The Van Buren press., 1872-07-23

GRANT CLUB.-A portion of the Republ-
cans Of Van Barren, met 4 short time since
and organized "Grant Club. " DR.. L. {.
White was elected President; Ii. l.. hoffman,
Vice President; Mckibben and Warren, See
retaries, and Geo. Divilbiss, Treasurer. This
action having been had, without first con-
sulting the little " oilice-holders ring" who
claim to hold the colored vote of Crawford in
their hands, the colored people were advised
men named above as entitled to respect.
To hold the organizers of the" Grant Club 7"
still further in contempt, a meeting of the ne
gro element was called to meet at the Court
House Saturday night and after weeks
drumming the colorcd men of the County
were nearly all assembled. To help on the
enthusiasm, the Van Buren, Band, composed
entirely of democrats and liberals contributed
their seryi ices to help through the gloriication
of Grant and to still further assist the corrupt
and incompetent officers to hold on still
longer to power in the State.
Gen. Pierce, of the Patriot, held forth to the
rabble. The club was organized by election
VI u. "a .NobIt. L ~. NthlDDcls 4
Secretary; Alvis Smith, Treasurer, and Geo
Randolph, Door Keeper. All of the officers
of the other club were ignored. but McKib-
ben.
The object of the first move was to organ
ize Grant Club without, prominently,
endorsing and having to carry the " dead
weight" of the very objectional State Ad-
ministration. But the "ollice holders ring V
were determined otherwise-that the Grant
and the Clayton administrations should
"sink or swim" together. We shall see
whether all the gentlemen composing the
first Grant Club, are led by the nose and
whipped in or not.
Pierce done pretty much all the wind work
THAT is about all there is of him), and kept
the poor darkcy worked up to the highest
pitch of enthusiasm and scent, and it was
hard to tell which expressed itself the loud
est. On being" brought out" Pierce nudged
old man Noble, the President, and suggested
to him, to introduce him, Pierce, as the wheel
horse of Repubcansm Noble did it, and
from that Pierce spread himself. lie modest
ly acknowledged the compliment of his ven-
cradle " christian " friend Noble dubbing him
Pierce, the whecl-horse" of fRepublicanism
he had canvassed forty-eght States, and
and now given his attention to Arkansas.
The wheel horse" forgot, by the way, to
explain his canvass for Rogers, the Demo-
cratic candidate for Congress, in opposition
to Snyder, the Republican.
The most amusing thing of the rabble was
the taking of names for the club. Several
parties with pencil in hand passed through
the house, taking the names of all present,
without regard to their desires. In order to
swell the list they were eager to take mothers
and sisters. The object of the gettcrs up
were to create enthusiasm in the negro popu-
latiOn. And these men flatter the ignorant
negro, that they will carry the County, when
they know that at the last election, when
they were united as a party, the straight
Democratic Ticket, was elected from % to 100
majority. There is no denying that now, the
very best portion of Republican party is op-
posed to Grant and Clayton and favor Of Gree
ley ard Joseph Brooks.
If the meeting Saturday night was not a
"whistling through the grave yard" we
would like to see one, and many thanks were
expressed to the Van Buren, Band for the
timely assistance rendered, in helping them
through. Not a dozen white men participated
in the meetintTR HAJf..