Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-09-17
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Edward Joy Morris, who was recently nomi-
mated for congress by the coalitionists of the
first Pennsylvania district, has declined to ac-
cept.
A Greeley meeting in Winona, Mimi, few
days ago. was attended so largely by Grant men
that Grant club was formed and the Greeley
men surrendered
The Maine election returns come in better and
better. The Bangor Wings latest returns foot
up sixteen thousand nine hundred and fifty
two Q6,952) majority for governor.
1t is assumed prerogatiye Of the Greeley party
to circulate inuumerable slanderous stories
against Gen. Grant, aud then demand theii
reputation, shifting from one lie TO another as
the list is cut down by facts
The Hon. George W. Mclean, Of Arkansas,
who received nomination as elector on the
Greeley ticket in his state has announced him
self in favor OF Grant and Wilson, saving that he
cannot side with party that countenances the
murder OF his friends.
There is a growing feeling in favor of Grant
on the Pacific coast. Delegate Mccormick of
Arizona writes OF it, Col. Forney writes Of it,,
and all politicians notice it. The state Of Cain
lorna Is good Tor the republican ticket by at
least 1000.
Hon. Joshua Hill, United States senator from
Georgia, who has been claimed by the Greeley
ties as sympathzing and acting with them,
says that at no time has lie hcsitated to express
ms preference for the reelection OF President
Grant.
Mr.. W. w. Eaton is said to have recently adj
mitted that 1000 democrats in Connecticut will
not vote for Horace Greeley for president The
New Haven journal responds; III he did but
know It, there are more than thousand Of thar
ala
The Philadelphia North American says of the
coming state election: "The republicans of
Pennsylvania have no need of aid from without
All they ask is to be let alone and allowed fair
and square fight, and then If they do not send
OFF the opposition in October with heas in their
ears we shall confess ourselves mistaken. No
opposition journals in New York need look 10
Pennsylvania this autumn with any hope OF
triumph"
Col. Mcclure, who is engineering the Greeley
cause in Pennsylvania, is in a slough OF de.
spond. He says: "lf Buckalew is beaten, the
game is up with Greeley" "My idea of the can.
yass, added the Greeley head center, "has been
that the tide would rise about this time; but it
doesn't appear TO be coming, and blast my eyes
If don't begin to think it WON'T come"
Louis Boggart, editor Of the Washington
Patriot, a Greeley sheet, started falsehood that
Mr.. Shepard, Of that city, had eolonzed nine
hundred yo:ers in North Carolina. TO this Mr..
Shepard called on Bogart for his proof, or stand
convicted Of beng malignant liar. Boggart
had no proof, so he challenged Mr.. Sheppard to
fight a duel. This mode OF furnishing reasons
for Greeley falsehoods is the subject of much
mirtl at the capital
The Pitsburg Chronicle opposes Hartranft
though il thinks that appearances ip that state
now indicate his election, IL says, however,
thatit does not believe his defeat would injure
Gen. Grant particle, and that Greeley could de-
rive no comfort whatever from it, The Phila-
oeipbia Press, which also opposes Hartranft
while i supports Grant, is Of the same opinion.
SO as the matter now stands the bitterest ODpo-
nents Of Hartranlt in the republican party be-
iige his election probable. aud also agree that
even his defeat would not diminish Grant and
Wilson's chances ~ that state in November.
A letter from Lexington, Hiss, to the Chicago
!nter-Ocean, states that If Sumner, Greeley,
Schurz, Wendell Phillips, Fred Douglass and a
good many Others like them, should all go TO
Mississippi and attempt to turn colored men
from voting for Grant and Wilson they would
fail The letter says: 1.-THE colored man re-
CARDS his vote as sacred, and any of his number
refusing to vote for Grant would be regarded as
a traitor TO the freedom Of bis race J will give
| you, by way Of illustration the words Of an old
| coored man talking TO his friends: can tell
! sou bout dat are man Greeley. He nofn but a
hollow log foo mocracy 70 crawl trough. OATS
he" and that's what they III think, and that's
what VII govern their action at The polls in
November. Mississippi will give Grant and
| Wilson 10000 majority.
Paper is now found 10 be applicable 10 the
alis OF war. Cuirasses, which will turn the
/ troll nj tltrss Of
| impact of a rife ball, are now made of this
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