The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1872-08-13
THE PEOPLE.
GREELEY AND BROWN THEIR
CHOICE.
The Republicans FIOCksug lev
Th0usandS to The Standard OF
Honesty and Reform,

dale, Pa, and Of these, up to this time,
- have come out in print for Greeley.
The Freeman's Journal has given up
its idea of straight ticket, and asks
its Democratic readers to aid in the elec,
lion of Greeley. ..s.
| The Washington pa } Reporter and
Examiner states that the Greeley Repub.
licans number hundreds in the county
of Washington.
Of The sixtyfve Republicans in Lake
Mills, Wis, sixty-one ale Greeley men.
or the eighty-one Democrats every one
lis Greeley.
The Springfield Republican gives the
votes, by towns, of Connecticut, and
estimates a majority for Greeley and
Brown of 5000 on the aggregate vote.
Among the speakers announced in
the Bradford Argus for a Greeley and
Brown meeting in Towauda, Pa, Aug,
ust ist, were Ex-Governor Curtin and
Hon George Landon.
| An electoral ticket for New jersey Is
to be selected at Trenton on September
IL, which, it has been agreed upon, will
be supported by the Democrats and the
Liberals unitedlv.
| The Baptist Watchman says of Gree
ley that "all parties unite in admitting
his integrity, fearless advocacy of hu.
man rights, law and order, and his deep,
seated Ueslre TO do good to all"
The Detroit Free Press says that
when any man or journal asserts ''that
thousands of Michigan Democrats will
bolt Greeley" he or it car be set down
as only lacking another inch of ears to
be classed under the letter "a" in Web
ster. ........
The Bennington Free Press, one Of
the abiest newspapers in Vermont,
which, prior to the Baltimore Conyeu-
ton, supported Grant and Wilson, has
published an extra, in which it declares
in favor of Greeley and Brown.
The Republicans in Allen county, In.
diana, have become demoralized by the
withdrawal from the committee of sher.
iff Colonel Charles Salinger He refu-
ses to support the Republican ticket,
and will go stroug for Greeley and
Brown.
A cali has been issued for a Greeley
and Brown meeting in Niagara county,
signed by 224 Republicans. United
States District Attorney Crowley has
promised to keep the county all right
for Grant This does not look as though
he was keeping his promise.
A Montpelier correspondent of the
springfield Republican writes Of Yer,
mont: "The Liberal element is strong
and growing in Washington, Addison
Rutland, and Bennington counties. II
the town of Whiting, Addison county,
there is scarcely a Grant man to be
found
! There is a stampede of the Republi
cans in Ulster county, N. Z, from Gran
to Greeley The leading Republican
paper Of the county supports Greeley
with two of the county officials elected
by the Republicans last fall, their las
nominee for sheriff, and many of the
leaders of the party and scores of The
rank and file. The members of The
county ring are shouting for Grant.
The New York Times having charged
Governor Randolph, of New Jersey
with the acceptance of large bribi
from the Erie Railwsy Company, thu
Governor retorts by bringing a lihe
suit in the courts against Grant
Own The Times will now have th,
| opportunity of substantiating tn,
charge; or, in case of failure to do so
will pay the penalty adjudged by th'
law for defamation of the character Of
citizen.
The Stanford kentucky Interio
journal says: "yFe were in conversation
the other day with an intel ligent soldie
Of the 4th United States regiment, nov
stationed at Crab Orchard, and were
surprised to hear him say that, although
President Grant once held the Office o
lieutenant in his regiment, he and fifty
eight others ont Of a company of sixt,
would support Greeleyain November.
A riece OF characteristic vandalism
was perpetrated by the Grant men a
GAINESVILLE, Wis, on the night Of th'
25th ult. Greeley and Brown werj
hung in effigy on rope stretched across
one of the principal streets of The city
The affair gave rise to excited discuss
ion, and several Republicans, who haC
been counted for Grant, were SO dis
tgusted at the outrage, that they express
ed theirxletermination to vote for Gree
.iley.
| The Henderson Reporter is the only
Democratic Journal in Kentucky tina
has failed to endorse the Liberal ticket
At first the Reporter was very bitteI
against the nominees, but is gradually
coming to its senses. In the last issue
is this paragraph: "The Reporter doe:
not oppose the Greeley and Brown tick
ct. 1t would not throw a straw in th'
way of its success; we would
rather see our friends succeed will
Horace Greeley, than that our enemies
should triumph with the man on horse
back--U. ). Grant"
A General Beverage--who was prob
ably full of his own name at the time
followed Ex-Governor Oglesby as ora
tor at Grant meeting in Chicago re
Gently. When he spoke of the war, al
Impatient man roared out, "Damn tht
war;" and Beverage sidled off into al
attack on Mr.. Greeley. Then another
man yelled, "Dry up" The baf1eC
beverage here took up Mr.. Greeley.
censure of Democrats. Again voice
In the crowd shrieked, 1--WE can stan;
it!' amid roar of laughter, Bever
age then dissolved into silence.
A correspondent of the Chicago Trib
une, writing from Sheboygan, Wis.
names the following distinguished Re
publicaps who are for Greeley anC
against Grant: General Conrad Krcz
Hon. George E. Graves, Judge Gilman
Hon. Bile Williams, Hon. John II
Flats, Hon Thomas Blackstock, ant
concludes: "Thc truth is that, wher
the county has given 300 for Radical
ism, il will Give upward of 500 70