The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-03-07
POLITICAL NOTES.

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3Thus far the Republican State conven.
tions of New Hampshire, Indiana, Kan.
sas, South Carolina and the District Of
Columbia haye distinctly declared fol
Grant; Maine, Ohio and Georgia have
declared for Grant by incomplete official
action Connecticut and Missouri have
given no instructions, but are fairly held
to be for Grant, aud not one State has
gone against him.
The following Presidential nominations
are already made for the campaign OF
1872: George Francis Train, by him
self; Victoria G. Woodruff, by the Wo-
man Suffragists; George w. Julian. by
, the Workingmen's Association David
Ii. Davis, by the Labor Reformers and
James Black, by the Temperance people.
| The Senatorial rcformers are likely to
have as much investigation as will be di-
gcstible. MIR. Conkling's resolution to
inquire into the number of recommenda-
tions for appointments made by the Sen
ators from New York, Missouri and Lii
nois, will show who has been ''mousing
around the department" in that business
and that those who denounce these things
have done as much of it as others. As
MIR. Trumbull characterized it as a sneak
business. we shall know what share of it
belongs to the honorable Senator from
Illinois.
Major N. G. Kouns, editor of the Full
ton Fair Play, speaks thus of the Demo-
cratic party: Now, if the Democratic
party, seeking to outliye its natural du-
ration, defeated in every point on which
it ever took a stand, outlawed In every
principle that gave it distinctive charac-
ter-it this old dosard Of party by re-
fusing to submit to decent burial in the
grave which has been yawning for it ever
since the war closed, still kee ps our friends
in the South from their true places in the
UnioE, aud under the military authority
of the Government, don't you think it
would be better, and manlier. and honest
er for US rebels to give our aid in the
good work of turning the old corpse over
on its back into the grave. and covering
it up, head and heels, out of sight until
the Day of Judgment p
The Pittsburg Commercial has not
been counted an Administration paper.
1t is an excellent newspaper, ola truly
independent type. 1t is therefore graft
flying to find column editorial in Friday
paper, the character Of which may be
seen from tho concluding paragraph, as
follows "The President was the unani-
nous choice of the Republican party in
1868, and we do not believe that the pop
ular confidence in bis ability and integrity
has been diminished. He will undoubt-
edly be re-nominated, and probably with
out serious opposition, and we do not be-
lieve that any successful combination can
be made against him."
The New York Times makes a point
in this way: ''Whcn Gen. Grant became
President, a 500 United States bond
was worth $50, II in gold it is now worth
$lOl in gold. This advance has added
to the value of the bonds, largely held by
those who loaned their money to their
country in the darkest days of the war,
1888, OH, All. Is the Democratic party
likely to do better than this p
The Manchester (N H. Mirror feels
sure that hlr. Straw, the Republican can
didate, will be elected Governor and that
| the party will carry three Councillors out
| of four, seven Senators out of twelve, and
will probably have majority of twenty
Eve in the House.
The New York Herald tells an apt
story and applies it happily: "a hun
ter of the Rocky Mountains, who had be-
come a cripple for life from his wounds
received in fight with a grizzly bear,
said, in bis relation of the terrible ad
venture: I thought ] had the ugly var
mint, from the lead had fred into him;
but when l had smashed my rife over
his head, and he had knocked my knife
| from my hand, and had closed on me and
brought me to the ground, felt discour-
aged, and gave the yell Of man who
wants assistance And is not this tn
condition of the powerful and self-reliant
Democratic party?'
1t strikes us that the Antiads, if we
may characterize by that diminutive
Messrs. Sumner, Schurz, Trumbull, and
i Upton, show marvellous lack of sagaci-
ty and courage in protesting so bitterly
against the investigation Of their record
in order to disclose the number of Offices
they have sought at the hand of the
President. They have certainly had &
very pleasant cruise during the last two
weeks in their attempt to harpoon the
President, and now, when their little boa
suddenly careens, they get frightened
and conclude to furnish all the blubbel
themselves. They are like Swift, who
wrote from the jungle: "It's fun to hunt
, the tiger-except when the tiger take
it into his head To hunt you. -
THE Utah Constitutional Convention
now in session at Salt Lake City, h.
wisely decided to abandon polygamy, /
the answers of a majority of the people
of the territory can be obtained therefor
This measure was only determined upor