The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-08-29
Political Paragraphs.

Political Paragraphs.
Torch light companies have been OF
ganized by the GRANT men In every war;
of Fond du Lac.
The Richland County Republican says
Let no oae be deceived. We can couE
two GRANT Democrats for every GREE
LEY Republican in this county.
A vote taken ct Bay View revealed
the fact that of the workmen employed
in the iron mills, SIS were for GRANT ant
Is for GREELEY.
The Chicago merchant who said tina
| HORACE GREELEY offered to make th'
Tribune KnowNothing organ for $50
600 in 1854, repeats the assertion since
it has been denied, aud the journal say'
the merchant name can be learned /
the Chicago Tribune is anxious for it.
Mr.. VIM. j. Scott, formerly OF LIZ
Crosse, writes letter from Arkansas tt
the Leader" stating that the Greeley
| ticket is supported oiriy by the rebels
who openly threaten that if Greeley /:
elected they will make the country toe
hot for any Northern man to live in.
Five hundred Democrats in single
County of Illinois have signed pledge,
that under no circumstances will they
support Greeley And this is only one
Of many similar cases.
VERY well, sir" said Democrat, "as
my party has finally confessed that Re
publican ideas are right, and Republican
amendments to the constitution and Re
publican legislati on are to be maintained,
| will go for Grant, who carried these lde-
as, amendments and laws to success.
Lie Nailed. Hon o. P. STEARNs,
of Minnesota, who has been announced
as having declared in favor of GREELEY,
is out with letter in the St. Paul Press,
denying that he ever thought Of such a
thing as supporting Mr.. GREELEY but
that he cordially supports the Repub-
lican party and its nominees. Thus Is
one lie after another of the Greeleyites,
nailed.
Hon. III. NJ. Webster, a lifelong
Democrat, and one Of the leading attor-
neys in Crawford county can't go for
Greeley under any circumstances. He
will support Grant.
The New York Soldiers Convention,
which, met in Utica on Tuesday, wa
largely attended, and was enthusiast
for Grant and Wilson.
WTHDRAwN.-S. D. Carpenter, Esq. ,
has Withdrawn from the Oshkosh Times.
MIR. Fernandez will conduct the paper.
Has Pump got sick of Greeley too?
Does Mr.. Doolittle think the charge
against him OF cotton speculations I'M
worthy of contradiction, or cannot he re-
fute it? 1t is a grave charge and his
silence is ominous.
The public is impatient to know posi-
lively the result of the election in North
Carolina. The official announcement will
not be made until the SpeS Sser of the
House opens all the returns In presence
of both branches of the Legislature.
The result, however, is known to give
Caldwell not less than 2.U0O majority.
Merrimon will not contest:
At a recent gathering of 81 Of the most
prominent men of Chicago Presldentl-
al vote was taken which showed 10 fol
Grant and s for Greeley. Quite straw.
One of the most effective stump spea-
kers in Wisconsin is Col. Charles X.
Gill, late Attorney General and we are
glad to see that the Committee is keep
ing him at work. Send Col. Gill up this
way.
The Winneconne Item, which recent
" changed hands, has concluded it was
an unpleasant position to be between twc
fires and has come out for Grant and Will
son. The Democrats who have been
claiming the paper for Greeley will not
copy this item.
What a howl went up from Democra-
tic and Liberal throats when it was an
nounced that Senator Orlando Brown,
of Buffalo County, had come out fol
Greeley. Now, that gentleman denies 1t,
they say not word-not word. They
don't correct any such mistakes.
| The San Francisco Bulletin has bitter
| " criticized the Administration, but II
cannot go Greeley, because he is weak
unreliable, easily imposed upon, wlthou'
craftsmanship surrounded by poltlca
pimps and demagogues, and his election
would be full Of mischief to the country
1t concludes as follows: considering
that either candidate for the Presidency
will be elected on Republican pla tform
we prefer that candidate whose supper
tiers believe in the platform, whose ad
ministration has already proved a gener
al success, whose election we know woulc
not be followed by financial distrust.
There are two objections to AIR. Gree
lev in the business men of the country
says the Trdreler-his peculiar hobbies
and his peculiar friends. If he was a
man of fixed principles and of steady
purposes, even though bad men surround
| him, they might still be in doubt. Or
the other hand, if he were under the In
iuence of men in whom the country ha
confidence, there might be reason for hesl
tation. But the man and his friends
presented together, leave no room TO
doubt.
Horace GREECEY is commended large
" as oe the "self made" Was mucl
known of General GRANT until he mad
himself known by deeds, not words an
does history show brighter instance @
one who was revealed to nation b,
achievements of which he hiss never bee
known to boast? Did patronage carr
him from Galena to Vicksburg, or frOr
yicssburg to Appomattox Did he see
command and the Presidency, or di
they seek him Shall modesty or cor
ceit win the day?
Senator WILSON mentions, among th
) cheering facts which came under his OF
servation during his recent campalg
tour in the West. that the vast maiorlt
E of the young men ofthat section are h
publicans. This observation is equall
apparent among the rural districts {
a. New England The young men who SCI
: we'd In the Union armies are almost
unit for GRANT.
MIR. Dawes, of Massachusetts,, talkin
t of the hand clasping business which hs
+ such charms for the Greeleyites, vel
: sensibly demands peace before recol