The Montana post., 1868-03-07
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= Visions of "hlth and slime" attack his |
sensitive brain when aliusion is made to the
drunkenness and duplicity of his pet candi-
date. For evidences of the former we refer
him to the statements Of number of Wash
iugton correspondents, and particularly to
the testimony of Theodore Tilton.-C en-
ocrzt. -ls u s-Jr.s.I sllu- .glt-cl -fa-n nr
We have read carefully all the extracts
given in the Democrat and numerous
other accounts. We are nov, more than
ever. satisfied. that Democracy holds no
spite against Grant for drinking whisky
Here are, the only strong points made by
the respective Journals or persons after
most agonizing effort vlt E-.l-u
Grant lived in Galena before the war, was a
laboring man and poor--[Galena Democrat
Great Jove what monstrous crimes
Rumors reach us from Washington that
General Grant has been seen on the streets
enthusiastically drunk. We know nothing our
selves of the truth of these rumors. We call
for an Investigation of these reports, and give
the whole truth In this matter.--l Anti-Slnyery
Standard ~ -Hs..I nd ..ri1..-t bar tr'
Wendell gives evidence of having
been listening to some scandal monger.
4AutsE all.
"The talk is''-the talk isAthe talk ia
Revolution. ......-.. ..., ,r.-.r .srr
1t is needless to add the above is from
Mrs Csdy Stanton's womAn's rights (tea
party paper. s-.-irs- hil5di
o. Prentice of the Louisrills Journal gives an
anecdOte. Grant is mo- habbler.-( Albany
Argus. rL...T"1 . sfl ...' ...-E-A .7 al..-sa
Prentice can't very consistently CON
denim Grant for using whisky, so he
growls because the man of few words
gives him no opportunity for an indie
cent d0ubIe.e1asendre. Ei.r.fas DO - Et
Occasionally a presidential candidate is seen
fnddled on the streets of Washington.-(No
name. ~ Theodore TiltOn's Independent.
Theodore is not explicit. Hancock,
Chase, Seymour, Stedman, as well as
General Grant, might be included in the
inuendo. His remark is chdste. 1t is
evident he has been Chased into it..
There are numbers who have been
Chased who don't like Grant We be-
lsye Charles G. Halpine, of the New
York Citizen, to be a man of integrity.
Here is his evidence on the point at
issue, written from Washington. We
may add that if we believed Grant a
druakard we would oppose him for the
Presidency, and hope to see this matter
thoroughly sifted- 1t is pretty good,
though, to see Ben Butler manipulating
the Democracy. 1r1.--aup lar r..r.T ID
have conyersed with at least a score vi
officers who are known to me rs gentlemen
incapable of falsehood, and who, from their
positions, have been, for the past six or eight
months, in daily-some of them in hourly
/ official relations with Gen. Grant, from nine
O'Clock n. m. until four o'clock every after
noon, Sundays excepted, and by every one oi
] then---tbree, az least, being known TO me as
personally and politically opposed to General
Grant-the slanderOus statements of the lnde
pnedent, Anti-Slayery Standard and Mr.. Wen
dell Phillips, have been Indignantly and We
hemently and contradicted. I have also con-
versed with numerous ladies upon the point
and the experiences of every fallible husband
/ or brother with whom occasionally "the olive
may have disagreed" win suggest what stric
judges of such matters these ladies are-anS
| from every quarter, without distinction o.
social caste OF party, the same evidence ha
been given. These attacks upon Gen. Grant
in female phraseology, are "total and scan
dalous hbs, J" for he has been out every nigh
in society at balls, dinners or Germans, will
Mrs. q rnnt, ard his habits have been tempe
rate in the extreme-even so much as a glas
of champagne being rarely tasted at the din
ner table or Mt supper 1t Is humillating-
and go felt by the writer--to be obliged &
correct such partisan falsehoods in regard L
the chiet soldier of our armies, but is it not
thousand fold more humiliating to such me
as Theodore Tlton or Wendell Phillips tina
they should have allowed themselves withou
sufficient examination, to have been mad
General Buffers instruments or "tconven
ences " for the circulation of such atrociou
ibels?-[MiIes o'Reilly. ...-.-.--5y