Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-07-24
nEPUBrIoAN DRIFT.

REPUBLICAN DRIFT.
The Greeley Republicans at Fond du Lac
Wisconsin, count between 400 and 500.
votes.
Ex-Congressman Charles Hughes, of New
York, has come out for Greeley and Brown.
fbe HOneI gnatius Donnelly, Of Mime
sofa, hiss declined the Congressional poni.
nation rendered him by the Grant party,
and comes out strongly for Greeley.
Fl. w. Holles, Republicanof great infIu-
ence in Fillmore county, Minnesota. twice
elected tO.the State Senate, and late editor
Of the Chatfeld Repubtscdn,has come out
for Greeley. g = i,s 1917
The Grand Haven (Nich.) Union "a Re-
publican paper ten years old, has hauled
down the names of Grant and Wilson at
the head of It's column and run up those of
Greeley and Brown. ke8s1 -
The Dowingtown (Pa.) Journal, an in
luential Republican paper, has declared for
Greeley. -
Hon. J. A. Stull, late Republican district
attorney of Monroe county, New York, pub
licly declares himself in favor of Horace
Greeley. Nlsa
Messrs. R. P. Downey, E. Sayers, and
Geo. w. Miller, the three leading Republi-
can attorneys of Waynesburg, Greene coun-
ty, Pennsylvania, are outspol1en for honest
Horace for President.
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Col. S. d. Freeman, of Mexican county,
the Grant elector for the fifteenth congress-
ional district of Pennsylvania, has vacated
his place upon tie Grant electoral ticket,
and comes out fair and square for Greeley
and Brown.
The Lancaster (Pa.) Express = the
staunch old Thad. Stevens Republican pa
per-repudiates Grant and supports Gree
ley and Reform, both State and national.
That county, which has always been large
ly Republican, viii go for Greeley.
The Wausau (Wis.) Pmery has the fol-
lowing political quotations: Greeley stock
is reported at so per cent. above par. Grant
stock is depreciating-only IS cents, with
out the cigar being thrown in"
The IO,oa Stats Zeittmg, the Radical
Republican German paper of Dubuque,
Iowa, came out on the 18th with the Gree
ley-Brown ticket at the masthead, adyo-
eating, in a long and able editorial, their
claims to the suffrages of its readers.
The New York Tribune says: Flom a
trustworthy canvass it is ascertained that
fIom twenty to forty per cent. of the Re-
publicans in the counties of Orange, Sulli-
van, Broome and Tioga have decided to
vote the Liberal Republican ticket for Pres
ident and Vice President. We look soon
for equally encouraging news from other
counties.
Flaman Ball, Jr., member of the Repub
lican Executive Committee of Hamilton
county, Ohio, has resigned bis position be-
cause he has determined to support Greeley
and Brown. The Cincinnati Commercial
says several other designations were read at
the meeting of the committee on the 20th
inst.
ON. Tyler, chairman of the Republi-
can Committee of Waukesha county, Wis
consin, has resigned that position and de-
cIared his intention to support Greeley and
Brown.
The Cleveland PiGindealer says: "There
are at least $500 German Republicans in
Cuyaboga county who will vote against
Ulysses S. Grant; and Ohio is about as sure
for Greeley as is New York, which viii
give him a large majority. Hurrah for the
old Farmer :"
Capt. Dan Webster, formerly Sergeant
alarms Of the Wisconsin Assembly, assist
ant editor of The Milwaukee Sentinel, and
an active Republican, is now editor of the
Mountain Echo, at Fayetteville, Ark, and
hoist the names of Greeley and Brown for
President nd Vice-President.
The Weyanwega (Wisconsin) Times, a
Republican journal, commenting on the call
of A Republicans in Berlin to form Gree
ley Club, says: ga few weeks ago it was
asserted by some of the Grant papers of
this section that there were only two Gree
ley Republicans in Berlin. Ifsuch was the
case, it must be that the Greeley movement
is rapidly gaining in strength. Let the good
work go on"
The Appleton, (Wisconsin) Crescent
says: "a majority of the surviving soldiers
in Outagamie county will vote for Greeley,
and we hear of similar accounts from
Waupaca county. One who did good ser
vice said to us the other day that while he
regarded President Grant as an able gener-
al, he had shown himself to be an incompe-
tent statesman"
An important accession to the Liberal
ranks is reported from Minnesota. Col. W.
S. King, part proprietor Of The Minneapolis
Tribune, and Postmaster of the United
States Senate, has finally resolved upon sup
porting Greeley and Brown, and, as be can
not control the Tribune, has determined to
issue an evening paper to uphold the Liber
al cause.
Green county, in Wisconsin, gave 1900
majority for Grant in 1868, of which Mon
roe, the county seat, furnished over 600
votes. At the Grant ratification meeting
there, recently, less than 100 persons were
present, and the services of the band are
not yet paid for. The band was to receive
SO for playing. The postmaster paid
them S., and promised to collect the bal
ance for them, which has not yet been
done.
The Pittsburgh Post of the 10Th inst.
says: la Washington, Pa, there is stam-
pede among prominent Grant Republicans
to the farmer candidate for President.
Among them may be mentioned the follow
ing: DIR. f. j. LamOyne, leading aboli-
tiopist and candidate for Vice presi-