White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1868-07-30
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u-"uncle James Ketner," an cold line
Democrat" of Leavenworth, has come out
for Grant and Colfax.
rMrs. Sxisshelm was the first to detect
Mr.. Ciase's programme to secure the Demo
cratic nomination for President.
uDemocratic principles-greenbacks and
graybacks.
rA man who is in the habit Of taking a
note of whatever he sees. added up the aggre-
gate amount wagered by seven young men in
drinking saloon in Cleveland. and found it to
be s7l2.000. They were waiting for some one
to come with money enough to treat.
B"No man knoweth his sepulcher." A
sexton fell dead on Thursday at Sandusky,
Ohio, in the grave he was digging. He was
digging it for another-Providence made it his
own.
FSeymour says the government finances
constitute the most important element OF the
campaign. Blair says the question of the f
nances is of no consequence whatever. The
platform proposes that the finances themselves
shall become of no value.-Defroit Press.
AsAeRAn.-Ho. Riot o yes, Rum
"Horario seyIou-.v
1.-THE rulers Of the Democratic party
"tbat pestIlent Blair family"
1.-THE Rochester Democrat, with much
pithiness, announces the Democratic nomina-
ions; Seymour and Blair-oil and whiskey."
1.-THE Cleveland Leader says: "If you
want to make an Ohio Democrat mad, say
Blair to him.
Owe heard man hurrah for Grant yes
terday evening. We had forgotten who Grant
was.-kansas City Advertiser.
Where we're you when he thrashed so many
Of your friends, few years ago1-St. Louis
Democrat.
UThe other day an old soldier who had
lost an arm said: 81 am waiting to see if the
people of this country are going to elect He
ratio Seymour, and if they do will sw ear that
lost my arm in thrashins machine, not in
defence of my country"
D'Was 1t not well that a grayback conven
tion should adopt creenback platform and
nominate holdback candidate with a turn
back associate 2-Philadelehia Bulletin.
UA Southern Democrat pretty near'y hit
the general feeling in this section when he
said he was a converted rebel but "liable to
backslide.'
UThe Detroit Post says: 'In 1863, Sey-
nour's friends coming with blacked faces
and bloody hands from numbering draft officers
and burning the negro orphan asylum. cheered
for JEFF. Davis and the rebels. In 1868, the
rebels, led by Forrest and VALE H,mpton,
cheer for Seymour"
B7The New York Tribune, after summaris
ing the Democratic platform upon the financial
question, vigorously added: "If this is not
naked scoundrelism, where is the fs leaf -
rF"So far as the State of New York is
concerned" says the New York Herald, Eve
have no doubt that her fifty thousand MAORI
ty cast last year for the Democratic ticket will
be entirely wiped out next November. and
that the State will go about the same number
the other way"
D'The Hon. James L. Seward, exmember
of Congress, made a strong Republican speech
in Atlanta, Georgia, on the 10th inst. He
said the present ruined condition of Georgia
was the result of the teachings of such men as
,ha oI,L
soR.
1.-THE Democratic proposition to pay our
national debt by irredeemabe paper reminds
us Of the worthless fellow who boasted of how
cheap he had purchased a good horse. He
was asked show cbeap?" Why" he said 81
only gave my note"
GJohn Morrissey will enter the ring again
fer Congress.
TAmong the ''transparencies" carried in
the Democratic torchligh, procession at Louis
vile on Tuesday last, were portraits of JEFF.
Davis. Robert E. Lee and Stonewall jackson.
Another instance of Democratic consistency.
DThe Richmond Examiner, one of the
leading organs of the Virginia Democracy"
says: "The Fourth of July having ceased to
be of the slightest interest to the white people
Of the South, like worn out pair of breechps
It has fallen into Cuffee's hands," By all
means let US have "White Mans Govern
ment" in Virginia, so as to put down the |
Fourth Of July.
pThere are one hundred and si1ty-eight |
6 enerals in Mexico who believe themselves |
entitled to the Presidency of that cheerful Re- |
public, and only await q favorable chance 10 |
ssue one hundred and sixty eight pronuncia- |
nentos in favor of their individual selves.
UThe last words of Peter Cagger. the New
York Democratic politician, who was killed on
Monday BY being thrown from a carriage in
he Central Park, were: "This is the last Of
{, John (Mr. DevIin.) But tell them to stick |
20 Seymour, if poss--."
UMr. Boules, of the Springfield Republi-
AN, in speaking Of the magnanimi.y Of the
Southern members of the Democratic Conven-
ion in going for F.P. Blair. says that "W ade
Hampton, whose house he burned and whose
liquors he drank. and Gen. Forrest, we're
.mong the speakers for him."
pIn 1860. Gen. Blair, nov the Democratic
candidate for vice-P'esident, took the stump
gainss the Democrats. 10 one of his Indiana
peeches, delivered at aFayette, he declared
he Democratic party "the most miserable and
orrupt party that ever had existed ~ and n.