The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-06-07
Assorted CslfDs.

removed! resigned? or was it all a
sham? He is still acting as collector.
The dear old party fervently ex-
claims Mr.. Dan Voorhees,. Yes, SO
dear" that Grant hasn't money
enough to buy only little piece Of it
at time.
There won't be any "Grant hats
this year. Hatters cannot manufac-
ture style which they can afford to
give away.
General Grant hastens to assure the
public that the reason why he removed
General Casey was not because he was
a hard case; oh? This is pretty bad, but
the best we can do with the material.
Nobody should object to Greeley be-
cause he is a teetotaler. His absti-
nence leaves all the more whiskey for
the once holders.
Grant now weeps over the persecu-
ton of the Jews in Roumania, but his
general orders of 1868, expelling all
Jew traders from his army, are ON file
stolen.
There is danger that Brother-in-law
Casey may be retained in his official
position at New Orleanes, notwithstand-
ing the Presidents qualified request
that he resign. Casey has cooked up a
petition from the business men of
New Orleans ''praying" Grant to re-
tain him, and Grant will probably be
glad to grant il.
Robson declares that no has lost
money since he became Secretary Of
the Navy. He has lost money indeed,
and, unfortunately, more than . hun
bred millions Of it belonged to the gov
crnment.-Courier-J ournal.
The only really bad thing about
Horace Greeley is his handwriting.
The Chicago Post quotes the follow
ing:
Grant, however, remained at its
head -undismayed, mistaken, inAex-
bile. '-[Greeley's American Conflict,
Vol. 2,p. $50.
Well, what of it? He isn't that way
IN the american conflict" Of 1877.
Grants motto in his first Presidon-
hal struggle: Let US have Z piece. In
The second: Let us have ALL
The Cincinnati Gazette says that I,lr.
Voorhees, has the "brains Of his party
With him." Not only the brains, bnt
The legs and and the hair of it. In
fact, Voorhees, patty is Voorhees,.
The ex-Confederate Mosby has told
Grant that he prefers him TO Greeley.
A chance to collect some internal rsyo-
nue. under the present administration is
what Mosby wants.
They may ridicnle Greeley's knowl-
edge Of farming, but the Radical party
This fall is pretty sure to find out "whst
he knows about thrashing."
Some Of the Grant organs nh;a5 to
Greeley because he is teetotaler. 1t
must be confessed that, when it comes
to the GodJise art Of getting drunk,
Grant can beat him ten to one.
Tie New York Evening Mail says it
objects to Chicago packing its luaatics
off to New York. The editorial col
ums Of the In.er-Ocean, the Journ al
and the Evening Post, of Chicago. show
that she has done nothing of the
sort.
GreeleyA nomination has had the
effect relieving several thousand citi-
gems from the disabilities inpo. ID by the
Fourteenth :n,1dment. If his mere
candidacy is SO beneficial in its effects,
what may we not expect from his Pres
idency?
All roads that lead from Greeley are
military highways. All roads that 60
to Greeley are old-fasLioned, peaceful
turnrikes, where every mile-post dimin-
ishes the distance between US and "the
good time coming"
The Philadelphia Bulletin tells us
that pennsylvania claims the Vice
Presidency" So she does, but the
people have determined to give it te
Missouri.
The Chicago Post asks: What p1ac-
teal progress has been made in arrest
ing the evils Of intemperanee by what
is known az the Maine-l,w system Of
prohibitory logislation?" The editorial
columns Of the Post would seem to in
licate that around that establishment
the system hasn't made any progress at
all.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean says: 1.-The