The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-07-20
POLITICAL I9EMs

} POLITICAL ITEMS.
The Grant newspapers are still gnswinv h,
Tribune file.
There are SAID to be only eleven Republican,
in Oberlln, Ohio. who support Grant.
The Milwaukee Sentinel (Grant) was the othe,
day praising the Prairie du Chen Courier, ous
of the ablest Of our state exchanged" for its
Democratic manhood in standing out against
Greeley. Let it beware! The Milwaukee Neacs
had yesterday the following paragraph:
| The article in the editorial column. Of the
Sunday Ne,cs on the subject OF the Detroit Free
Press was written, and that side of the paper was
printed, before the telegram relating TO the
change OF editors and Of the political course of
the FTee f1ess was received. We shall now ex.
poet the most e16cient aid from the Free Press.
and We shall expect 10 see Michigan iein Wis.
consln and the balance of the North west, which
will give Greeley majorities.
Der Repu6likaner, tho German Republican
Newspaper at Fountain City, Buffalo county,
Wis, hoists the Greeley flag and gives an euthu.
siastic support. Grant had $50 majority in BUT.
falo county in 1868. The county is largely set
tied oy Germans who have always voted the Re-
publican ticket. This year they will vote for
Greeley, who will have at least as much majority
Is Grant had four years ago.
Another important accession to the Democrat.
ie.Republican ticket is announced. The Brook.
Ign IN. ~ Daily Times, next to the Eagle the
most influential paper in Brooklyn, hoists the
Greeley flag. The Times is edited BY the Hon.
George G. Bennett, Republican member of the
last Assembly from Kings county
Col. James A. Dawson, CT the Louisville Ky
Ledger, who at Baltimore figured in the straight
Democratic sideshow, surrenders before the
overwhelming popular sentiment for Greeley
which he finds at home, and says: I'VE shall
support the ticket Is the best that can be done
under the circumstaoces''
The breaks in the Democratic ranks are about
closed up. The bet cit Free Press has abandon.
ed its opposition, and the Louisville Leelge, has
swung into the column. Senator BAyard has
departed for Europe. bat before he went he
wrote letter requesting his friends and constit.
uents to support the Baltimore nominee 1t be.
gins to look as though the September Convention
OF q fsilure.-C'nctnnat, Enqurer.
The po1yreund, the only German organ ia
10 Davies county, has raised the Greeley and
Brown flag. The Germ ans are nearly unit in
favor of Greeley, Brown and Koerner
1t is net year since John A. Logan charged
that at the battle Of Pittsburg Landing Gran
was so blind drunk that he could not lie down
decently.' Logan supports Grant tor reelection.
Grant Is the only President who took things
coolly. The things ranged from 1. .oothpick up .
t house and lo,.
The unfortunate Democrat W., refuses to sup
port Greeley aad Who prefers t. st in s.ckcloth
aud ashes aud howl. il deslinel 10 become the !
most miserable Of mortals.
The Greeley msu in Wilmington. since the
mington Aicocate, which had hitherto been a |
paper, has donned the Greeley day, |
and will do good service in the libsral cause It's
talented editor, E. T. Conley, Esq, is an enter.
prsing Journalist. and will stir up the GRANTEES
in that locality. He publishes hrst rate paper,
and is deserving Of liberal patronage
Major General Joe Hooker il sure that Horace
Greeley will be the next president; aud Joe
judges from Lookout Mountain, whence one can
SEE a long way ahead.
Samuel Bowles, Of the Springfield Mass Re.
publicas, the last man likely to misrepressnt such
matters. telsgraphs from Baltimore to his paper
as follows:
Colonel Forney returned yesterday July 7th)
from his southern trip. He reports the Greeley
and Brown strength along his route, clear down
to the confines of Texas beyond all accounts and
expectations. He says ex.Speaker Grow will
soon take the stump in Texas for the Liberal
ticket.
Joseph L. Morphs, the Republican Represeu.
tative Of the Second Mississippi District in Con.
gress, has declared for Greeley Morphis was An
officer in the Confederate Army, and, at the close
of the war, accepted its results. He is now in
favor Of reconciliation.
Charles Sumner has been interviewed, and
says the wstchword of the campaign ought to
DO Reconciliation, and that If the people Of the
United States, north and south could only get
to understand that the election of Mr. Greeley
meant reconciliation of the two sections, and of
the whites and blacks, they would give him such
a support as no presidential candidate ever re-
ceived.
Hon, J. X. Morehead, late Republican Con.
gresham from Allegheny Co., Pa, and very
prominent man, has declared for Greeley so has