Smyrna times., 1872-08-21
Political Notes

MagInnlS, Democrat, mas Deen elected
delegate to Congress from Montana by AGA
majority
Colonel Andrew J. Keller, of the Memphis
Aralaache, announces himself as an indie
nendent candidate for Congress in the Mem.
Brown.
;,v. and until recently a high Democratic
authority, says that there are more than five
hundred thousand Democrats in the United
States who are against Horace Greeley under
all circumstances.
Tabbs Goss, colored Greeley speaker, has
caused some excitement in Cincinnati BY
stating that he was called on by colored men at
n;ght and notified to leave the city. A num-
her of colored men have called free speech"
meeting in consequence.
Hon. Geo. A. Quigley, prominent Demo
crat from Philadelphia, and prominent men,
ber Of the Legislature in 1870 is outspoken
against Greeley, and challenges any Demo-
cratic Greeley man to meet him on the stump
TO discuss the questions of the day.
Ex-Governor Henry A. Wise, of Virginia,
who does not believe in the Liberal Republi-
can policy, will in few days make speech at
the Cooper Institute to the Democrats of New
York, against supporting Greeley. He will
attend Tue LOUISVILLE CONVENTION.
In reply to a note from a number of colored
citizens to Wendell Phillips, inviting him to
address them on the political issues of the day,
Mr.. Phillips declined to speak, but gives his
views in long letter, in which he favors
Grant for President in preference to Greeley.
The letter is dated Swampscott, Massachusetts,
August Sth.
The Illinois campaign promises to be lively.
One Of the journals there having claimed "an-
other Joliet man out for Greeley" the opposi-
ton paper rather capped the boast in this way:
ayes, he was pardoned out He will not take
the stump, but he will take anything else he
can lay his hands on.
The Harrisburg Telegraph says: General A.
L. Roumfort, the Chairman of the Democratic
County Committee in this county, openly de-
nounces the nomination of Horace Greeley
and we could name twenty other prominent
Democrats in this city who are quite as open as
the General in their opposition to the Balti-
more nominee.
The official returns from SO counties in
North Carolina give a majority of 2673 for
Caldwell. Republican. The three counties
from which official returns have not been re-
ceived, it is estimated, will give Merrimon 465
majority so that Caldwell is elected bv a
majority of 2208 The total vote of 1872
amounts to 1872, 1887 against l73,063 in 1870,
showing an increase OF l9, 924 votes, or 1896
on the Republican, and 1868 on the Demo-
cratic side. An examination of the vote by
counties shows that the Republican net gain Of
1868 was obtained over the entire State, and
that the white voters of the west and the
colored voters of the east united in support oi
the Republican ticket
They are frightened by Chas. o. C0nor-
The Pttsburg Despatch says certain Greeley
journals evince uneasiness about the louisville
Convention, and are not disposed to make st
much fun over it as they were. The probabil
ity that Hon. Charles O'Conor, of New York
will be nominated for President by tn
Straight. t.outs," is causing them sharp mis-
gvings about the Democratic vote. They fee
that his name is tower of strength with tn
Old party. They know that he is q man O
integrity, and faithful to his principles, and s
unlike the old vacllating political trickste
put up at Baltimore that he will merit an
obtain the support of every honest member Q
the party. With the North Carolina election
and the nomination of Mr. O'COnor at Louis
vile in September, and Republican victOrie
in October, the Democratic Conservative ticke
will have indeed a hard row to hoe betwee
now aud November next
The Chicago Tribune deliberately assert
that Greeley supporters are to be found in th
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proud of them. If they were there he Nigh
be. But it is notorious that the great body {
his supporters are in and of the Democrat
party, and are the EXTREMIST faction of th
party. He has himself repeatedly describe
this party in language more energetic ths
elegant In 1867 he denounced those at II
south as the fathers of the mulattoes; in Isl
he described the whole as comprising ''all wi
choose to live by pugilism, gambling.
harlOtry;" as ignorant sots, blacklegs, bu
glars and criminals" His supporters a
Democrats, and he himself described them
anything but the population of workshops
unless connected with workhouses, and priso
and jails In so far, therefore, as the Chca
organ aims to electiOneer by clarifying
friends, it has to contradict the reiterat
authority of the man for whom it works.
In West Virginia on next Thursday, Aug
22d, an election will be held on the adoption
an amended constitution, and for State Office
aud members of Congress. Under this n
constitution, which is not yet adopted,
election day is changed from the fourth Thu
day in October to the fourth Thursday in 4
gust for State Officers and for members
Congress to be held on next Thursday. Th
provisions have reduced politics in w
Virginia to a chaotic condition and the vallC
OF the approaching general election is serlOU
II doubted. A full State ticket, however,
3 been nominated. johnson N Camden is
n Democratic candidate for Governor, and j.
II j. Jacob, the present Governor, is the De
Il cratic independence Republican candidate
that office. In the three Congressional
triets the confusion of politics is worse
founded. In the First District John j. Da
Democrat and member of the present
gress, is supported by the Republicans
nIadependentsa against Benjamin Wilson, reg
democrat In the Second District, Ward
hamon, Independent, is running alone,
democrats having made no nomination, and
tending that the election must be held on
Ioarth Thursday in October. In the i
m IN, .hcJ Brisbin Walker, lndependen
sS1sMe Sse against Frank Hereford, Demo-
III .,iSs, ,omber of the present Congress. Sh
me new Constitution of West Virginia