The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-08-23
IAN AND DEMOCRAT BLOOMsBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY. PA
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Campaign Noi's.
Judge jeremiah S. Black, Of this
State, has written letter in support of
Greeley.
The postmaster ut Wilton, Iowa, Is
"out" for Grant-to the extent of some
$4,000 in his official accounts.
Hon. Hester Clymer was nominated
for Congress on Tuesday lsst, from
Berks County.
The Trenton Gazette, Republican au.
thority, says" that the Greeley men in
New Jersey outnumber the poiNto bugs,
aud potato bugs are thick,
OF the sixty.five republicans in Lake
Mills, Wisconsin, siXty-one arc Greeley
men. or the eighty one democrats,
every one is for Greeley.
Judge Hancock, Chairman of tho
Grant Central Committee in Mississip-
pi. repudiates Grant, and is out for
Greeley.
William j. Gillingham, president of
the Republican Invincibles," of Phila-
delphia, has resigned and declared for
Greeley.
There are twenty five Republican pa
pers in Pennsylvania opposing the elec.
ton OF the Radical candidate for
Governor.
Charles Robinson, the first Free State
Governor Of Kansas, Is out for Greeley.
The Republican break in that State has
become n stampede.
The venerable Wyman spooner, of
Elkhorn, for some years Republican
Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin, is
now on the electoral ticket for Greeley.
Montana has done even better than
at first stated, Maginnis the Democratic
candidate having been elected delegate
to Congress by d6l majority.
The statement of the Times that
Judge David Davis is for Grant is un-
true. The Washington Patriot has
authority to say he supports Mr. Gree
ley.
John L. Clark, of Decatur county,
Iowa, he's just resigned his position
uron the radical state central commit.
t ). and declared himself for Horace
Greeley.
Five hundred republicans of Monroe
county have signed a call for Greeley
and Brown meeting at Rochester, New
York.
Six hundred republicans of Steuben
county New York, have signed a call
for Greeley and Brown county con-
vention for August 90
Mr.. Brown, the republican mayor of
Portland, Me-, repudiates Grant and
supports Greeley. He is stated to be
the wealthiest man in Maine.
M. d. Estee, late Secretary of the
Republican State Committee of Califor-
mia, addressed large Greeley meeting
in San Francisco on Wednesday even
ing.
The postmaster at Woodland, Wis.
consin, with 179 republicans of the
town, have declared for Greeley and
Brown.
Colonel Jesse II. Warner, one of the
Grant electors in 1868, in Nebraska, has
written letter declaring his intention
of voting for Greeley and Brown.
Robert A. Lee, colored member of
the Grant Republican COMMITTEES of
Nansemond County, Virginia, resigns
his position in a published letter and
declares for Greeley and Brown.
S. w. Moulton, formerly republican
member OF congress from Illinois, hav-
committee to make speeches ,astonished
them by writing a letter stating that he
supports Greeley.
A Warwick Radical lately offered to
draw in his one-horse wagon all the
Greeley Republicans in that village. In
about ten minutes fOrty.six appeared
and asked to ''ride," when the Grantite
backed out.
The Albany ArguS says that it is only
necessary for some obscure nonentity |
to proclaim himself Democrat who |
can't 60 Greeley in order to obtain |
fame at single bound. For then the |
frantic Grant papers will take him up |
and make hero of him.
A democratic mass meeting will be |
held in the court house, Washington,
pennsylvania, on Tuesday evening
September 3. Addresses will be delive.
red by Hon. Charles r. Buckalew, Hon.
Montgomery Blair, Daniel Kalbfus,
esq.,, and others.
AS every man who turns from Grant
to Greeley is denounced by the renom-
inationists as renegade or rascal, it |
would be interesting to know exactly
what sort of materials that party Is
of. Its members are evident
ly. precious set of scamps in each
other IS estimation.
There is more trouble among the
New Hampshire GRANTEES. The Hon. |
George G. Fegg has resigned his poslt-
ion as editor Of the Concord Statesman
the Republican organ of the State, and
goes for Greeley. He cannot afford to
support Grant in view of the exposures
made of his official misconduct.
The long talked of debate between
the colored partizans of Greeley and
Grant respectively, Messrs. Saunders
and Garnett, came OIL in New York
last week: AS might have been ex-
pected the speech of Saunders, which
was by far the better, was interrupted
and spoiled by the GRANTEES.
John r. Davis, of Schuylkill county,
a leading republican, who has been
twice candidate for important public
offices on the republican county ticket,
has written letter refusing to act as a
member OF the republican county stand
ing committee. He is reported to be for
Greeley and Buckalew.
When Lincoln was ell ,ted President
in 1864 Colonel A. X. Mcclure was
chairman of the Pennsylvania republi-
can state central committee, and when
General Grant was chosen in 1868 Hon.
Galusha A. Grow acted in a similar
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both of these gentlemen are for Greeley
and Brown.
At Grant and Wilson meeting in
Detroit, the Sth instant, one Greenbury
Hodge, a colored orator, was sure Grant
would serve four additional years to
his present term, "and then, at the end
Of that time, they (Grantites) would
zens together and declare him Emperor
of this country"
Simon Ward, colored, writes to the
Alabama, Nel0s, showing why
he and his bretheren should vote for
Greeley and Brown. lie says. 81 have
studied this matter thoroughly, and
have come to the conclusion that Hor-
ace Greeley has been, and is now, the
best friend to the colored men in
America, and that it is to him, more
than to all others, we are indebted for
our freedom, and feel that should /
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