Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-08-14
POLITICAL ITEMS.

eB Afflicted Pendletonians are called
Seymourners. 9ga 1w9s 9ail29Q
NY- Maine promises to give Grant and
Colfax twenty thousand majority, or more.
: Gy The rebel flag surmounts Seymour
and Blair in Mississippi daily. s.
CY A Manchester, N. H., citizen will
celebrate Grants election this fall, by
drinking cider bottled when Taylor was
elected.
CB Seymour's last speech at the Tam
many Convention was incorrectly re-
ported. What he meant to say was your
successful candidate can not be."-Neao
York Commonwealth.
oWT There is one point about Mr. Blair's
letter worthy of mention. He is the first
candidate for the Vice Presidency that
ever, in his letter of acceptance, went out
of his way to personally abuse his oppo-
nent. @
gW Said well-known Democrat to us
yesterday, az have about made up my
mind to vote for Grant can't stand the
rebel crew which Seymour is gathering
about him." Such observations are very
common just now.-N. Y. Commercial.
UB- The Democratic papers are circu-
lating again the old story that Mr.. Colfax
was the author of the "Sixteen Reasons
why Grant should not be nominated" cir
culated last year. Mr.. Colfax denied the
charge at the time over his own signature.
Have the Democrats nothing better to offer
the people than these stale lies?
An exchange says General Grant
and the Democracy have done a great deal
Of business together the past few years.
General Grant has done the tanning, and
the Democrats have furnished the hides
They handed in two more few weeks
ago-those of Horatio Seymour and Frank
P. Blair. They will be done early in No
vember."
gB The World says Seymour was not
in sympathy with the mob in July, 1868,
but that all his efforts were directed to
putting them down. This explains the
fact that every rioter who killed an or
phan, hung negro, or burned an asylum
then, is Seymour man to-day. They
love him because he did 80 much to put
them down. That's the way with these
gentle creatures. They get up nights to
"love them that persecute them! !" @
GY- At the examination of one of the
public schools in Great Darlington, Mass,
few days since, the following dialogue
took place between the teacher and a ge-
ography class of small scholars: Teacher
=" Are the resources of Mexico fully de-
veloped?" Class-"No." ,"Why not?"
because the country is badly governed"
elbow is that-isn't the government Re-
publican? After hesitating moment a
small boy replied, Well, mol guess it's
Democrat or Copperhead."
gY- A statement has been extensively
published in the Democratic papers to the
effect that Gen. Grants brother, Orville
L. Grant, of Chicago, refuses to support
him for the Presidency, and that he has
lately given $1,000 to the Chicago Demo
cratic Club. A gentleman in Hartford,
Conn, with whom Orville L. Grant has
business relations, wrote him in relation to
these statements, asking if they were true.
Mr. Grant replied that they are entirely
false, and added II am sound as a nut on
Grant and Colfax-am strong in the Re-
publican faith, always have been, and
hope to be- and have no idea how any per-
son could get an impression to the contra
ry If you hear any one say that O. L..
Grant will vote the Democratic ticket,
you can use my name in contradicting il"