Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-04-30
POLITICAL NEWS.

Inc h0cnester N. - Demo
crat, in speaking of Lyman Trumbull
says: The defender of the recrc-
ant Johnson, be maintains his con-
sistcncy by following in his footsteps
Andrew the First has preceded his
apologist into the ranks of the Dem
ocracy by but few years and now
they will sit down in congenial COM
panionship with the traitors Of 1861
and their allies.
Gen. Spinner says that the Dem
ocratic party reminds him of the sto-
ry of an Irishman who decapitated
turtle, and was astonished to see
him squirming about several days
after. Sure, an he must be dead,
for how could he live without head?'
remarked bis companion. cav course
he's dead" replied the first, "but the
poor craythur is not sinsible av it.
The coalition Of the Republican
soreheads and the Democratic cop
perheads bids fair to be a mixing to-
gether, 10 one incongruous and TO-
harmonious mass, of as many polite
al shapes, colors and elements "a it is
possible to imagine. Let ns call it
the party of the Dolly Vardens.-
Chicago Journal.
The platform adopted by the late
National Colored Convention at New
Orleans, contains one sentence en-
bodying volume of meaning: "Ail
roads out OF the Republican party
lead into the Democratic camp" A
whole campaigns speeches could not
put the situation more pointedly or
more correctly.
The Rel ublicsn party of Illinois
is stronger to-day than it has been
at any time in it's history, and with
Grant for President, Oglesby for
Governor, and State ticket of good
aud true men, its majority in Nov.
will be larger than it has been at any
previous election Chicago Journal.
= The Springfield Journal says
that Governor Palmer's private Sec
rotary has just returned from Cincin.
natl, and gives it as his opinion that
the contest is between Palmer and
Adams, ard that Palmer is the COM
ing man." This accounts for the
milk in that cocoa-nut.
The st. Paul (Minn.) Press notes
as fatal omen that the soreheads in
New York opened their campaign
against the Republican party on the
day when the rebels opened their fire
on Fort Sumter And it thinks one
action as causeIess and unprovoked
as the other.
The Labor Reform delegates of
sig States represented in the Column
bus Ohio Convention met last Tues
day, acknowledged Themselves the
victims of huge political sell, and
voted virtually to have nothing fur
Their to do with the movement.
- The New York Nation very
frankly says: ave all agree that
the Democratic party has no high
aims, no patriotic intentions its pur-
pose seems to be simply to get back
into power"
Among the kilograms received
at the Cooper Institute meeting was
one from Gerritt Smith, saying: My
heart is with Grant, and | will do
W. at little | can for his reelection.
Friends of James +. Wilson in
Washington claim that his prospects
for the Vice Presidency nomination
at Philadelphia are rapidly improv-
ing. and confidence in his success.
The Toledo Blade says not one
of the hundred Republican papers %
Ohio is opposed to the denomination
of President Grant. The thing is too
unanimous for discussion.
The Boston Journal we'll and tru-
ly says that if Civil Service RefoI IN
is ever carried out, il will be visibly
owing to President Gran. more than
to any other man.
The Selma (Ala) Times speaks
of Gen. Longstreet as ''disgustinglY
degraded" because he believes that
the war is over and that the rebel
cause is really lost.
The Portland Press says there is
no division among the Republicans
of Maine, and that the Cincinnati
schism has not and cannot extend
into that State.
On Wednesday, the Republicans
of Maryland appointed delegates to
the Philadelphia Convention, and in
structed them to vote for Grant and
Colfax.
The New Y ork Sxn says thatJas.
Gordon Bennett. Jr, has bet with
Mr.. Belmont, $40, 900 against 81 900,
that Grant will be the next Presi.
dent.
The Democratic Wabash Valley
Trxses says: "a large part of the
Democratic party would Just as lief
have Grant as any other Republican.
Gen. John A. Logan takes no
stock 10 the Cincinnati movement,
and SCOTS at Trumbull's boast about
carrying Illinois against Grant.
The fight between the Trumbull
and Davis wings of the factionists in
Illinois grows daily more and more
bitter.
The New York Tribune says -
"No one questions the personal hon.
esiy of General Grant"
The West Virginia Liberals
want Judge Chase for President. !