The Placer herald., 1872-08-17
POLITICAL NOTES.

The Elmira Gazette publishes call for
Greeley and Brown mass meeting, to be held
in Elmira, signed by l, ,436 Repu blicans and
Democrats.
Another Grant committee man bolts. f.
B. Smith of LIE Seur, a member Of the Min
nesota Republic an State Convention has de-
clared for Greeley.
The Huntington (Pa.) Globe, an old Re-
publican Journal, published at the home of
Senator Scott, recently took down the names
of Grant and Wilson and hoisted the Greeley
and Brown flag.
The reform movement is sweeping Lewis
ton, Maine. Nathaniel w. Farwell, ex-
Mayor j. B. Ham and other prominent Re-
publicans have declared for Greeley and
Brown.
Toledo has colored Greeley and Brown
Club which numbers four-ffths of all the
colored voters in the city.
Daniel Drew tells his friends to work and
vote for Horace Greeley, and if they want to
win to bet on him.
Ex-President Asa Mahan of Adrian Col
ege, Michigan, is out for Greeley, and will
take the stump for him.
Twelve of the members of the lower
branch of the Ohio Legislature have declared
for the Liberal movement.
In the town of Woodland, Dodge county,
Wisconsin, there are but FIVE or six support
ers Of Grant in voting population Of about
500. Even the postmaster has come out
for Greeley.
Fifty Republicans of Beaver Dam, Wis
consin, and sixty of Marysville have signed
calls for Greeley Clubs, and Dodge county
will give the Liberal ticket larger majority
than it ever yet rolled up for any candidate.
The Boston Sunday Courier felicitously
remarks that "it is fact, significant or not,
as one chooses to view it, that all the Sun
day papers in Boston advocate the election
of the Liberal nominees.
The Grant party seem to be going to
pieces in Hennepm county, Minnesota. OF
the thirtec Republican Counclmen of Min
neapolis n.he are for Greeley; the five Coun-
ty Commissioners are agaist Grant, two of
them being Republicans; four of the five
members Of the Republican City Committee,
Hon. A. N. Merrick, Republican City At
torney and many members of the Ward
Committees are for Greeley. 1t is estimated
that Greeley's majority in the county will be
1900.
At Fort Scott, Kansas, there are 200
German voters, all of whom are for Greeley
but three.
Cumberland county, Penn, is counted on
for 500 Republican votes for Greeley, and
Schuylkill will follow with 800.
Samuel Merrill, Ex-Governor of Iowa,
supports Greeley. Garry The news to Hiram.
Senator Carl Schurz says twice as many
Republicans will vote for Greeley as was at
first thought.
The New Brunswick IN. J.) Times an
nounces that Gov. Chas. S. Olden has de-
cided to declare for Greeley and Brown.
McCullogh,. the editor of the Missouri
Democrat is Greeley man. The GRANTEES
just keep him for shortening.
Congressman Randolph Strickland (Rep.)
of Michigan, addressed Greeley meeting
lately.
George w. Elliot, author of "Bonnie
Eloise," and editor of the Aoha,ok Valley
Register, has hauled down the Grant flag
and run up the Greeley streamer.
At Wabash, Indiana, 1876 men who voted
for Grant and Colfax announce through the
papers that they are now for Greeley and
Brown.
Seth Robinson of Lincoln, late Attorney
General of Nebraska, has declared for Gree
ley.
Samuel P. Morrill, late Republican member
of Congress from Maine, has declared for
Greeley.
A Chicago Tribune correspondent writes
from the old Radical stronghold, Iowa, as
follows: "Governor Merrill acknowledged
the other, day in conversation with Mr.:
Grinnell, that he thought that Iowa would
60 for Greeley this FALL"
Col. S. D. Freeman of Mexican county,
the Grant Elector for the 18th Congressional
District of Pennsylvania, has resigned his
position on the ticket, and expressed his
preference for Greeley and Brown. He is
said to represent one-fifth Of the entire Re-
publican strength in his county.
One ehundred leading Republicans of North
ampton, Mass, have signed a call for a
meeting to form a Greeley Club at the Town
Hall. Among the signers are Benjamin E.
Cook, Rev. Josiah Clark, ex-Congressman
Charles Delano, DIR. E. Dennson, Webster
Herrick, N. B. Huzzy, Emory B. Wells
and others.
Easton, Penn, is said to contain 200
Liberal Republicans. Danville, in the same
State, has a club list of 100. Tinicum in
Bucks county, Towanda in Bradford county
aud Smithport in Mexican county, have or
ganized Greeley Clubs. Meadville, Craw-
ford county, has Greeley Club Of fifty
seven members.
One hundred and forty-eight Republicans
of Columbus, Ohio, have signed a call for
the purpose Of forming Greeley and Brown
Club. The editor of the Ohio State Journal
now thinks cit best not to underrate the