Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-08-08
THE POLITICAL CONTEST.
A Republican Meeting in New
York.
Powerful Speech of Sena-
tor COnkling.
An Able VindicatIOn Of Grant-The
Charges Against Him Fully An.
swered-lhe Renegade Repub.
Leans Severely Handled
Greeley's Character
Thoroughly An
a!yZed.


thusiastic Republican meeting tonight
at Cooper Institute, upon the subject
of Grant and his defamers-deeds
against words. The hall was hand
somely decorated with flags and appro-
pirate emblems. Jackson S. Schultz
presided, assisted by Geo. Van Hort,
Postmaster Jones, Ii. 7. Sherwood,
ex Senator Morgan, with about $50
other vice-presidents and one hundred
secretaries. The Senator said:
For twenty years it has been my privilege to
address my neighbors on political issues. Too
much ardOr has perhaps been my fault vet
no canvass has ever stirred me so deeply ms
this; no elect on has ever appealed SO strongly
to my sense of fair play: no canvass wltnin my
memory has ever been so full Of foul play, III
Justice and malice: none has ever more strong
~ tested the common generosity Of the Amerl-
can people. Eleven years Of service III Con-
grcss have made me close observer OF four
Presidents and many public men. If among
them all there is one, living or dead, who
never knowingly failed IN his duty,
that one is Ulysses Sydney Grant.
There was forecast in giving him the
name sydney, for his greatest gentlemanly
quality is nis magnanmlty 1t there has
|. en- n high official ever ready to admit and
did wisely firmly and well the things given
him in charge, that one Is the soldier IN war
aud the quiet patriot in peace, who has been
named again by every township In fOrty-siX
states ana territories for the great trust he
now holds. Yet this man, honest brave, mod
est, and proved by his tran scendant deeds TO
have been endowed with genius, common
sense and moral qualities adequate to the
greatest affairs this man, who saved his cOuu-
try, who snutchcd our nationality, our cause
from despair. and bore them on his shield
through the flame of battle, in which but for
him they would have persisted; tn man, under
whose administration our country has IL ur-
ished as no one dared predict this man, to
whom thenahou's gratitude and benedctlon
are due. is made the mark for rlbald Jlbes,
odiuus and grouudless ISLANDERS. Why is all
this Simply because he stands IN the way
of the greed and am ltlon of politicians
schemes. A war of mud aud missiles has been
wagcd tor months. The President, his family,
and all nearly associated with him, have been
despatched. Truth aud deccncy have been
driven lar away. Every thief, cOrmOrant and
dronC who has en- put out, every bati d
mouser Tor place or plunder, every man with
grievance on grudge, all who have som thing to
make by a change, seem TO wage an unDrldled
tongue or drive Il foul pen. The President cam
not enter the lis = of controversy and defend
himself Pccullarltics of station forbid. His chief
competitor, managing behind certain news
paper from which he pretends 20 have retired,
is irce to defend and puh himself up, and ids
MS paper with spurious talsehoods, IN IA
hope OF backuulug a name which Is one of the
treasures Of the nation, and which Nlll be tuc
pride ~ pusterty. All TINS pollution vii end
in disgrace only TO is authors. 1T WI not
disgrace Grant or the nation, because the ma
ion viii Spurn and resent II The disgusting
pCrs unanti employed IL on Gcneral ia ksOu
secured his re election. An offended people
struck back and they will strike back again.
Had the cool veterans OF the Democracy
formed or selected issues 70 be presented,
they would have been wise enough to
So frame them that the people cou d decide IN
their favor without fixing stigma upon Gen.
Grant, without blasting his name or song him
wrong. But Democratic stat, smrn, leaders in
a hundred fights, have been mere luOkers-un.
The leadership has been assumed by Repub-
lean rtnegades and outs--men so eaten up
with envy, or SO maudencd with loss or refusal
of place ana patronage that, nothing
would SATISFY them short OF rauCOrOu~ per-
,oual rad, Mhvu man turns Iurk, aud he
sp'tS uu the cross, ami when wlue-thyo2tod,
ultra Eepuhncaus clandeStinvly trade with the
emy and then turn open traitors to their
party, they become the meanest, ticrccst of
oppuue r., just as a 0kec slave oyerseer
from New England was alwal smOre brutal tlau
those born 10 the Soatn. When men whose
Yanuy was hurt. and others gnawcd 10y am-
uluu and Gu ldlty, went out 10 rum the party
winch tD,, coma not rule. madness drove
thru, on Th.y had NJ Polar Star except
h fred of Grant and his supporters. THESE
misty putriots who rnndcs,Iv cali themselves
r., fnlmp,s voull not have nm ordinary prtsi-
dental CANVASS tor a TAI discussion OF poh i
cal que stiuus, such proceedlu < would have
hccl, tao tame and wsl.ud for thea, Their
s,omacns .ruyel stronger and more game
favored meat. Hand names must bc called.
.y.purlur, n,ust Ia, sltIs6. a. The President
muSt .r.unltf,r,'v c1urt-u,artiaII,l ar draa-
rr. Ia fore me ualo.ol. ssiZc. to be tried as n
malrftctor.
When the Democrats properiv kent talking
oIt,,f bf,.iu,.. CIV, rh.,p ,,rt.ltr In, ,,atin,s
.ltfl,. ,,bg,b,ifnf,br la.t session rirbf
noI.h- in lp.ath was ,yorn npt Na.tsd h,
-,urs n, .,,,r,.,,,erir,, ne,,es aimed
n, tnr ADMINISTRATOR anI i3s friends. Thaso
.,if .,I.t.,,, ,,,.,,. .,,j , ne ,tI IN L., In,