Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-07-20

STATE TICKET HEALEp--THR STATE Sure
FOR GRANT AND WILSON BY 10000 MAORI
rY.
To the Editor Of the Journal:
ERIE, Penn. July : 1872.
The campaign in the Key Stone State has
already commenced and it is being vigorously
prosecuted on behalf of the friends OF the
Administration. The Republican State Ton
! venton, which met at lIarrsburgh in April
last, nominated as the candidate tor lover
nor, Gen. Hantranft In this convention
some dissatisfaction was created at the failure
TO nominate Hon. Winthrop w. Ketchum and
the nomination of Gen Hantranft was openly
opposed by the Philadelphia Press. The ill
feeling thus created has passed away. Mr..
Ketchum has consented to accept the nomi-
nation of Congressman at Large, and as he is
a man of large brain and heart, a powerful
advocate and an eloquent speaker, his name
will add strength to the ticket throughout the
State The opposition of John w. Forney to
the ticket was merely personal, and as he has
consented to support the ticket as soon as it
is strengthened by the name of ketchum, the
republican party is now thoroughly united
and sure of carrying the State by at least fit-
teen thousand majority in October, while it
is conceded that Grant in November will re-
ceive a much larger majority. Gen. Han
tranft bore during the war an enviable repn-
tation. and in his own county was very popu-
lar. He resides in Montgomery county,
which is democratic but SO great is his per-
sonal popularity that his friends claim he will
carry it. The democratic candidate for Gov
ornor, Ex- Senator Buckalew, has the disad-
vantage of being unpopular in his own
county. and will there run behind his ticket.
His political record is bad; while in the
Senate of the United States, he voted on ev-
cry occasion against comforting civil rights
upon the black man. and in a speech deliver
ed in his own town, Bloomsburgh, he de-
nouncsd the Union soldiers, as Lincoln's
hirelings and said "Fellow citizens when
landed in New York from South America and
found that Abe Lincoln, the rail splitter of
Illinois, was President, and w. II. Seward
his Secretary, was Inundated,
AT the recent convention at Baltimore
Pennsy lvaHia threw twenty-iour votes against
Horace Greeley, and his nomination is openly
repudia,ed by many democrats, particularly
in the western portion of the state. From
personal interviews held with prominent men
from for,y-six counties Of the state, find
that they all testify that the republican party
which has held this state for the past twelve
years is stronger to- day than it has ever been,
and that the democratic party since the NOM
ination of Mr.. Greeley, is in this State, q
forlorn hope, made up from the wreck of q
disorganized army, with banners 1urled and
every vestage Of esprit du corps wanting. Ex-
Governor Curtin will return homa.ihis month,
and his personal friends assert that he has
never given the Greeley movement his en-
enlargement, and that Immediately upon his
arrival here he will take the stump for the
reelection of Gen. Grant. Five Congress
sional Districts. namely the 10th, Eth, 18TH
goth, and 24th, were lost to the Republicans
two years ago by very small majorities and
for purely local causes. All of these Dis
tricts will be regained this Fall, and Pennsyl-
vania will as surely cast its electoral vote for
Grant and Wilson as will Maine
TRAVELLER.