Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-08-02

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"A carcfai estimate reveals probable fall
ing of of 1000 from Grant vote In Wind
ham county, Conn.
Judge Martin Grover Is an ardent Gree
ley man. and prediets:tha New York viii
give him 100000 majority.
The Springfield Republican gives tie
votes. by tcwns, OF Connecticut, and esti-
mates q IAjority for Greeley and Brown Of
1000 on the aggregate vote.
Eighty Republicanz in the town of
WetbersheId, Wyoming county, have signed
call for q Greeley and Brown meeting.
e George Stevens, who was President of
the Grant "Ianners, : 81. Lowell, Mass,
fur years ago, Is now President Of the
Greeley Club in that city.
The Auburn Netcs publishes list of one
hundred and twenty Republicans of Cay
uga county, New Yosk, who announce
their intention TO support Horace Greeley.
- Five ex-rnasors Of Pittsburgh and Al
legheny, viz. Sawyer, Lowrie. Weaver,
Morrison and Drum, al elected by Re
publican constituency, are for Greeley for
President.
The Republicans in Allen county, Indi-
ana, have become demoralized by the wi h.
drawAlE from the committee of sheriff
Colonel Charles Sslinger. He refuses to
support the Republican ticket, and viii go
strong for Greeley and Brown.
At Manchester, Iowa, the Greeley Repub-
Iican Club numbers ia, and the Grant
Club 2S3-both lists being published in the
Press, q Grant newspaper. The Greeley
list calls for one third the usual Republican
vote. y ~ hA-sat @AsS - +~h
The Monroe (iich.) Monitor, speaking
of the political revolution now going on in
tie country, says that there win be at least
800 Republicans 10 Monroe county who vo-
ted for Grant four years ago who are now
for Horace Greeley.
State Treasurer Raines, elected by the
Republicans of New York last fall, is active
in his support of Greeley. 1t is stated that
he has collected facts in regard to the cor
ruption of the last legislature, and proposes
to state all be knows about it on the stump
this fall. $500 =
A man named Lucien Warner enjoys the
disrepute Of being the only Grant man
among the l5e, Republican voters Of The
town of Chaska, Carver county, Mimi.
His neighbors laugh at him and call him
their Republican Nasty. The St. Paul
Pioneer is assured that Carver county is
good for Greeley majority of 400.
The Stanford (Kentucky) Interior Jour
nal says: 1--WE were in conversation the
other day with an intelligent soldier Of the
4th United States regiment, now stationed
at Grab Orchard, and were surprised 10
hear him say that, although President
Grant once held the office of Lieutenant in
his regiment, he aud fffy-eight others out
of a company of sixty would support Gree
ley in November.
Hon. Henry w. Taylor, of Canandaigua,
View York, lifelong Republican of emf
nence and purity of character, and former
Judge Of the Supreme Court, appeared last
week, in the Ontario Repository, in an able
address to the Republicans, in behalf of
Greeley and Brown. Judge Taylor makes
bis argument clear and conclusive, and it
must have decided weigh: in Ontario
! county.
Col. Charles D. Kerr, Of st. Cloud, Min
nesota, formerly OF the Sixteenth Illinois
Volunteers, writes: "We have just started
a Greeley Club here among the Liberal Re
publicans, headed by my name. Nearly
fifty sound, staunch Republicans have
Joined it already, and many more will do
50. Things are indeed working all right,
and the prospects look fair for a defeat of
corruption and selfish ambition. We will
( come pretty near equally dividing the Re-
publican vote of this town. If the rest of
the country does half as well, Greeley is
elected sure"
The Hartford, Comm Times of July %
/ says:
"a Southington letter to the Times says
| such leading Republicans as II. ID. Smith,
and o. W. Stow, and Prof Walkley, are
among the Greeley Republicans of that
town. The organized pressure which is
so actively applied to all Republicans who
! come out for Greeley, says our cOrresp0n-
dent, cannot change these men and make
them 90 back to Grant. The letter says:
William Wilcox, Lauren 7. Campbell, An
drew T. Barnes, James r. Epson, L. v.
Walkley, Prof. Webster, z. Walkley, and
Truman Barnes, all prominent Republicans
are openly fer Greeley. A friend Of mine
who is better posted than am, says there
are IS Greeley Republicans in this town
| Ofthe gentlemen named ne says: 81 know
them to be fearless, independent men, who
love the right as they understand it, and
are ever ready to vindieate it at any cost or
sacrifice which the circumstances seem TO
require. But what surprises ma is that
Grant men so persistently deny that these
| gentlemen will support Greeley Other
towns in this State send in similar &C
| counts"
The Leavenworth (Kansas) Journal, a
Grant organ, sends up the following wall:
eve read with extreme regret The an
nouncement by telegraph, yesterday morn
| ing, that the Fort Scott Monitor has decided
TO come out for Greeley and Brown, and
was, moreover, to te under the control of
Mr.. S. A. Manlove, heretofore one of the
staunchest Republicans of Bourbon county,
and but last fall elected to position of hou-
or and trust on the Republican ticket. TO
the writer, who has been a Republican
since the organization of the party, labor
ing both with pen and voice in its behalf
from 1856 down 20 this day, Entrusted with
the honorable duty of drawing up the first
platform adopted by the Republican party
of Douglas county and writing the
platform adopted at the organization
Of the party in the State at Ossawato-
ME, it is a painful and Illuminating sight
to behold one after another of his
old political associates leaving the ranks
of the grsud old party of our earlier
and better history, and enlsting under
strange and alien banner. To see Mac
Parrntt and COY. Rnhinsnn. and * -Saua.