Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-06-26
Campaign Notes.

! The New York Tribune having re-
/ peatedly asserted that there was much
enthusiasm for the Cincinnati ticke
among the Germans of California, the
| San Francisco Abend Post, the ablest
and most widely circulated German pa
per on the Pacific coast, says iniits last
issue, that it does not know of single
German adherent of Mr. Greeley eth
er in San Francisco or in all California;
and it offers reward for the LANES of
such Germans as would publicly de-
clare their readiness to support the
Cincinnati ticket. r
GREELEY affects the carrot style a
good deal-likewise Brown, at the top
Both are now waiting anxiously for
something to turn-up. 1t will turn-up
a beat in November Chicago Post.
Mr.. GRANTS Republicanism never
was Of the most eighteen-carat STYLE
Tribune.
The Kansas City Times, rebel to the
core, denounces all the journals of its
party who do not swallow the Cincin-
natl dose with cheerfulness, and threat
ems that the Democrats of the South
Will vote solid for President Grant if
the Baltimore Convention dares to put
up. a candidate.
GENERAL GRANTS brief and senten-
tious letter accepting the nomination,
is commended by both his political
friends and opponents. It's modesty
and simplicity are favorably contrasted
with the pretentious manifesto which
Greeley wrote in reply to the Cincin-
natl notification. iea
The Greeleyites have tried to engage
Eldridge, of Wisconsin, to stump his
district for them. "Why," said Ell
bridge, "I'd just as lief announce to
my constituents that [ was coming out
there with twenty ram cats and doz-
Ell monkeys and two elephants for
big show" "ssga"a i' ~
The Illinois Woman's Suffrage Asso-
citation held their annual meeting In
Chicago on Tuesday. The usual
speeches were made, and resolutions
were adopted endorsing the Phlladel-
phia platform and Gen. Grant, and de
nouncing Horace Greeley as a persist
tent opponent of woman's srights and an
enemy to progress. To
'EA FREEDMAN, !" writing to the New
York Times from the old North State,
asserts that ''the old Democratic party
of that state is almost unit for Gree
ley-or anything to beat Grant '-and
when they (the colored people, find that
the bitterest and vilest of the Ku Klux
are hurrahing for Mr.. Greeley, they
will know that that wind will blow them
no good. There are not a dozen col
ored votes in North Carolina for Hor-
ace Greeley"
SENATOR SUMNER still declines to say
what his course will be on the Presi-
Dental question: b1lt intimates that he
may write letter announcing his in
tention to bring his political life to an
end at the close of his present Sena-
torial term, on account of il-health,
and not be candidate for reelection.
In this event he will take no part in
the Presidential contest, but remain
independent and neutral as-far as pos
sible t8a =
We do not consider the Philadelphia
platform SO formidable as the ticket
Tribune. -7l -'
The best motto of the campaign is
that of Glenni W. Seefield, of Warren,
Pa eve are for the man that whal-
ed, against the man that bailed, Jetfer-
son Davis"
II f1wer. s5g ae1U 5Es-u- ~
THREE of the dozen papers in Illinois
which Greeley organs have claimed Tor
Greeley, repudiate the alliance ana
the Chicago Journal asserts that not
Republican paper in the state, OF good
standing heretofore, now supports the
Cincinnati nominees