Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-08-22

A Grant Club has been formed
in the Twenty-second ward, New
York. 1t enrolled one hundred and
fifty members at the first meeting
all Democrats.
''The people of the United States
knoW General Grant-hare knorn
all about him since DOnelson and
VicksJurg; they do not knoU his
sIanderers, and do not care to knou
hem."- HORACE GREELEY.
The State Democratic Committee
announce that Carl Schurz, c. NJ.
Clay and Col. Grosvenor will take
part in the Ohio campaign, but the
time for their meeting has not been
fixed.
W. S. Moore, Esq, editor of the
Washington Reporter, has been
nominated for Congress by the Con-
ferees of the 24th District, COM
posed of the counties of Beaver,
Washington, Lawrence and Greene.
The Tribune abuses Grant for a
defalcation of ]. F. Bailey. 1t omits
to mention the quite important fact,
that Bailey was appointed to his po-
sition upon the strongest possible
solicitation of Horace Greeley, r.
E. Fenton and Theodore Tilton.
Sumner will not succeed any bet
ter than Andy johnson in his at
tempt to play the role of Moses for
the colored people. The difficulty
with Moses Sumner as it was with
Moses johnson, is that he wants to
halt the colored children on the
wrong side of the river.
The Toledo Blade gets in this
cruel lefthander on Jack Easement: !:
"As Senator Easement is confident
that Lake county will give major
ity for Greeley, will he kindly re-
sign and see whether or not he can
be reelected on the Greeley ticketr
The survivors of AndersOnville
and other Southern "prison pens"
are called to meet with their com
rades in Pittsburg, September 18th
What will be their answer to Gree
ley and Summers suggestion that
they ''forget," their suffering and
starvation? a#I
In letter to friend in Buffalo,
Gerrit Smith, the verteran philan-
thropist, speaks of the present po-
litical situation as follows: "We
are in a life and death struggle.
The restoration of the Democratic
party to power would be death to
the negro and death to the nation.
The widow of a hard shell Dem
ocrat who recently died in Newton,
was asked by visiting clergyman
if her husband had any convictions
before he died. She told him she
didn't know for certain, but she had
heard him frequently say before he
was taken sick that he "never could
go that Greeley" y."-Dan6ury News.
The late sDemocratic-G Greeley
What is IT. Convention of Beaver
county, Pa, took occasion to read the
Conservative out of the party, be-
cause it will not support the Gree
ley ticket. The Conservative is
making it hot for some of the lead
ers in that locality, and promises to
stay with them during the cam
paign.
There are good many strait out
Democrats in New Jersey. A
large and enthusiastic meeting of
members of the party, favorable to
making Presidential nominations
at Louisville on the Sd of Septem-
ber, was held at Camden on Tues
day night, at which resolutions where
passed denouncing the dicker which
sought to transfer them like cattle.
Gratz Brown says he never drinks.
The clerk of the New Haven
House, in New Haven SAYS: l know
that l sold him six drinks of brandy
and think l sold him eight and he
paid me for them. When he came
down to the Office before going to
the boat to pay his bill, l saw that
he was drunk. The question now
becomes, what did Mr.. Brown do
with those six or eight "drinks,"
and how did he get every drunk"
1t must be a case of spontane GUS
absorption.