The Placer herald., 1872-08-24
POLITICAL NOTES.

A. Scott Sloan; Senator Brown, of Buffalo
county; Charles Burchard, of Dodge; ex-
Senator Cobb, of Jackson, and ex-senator
Clement, of Racine. The Germans are with
out break in their support Of Greeley and
Brown.
For GREELEY. Judge Burbank, an old
line Republican, at one time District Judge
in Storey county, concludes a letter to the
Petaluma Crescent in the following words:
81 wish to be distinctly understood, that
in my belief of bis fitness, his ability, intes-
rity and patriotism, and successful advocacy
of the right of man, l am for Horace Gree
ley for President of the United States.
Gerritt Smiths son and nephew repudiate
Grant and support Greeley.
General Banks has offered his services as
speaker for the campaign to the National
Liberal Republican Committee.
Judge j. J. Winans, late Republican
Congressman from the Seventh District of
Ohio, has come out for Greeley and Brown.
Charles Robinson, the first free State
Governor of Kansas, is out for Greeley. The
Republican break in that State has become
stampede.
In South Bend Ind, the home of Vice
President Colfax, three hundred Republicans
have signed call for Greeley ratification
meeting.
Two more Republican papers in Michigan,
the Battle Greek Tribune and the Decatur
Republican, are out for Greeley.
The Dubuque, Iowa, Telegraph says:
''The Decorah State Press has thrown of
the Grant shackes, and in its freedom hoists
the name of Greeley"
Rev. Thomas X. Beecher, brother Of
Henry Ward, was one of the Vce-Presdents
At the recent Greeley and Brown meeting at
Elmira.
Both Ex-Governor William M. Stone and
Ex-Governor Samuel Merrill of Iowa, will
be Liberal Republican candidates for Con-
gress in their respective districts this Fall.
They are both Republicans of influence and
brains.
Mr.. George w. Walker of Jefferson,
Texas, writing to the President of the New
York Manufacturing Company, says: "Ev-
erybody here for Greeley andBrown. This
State will give 80, 600 majority for them"
The Greeley Republicans of Colorado are
indignant that Governor McConk should say
as he did, that the feeling in this section OF
country "is all for Grant" They doubt his
ability to judge of the state of public feeling,
asserting that he has not passed fortnight
in Colorado within year.
John Brooks, the Reform candidate foi
Governor of Arkansas, has been making a
canvass of the State during the past two
weeks. The largest crowds of people ever
known in that State have turned out. The
people are enthusiast c, and are confident, il
undisturbed, of giving Greeley and Brown
an immense majority.
Gov. Washbum of Massachusetts, ia re-
ported to be in favor of Mr. Greeley.
OF the sixty-fve Republicans in Lake
Mills, Wis, sixty-one are Greeley men. O1
the eighty-one Democrats, every one is fol
Greeley.
Judge W. II. Hancock, Chairman of the
Mississippi Republican Executive Committee
has announced his intention to support Gree
ley.
Gov. Smith, of Rhode Island, has declared
bis preference for Greeley and Brown.
Congressman Dawes, while on his way tC
Adirondacks, informed one of his friends thai
he should do nothing for Grant in this cam
paign.
Alexander Mitchell, who represents Mil
waukee in Congress, gives it as his firm be.
lief that Greeley and Brown will carry botf
Wisconsin and Minnesota.
A correspondent writes from Montgomery
county, Ohio, late the home of Vallandigham
that not 10 Democratic votes out Of 6, 600 il
that county will be lost to Greeley and Brown
and that the total loss in the State will moi
exceed 500.
The Stanford, Kentucky, Interior Jour
nal Gays: "We heard an intelligent soldier
of the Fourth United States Regiment, now
stationed at Crab Orchard SAY that, although
President Grant once held the Office of lieu
tenant in his regiment, he and fifly-eighI
others out of a company Of sixty would sup
port Greeley in November" H.
James p Barr, editor of the Pittsbure
Post. writes to the Liberal National Com
mittee that he can speak for Western Penn
sylvania from personal knowledge, and car
assure the Committee that the changes in
that section are unprecedented, and adds
"We expect to elect our State ticket by al
least twenty thousand.
JUDGE BR1NKERHoFF, the Chairman of the
Liberal Republican State Central Committee
) of Ohio, reports that from correspondence
with County Conventions and ward organ
cations. it has been ascertained that the num-
Der of Liberal Republicans already reported
in that State reach between fifteen and twenty
thousand. John G. Thompson, Chaiman o.
the Democratic State Committee, declares
that all the reports to the contrary, the Dem
ocracy of Ohio were never more unanimous
in support of Presidential candidate.
The Richmond State Journal says thai
the "rebel raider" Col. Mosby and severa
other Democrats are working for Grant IT
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