Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-09-26
POLITICAL.

The Straight out Democrats OF Kansas have
issued call for a State convention at Topeka
October 80, to nominate State and electoral
ticket.
The liberal headquarters at Washington
are not pleased with Greeley's speeches in
the West, and requests are coming from all
quarters to have him shut his mouth till after
election.
A prominent POLITICIAN of Cincinnati writes
that Mr.. Greeley's speech at the Cham
Der of Commerce in that city on Saturl ay
lost him twenty-five votes of solid men on the
| spot.
A straight-out Democrat of Portsmouth, n.
H., says that he knows one hundred and TWEEN
ty of his party in that city who will not vote
tor Horace Greeley under any circumstan.
ces.
The New York World expresses a hope
that 1.-THE rigid enforcement of the law" the
law to aid in protecting the purity of elections
styled by Democrats "the force bill,"1 will
prevent ballot-box stufing in Philadelphia
And yet every Democrat in Congress voted
against this law!
Had we been among Mr.. Greeley's trusted
counsellors, says the New York World, we
should have advised him to forbear speech.
making altogether during this canvass.
When the political supporters of H. G. talk
| in this way, what is the probable sentiment
of the general public?
The Greeleyites are sending circulars
throughout Connecticut urging the people
who support them to vote for the Democratic
candidates for local affairs at the election
next month.
Horace Greeley, in Cooper Institute, about
six months ago, said that the President had
slaughtered his friends, and that was a game
two could play at. That little speech blurt-
ed out the whole secret of the movement,
making the Cincinnati riddle easy to read.
The Missouri Democrat tells US, Eastern
Greeley men say Brown has damned the tick
ct in New England. Brown thinks the great
mistake of the Cincinnati convention was in
not giving him the first place on the ticket.
Settle it among yourselves, gentlemen. Any
thing to beat Grant.
| The Coalitionists affect to make light of
the straight out movement. Nevertheless, in
Kentucky three Democratic newspapers fy
the O'Conor and Adams flag In St. Louis
three German papers have hauled down the
Greeley flag and 60 for O'Conor and Adams.
The New York Irish World and Day Book
arc out for O'Conor, and OConor nomina-
tons for electors and Congressman are be-
coming frequent in the West and South.
The Galveston Standard Grant in speak.
ing of the "Greeley Canvass in Texas"
says
The acceptance of Horace Greeley by the
Baltimore Convention, with its correspond
ing endorsement of and pronunced adhesion
to the Cincinnati platform, was to the democ-
racy in this State dose SO bitter and humili-
atng that, up to now, they have failed to re-
cover from its bewildering effect.
John Forsyth of the Mobile REGISTER is not
at all cheerful over the coalition prospects in
Alabama. He says that when Mr.. Greeley
was nominated Alabama '''boasted abroad
through her representatives, and at home
through her press, of what she would accom-.
plish this campaign. We are free to confess
that to this day she has not secured the &C.
complishment Of her undertaking by any man.
ner of means; and unless she goes to work
In earnest, with steady and systemalized
work, by every man in his place, she will not
secure it,"