Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1872-07-12

II Mr.. Greeley should DO elected Presi-
dent, there arc at least three newspaper men
whom he should not forget in the dlstribu-
ton Of his fayors, namely, II. ]. Ramsdell, Of
the Cincinnati Commercial ]. W. KnowltOB,
Of the Chicago Tribune, and Richard J. Hin
ton, Of the Boston Globe. Two Of the above
named Journalists went to Baltimore to work
for Mr.. Greeley's nomination. Mr.. Hinton
went there with by no means friendly feel
iugs toward the sage OF Chappaqua; but a.
his opposition Is quite as beneficial and
effective as his support II, G. Is as much in
debted to him as TO the other two. They all
suffered terribly at the bands Of Mr. Greeloy's
friends. Ramsdcll lost his shoes, and was
compelled to walk out next morning to an
adjoining shoe store TO replace those that
had been stolen from him. This was only
the beginning of his troubles.
Mr.. Ramsdell, while wearing aNO. 5gloye,
requires, strange to say, No. 10 shoe.
Baltimore men arc remarkable, among other
things, for the smallness Of their feet, and
II Is by no means easy to lud shoes Of dlmen-
siOns to suit Mr. Ramsdell In that city. He
spent so In hack-ridlng around the city from
shoe establishment to shoe establishment, and
at length succeeded In finding a small No. -
the best that he could do. They kept him In
torture all day, and made him write three
fearfully dlsloyal dispatches, which led to the
rumOr that the Commercial was going TO OPP
pose Greeley. 1t was not Halstead's edl.
torials, II was Ramsdell's dispatches, and all
because some thief Of Greeley man had
stolen his comfortable and cApaclous shoes.
What that thief will do with Ralnsdelrs shoes
is mystery to us. To what purpose can he
possibly put them2 lie cantwear them him
self aud we are confident that no one Of hll
relations can wear them.
Mr.. Knowlton lost a magnificent gold
watch, the gift Of Mr.. Horace White, thu
editor of the Chicago Tribune. Mr.. White
presented this watch to Mr.. KnOwltOn sOm'
blk months ago under the following clrcum
staucesi There Ia quite difference between
Chicago time aud Washington time, and to I
paper that had the enormous circulation that
the Tribune had few months before 1t be
came Greeley organ, half an hour was o.
the utmost Importance In the matter Of get
ting lts mails of, and so forth Knowlton wa
always late with his dispatches. His excus'
was that he had neither watch nor clock In hi
Office; so White, TO put an end to that plea con
tracted with the Elgin Watch Company in IL
llnoIs to make u handsome watch for Mr.
kuowlton, and take II out In advertising
KnOwltOn has been ever since on time viii
his dispatches until last Tuesday night, when
Us we said, the watch was stolen BY probably
the same Greeley thief that made off with
thIriaan ghnaa
Horace White became very Indignant at
the latcuess Of KnOwlton's accounts Of the
convention, aud telegraphed for an eXplana-
ton. lie was promptly informed OF the facts
In the case, aud was, Us may DO naturally
supposed, highly Indignant. He photographed
KuOwltOn " serve notice upon the cOnyen-
ton that unless the watch was returned the
Tribune could not consistently support thu
nominations, aud that, In his opinion, there
ought ut least to be some honor among gen
temeu who expect TO plumber the natiOaa
Treasury US soon as Greeley gets In.
Mr. HintOn's loss was the seyercst of all
Hts pocket book, well llled with nice, new
ton-dOllar bills, twenty-five railroad passes,
including one on the Washington and George
town railroad, photographs OF leading
woman sufTragists and communists, was cru
ely distracted. 1t also contained importan
correspondence bearing on the Forthcoming
revolution in Europe, together with all hi
letters to the Globe, aud several other lnyal
liable documents. Even his excursiOn-triI
ticket over the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
was taken, 50 that he was left utterly help
less In the city OF the Phllistlnes.
Ramsdell and Knowlton say that they d.
not want to again get within Atty miles o
that Baltimore crowd. The question thel
auXlously ask one another now Is, What will
Greeley do for them In case he Is elected