Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-09-03
POLITICAL ITEMS.

Ku-KluxKlans now call themselve!
Seymour knights.
The former Democratic majority il
Montana was reduced 500 i'll the late
! election. .......t - a.--
A Minneapolis letter says: The people
! of Minnesota are good for ten Thousand
majority for Grant and Colfax.
The Democratic roughs in New Or
leans call themselves Blair-guards-s
good name, but not spelled quite right.
The French citizens of Detroit have
organized Grant and COlfax Club, anG
propose to prosecute the campaign in
their city with vigor.
Gen. Robert G. Schenck has been re.
nominated for Congress by the Republi.
cans OF the lid District OF Ohio. Oi
course he will be reelected. .n
| The Cincinnati Gazette predicts thai
Hamilton County will give /, 800 major,
ity for Grant and CoifaX. That viii cook
Mother Cary's chicken, Sam. .r- r-
The Newark Daily Advertiser is con.
tident the Republicans will carry New
Jersey. The Advertiser is politically
the best posted paper i'll New-Jersey.
At Democratic meeting at Portland,
Me-, last week, one Latham, who was
whipped during the war far trampling
on the Union flag, was one of the speak
ers.
! COMPLIM MENTARY.- Charles w.
Roberts, of Bangor, who is stumping it
for the Democracy in Maine, said in a
late speech: "TGke ont the churches and
| teniperance societies and there iOiU be
nothing left Of the Republican party.
! IA T.,
have formed Grant and Colfax Club at
Providence, with Gen. Burdside as chief
The Memphis soldiers and sailors have
formed a seymour and Blair Club, with
! Gen. Albert Pike as chief. Boys in blue,
and boys in gray! a..' ...
a National Convention of Soldiers and
Sailors will be held in Philadelphia on
or about the lst of October. All Govern
ors of States during the war, and all
present Republican Governors, are to
be invited, and Generals Sherman, Sher-
idan, Thomas, Meade and others, are
expected. .t -,-a a-..t at
Nix. WINsLow S. PIERCE, of Indian
apolis, a brother-in-law of Senator Hen
I bricks, and a delegate to the New York
! Democratic Convention, has abandoned
Seymour and Blair. He is the writer of
an i.side history of that Convention,
which Eastern journals enormously
credit to Winslow s. Lewis.
/ Col. r. b. Thorpe, formerly the COM
! panion of Prentiss, Benjamin Clay, and
other brilliant men, is strong advocate
for the election of Grant and ColfaX.-
The Colonel is an eloquent and efficient
speaker, and thoroughly understands
the situation at the South. He should
J he thrown into the thicEpst of tile fipht
The Raleigh IN. c. Standard refers to
the following wager: 1--WE proposed in
recent issue to bet box of cigars that
the Hon. Nathaniel Boyden would sup
port Grant and Colfax. We are now
willing to go another box that Grant
and Colfax will carry the With Congress
sonal District, heretofore the stronghold
of Zeb Vance and the lost cause Who
takes the bet?'
The Pittsburgh Gazette says there is
hardly a village from one end of Penn
sylvania to the other but contains q Grant.
and Colfax Club. Never before in the
Commonwealth We're the people so thor
oughly aroused and organized to secure
the triumph of Republican principles. =
IT says the State may be set down as
certain to give at least 10000 majority
for Hartranft and Campbell in October,
and nearly double that number for Grant
and CollaX in November.