The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-05-23
PCLEg,CAL sCLEPpiNGs.
WY will not some Liberal paper
say good word for Brown?

timcnt is clearly against the endorsement
of iIr. Greeley.
The Louisiana Republican State Cen
tral Convention meets al Baton Rouge
June 18th to nominate State officers.
"Warrinetop, of the Springfield Re
publican, says there are no Republicans
in Boston wko Indicate any purpose or
inclinsticn te support Greeley.
The Msdison Democrat is the frat
and as yet the only paper, in Wisconsin
10 raise the standard of Greeley and
Brown.
-Ex-Senator Yates writes; 7 am for
Grant as FIRST choice. I believe be is
the right man, aud only man We can elect
aud ,save The party We haze built up I
have Been confined to nay bed for months,
but an getting well, and hope to be able
70 go into the canvass with my usual
zeal
The Rutland (Vt. Herald relaorks ::
Perhaps Mr.. Greeley has 70 larger cir
Gle OF readers and followers than in Yer
mont but when, On the sober second
thought, the man, the policy, and the
platform on which he stands come to be
canvassed, he will have few supporters.
The loyal mea Of Vermont are not yet
prepared to abandon the Republican par
ty"
The Cincinnati Gazette en3eavors to
find a silver lining" TO the dark pos
sibility Of Greeley's election. It says
Although his il;osyncrasies and rash
experiments an finance meg be more cal
anaitous than aoar, pest,lence and famine,
and although a0e naGy haze the most cor
rupt administration thot ecer dared to
ecist ON eorth, yet we shall have an hon
est President in Horace Greeley"
The Springfield Republican proposes
to aupport Horace Greeley because it
thinks him a better exponent of Rcpub-
lican principles that Gen. Grant; the
Syracuse Courier takes the same posit-
ion because it thinks Horace Greeley
IS a sound democrat as one could wish.'
You pay your money, my little dears,
and take your choice"
Stanley Matthews, temporary chair
man Of the Cincinnati Convention, says
Il have no reason to believe, and never
have believed, that, personally, the pres
ent administration were guilty Of corrup-
tion IN conduct CT n1ctiUe." lie says he
referred in his speech before the conven-
tion to "the general corruption Of pcliti-
cal life," and adds The latest and best
illustration Of which, am fee to say, is
fonnd in the action ofthe very convention
in whose presence this declaration was
made !"
Carl Sehurz, the permanent chairman,
declared, after the convention was over,
~ am overwhelmed and discouraged. "
That is what the other liberals will cay in
Nov ember, if they presist in being fool
ish.
The Boston Aduertiser says that the
Liberal Republican movement has no
foothold in New England- that the
Republicans who go thence to Cincinnati
will go without constituency.
Among the funny things of the late Gin
natl Convention was the representation
of Delaware by George Alfred Townsend,
a newspaper Bohemian and Washington
correspondent Of the Chicago Tribune
From his place at the reporters table, he
would gravely, at roll call, answer fer the
whipping post state, Delaware. six votes
for -" changing his candidate ct
nearly every ballot. At ore roll-call bir.
Townsend was absent, when brother
reporter answered fer him, Delaware
has gone out to take drink - Wash
ngtoa Chronicle.
On the 5th of January, 1871, Horace
Greeley made speech at the reorgani-
cation Of the Republican Committee OF
New York, in which he said: ''As to
the administration Of General Grant,
recognize no one as Republican who is
not grateful for its judicious, energetic
and successful efforts to procure the rati
fication of the Fifteenth Amendment,
that keystone of cur political arch, where
| by the fruits Of our great triumph over
rebellion and slavery are assured and per-
petuated. He also said this, ct the
same time "W lille asserting the righi
of every Republican to his untrammeled
choice IF candidate for next President
until nomination is made, [ venture te
suggest that Gen. Grant will be far better
qualified for that momentous trust II
1872, than he was in 1868. Such, sen
tlemen, are the ideas and convictions
which have i'm PEELED me to take my place
among you, aud accept The responsibility
you have imposed upon me.'
Alludiag to the high character of tbt
business men who took prominent par
in the Grant meeting in New York city
the Boston IFGreler says: No Presiden
has been more warmly supported by the
best men of the country than is Presi
/ dent Grant.
The Boston Post, leading Democrat
ie paper, in speaking OF the Cincinnati
Protesting lofty results, with whicl
the people everywhere where in activ
sympathy, when it came to the appiica
/ ton Of the means, it failed miserably
Few persons in thels sober senses vii
deny that the nomination Of Horace Gree
ley, by an asse nbly so powerfully equipp