The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-08-23
POLITICAL NOTES.

A darkey los years old cast his first
vote at the late Kentucky election
Though old enough to know better, he
voted the Radical ticket.
When the Grant people can no
longer claim A. 7. Stewart, they will
say Stewart is nobody, and We are
better without him. Next!
General Grants net profits from
Washington Sandstone Ring" will be
$3.50 this year Butler says so. and
Butler is stockholder aud ought TO
know.
Over one hundred members and ex.
members OF Congress are for Greeley.
aud actively engaged 10 the good work
of promoting the cause Of reconciliation
and honesty.
The names of james T. Brady, Of
New York. aud VIM. /. Yancy, Of
Alabama, have been suggested for
nomination by Blanton Duncan's Con-
vention; but there is an air of i'm
probability about it-Chtcayo TriJImr.
When General J. D. Cox was fight.
ing fraud in the Department OF the
Interior, he appealed to Grant for help
aud Grant cut his head off Immediate
ly. Grant would not fight fraud +
He likes it, il only he can share the
profits.
While Amadeus, Of Spain, is pardon.
ing participants in the late rebellion in
that kingdom, Secretary Boutwell, and
his imitators are believing from the
stump, in this country, no closing Of the
bloody chasm" More blood to elect
Grant is their motto.
At a Mass Convention in Augusta,
Maine, on Thursday, Thomas S. Lang,
Liberal Republican, was nominated Tor
Congress against Blaine, bv $40 votes,
all that were cast. Mr. Lang has been
member OF the Maine Senate and is a
son OF Friend j. D. Lang, one Of the In
dian Peace commissioners.
Galushs A. Grow, for twelve years a
member OF Congress from Pennsyl-
vanis, and one time Speaker of the
House, takes the stump for Greeley in
Pennsylvania, beginning this week at
Greensburg. Mr. Grow is now resi-
dent OF Houston, Texas, and President OF
the Houston and Great Northern rail-
road.
ExJadge D. B. Lockwood, one Of the
leading Republicans in Bridgeport,
Connecticut, is out for Greeley. Gen
| eral Dwight Morris. late Consul at
Havre, and Gideon Holllsier, Minister
10 Havti under Lincoln, are also out
for Uncle Horace. Mr.. Hollister is the
author of the &aador,i History Of Con-
nectird.
The report Of the Delaware Demo-
cratic Convention, August ii, as tele-
grsphed over the country, was intended
to convey the impression that Greeley
had been repudiated; whereas the Elec'
tors nominated are we'll known support,
ers OF Greeley, and will cast the vote oil
the State for him.
Senator Doolitrle reports the Greeley
party in Maine active and enthusiasts
The detection from the Republican
party in Speaker Blaine's district is al
least thirty per cent. Blaines defeat i
regarded as certain. Also the de'eat o.
Hale, SON. in-lsw OF Senator Chandler
Clifford, Liberal, will probably be
elected in Portland District.
Colonel A. J. Kellar, Of the Mem
phis Avalanche, talks OF running as an
independent, Greeley candidate tor Con
gress against Lewis Grant ring csndi'
date, and L. C. HAYNES, regular Demo
cratic candidate, whom the AvdLdseht
refuses to support because it does not be-
lieve him to be sound on the Greeley
question,
4 The Fifteenth Congressional District
Of Illinois is good for 5000 or 10000
majority for Greeley, aud the Grant
party abandons the field. There will
! be no truly loyal Ito Grant csndi-
date for Congress against John R.
Eden, the Liberal nominee. Indeed
the Grant voters are so few as not to
invite, as vet even az Independent
stump candidacy.
Secretary Boutwell, is modern po'it
, ical Ajax, and losses of large jobs with
refreshing facility. After his great tri'
umph in North Carolina he fitted back
to Washington, paid of trifie OF Sl2,'
600, 900 Of the public debt. and then
skipped of to Maine to tell the people
what he knows of q tariff which de-
stroys their shipping and drives thou
sands OF artisans out of the State.
Overtures have been made by leaders
of the Grant party in Georgia for the
. support of the anti-Greeley Democrats
for Governor, Congress, and the Legis-
lssure, in return for the Electoral vote
The scheme thus far apparently re
ceives no countenance, and the Conven