,
the Fillmore candidate for Governor of
that State in 1857, is now out for Lin
coin and Hamblin
A very large meeting was held in St.
Louis on the lith., to ralifv the nomi-
nation of Frank Blair for Congress-
Much enthusiasm was manifested.
The St. Louis Democrat says that Joe
Lane, in his Manuscript, begins his own
name with capital letters and God AL
mighty's without.
The telegraph reports that the Doug
las State Ratification Meeting held at In
dianapolis, Indiana, on the 18th, was
slimly attended.
Judge w. P. Brown of Woodford Co.,
Illinois, hitherto one of the wheel horses
of Democracy, has taken the stump for
Lincoln.
The Breckenridge and Lane Democrats
in Dubuque have formed a Club. and
the Times says they look as if they were
going to make gritty fight.
Out of fifteen Democratic papers in
North Carolina which have indicated
their Presidential preferences, not one
thus far supports Douglas and Johnson.
At special election held in Milwau-
kee for City Treasurer, the Republican
candidate was elected by 932 majority
Milwaukee has always been largely dem
ocratic heretofore.
Hon. Chas. Sumner addressed one of
the largest political meetings ever con
vened at the Cooper Institute on the
l1th, and made one of the finest politi
cal speeches Of the contest. He was
most enthusiastically received
Frank H. Tieman, leading citizen of
Wisconsin, chairman of the Demo cratic
Central Committee of Wisconsin has
written letter to the Madison Democrat,
giving the reasons which induced him to
abandon the Democratic party and join
the Republicans.
A. S. BELT, of Linn Co., whose con-
version from Democracy, of which he
had been heretofore prominent mem
Der, has before been noticed, has taken
the stump for Lincoln and Hamlin, and
receives hearty cursing from the Mar
ion Herald.
The Cedar Rapids Times says that a
vote was taken on the train which brought
to that city the delegates to the Demo
cratic Congressional Convention, at the
suggestion of Douglas man, and that
it resulted as follows: Lincoln, 10
Douglas, II; Breckenridge, 3.
The Randolph County, Illinois Repub-
| lican, announces that James Watt Esq
of Chester, in that county, formerly
prominent Douglas man. has announced
that he has followed the Democratic
party Gas long as any man ought 10. !"
He goes for Lincoln and Hamlin.
Geo Z. Hubbell publishes his reasons
in the Davenport Gazette for abandoning
Democracy and going for Old Abe
The Gazette says that Mr.. Hubbell has
not only been prominent and leading
Democrat, but an active worker. He is
good speaker and good writer. Every
day brings to light these conversions.
A correspondent of the Galena Id
vertiser writes from Bellevue, Jackson
county, Iowa: !" Your notice of the
vote of Bellevue was not quite correct
In 1856 the vote was-Fillmore, 8 Blu
chanan, 81; Fremont, Al. Majority
over Fremont 1873. Lincoln has now, by
actual account. Seventy Three majority
over all parties
We are all found out. The Washing
ton Constitution has discovered that the
Douglas ard Lincoln men have made a
coalition by which one or The other is to
be elected TO the Presidency: We shall
not betray anybody's confidence, but we
don't mind confessing that it IS all ar
ranged that one Of these men is to be
chosen n. Y. Tribune.
The editor of the Piqua (Ohio) En-