Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-04-09
POLITICAL NEWS.


The Boston Adrertiser clcverly
puts the case in this way 1.-The
people believed lin Grant from the
hrst. They were little staggered
at the boldness OF the ccusations
brought againat him but one after
another they have been proved false
the malignant character of the lead.
ers against him has been revealed.
and the old faith has returned 10 ali
its original intensity. Statesmen
fired their parting shot at him and
withdrew to position outside the
ranks, but no one followed them
Newspaper organs went through the
pretense of gradual withdrawal OF
confidence from the Administration
but neither their doubts, their insipu-
atoms nor their final denunciations
made the sensation or created the
popular feeling that was expected.
In the Senate their was sign Of
war at homo there is none. The
ranks are unbroken, the numbers are
undlminished, the.purpose is one, and
tue conhdent expectation il united
convention at Philadelphia and
triumph in November"
The opposition to Grant has
settled down into three grand nats
ural divisions-the Democracy, the
Liberal Republicans, and Charles
Sumner. Sumner would like to be
unanimous with everybody tut there
are thirty odd million people in the
country that won't let him. He on
ly wants them TO believe in him as
the only begotten Sumner aud they
wont do it. Conf equenily he sits
alone, soreheaded, singlebiessed
Senatorial hermit, grand, gloomy and
peculiar, wrapped in the solitude Of
his own pure cussedness - Ohio State
Journal
The Toledo Blade announces
that large number Of Nasty letters
may be expected between pow and
November. In private note TO the
editor, the parson uses this language;
l shall hev TO use your columns very
literally hereafter, ez this Presiden>
tial election IS Nv vital Importance TO
me. The post-ofTice is at stake, the
Cabinet posishuns is at stake-in
fact, everything, includin my supply
Of likker, is at stake, and shell take
off my cote and go into this campane
with all the vigger and energy Nv
my yuthful daze.
The Cincinnati Commercial says !:
Nobody seems to have thought of
GeneraBen. Butler recently as can
didate of any party for the Presiden-
cy. Butler has been in his time a
Democrat, Republican, Labor Re-
former, a school master, lawyer,
major general, member of Congress,
a friend of the blacks, a supporter of
JEFF. Davis, an admirer of Wendell
Phillips. He began his career as
poor, lean young man: he is now
rich and fat He ought to be availa-
BILE"
The Springfield Republican OPP
posed Mr.. Lincoln and clung to an
drew johnson long after the great
body of Republicans had given him
up as bopelessly gone to the dogs
The New York Tribune opposed Mr..
Lincoln's denomination and nursed
an attempted bolt. The Chica 90
1ri5une-well, who remembers just
what it did do in those days of it's
erratic history? And these arc the
principal papers opposing Grant
albany FUeniag Journal.
The editor of the Brown County
(In) Democrat does not seem to tax c
kindly to thepassive policy Shall we
consent" he exclaims, "to see that
glorious old Democrat banner trail.
ing bumbly in the dust beneath the
trinmphal chariot of our enemies /?
A thousand times no ! We will see
Gratz Brown, and Carl Schurz, and
Frank Blair eternaHy damned first 1!
There you have it,"
"A call is issued signed by Eliza>
beth Cady Stanton, Isabella Hook
err, Susan Anthony, and Matilda
Gage for convention of all citizens
at Steinway Hall, May 8 and 10 for
new political party, to demand
honest administration reform of so
cial and political abuses the eman-
cipation of labor, and enfranchise-
ment of women.
The Harrison Journal asks ques-
ton and answers it "Who won in
} New Hampshire? Not the Conkling
men, nor Morton men, nor Schurz
men, nor Sumner men-no faction
or new departure, old school or new.
but the staunch old Republican par
ty with its own principles and duties,
independent, in thought and action. :"
Mr.. Charles Seymour, of La
Crosse, who is now in Washington,
writes a letter to the Leader, in
which be states that "Mr. Speaker
Blaine is as sure to be elected Presi-
dent of the United States in 1876 as
that the clock strikes the hour"
A "Veteran Republican" writes
that although he is great admirer
OF Grant, he wants to vote for man
who can say something. We take
pleasure 10 assuring the veteran"
that George Francis Train is still a
canuluaLe.
Some individual writing in the
Nashville Banner from Kansas urges
upon Tennesseans the necessity of
doing something to beat Grant. He
clinches bis point by signing himself
G. s. A.
The White Cloud (Kansas) Chief
says the old bushwhackers of Nilsson.
ri and Iowa are now thrusting their
heads out of the bush, labeled, "Lib>
eral Republicans"
Senator Sumner believes Grant
to be bold, dangerous man. So did
the rebels.
1t is stated that the New Orleans
Picayune has declared strongly for
Grant.