Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-09-05

political pill box at our State Capital.
The nomination of Horace Greeley at
Cincinnati caused no greater surprise
throughout the nation, than that Of
Judge WOODROW for Governor has done
among the people OF Missouri The
bargaining by which such result wa.
reached, in any other party would doom
1t to deserved defeat; and IL | rightly
read the characters of both Democrats
and Liberals in Missouri, such will he
the result here. Much depends, how,
ever upon the action OF the Rrpu lican
convention TO be held ut st Louis on the
4th OF September.
Dir. Greelcy's oft repeated assertion
that the Democratic party was opposed
to school and the friend OF ignorance,
was fully verified by the Democratic
State Convention last week, as the fol.
lowing which clip from The published
proceedings viii show:
Mr.. Albert Todd offered the following res
olu,Ipn:
Resolved That universal suffrage demands
universal education that us Democrats, be-
hryIng that Intelligence and virtue are The
pillars Of our government, we advocate the
necessity OF common school education for
every child in The State.
80 much opposition was raised to tho res
outlon, that Nj. Todd afterwards Withdrew
It,"
Such disposition of a resolution fa-
yoring the general education of the peo-
pie, might in " iSconsin, strike even
Democrats with surprise but in Mis-
souri, 1t will meet the approval of four
iiths of the party by which it was thus
summarlly disposed Of.
soar Graft is evidently in trouble.
The unfortunate event OF his seating
himself upon rotten apple while Wis
iuing his college friends in Connecticut,
has LEI. stain upon his character far
more indeible than that upon his gar.
ment. Bowles proposition to have his
name stricken from the ticket worries
him, and Las called forth his letter to
Gov, Coylish, in which he attempts to
vndicate himself agains the charge Of
drunkenness. In that epistle he says
that Tor many years, at various inter
walls, he has practiced total abstinence.
True, those intervals have been like
angels vsits-but they demonstrate the
TACT that he can occasionally draw II
sober breath Had those intervals been
more frequent and Of longer duration,
his friends would have less cause to re-
greet his course. ! cannot speak from
personal knowledge of Gov. Browns
habits, bnt his most intimate personal
friends make no attempt to disguise the
fact OF his lntempcrance and deeply re-
greet that he shouia thus subject himself
to SO fragrant II charge, Politically he is
an apt student OF Frank Blair. His oc.
cups ing a place upon the ticket with
Greeley gives it no material strength in
Missouri, more than that of Moses VI
Strong would have done in Wisconsin
In some respects the two men are not
dissimilar, though If we weigh them in
the scale of talent, Brown would kick
the beam 'by heavy majority He
has some popularity in that portion of our
state where kukluSism is predominant,
for in him they feel that they have u
friend, in passive if not active mode
You have undoubtedly read many ac-
counts OF those knklux outrages in the
southern counties of Missouri. and ! can
assure you the picture has not been over,
drawn. Scarcely a week passes in which
there is not n murder in some portion OF
Southeastern Missouri, the result of po-
Atlcal intolerance and rs yet not an att
Tempt has been made mt conviction of the
guilty parties All who have been the
sufferers are known to be Republicans,
aud the perpetrators of the crlues men
Who vote for Greeley, for the purpose Of
restoring power to the Democratic party,
and giving the south her rights They
vote for Greeley to beat Grant, and would
vote FOR any other mau to beat Greeley
who might be indersed 10y the party
leaders of the south This class of men
are unanimous for -Grutz Blown, but
we're his name presented to day to y
Democratic convention for n re- nomina-
ton for Governor, he could not succeed
for all admit that NJ Governor he has
proved perfect failure