Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-09-10
CAMPAIGN NOTES.


"A vote taken among the men at
the rolling mill at Bay View. a few
days since, while on their way to din.
ner, resulted in $50 for Grant and
wilson and II for Greeley.
Since Gratz Browns visit to
New Haven, petition has been cir-
cuiated praying the Selectmen to re-
iuse 10 license the sale Of intoxicat-
ing liquors. Never did Now Haven
see so plainly the evils of drunken
ness.
1t is said that letter fron,
Charles Francis Adams has been re-
eeived, in which he declines to be q
candidate for Governor of Massachu-
sets, and declares for President
| Grant.
The news from North Carolina
indicates that the election excitement
has subsidized. Both parties concede
that Caldwell will be inaugurated
Governor withoutopposition. Merri-
mans talk about fraud" was merely
for campaign purposes"
The New York Times saws
"There has not been much talk in the
east about Wisconsin, mainly because
Wisconsin is expected to give big
Republican majority as has been its
good fashion annually during the
past sixteen years"
| Judge Barnard, the great i'm.
peached, refuses to commit suicide
the ordinary way. Instead of blow.
ing his brains out, he has Joined the
Greeley party. Who can now doubt
the correctness of the conclusions of
the court that tried him p Toledo
Blade.
-Greeley must not be blamed for
falling behind in the race. He can
not run very fast. He has the Con,
federacy on his back, Tammany in
bis arms, and North Carolina tar
sticking to his heels Pity the sor-
rows OF the poor old man.-Rochester
Democrat.
The last political bon mot is
this: "You'll vote for Greeley, of
course, p" said white Liberal" to
Mr. Mitchell, who was sergeant in u
colored regiment, and lost a leg in
the war. My stump will have 10
grow first" was the retort of the
crippled sergeant.
The Fond du Lac Common
wealth says: When so prominent a
Democrat as James r. Doolittle can
come to Fond da Lac and attract so
little notice from his party friends
and press, it looks little as though
be was losing strength and shedding
his popularity"
If anybody wanted to hire man
to. construct or superintend a rail-
roAd,Aor,
To manage manufacturing enter
prise,
To command an army,-or,
Tocarry ona banking business, -or,
To do any practical and sensible
thing, would ho employ such man
as Horace Greeley 2
Carl Schurz once made speech
at Fort Wayne, Ind, on which occas-
ion he was peltod with cabbage
heads. STOPPING down, he picked up
one of the heads hurled at him, and
holding it in his hand, said Those
of my countrymen who vote with the
Democratic party have no more in.
telligence than this cabbage head"
The Louisville Convention ply
sicalIy elected George Francis Train
the semi-lunatic buffoon, from the
hall in which il was in session. 1t
seems that he was present as q pre-.
tended delegate, but really as q tool
of Greeleyite conspiracy to inter
rupt the proceedings of the Conven-
ton, and when he arose to speak, q
general cry of "put him out" arose,
and he was summarlly hustled out of
The hall. This gives George Francis
new text for his harangues.
-Eldridge, NJ. c., of Wisconsin, ex-
plains his acceptance of Greeley af-
ter having said so much against him,
by telling ga little story" 1t is of
miner, who was losing all his money
in disreputable-gambling house 10
little railroad village on the Pa
cific road. A bystander remon-
strated with him for allowing himself
to be swindled in such barefaced
manner. "But what am / TO do2"
returned the victim "this is the only
gambling house in town."
-"Great "unanimity of action"
says the Herald, of Saturdays Dem
ocrstic convention. Well, If for one
leader of Dubuque Democracy to dc.
nOunce another, acting as chairman
Of convention. as q "d--n liar"
and another fellow delegate as a
''d-n son of -" to slap the
mouth Of another, and double still
another over the table and bite his
thumb half off, constitutes "unanim-
ity," the next time "unanimity" gets
into q convention we prefer to look
at il from the outside. Dubuque
Times.
1a~No man has more consistent
Democratic record than Jeremiah s.
Black. who was Buchanan's Attor-
ney General, and in the last hours
of his Administration Secretary OF
State. Jerry is now a good Greeley
man, and fair representative of his
Darty. Here is the logic If hia Gree.