Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-05-21
POLITICAL NEWS.

the Democracy: "Well, what are
you going to do about III"
Ben Butler, it is stated, declares
that Grant will be renominated at
Philadelchia, on the first ballot.
President Lincoln's opinion of
Mr.. Greeley in political affairs was
that more unsafe and imprudent
man there was not in the whole
country"
On Tuesday The House of Rep.
resentatives adopted a resolution for
the final adjournment of Congress on
the Sd of june. The Senate will no
doubt concur.
Some curiosity is expressed as
to whether the Tribune will support
the Administration IN the event of
Greeley's election as President. If
so, it will be the first Administration
it has supported since it's establish
ment as a jOurnal.-N. Y. Herald.
Tho Tribune announces that
Greeley will accept no invitations to
speak on public questions while a
candidate, and it will promote
the general convenience of those who
might otherwise invite him if they
will accept this as his final determin
alton.
Horace Greeley, and all others
similarly troubled, should make a
minute in their diaries that the Re-
publican State Conventions, occur
ring almost every day, continue to
elect non-ofiice holding delegates al
together, and yet instruct them to
vote for the denomination of Presi-
bent Grant.
-Harpers' Weekly says pointedly
off there is one quality which is in
dispensable in President,it is sound
judgment. If there is one public
man who is totally destitute of it, it
is Horace Greeley. A certain kindly
feeling with which he is regarded
will not blind the country to the
natural unftness of the office to
which he has been nominated"
The Chicago Journal says one
John NJ. Palmer, who didn't secure
any favors at Cincinnati, is figuring
for the Democratic nomination fol
Governor of Illinois. Senator Trum
bull has rejected the offer of the rec
ommendation for the position by the
Liberals. Oglesby will probably bt
the Republican candidate and the
next Governor.
the Chicago Times denounces a,
false the statement of the Tri6un
shat over two hundred Journals
heretofore Democratic have decl areC
for Greeley" The Times challenge
the Tribune to name two dozen jour
nails heretofore Democratic" that
have declared for Greeley except
under the condition that: "Sukjec
20 the decision of the National Con
ventioD."
The New York Independent
shares in the almost universal dis
trust of Mr.. GreeIey's qualifications
1t says: GAS a leader, a STANDARD
bearer, q wise and sagacious counsel
or, the record of his life supplies
abundant reasons for believing tha
he would be signal failure. He be-
already committed maly blunder
that even his warmest admirers trns
his judgment With caution"
The Cincinnati Gazette endeav
ors to find ''silver lining" to th,
dark possibility of Greeey's election
1t says: although his idiosyncroS,e
and rash experiments an finance MAJ
be more calamitOuS than ,0dr, peStitenc
and famine, and although zoe may hdU,
the most corrupt administration thai
eUer dared TO erist on earth, yet W,
shall have an honest. simple minded
President in Horace Greeley"
1t is stated that Senator Sumner
the author of indirect claims agains
England, and who has once carried
the Senate with him against tn,
Jobnson-Clarenden treaty on thii
same point, has speech prepared
which will last, at least, through two
sessions, and Administration Senat
ors also propose to join in the debate
in this discussion.
Grant is not the only mar
whose brethren>in law prove troub.
lesome. Senator Morton-whethel
in imitation of Grant or not we ar,
not prepared to say-has one of tn,
troublesome sort. His name is Bur
bank. He created a sensation By
writing letters in behalf of Morton
for the Presidency, which naturally
caused Morton to be regarded with
suspicion. And finally Morton hal
been compelled to write a letter tC
set himself right, and to explain tC
Grant, and allow it to be understood
by the public, that Burbank is "a
harmless sort of lunatic," whose
epistolary correspondence must no
be regarded as possessing any polit,
ical significance.