The Hickman courier., 1872-10-05
Our Candidate.

Our Candidate.
E Our presidential candidate grows
upon US. We were satisfied with him
at first; we are proud of him now. He
is superior to Adams he is superior
to O'Conor; he is immensely superior
to Grant. We thought we knew him
three months ago but we did not
There is a part of him we see, now, for
the first time and the more we see Of
him the better We ike him We knew
he was a great editor and a great poll
tician we now perceive that he is
great candidate, aud we strongly sus
pect that be will be great President.
He is a many-sided man; he is
myriad minded man l he IS not the
best stump speaker IN the country, he
has, at least, made lot OF the most bril-
liaut stump speeches ever made IN this,
or any other country
Speaking for the Democratic masses,
we can say that Mr. Greeley is all they
want him 70 be, even though he is not
a Democrat They are mere than
sati fed with him Iustead of regret
ting that some other man was not uomi
mated at Ciucinuati, they rejoice that
he was nominated, Of all others. They
would not exchange him for any one Of
those who were his competitors at Ciu-
cinnati they would not even exchange
him for any maa OF their own party,
however distinguished aud admired
He is, 50 clearly, the Gttest man to be
the opposition candidate in this contest
( aud to be the neat President too, as 70
bar cut every thought, or suggestion OF
another The Democratic masses want
+ no better candidate and no better Presi-
dent than the man ho made the Pitts
burg, Cincinnati aud Dayton speeches
and If this view of him Is shared to any
kexteut by the masses in the ether Sec
tions-and we suspect il is- Horace
Greeley will be elected 10 November,
/ as surely as the sun shines.-k.r.
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The congregational ssace.
Coils. Grassland and Martin speak
to day at Cadiz, in Trieg county; and
from thence they 90 iato Caldwell and
Livingston, and the counties above the
Cumberland Col. Trabue, the Radical
candidate, it appears is not meeting
them, but is canyassiug alone.
From a private correspondent writ
ing to US Of the debate between Cross
land and Martin, ut Benton, the county
seat of Marshall, we quote;
Martin is furious about your pub
lication and abuses you soundly. Col.
I Grassland defends you, aud insists that
you only publish what Martin admits
t to be facts-Rutter' evidence aud the
letters. Grassland stated in reply to
Martins speech, that he (Martin) had
made foul charges against the editor
Of the Hickman COURIER. Martin
demanded to know what they we're; and
Crosslaud replied that be ha9rsaid that.
"Crossland had bought Geo. Warren
Martin Geaied LcCiu7 said So; and de-
manded CrossIand's authority, which
was promptly given. Grassland then
went on to denouuce the school fund
robbers, and especially Rutter. at some
length. Grassland then referred TO the
publication in Col Martin paper that
he had subscribed for 200 copies OF the
Hickman Courier, by stating that at
the solicitation Of Capt Rande, and
others, who we're desirous Of retaining
the publication Of the COURIER at the
towu Of Hickman, and Of giving it a
District circulation; and knowing that
( those gentlemen and the COURIER had
been his friends, he agreed to take 80
copies, which he supposed we're being
l furnished ataprecisely the same cost to
the publisher as any other subscribers.
He said further, that about the same
time Mr.. Sears, the political editor Of
Col. Martin paper, the Ken;uckian,
said to him that he (Crossiand) ought
TO help the Keutuekiau, and that be
let bim have the same amount Of money
and took il IN stock, which was not
worth quarter Of a cent on the $1,000
He felt that he was only discharging a
duty IN aiding these Journals; but the
public must see, that if he bought the
COURIER. he had also bought the Ken
tuckjan
1 FROM PRINCETON, Caldwell Co.
A correspondent, who Is public
man and a resident of Princeton, un-
der date of Sept 25. write thus of the
feeling in the counties above the Cum
berland
"In regard to Martin. have regard
ed him and still regard him. as with
out doubt, the poorest candidate for
Congress I ever knew; aud on this side
Of the CHmberlaud, he viii not get.
seriously, any Uotes IT all. l hear
Of but one man who viii vote for him
1t was plain from the beginning that
he wanted row with the editors in the
District because of their unanimous
expression of preference for Grassland
Martin is really laughed at up here,
and from the information given me in
Paducah, he will be the worst beaten
man that ever ran FOR Congress in this
District
Cores spondencc OF the Louisville Ledger.
EDDYyILLE. KY, sept. 30, 1872
1.-The congressional race in this dis
trict Is exciting very little interest,
from the fact that there is no contest
Colonel Grassland will be returned by
au almost unanimous Democratic vote.
The Radicals have virtually no caudi-
date in the field Paducah tried hard
to patch one up for the occasion out of
a 50 called Bourbon, but the effort was
a failure from some cause or other.
FRED. Douglass zeal for Grant, T
which has led the eolored orator iuto /
speaking some very bold falseboods on
the stump, is accounted for. The Capi