Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-24
Campaign Notes.

are all in favor of the success of the regu-
lar Republican ticket next month.
Colonel Forsyth, of the Mobile Register,
takes his crow with bad grace, but he
does it, and after this fashion:
I'm declaring for Greeley as against
Grant, yesterday, we were moved solely
by sense of duty, in a forlorn case, to
yield up all our cherished convictions of
what should have been the course of duty
and honoron the part of all true Demo
Gratis, and especially of all them who had
lately been Confederates. It was an enor-
nous sacrifice of feeling on our part, and
we would to Heaven that conscience and a
sense of the immediate welfare of our
country had allowed us to stand on em-
pyrean nights of pride and principle as
those occupied by Toombs, of Georgia, and
and Wise. of Virginia.
The Linn (Mo.) Democrat refuses to be
, delivered to its lifelong opponent. For it.
self it says: " Mr.. August Belmont is re-
ported to have said the Democracy must
take Greeley or die Then we propose to
die little, but it is but death anyhow
The New York Times says: " General J.
B. Steedman is out for Greeley. There
are some people who are glad Mr.. Steed-
man has been heard from-notably the ac-
counting officers of the Treasury, on whose
books he stands defaulteI to the amount
of S2l2, 1868 in cash, besides some half
a million dollars more in uncollected tax
es, all achieved while collector of internal
revenue at New Orleans, by the grace of
Andrew Johnson. OF course, it is natural
and proper he should be for Greeley.n
The Savannah NelCs, Atlanta daily San
and Columbus Sun are few of the lead
ing Democratic Georgia papers opposing
Greeley and Brown. The Manchester,
Ohio correspondent of the Cincinnti Com
U1ercidl on the 10th says:
ln -, IlS,., at
continues. A prominent Democray of
Franklin Township, one of the strongest
Democratic strongholds of the country,
has offered five dollars head for all Gree
ley Democrats that can be found in his
township.
Another active and influential Demo-
crat remarked in the hearing of your cor
respondent, that throughout the country
there were four Democrats who would not
vote for Greeley towhere there was one Re-
publican that would.
In Georgia they are boiling Greeley by
counties, as see this from the Atlanta Sun
of the 18th " The Greene county Democ-
racy met on Tuesday and elected dele
gates to the State Convention, with in
structions to vote for the nomination of
James NJ, Smith. They repudiated the
platform and nominees of the Baltimore
convention; but left Democrats to vote
az they please.n
says The following is an extract from a
private letter from well known citizen of
Georgia, written from Philadelphia on the
18th inst. 1.-THE adoption of the Cincin-
matt platform is giving universal dissat-
" sfaction up here"
The Washington Chronicle of the 18th
says: " From old Berks county we have
this cheering statement: | can hear OF
no Greeley Republicans in this part of our
county. The Democrats will not poll their
full vote for him. A well-informed Dem
ocrat told me to-day that two thousand
Democrats in this county would stay away
from the polls. He thought Grant would
carry the county over Greeley"
"There are more than hundred Demo-
Gratis in this town. says the Ogdensburg,
IN. Y. Journal, "who have never waver-
ed in their devotion to their party, who
openly denounce the Baltimore candidate,
and declare they will never support him. "
The Greenport Republican Waterman
and the Port Jefferson Independent Press,
the most influential of the four Democratic
newspapers published in Suffolk county,
New York, refuse to advocate the election
of Greeley and Brown.
Gen. Gideon j. Pillow, of this State, is
said to be for Grant.
Five hundred dollars is offered as a prize
for the best campaign song, descriptive OF
the pill swallowed by Democrats at Balti
more on the 10th. The competitors are to
senu tnelr productions 10 Ile NEW 10TH
Times
The Detroit Free Press, the leading Dem
ocratic paper of Michigan, refuses to sup
port Greeley, and says: We do not pro
pose to discuss or argue at any length the
INDEPENDENT course the Free Press viii
take in this campaign, 1t is sufficient fol
our own guidance to know that it will bt
truly Democratic that unprincipled men
individually or collectively, calling them
selves o National Convention or anything
else, can not sell or give the Democratic
party over to Republicanism or to the ad
vocacy of Radical and lifelong enemy
however politically Ubiquitous in othel
matters may have been his action"
Judge David Davis has been interviewed
He regards the success of Greeley as prob
lem Of doubtful solution. He relates q con
Versation had with an Indianian as indi
eating the state of feeling, even among
Reformers, who are DESTROYS for a chang,
that shall give them control of affairs
Said the Indianian: " 1 don't like Gree
ley, Mr.. Davis. I'm afraid he'll play tn,
devil il he is elected. He can't contro
himself, and will be controlled by Others
The New York World meekly elbows Il
the decision of the National Convention,
a proceeding rendered necessary by thu
fact that nobody would bow to the World
decision.
1t is a fortunate thing for the country ant
Gratz Brown that the cherry season doesn'
last long; but we dread the approach o
watermelon harvest Cincinnati CONNER
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