The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-08-30
THE FIELD OF POLITICS.
A CONFESSION OF WEAKNESS FROM
THE ENEMY.
MIR. Greeley Pointing Out the Holes In
mr. Grants Armor-Sheep's Ciothfng
Pieced with q FoI-Sktn.

Mr.. Greeley Pointing Out the Holes In
mr.. Grants Armor-Sheep's Clothing
Pieced with q Fo1-Sktn.
~ BRIDGEPORT, Conn.,, August 20.
Horace Greeley, in passing through this city,
was greeted by vast impromptu crowd,
which he addressed as follows:
This great gathering receive as something
which forty years Of active and earnest lie
may possibly have in some measure invited,
but which I did not anticipate. ALLOW me,
then, when I receive Its evidence Of personal
goodwill and some measure OF confidence, 10
make single remark with reference 10 one
aspect of the great struggle now going on IN
our country. Strategy In politics is The tribute
which craft pays 10 slrength-the wolfskin
proving too short, the foxes tail is pressed
Into service TO piece 1t out. daughter and
cries You see at this day great party
struggling to avert defeat by distracting and
You would. not have Federal officeholders
working so hard to get up third ticket If
they did not feel sure tDat between two tickets
already In field the verdict was against them.
[Cheers, and chies of right, old hoss.1 The
effort, thea, to distract the host on our side Is
confession of despair, and as such we re-
ceivssit. The confession remains, and the
despair is not likely to pass away. [Applause.]
A Promising Coalition In Louisiana.
NEW ORLEANS, August 20.
The Democratic, Liberal Republican and Re-
form conference committees have agreed
mon the following State ticket: For COVER
nor, John McEvoy; for lieutenant.gov
D. B. Penn; for rattorney-general 81. N. Ogdeni
for auditor, James Graham; for superintendent
Of education, B. NJ. Lusher; for secretary OF
State, Samuel B. Olmstead. colored; for Con-
gressman at large, B. F. Jones. This agree
ment has been ratified In separate and joint
sassoDs bV all the committees.
Grants Massachusetts Fuglemen-But-
Ier,s GubernatorIal Aspiratio o
WORCESTER, MASS, August 20.
The Republican State Convention, In see.
sion here to-day, renominated Governor VIM.
B. Washburn and the rest of the present Stale
officers except the Acknowledgements, IN
whose place they nominated Thomas Talbot,
the defeated Republican candidate IN 1871 lot
msyor of Boston. B. F. Butler received 259
votes out of $50 cast. The platform adopted
to-day accepts and ratifles the platform aud
nominations of lhe Philadelphia Convention;
euloglzes the natlona! administration Tor lib
home and foreign policy; declares that tne
treatment OF the Southern States during and
sInce the war has been characterized by un-
pafallslled moderation, ,clemency and magnan-
Unity. 1t repudlates the pretensions oil the
Democratic party and its recent recruits"
and declares that the statement that they are
partisanS OF new policy OF recOpcillallon Is
utterly disproved by the record Of the past
twelve years, and is an unworthy attempt for
the sake of supposed political advantage to
fasten reproach upon the fair fame oil the
country.
The West Virginia Electton-Jacobs
Elected and tho Constitution Adopted.
WHEELING, August q.
The Intelligencer says corrected reports
from forty-six counties, most of them official,
give Governor Jacobs majority of 32o6. Re-
portson the adoption of the constitution from
forty-one counties give majority of 1890 tor
ratification. Eight counties are yet to be
heard from on governor, and thirteen on the
constitution. The Intelligencer estimates that
this will reduce Jacobs's majority to $500 and
Increase the majority for the constitution 1000.
Probable Hoax.
CHICAGO, August 20.
The International Ocean publishes the fol-
lowing: ~, 1910
NEW YORK, August II, 1872.
Mu Dear Sir-I was and am In faVcr OF tne
Louisville movement. Even the mere profes-
sIon of adherence tu Democratic Ideas must
soon disappear, II without our marked dissent
the party can be transferred TO It's deadliest
foe. o,c,>,
(Signed) CHARLES oCoNok.