The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-08-16

CAMPAIGN NOTES.

CAMPAIGN NOTES.
CONGRESSMAN Eldr ;, Wis.
predicts 15O, 900 majority for Greeley in
New York.
FORTY Republicans Joined the Gree
ley and Brown club of Elizabeth, New
Jersey, at its first meeting. ur
The West Virginia election for Gov
ernor, Congressman, ETC., is to be held
this year on Thursday, August %.
THE Oshkosh, Wis, Times says that
over 100 Republican votes in that town
are committed to the Baltimore ticket.
THE Portland argus regards the
question that Maine will go for Gree
ley and Brown as settled" and says
! it has information which leaves no
doubt upon that point. -aie
THE Grant politicians are reported
to have offered Anna Dickinson 600
| to come out for the Office holders can
| didate. et i
In Western Pennsylvania two editors
are nominated to Congress, three for
| the State Senate and one for the As
sembly. - tr tt--r r..'
THE Hartford Conn., Evening Post
denies that it has been, or is likely to
be, bought up and changed to a Grant
organ.
THE Springfield Republican reports
that Greeley's strength in Massachu-
sets is already most developed in the
rural towns west of Worcester.
THE Greeley Republicans at Fond du
Lac, Wis, count between 400 and 500
votes, and there are not more than five
Bourbon Democrats in the place.
THE Chatfield Democrat says it is
currently reported that Hon. Charles
MeIlrath, State auditor of Minnesota,
has declared for Greedy and Brown.
THE Keokuk Constitution is conf
dent that "the vote between Greeley
and Grant in Iowa will be very
close, with the chances in favor of
Greeley.7 ~ cf- r--
DUDLEY p. ELY, Republican mayor
of South NOrwalk, Conn, has declared
lied Greeley and Brown campaign
club. ..-. -.-.
ID. s. FREEMAN of Smithport, Penn
sylvania, Grant electOr for the Fifteenth
district, sent in his resignation as
elector, on Tuesday, and will support
Greeley. -...-..
A FARMER in Monticello, Iowa,
writing to Chicago commission mer-
chant, says: "Tbis town gave 800 ma
jority for Grant; it will give Greeley
majority" y ....---.
THERE are but 53 Grant men in the
town of Lansing, Iowa. All the old
"stiff backs' of the Republican party
are for Greeley and the rank and file
go with them.
Ex-MAYoR Coddington. the Hon.
William Henry Gale and Joel Wilson,
president of the Savings Bank of
Railway, are among the many Greeley
Republicans i'll Jersey City.
AT the initial meeting of the Meri-
den, Conn.,, Greeley club German
speaker said that out of so German
Republicans in the town not more than
dozen would support Grant.
On. Wednesday evening, July II,
there will be a grand ratification
at Rockfort, Illinois. Hon. Leonard
SWEET, Gov. BrOss, and other Repub-
lican speakers, will be present.
A GREELEY club at Winnebaso City,
Minnesota, numbered at last accounts
nearly forty Republican voters, and the
Press, although supporting Grant, |
speaks of them as "Old settlers and
WELL known citizens"
A Liberal of La Crosse, Wisconsin
writes that nearly half the Republicans
of that city are Geeley men, and that
the Baltimore nominees will get ma
jority of from 400 to 800 in November.
La Crosse gave Grant majority of
100 in 1865.
p Col. A. G.. Babcock of Canton, Full
ton county, Illinois, who was four years
chairman of the Republican State Cen
trial Committee, and who is now for |
Greeley, is urged to accept the certainty |
of an election to Congress in the Ninth |
District.
LETTERS from Kansas report great |
activity in the Liberal cause in every |
county in that State. Greeley Repub-
licans are confident that their ticket |
will in manly places squarely divide the
Republican vote with Grant, and carry
the electoral vote of the State by fair
majority.
CLAYTON county, Iowa, which gave
Grant 500 majority, is claimed for
Greeley by a full thousand; and the
claim Is attested by list of well-known
names. There are four Greeley papers
in the county. The landslide" from
Grant has been heard, and felt, and
seen in that quarter.
OF the 10 Congressional districts in
Illinois Is gave Grant majorities in
1868. But thus early in the canvass
the Chicago Tribune thinks it is safe to
claim twelve districts for Greeley, and
to predict that i'm four other districts
the Greeley candidates will stand an
even chance of election. -
GEN. B. M. Henry, Republican So
licitor of the Twelfth judicial district,
Major w. w. Rollins, President of the
W., D., Y. G. r. R., and G. M. Rob-
erts, three leading and prominent Re
publicans in North Carolina, have de-
clared their intention of supporting
Greeley for President. .H
ONE of the Grant electors i'm South
ern Indiana having resigned his pO-
sitiOn and entered actively into the
campaign for Greeley, the Laporte,
Ind, Argus now reports that another
elector ON the Grant ticket i'm the
northern portion of the State is about
to follow suit, and has already told his
friends that he prefers Greeley to
Grant.
HOW THE BONDhOLDERS BOUGHT
GRANT.
From the Speech Of Hon. T. A. Hecdrs ks, at In
dianapelif, on the Nst July
'TThe practice, on the part OF General
Grant of taking great presants has also