Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-08-14
Campaign Notes.

Campaign Notes.
The report that Ez-Gov Austin Blair's son
was discharged as special mail agent because
he refused to pay political assessment of ff-
! ty dollars Is untrue. He was reported for
repeated neglect of duty disobedience of or
/ ders, and for the good Of the postal service re-
signed, fearing to abide an investigation.
| MANY Republicans in the Fifth Maine dis
trict being dissa tsfed with the denomination
of Eugene Hale for Congress, at Conven-
/ tion held in Belfast, on Tuesday, nominated
T. A. Pike for the position.
| HARRY WHITE declines the Republican NOM
nation for Congressman at large from the
state of Pennsylvania. In his letter ofdeclina-
| ton he expresses al earnest hope for the sue
/ cess Of the Republican State and National
! tickets.
GREELEY butter is offered to the public by q
Kansas City grocer, who probably takes
that way Of intimating that it il not very
strong.
Hon. HENRY S. GREEN, of D=Witt county
addressed the Grant cub at Clinton, H., on
Friday evening. The reputation Of the
speaker drew not less than 2, 900 persons, who
listened for neary two hours to mastery
argument. Dewitt county is good for 800
Republican majority.
A MONSTER Republican meeting was held in
Rockford, H., on Saturday, to listen to a
speech from Hon. VIM. Lathrop Winnebago
county, Illinois, will give Grant 4, 900 majority.
GREELEY meeting was held III Chicago o
Monday evening. Between 5000 and 5000
persons were present. Gustave Koerner, the
Liberal candidate for Governor, spoke from
the principal stand. Speeches were also made
by Senator Trumbull, Ex-Governor B air. of
Michigan, Long John Wentworth, Thomas
HOyne and others.
NEW locOm JtIve named sHOrace Gree
ley" has just been turned out of the Schenec-
tady car shops. It ran off the track the first
dav.
A CIRCULAR will soon be issued calling an
Irish Republican National Convention to meet
il Philadelphia in the middle o September in
the interest of Grant and Wilson,
ALARGE and enthusiastic Republican meet
ing was held at Charlottesville, Indiana, Sat-
urday, and was addressed by Senator o. n.
Morton and others.
Hon. JASON B. Brown, a prominent Demo-
crat and State Senator from the southern
part of Indiana, addressed a political meeting
at Medora, Jackson county, i'll that State on
Tuesday, in opposition to Greeley and Brown.
GEN. JNo. III. HARLoM, of Louisville, ad-
dressed one Of the largest audiences ever as
sembled in New Albany, Ind, advocating the
election of Grant and Wilson. There were
fully 5000 persons present. and great enthu-
siasm manifested.
| REPUBLICAN meeting held at Lincoln, Ne
] braska, was the largest ever held in the state
i Senator Logan arrived here from Salt Lake
CITY in the evening and spoke for three hours.
Fully 5000 people were present.
/ REPORTS from the interior of Iowa, bring
news Of the formation of large Grant-Wilson
clubs at Anamosa and Monticello, Jones
county, Usage, Mitchell county and Nashua,
/ Chlckasaw county. The meetings, it is stated,
| were large and very enthusiastic.
! MEMBERS of the Greeley Campaign Commit
mittee, i'll Washington, complain that their
appeals for money with which to try ana beat
Grant nave met with very few responses, and
! they say that unless something is done soon
their work will have to stop.
! MANY Grant and Wilson meetings were held
throughout Western New York SATURDAY. even.
! ing. The Republican forces are organizir g
Tor determined fight. Grant viii carry West.
ern New York by larger majority than in
| 1868.
THREE hundred voters of McGregor, iowa
have signed a call for Grant and Wilson
Club One hundred at North McGregor have
rallied under the Grant Banner. The report
published in the Chicago Tribune, that Clay
| ton county is for &c Greeley and Brown y in an
/ infamous ialsehood.
/ WILLIAM W. WHEATON, late Chairman of the
Democratic State Committee of Michigan
writes to the National Committee, in the
course OF which he says thousands of the
Michigan Democrats refuse to follow the Bal
tmore Democracy, which made nomination
| opposed to the unbroken usage Of the party
virtually dlsbanded the organization, and were
swallowed by sorehead Republicans, relin
gushing principles hoping to gain place.
On Saturday afternoon the huge wigwan
erected by the Republicans of Ell Paso, Ill,
was dedicated to the work of the Republican
party. The building, which is 80 feet wide by
Izo teet deep, was cOmfo tably flied by the
4 people OF the city. Speeches were made by
ten. Bevendge, Hon. S. NJ. Cullom and Geo
ii. Harlow. Ia the evening the wigwam was
1lled to overt1owing. Over 5000 of the work
ln3men of Woodford county assembled to lis
ten to speech from Judge B. P. Parks, O
Aurora, a lifelong Democrat, but far too hon
est to Sell himself to the movement of the self
appointed leaders OF that once great party.
a MUCH-TALKED OF Liberal" meeting wal
held at Dubuque, Saturday evening, and was
an immense affair, composed, as it was o
twenty eight g Liberals" by actual count, and
a few Democrats. Alter nomination OF hal
Their number as delegates to the State Con
ventlon, they adjourned. Very little enthu
siasm was manifested.
THE Appleton Crescent says Waupaca count
will give Greeley nearly 900 majority Th
Crescent manis a Democrat. This accounts
for his adherence OF the truth Wdupact
Republican.
A LETTER has been received from Hon. Hen
fy d. Moore, now in st. Petersburg, in which
he says that he is authorized to say for MI
curtin, " that he earnestly desires the re-elee
ton OF President Grant, q" and that neither Cur
TN nor himself has any sympathy whateye
!, with the Greeley movement.