Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-08-09
state Campaign Notes.

| Gen. Fitzpatrick spoke for the Gree
ley cause at Sheldon on Wednesday.
: The Springfield Grant and Wilson
club now numbers almost three hundred
members.
Judge Prout of Rutland, was among
those sought after as a Greeley candi
date for governor but refused.
- A Greeley club was organized in
Burlington Monday evening. About
seventy-five present, nearly all demo,
Gratis.
Gov. Hall of Bennington having
been claimed for Greeley, he contra
diets the report and favors the election OF
Grant.
- A large Grant and Wilson meeting
was held at Rutland on Thursday even
ing of last week, and addressed by Col.
Joyce.
Benajah Phelps, the present demo-
cratic representative Of South Hero re-
fuses to support Greeley and says he
shall vote for Grant.
A Grant and Wilson meeting was
held at Brandon Saturday evening. A
flag was thrown to the breeze and rous-
ing speech made by Gen. Grandey of
Vergennes.
"A large and lively Grant and Will
son meeting was held at St. Adams on
Saturday evening and was addressed by
Col. Benton and Hon L. E. Chittenden
of New York. fgs
- The Greeley folks, clever souls, had
a jollifieation Saturday night at Rutland,
over North Carolina, and now that that
election has fatted out, have become
very tame and docile.
A Grand Mass republican meeting
is to be held at Rutland Tuesday, Au-
gust goth. Senator Conkling, Gen.
Hawley, l.. E. Chittenden, Hon. Julius
Converse, are among the invited speak
ers.
- An old line democrat of Manches-
ter was declaring the other day that he
should vote for Greeley, and was there
upon asked if Greeley was democrat.
No." Numbered he, he is darned
mean republican, but we want to keep
some trouble agoing"
"A Grant and Wilson meeting was
held at Fairhaven last Saturday after
noon and evening. A flag was thrown
out, and speeches were made by several
gentlemen, among them Col. Alonson
Allen of that town and Henry Clark of
Rutland. The club, at the close of the
meeting numbered 140 members.
The Ludlow Gazette says, that it
having been claimed that the town was
"solid'' for Greeley, we have tried to as
certain by inquiries the state of political
matters there Our informant does not
consider the town out of the re-
publican lines. But one prominent re-
publican there has declared for the lib
eral republican and democratic ticket,
and Plymouth may be relied on for
Grant.
The Ludlow Gazette says that at
Tyson Furnace in Plymouth, at the open
ing of the war, twenty-six copies of the
New York Tribune were distributed
from the Office at Tyson Furnace when
Greeley advocated letting the errring
sisters depart in peace, twenty-four cop
les were stopped, and when he went to
Niagara to patch up a peace one of the
remaining two dropped off Since his re-
cent nomination, one or two democrats
have ordered the paper.
= The republicans of st. Johnsbury
had rousing meeting on Monday even.
ing. Hon. Horace Fairbanks president,
and G. M. Stone secretary. Speeches
we're made by Judge Poland, E. G. Red
dington and Col Dickey. Col. Dickey
is an old democrat but refuses to be sold
out to Greeley.
- The republicans of Middlebury or
ganized Grant and Wilson club, Mon
day evening of last week with Gov.
Stewart as president, james NJ. Slade, Jr.,
secretary and L. E. Knapp as cores
ponding secretary. Gov. Stewart who
addressed the meeting, is among the
many sought for by the liberals in
their hunt for candidate for governor.
- This Friday evening the citizens of
Rupert will orally round the flag" at
the School House Hall, and will be ad-
dressed, on political topics of the hour,
by Col. Charles H. Joyce and Henry
Clark, of Rutland.