Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-07-10
NO. 80.
Campaign Notes.

| S1lCe ludt Vi 1oOU.
SENATOR ALCoRN, in a letter to friend in
Mississippi, takes strong ground in favor OF
the election of Grant for second term.
IT is predicted that Senators Thurman. Cas-
serly and Vlckers will not support Greeley even
, If he Is nominated by the Baltimore Couven-
ton. Ha
THERE is dreadful rumor of an unpleasant
ness between the Schurz and Blair wings 81
the would-be happy-family party in Missouri
This IS not as it should be.
THE now venerable ex-Gov Shannon of
Kansas, is Greeley recruit, and the Chicago
Joarnal suggests that the old man doubtless
wants to pay Gebt of gratitude he owes the
New York Tribune for the help it gave him in
his campaign against Tom Corwin long ago,
when it held him up as drunken border ruff
fan of the most infamous type.
The Republicans of Indiana opened the cam
palgn, on Saturday, by an enthusiastic mass
meeting in Masonic Hall, at which addresses
were made by Senator Morton and Gen. Co
bnrn, Al. @. Republican clubs were organize /
Tor each ward in the city at the same meeting
5. PETTEBoNE, Of Niagara Falls, is one of
the Republlcans whom the Tribune has
claimed by name as indorsing Greelev To
hlm the Niagara Falls Gazettes thus alludes:
we have the best authority for saving that
Mr. Petebone will not desert his party, but
I Will support Grant and Wilson. It is mere
desperation for the Greeley men to tlus rse
WITH that wonderful disregard of consist
| ency which has marked the management of
the Liberal Republicans !" throughout, we
are receiving "reform" campaign tracts of
| the heaviest kind from the Office of the Golden
! Age and elsewhere under the frank of a Dem
ocratic Congressman. In the words of the
! Greeley organ, sc Are the people to be com
PEELED to pay for the transmission of such
/ documents through the mails Will thev not
rise in their wrath and rebuke the outrage at
/ the polls 2"
On the eve of the Kentucky Democratic
] State Convention a Lexington Democratic
journal urged the election of Grcelev. and said ::
After this unrelenting war upon Abolition
| ism, ana undying devotion to the eternal prip-
! ciples of free trade.'
IT is rumored that 800 900 is ready for
new organ Of the Administration at Philadel-
phia.
! The Pittsburg Dispatch says: 'eMr. Gree
! ley is probably weaker in Pennsylvania than
! in any other state in the Union. The Liberal
movement never had any size here and his
! nomination has not increased its dimensions
! by the smallest fraction. We do not know of
more than three Republican journals that
support him, and but one of these is more
! than a year old. Of his old Republican friends
/ and admirers, not one IN dozen have followed
| him in his pilgrimage to the Democratic Tenn
! pie, and but two Republican Greeley clubs.
with less than membership of one hundred
1 each, have been organized out of the ranks of
/ the party thai polled 342 239 votes for Grant
| in 1868"
/ MAJOR TAYLOR, of Huntingdon county, is
/ the Republican candidate for Congress from
/ the Tenth Indiana district.
| THE Republicans ofthe Second Virginia Dis
trict have nominated James II. Piatt for Con-
gress.
| The Republican State Committee of Kansas
met on Tuesday and called two conventions
one to nominate state officers and State Cen
tral Committee, to be held at Topeka, Segtem-
Der 4th, and the other to nominate Congress
men and Presidential electors, to be held at
Lawrence, September 9th.
VERY large Grant and Wilson ratification
meeting was heldln beavenworth on Tuesday
evening. Congressman Lowe and other prom
lnent gentlemen spoke, and were greeted with
great applause Bonfires, music and fireworks
enliVened the crowd, and much enthusiasm pre-
vailed.
The delegation elected to the Baltimore
Convention from Lambertville, N. J., is
strongly opposed to Greeley.
GREELEY stock is at a discount in Fond du
Lac. As far as can be learned, only five Re
pubhcans have come out for him. The cock
| of the roost is former office-hoder. He
came over for pap, and is going back disap-
pointed. No. 2 lost the postoffice. No. 3
couldn't be United States guager. No. was
invited to lay down the assessors rod. No. 5
IS one-term man, surrounded by Greeley
Democrats.
4 GRANT AND WILSON ratification meeting,
under the auspices of the Grand Central Club,
was held at Faneul Hall, Boston, on Satur-
day evening. Alex. H. Rice presided Gov
Geary, of Pennsylvania, Gov. Harvey, Of Kan
sas, Judge Hoar and Generals Woodford and
Butler were on the platform, and made
speeches.
The Republicans of st. Louis held large
meeting at Lucas Place on SATURDAY. evening
fI tiaI ,pf(y oT11
It is estimated five thousand people were pres
ent. Senator Carpenter, of Wisconsin, ex-
Gov Ogglesoy, Of Illinois and ex-senator
Henderson, OF Missouri, were the principal
speakers.
A WASHINGTON telegram says The Gree
levites are still trying to entrap Senator Sum
ner, and induce him to come out in favor of
Greeley's election, but they have not succeed
ed. Mr.. Sumner said that, while he regarded
Greeley's election certain, he did not intend to
participate in the contest, but act the part of a
neutral"
SOME of the gentlemen who participated in
! the New York conference have arrived In
! Washington The Greeley element Is repre-
! sented as deeply disappointed at their lnabll-
! ty to secure anything like unanimlty for him.
/ Schurz and Trumbull gave their associates to
understand that at heart they were disguised
| with the Greeley nomination, and only sup
ported him from the stress of circumstances.
! The object of those who held the subsequent
| conference is declared to be to lay the foun-
! datiOn for q great party for the next PreS1-
| Dental campaign.
FROM Louisiana we learn that the Pinch
back and Packard Republicans have failed to
| harmonic, and will place separate ticketssln
the field. The Packard Convention has nomi-
mated Wm Pitt Kellogg for Governor. The
Pinchback Convention adjourned to the 9Th OF
August
The following state ticket has been nomlna-
| ted by the Packard Republicans IN Louisiana
For Governor, VIM. Pitt Kellogg Secretary OF
States, O. G. Blanden (colored); Auditor, ,Chas.
Clinton Attorney General, A. z. Field Su-
perintendcnt of instruction, Charles W. Keat-
ing Congressman at Large, James Lewis,
| {cOlored.)
| SENATOR CALDWELL, of Kansas, was sere-
naded at Leavenworth on Monday. he re-
sponded, and at the conclusion OF his remarks
congratulated the state and nation upon the
clear and unmistakable expression everywhere
! found of confidence in the administration, aud
the d termination to perDetuate 1t III the elec
ton OF Grant and Wilson.
'sNoT on the cards''-Mr. Greeley expects
| to win the hearts of political clubs with moth
ing but spade in his hand. We can't as
| sisG. World.
Mr.. CLAY saws Greeley has done wonders for
/ the Republican cause But OF what value is
COW that gives a pail Of milk and then kicks 1t
over er?-HeRtucby Statesman.
! CHAPPAQUACKERY is as dangerous to the
body polite as medical quackery is to the body
physical; and the chaps who practice this
species ofpolitical quackery have no mere right
to the stolen name of "lberal," which they
robbed by overpowering the Cincinnati Con
ventior, than doctors hostlers who set up for
themselves have to the title of physician p
! Rochester Chronicle.
The Cincinnati Commercial put the state
ment Of man who has heard of four Greeley
Republicans, under the head of " Cheering
| Inf0rmation.n
THE e Fat Contributor wrote to Greeley to
know how to raise a roof Greeley replied:
&C Raise it from the shingle selecting dipped
shingles. eight to the pound. Cut the tops off
before planting, and drag them in with sau-
| sage-stuffer."
IHE Richmond Wbig, in 1859, published
card offering $2500 each for the heads OF
Greeley, Beecner, Phillips, &c. The Wing now
supports Greeley for the Presidency.
LAMAR, the famous ante-war slave trader,
recently said: 6 am willing to step across
the gulf of blood and take the hand of Gree
lev or any other man, to strike down Grant
THE Greeley party of Toledo has brought
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