Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-07-30
Dailp 9rone.
Greeley Straws.

Greeley Straws.
Not day passes without some promi-
nent Grant man announcing his determine
tion to support Greeley and Brown. Our
exchanges are teeming with such instances,
and If We we're to notice them all we should
have no room for anything else. Here are
few, clipped from one days exchanges:
Seth Robinson, of Lincoln, late Attorney
General of Nebraska, has declared for Gree
ley.
Samuel P. Morrill,, late Republican mem
Der of Congress from Maine, has declared
for Greeley.
Burt Van Horn, ex Congressman, and one
of the most influential Republican leaders
in Western New York, has declared for
Greeley.
The call for Liberal Republican Club
at Kalamazoo, Mich, was signed by over
$50 Republicans who believe the time has
come for Reconciliation.
Charles Hughes, of Northern New York,
ex-memher Of Congress, ex-Clerk of the
Court of Appeals, exProvost Marshal, &C.,
has Joined the Greeley ranks.
The Hon. William NJ. Stone, two terms
Governor of Iowa, Is mentioned as the Gree
ley candidate for Congress in the Sixth Dis
trict of that State and Samuel Merrill,
also two terms Governor, il spoken of for
the Greeley candidacy in the Seventh Dis
trict.
]. R. Swallow, former State Auditor Of
Kansas, has come out for Greeley, and gives
il as his opinion-sfter travels and CONVEX
sAtion with residents of nearly every State
in the Union-that Greeley will be made
President by an almost unanimous electoral
vote.
The call for a Greeley Club, organized
at ST. Psul, MINI, was signed by 1877 Re-
publican voters.
Charles Robinson, the Free State Cover
nor of Kansas has abandoned Grant and
declared for Greeley.
At Manchester, Iowa, the Greeley Repub
loan Club numbers l24, and the Grant Clut
223,-both lists being published in the Press
Grant newspaper. The Greeley lists call
for one-third the usual Republican vote.
VIC. Holden, formerly of the Ottumwa
Iowa Courier (Republican), Blu, now a resi-
dent of Red Oak, Iowa, has come out 70
Greeley.
Administration circles in St. Paul ar
disturbed by the wel-founded runor that Z
r. Smith, of LIE Sueur, member of ii
: Grant State Committee. Is about so send i
his resignation and declare fer Greeley.
George Stevens, who was President Of ID
Grant Tanners" at Lowell Mass foC
: years ago, is now President of the Creole
Club in that city.
Washington Long, formerly Collector .
PASSPORT, Me-, has declared for Greeley.
Colonel E. A. Parrot and L. J. Move
, prominent Republicans Of Dayton, Obi
have como out for Greeley.
- Tally one more for Greeley Emory
Pottle, of 0ntario,N. Y, q Republican men
. Der of Congress from 1857 to 1861, has lie
the ranks of the Grant party. Mr.. Pott
has served two terms In Congress, and WI
a mem Der of the last Grant State ConveI
- tod at Elmira.
Caleb CAlkins, former Assemblyman
the Oneida N. Y District, and fnancl
, agent of Gerrit Smith, is out strong +
Greeley.
Another convert to Greeley-The SaleI
n Washington County Press (RepubliesI
has changed from Grant to Greeley.
Ten out of the twenty-five surviving Ora
Presidential electors in New ork four yes
est sgo now support Greeley and Brown.
The Pontiac Mich Jacksoajan,
las Thursday last, declared tor the Liberal os
. didstes.
The Weysuwega wis., Times tax
down the Grant ticket, and hoists that
Greeley and Brown.
AN. The PlaiDfeld On j. Constitutional
declares for Greeley and Brown, making
Democratic press of New jersey unit
the Liberal cause.
The Wells Mimi 4tjas, which suppo
Y, the Republican State and Congressio
ticket, puts the Greeley flag ct the ma
head.
DR.. John Martin, sn old and induent
the Repub licau, OF Noble county, Ohio, publ
es cogent reasons for his intended vote
low Greeley.
Ts. Two more Republican papers in MiC
the gan, the Battle Creek Tribune and the
'p'- catur Republican, are out for Greeley.
r'u Captain John H. Reece withdrsws fl
. the Executive Committee of the Grant ps
in Georgia, in order to support Greeley.
ASntADuiA OOuntfs tHo Oiu HO"o VI
. Giddings, in Ohio, is the strongest Repu
can county in that State, but It's Repubh
newspaper of largest circulation supp
Greeley and Brown, and at least 20
cent. of the Republicans are already co
N ed as sure for that ticket.
z Colonel s. D. Freeman, Grant Electol
the Fifteenth Congressional Dir'rict
4 Pennsylvania has sent in his resigus
and declared for Greeley.
=. The Baltimore Sun and the 30
Herald, formerly fsvoring Grant,
hois,ed the Greeley and Brown flag.
Wallace Tsppsn, e member Of the
:; n York Republican State Contra hOommi
has resigned and announced that he
the support the nominations of Baltimore
Cincinnati. Mr.. Tsppan is the sixth n
Der of that committee that has resigned
been displaced because of their flaming
> ! ward Greeley.
Senator Henry Wilson, in sddressin
y audience at Beaufort, n. c. showed
fears of the result in November by say
tba narn this State tina