The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-06-27
POLITICAL ITEMS.
Philadelphia promises 10000 majority
for Grant.

Philadelphia promises 2o,00o majority
for Grant.
1t is said that only one Democrats pa.
per in Nebraska supports Greeley.
Gen. e. S. Bragg declines to enter the
field as candidate for Congress agains.
Eldridge.
John P. Irish, one Of the leading Dem
ocratic politicians of Iowa, refuses to sup
port Greeley.
Horace Greeley is still writing for the
Tribune, notwithstanding his pretended
withdrawal.
Grants platform. 81 have no policy
of my own to interpose against the will
of the people. Grant letter, May 20,
1S6S.-Ip the Senate on the 9th. Chand-
ler, of Michigan, made speech giving
extracts from Secretary Stanton's spec
ches eulogizing Grant.
TIE New York World says that a thou
sand national conventions could not bring
about so unnatural result as forcing the
Democratic party to support Greeley.
All the Free Lovers in the country,
from Noyas, the head of the libidinous
Oneida Community in New York, to
Theodore Tilton, are strongly in favor of
Greeley.
The Greeley Democrats now accuse the
New YoIk World, Chicago Times, Dan
Voorhees,, August Belmont aud every
one who opposes them with being in
favor of GRAFT.
The Springfield Mass Republican,
having gone over to Greeleyism, two of
the partners have retired and purchased
the Union and will make it 'red-hot"
Grant organ.
Horace Greeley once acknowledged
that he was..the worst lecturer in the coun-
try; aud we think the impression is very
general rhat he is better lecturer than
Presidential candidate.
This is going the ronnds of the press
A man with white hat named Greeley
Once said Let the South go out freeley;
Said another, She shan't,
And his name it was Grant,
And he'll be elected, not Greeley.
No political movement ever fell so dead
in Massachusetts,, says the Boston
Traueler, ''as that which eliminated at
Cincinnati. It would be impossible to
make up Greeley electoral ticket out
side the Democratic party
The New York Void says it is in re-
ceipt of hundreds of letters from Ohio
and Indiana, written by Democrats, who
will not vote for Greeley, even though to
the pleadings of Cincinnati be joined the
commands of Baltimore.
Out in Iowa, Democratic newspape,
has the following ticket at the head Of
its columns:
For President, Democrat on Dem
ocratic platform; for Vice President, q
Democrat occupying the same position.
George Alfred Townsend, the man
whe writes letters from Washington to
the Chicago Tribune over the signature
of Gath" wanted President Grant to
appoint him Minister to Holland, and on
his refusal he commenced his pusillan
imous abuse which he still keeps up.
A New York paper prints the follow
ing: The Greeleyites have tried to engage
Eldridge, of Wisconsin, to stump his dis
trict for them. Why" said Eldridge,
''I' d just as soon announce to my con
stituents that [ was coming out there
with twenty ram cats and dozen mon.
keys and two elephants for big show.
Col. Forsyth writes from New York to
his paper, the Mobile Register, in the fol
lowing earnest manner: II meet Dem
ocats here every day who are utterly In
dignant at the thought of going for Gree
ley, and | am satisfied that if the Dem
ocracy is to be disbanded, with order o
sauue qui peut, Grant will get hi:
share Of Democratic votes, and not a few
of them from sheer indignation at the
Inconsistency which has broken up THEN
| own party"