Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-09-18
POLITICAL NOTES.

1t is stated that Hon Ben. Wood,
who bet, $4,000 that Horace Greeley
would be elected President OF the
United States, is SC respondent since
the Maine election that he has compro-
misedIhis bet:of $4,000 by paying 81,
600 The other small Greeleyites in
New York are compromising at the rate
of S18 on every hundred. The most
SPACIOUS calculators consider that Gree
lev is already beaten and hence that
they had better now pay over portion
of the debt than ultimately thes entire
sum.
A weII-known citizen Of Minnesota
states that there is no chance OF the
Liberals and Democrats carrying thai
state in November. The Greeley SEN
timent is rapidly losing ground, and
hundreds Of Democrats who at first sup
ported Greeley have come to their
sober senses ard announce their lnten-
ton of supporting the Grant ticket, or
not going to the polls at all
The New York Independent says OF
General Dix: His nomination is
aouivalent to his election, and that too
by a large majority. There are thous
aDds of war Democrats Ia the tate
whose natural place is with the Repub
ican party, and who under the leader
shin Of General Dix, will this fall give
it their cordial support, This we re-
card as settling the question for Gree
lev. so far as the State of New York is
Concerned"
GREELEY TO BE THROwN OVER
The New York correspondent of the
Philadelphia Sunday Republic thus
writes under date of September 7
/ From present indications under the
surface, the country may as we'll pre-
pare for political surprise, in the shape
of q TO mai withdrawal Of Horace Gree
lev from the field. All the whisperings
among he knowing ones, at Democratic
nd Liberal headquarters within the
few DAYS past, lead to the conviction
that there is really something import
ant in the wind, and that it will not be
| long before it is made manifest. The
fact is. since the result of the elections
in North Carolina, West Virginia, and
| Vermont have demonstrated that the
Liberal element has really brought no
strength to the Democratic camp, the
old foxes are realizing what terrible
political mistake they made i'll making
their bed with the farmer Of Chappa-
qua, aud the question with them now
! is. can the burden be got rid ofwithout
| demoralizing the party worse than it l.
already? If the Maine election, which
| comes off next week, does not show any
Roadway for Greeley, depend upon it
that question will be pressed to prac-
teal solution, and if the result is not
the substitution Of the nominee of the
'Straight-outs,' the probability is that
some new man will be placed at the
head of the ticket, to lead what may
now be looked upon as indeed the most
forlorn of all forlorn hopes"
Mrs. Lewis Clark, of Alfred, N. Y.
writes to the New York Tribune but
the Tribune refuses to publish challeng
ing any woman in that state to furnish
more votes for the reelection Of Grant
than she. She says: 81 have eight,
sons and husband, all of whom have
been readers of the Tribune, and, from
its past teachings, they can under no
circumstances vote tor the nominee Of
the Democratic Party, Notwithstanding
it is Horace Greeley himself, he having
in his strongest language denounced
the party as traitors, blacklegs and
thieves who should under no~circum-
stances be permitted to get control of
the Government"
Referring to objections about the age
of Gen. Dix. Republican candidate for
Governor Of New York, the Nation
says When a man Of 70 can COM
mand an army as Molke has done,
or man of IA can administer as Theirs
is doing, or man of so as Palrnerstop
did, and man of II judge as Sir
Alexander Cockburn is doing, to taunt
Gen Dix with being old and bid him
prepare for death is silly as we'll as
brutal"