The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-08-16
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
Greeley's what's the matter.

w ara Greeley SluDS arc DellS Or
ganized in Portland.
Grant wears Greeley hat. He
does not wear Greeley head.
DIR. Biddle, of Corvallis, an old
line Republican, is for Greeley.
Senator Doolittle, of Wisconsin,
will visit California and Oregon in
October
"Taking it for Granted" probably
grew out of Grants disposition to
take things.
Senator Wilson said at Long Branch
that the political horizon looked
"alarmingly blue"
The Salem Greeley Club met last
Wednesday. Several new names
were added to the roll.
John A. Bingham has been defeat.
ed for denomination in the Sixteenth
Congressional District, of Ohio.
Senator Cameron says it will take n
great deal of money and hard work
to carry Pennsylvania for Grant.
Prominent Radical officials at
Washington concede Pennsylvania
to the Democracy by 10000 to $4,000.
"Colfax's health will not permit
him to take the stump" A good
many Republicans are similarly stu.
ated.
Senator Kelly is expected home in
few days. He has declared his in.
tention to stump the State for Greeley
and Brown.
Seventeen GRANTEES will present
their claims TO seat in the u. S. Sen.
ate TO the Radical caucus at Salem
next month.
The Tribune and World have "sha,
ken hands across the bloody chasm"
and are now pulling together like an
old and tried team.
The Grant party is terribly demor.
allied in Pennsylvania. Two electors
have withdrawn from the ticket, and
will support Greeley.
A German Republican" writes to
the New York Tribune that Grant
will not receive five hundred German
votes in Philadelphia.
Even Grant himself, the sporting
character who resides at Long Branch
and wants TO be President again,
won't bet on his re. e.election.
The Dallas Republican, while fly.
ing the names of Grant and Wilson,
said "some believe Oregon will 60
for Greeley" We should rather
think so.
The New Orleans Picayune, which
could not abide Greeley, aud suggest
cd Mr.. Bryant for the Presidency, has
gone at last with the tide for Greeley
aud Brown.
w. \. Saunders, the colored elcc.
tor, who came out for Greeley, pub.
fishes card offering to meet any
colored orator on the stump in New
York or elsewhere.
An Illinois letter TO the Hartford
Times says: Il have yet TO see the
first German in Illinois that is for
Grant, and have seen and conversed
with thousands of them"
sour model President" lets no OPP
poriuni,y slip to put little money
in his purse. 1t is stated on reliable
authority that he made on the last
races at Long Branch $4,000.
| Andy Johnson says of the Cincin-
natl movement: The politicians have
nothing to do with this; the people
have wrested it from their hands, and
when they move j. is irresistible.
The Buffalo Courier offers reward
for any "well authenticated case OF
enthusiasm for Grant," outside OF
office-holding circles. The Courier
is safe enough on that proposition.
The Hon. Galusha A. Grow writes
from Texas that that State will give
Greeley $4,000 majority. He will
stump the northern counties of Penn.
sylvania for Greeley in September.
| When Mr.. Lincoln first became
President there were thirty-one Re.
publicans in the United States Senate.
Of these Senators six are dead, thir-
teen are for Grant and ten are for
Greeley.
The Radicals are now claiming
that Grant is a self-made man. The
matter is not denied on our part One
would naturally suppose he was a
selfmade man. The job asserts its
authorship. 1t is such fearfully bad
one.
The Hartford (Ct.) Cowant, a
Grant organ, needs calling to order
1t says: ave do not for moment con-
ceal for ourselves the danger that
Greeley will be elected. The Demo.
cratic party is now united on him
without reserve"
A man was passing himself off for
Grant on Long Branch steamer