The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-07-19
POLITICAL GOSSIP.

The President accepted the nomi-
nation. When did the President ever
decline anything?
The Oshkosh Times is confident
Greeley will carry Wisconsin by a
sweeping majority.
A Scandinavian Greeley club is
formed at st. Paul, and Minnesota is
on fire for Greeley.
Five hundred Democrats dined
with Horace Greeley at his Chap
paque farm last Saturday.
And now what are we coming to?
George Francis Train was at the Bal.
timore Convention and will support
Horace.
A correspondent of the Herald
positively asserts that every Catholic
paper in the Union except one sup
ports Greeley.
One-third of the Republicans of
Orleans county, N. Y, are for Gree
ley. The same is said of Madison
county, in that State.
Hon. NJ. Fl. Weir, of Indiana,
claims that State for the Democracy
in October by 10000 majority. He
was formerly q Radical.
VIM. Eggleston. OF Gibbs county,
Va, writes that there will be no con-
test in Virginia. as the Liberal tick
ct will win by 80. 900 majority or more.
Greeley has o dead sure thing on
election now, as he is getting q start
in Yamhill, where several prominent
Republicans have pronounced for
him.
Several old line Republicans ad.
dressed a Greeley ratification meeting
at San Jose, California, last Friday
night. The widest enthusiasm pre-.
vailed.
The Quincy, (Ills) Herald says
there ia u club of 200 Greeley Re.
pubs in that city; also $50 in Mt.
Sterling, 200 in Jacksonville, 200 in
Joliet, etc. etc.
!, The Oregonian sails into Forney
because he won't support the Radi.
cal ticket in Pennsylvania. This looks
q good deal like a staddle-bug buck.
ing up to a camel.
Henry Wilson, the nominee of the
Grant office-holders' party, is the same
Henry Wilson that originated the
know nothing party in New England
and was its chief head-center.
D. T Wright. of Lewiston. Maine
: says that all of the prominent Re
publicans of the extreme northern
part of the United States will be sure
to vote for Greeley and Brown.
;. Gov. Bross, of Illinois, and Sam
Bowls. of the Springfield (afass) Re
publican-both of whom travelled ovel
; this coast in company with Cola,
two years ago-are vigorous support
) ersu of Greeley.
A South Carolina paper says: 81
Raphael Semmes and Braxton Bragg
can vote for Mr.: Greeley, we cannot
well perceive how any Southern mar
can see any insuperable objection t.
doing the same thing"
The St. Louis Republican thinks
: that as far as Greeley's abuse of tn,
Democracy in the past is concerned
our side has little to complain OF
we have certainly abused him enough
, to fully balance the account.
J. F. Blown, of Washington. Iowa
writes that he is sure Greeley ane
Brown will carry that State. If thi,
should come to pass in Radical lows
!, we believe Grant won't carry a singh.
! State in the Union. How's that fol-
high?
], The Radicals are now patting Bricl
Pomeroy a~ffectionately on the bacl
because he tried to get up q bolt a
, Baltimore. A few months ago thes,
same Radicals called him the devi
3 incarnate. politics make strang,
! bedfellows."
Grants emissaries sent large SUM
E of money to Baltimore to secure /
bolt in the National Democrat,
Convention, and the result was it wa
he most harmonious aud unanimou,
Ma. tioual Convention ever held by tn,
Dem, ,c. -atic party.
The h.-amiaer says General Joe
Hooker Id during "the late unpleas
antness.n a fist rate opportunity o
forming a cor, &c. opinion of the grea
oift-taker. and ,,is estimation of tina
individual is not -er ' f%attering. HI
declares "Grant has M more mora
sense than a dog"
The Louisville Coarie~-Jou'no
says: 4There is not a singh rinc'pi'
in the Cincinnati platform tina. NV no
been enunciated in every Dcm.'cr. Att
platform since its organization. Th
slavery question has been abandoned !,
and any old Democratic platform