The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-07-31
POLITICAL NOTES.

igan, starts with 626 members.
The Washington Patriot makes out 8
list of 1904 papers which support Gree.
ley, to 1897 which support Grant.
Moses II. Grinnell is strongly in
favor of Greeley and Brown. lie ex-
presses an abiding faith in their
election.
Two more Republican papers in
Michigan, the Battle Creek Tribune
and the Decatur Republican, are out TOR
Greeley.
Secretary Boutwell, is preparing for
trip to Groton, Massachusetts,, to
make up for his terrible trips in his
Southern oratory.
DR.. John Martin, an old and influen-
tial Republican of Noble county, Ohio,
publishes cogent reasons for his intend
ed vote for Greeley.
Party lines are being dropped in some
of the eastern States, and the Conven-
tions are composed of "all electors op-
posed to Grant and his cliques.
Rev. Sella Martin, who was "the
eloquent colored orator only a few
weeks ago is now the "colored Greeley
renegade" See Grant papers.
Congressman Poland, of Vermont,
has a formidable competitor in Judge
Steele, who is supported by the Wood
stock Standard and the St. Johnsburg
Times.
A Pennsylvania paper thinks that
the General who now occupies the
White House when he is at home will
next November be reduced to the rank
of Lieutenant"
The Missouri Liberal State Conven-
ton has been called to meet in Jeffer-
son City on the 2lst Of August, at the
same time and place as the Democratic
State Convention.
Albert Scheffer, OF ST. Paul, a brother
of the State Treasurer of Minnesota, re-
ports that, places in Wisconsin visited
by him, the Germans are generally fol
Greeley.
The son Of Stephen A. Douglas get
ting up patent inside" for Grant
papers in the rural districts is spec
tacle sufficiently shameful to make the
dead Senator turn in his coffin.
Senator Carpenter has returned to
Wisconsin from his stumping tour in
Vermont. The Senator feels warranted
in assuring his constituents that Yer
mont is safe for Grant.
The Bennington Free Press one oI
the ablest newspapers in Vermont
which prior to the Baltimore Conven'
ton supported Grant and Wilson, de
clares in favor OF Greeley and Brown.
1t is proposed to "fll up" that
"chasm" which Secretary Boutwell,
objects to cIasping hands across by
dumping into it the present Admins
tration. The people have taken the
contract, and it will be performed in
November.
The Detroit Free Press would like to
know how many more such men as
Austin Blair, Charles S. May, Jacob
Ferris and Randolph Strickland the
President can lose in Michigan and
still have hopes OF the State in Novem'
ber?
A letter from Columbus, Ohio, says :
Assurances are given that in every
township in the county, the accessions
to Greeley now equal ten per cent OF
the Republican party vote. By the
day Of the election it will be largely in
creased"
A. J. Swift, prominent lawyer, and
Chairman of the Republican County
Committee of Allegany, and Charles
Guilfofd, a Republican Supervisor Of
the town Of Cuba, have declared for
Greeley and Brown, and are organizing
a club.
The cock.aud.bull stories OF the
Binghampton (N. W Republican don't
seem to produce much effect upon its
immediate constituency. A call for a
Greeley and Brown meeting in that
place is signed by eighty-nine Of the
Republican citizens.
Philip Clayton, Assistant Secretary Of
the Treasury under Buchanan, and who
is reported to favor Grants reelection,
is now prosecuting certain claims be-
fore the Postoffi:e Department for
money due on mail contracts in Georgia
previous TO the war.
They have commenced to blsck.mail
the Clerks OF the Interior Department
at Washington, and there is DISPOSE
ton TO rebel. Some OF the clerks pro-
pose to write to George w. Curtis,
editor OF Harper's Wesk!y, who is the
head of the Civil Service Advisory
Board.
The New York HeraN thinks it
somewhat singular that while we hear
OF frequent changes among Republican
papers, from the Grant side TO the side
OF Greeley, we hear OF no Democratic
papers that come out squarely for
Grant" Nothing strange about it.
There are no such papers.
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