Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-03
Campaign Notes.


\ correspondent from Trenton saws fully
one-third Of the Democratic Convention
of the 10Th were opposed to Greeley. At
ter the Convention adjourned bets were
freely offered by Democratic delegates that
New Jersey would vote for Grant but no
takers were found.
\ Germantown (Pa) Democrat offers to
give the names of fifty Democrats in that
place who will vote for Grant before Gree
ley.
Few people will feel sorry at the defeat
of Farnsworth before the Republican Con-
vention of his District in Illinois and the
selection of General Stephen A. Hurlburt.
Farnsworth has distinguished himself for
nothing except grumbling.
Judge Settle, Republican candidate for
Congress in North Carolina, was rotten
egged at Nanceyville on the 22d Senator
Stephens was murdered at the same place
three years before by the kuklux
The New York Worlds Washington
correspondent telegraphs under date of the
10th that newspaper man friendly to
Greeley has just returned from Pennsyl-
vania, and after careful canvass found
but a corporal's guard of Republicans for
Greeley. His dispatch closed as follows
The substance of this inquiry therefore
is, that in the great State which holds the
balance of power in the November
contest, Mr.. Greeley as a candidate COM
mands no Republican votes, and divides
the Democratic party
Mack " writes from Springfield about
the Illinois fusion as follows !" The ticket
rs it stands is an exceedingly weak one.
Every man on it who doesn't drink too
much beer drinks too much whisky. and
it challenges the hostility of the religious
! element by the avowed atheism of at least
two of its candidates. This criticism is
not of my making but is loudly uttered
by many of the best men who participated
! in the convention. There are twenty in
/ tluential Liberals who have already bolted
| it, and more of them will bolt it before the
close Of the week.
General Bradley Johnson, who COM
manded the prison pens at Saulsberry, n.
/ C., during the war il a strong advocate of
/ Greeley's election.
The Chicago Inter- Ocean gives n list of
the fifty-tive delegates from Chicago to the
Liberal State Convention of Illinois. 1t
classiiies them as follows eighteen de-
feated candidates for Office nine eX office
holders and six Office holders" OF course
they are all reformers?
The New York World says: fThe whole
system of National Conventions is fraud
ndcr the false pretence of representing
the people they represent only the ambi-
ton and wishes of politicians by trade. -
1T concludes by saying that the Baltimore
convention to nominate Greeley will be q
farce.
| senator Thurman delivered the annual
address to the students of the University
of Virginia. He inveighed against the
political school books of the age, and con-
cludcd by advising the students to have
their own literature, their own press and
their own institutions of learning and do
their own thinking.
The Democrats, faithful to the old prin-
ciples of the party are issuing secret circu-
lars for boiling convention in case Gree
ley carries off the Baltimore Convention
of office seekers.
Nearly all the religious press of the
country is opposed to Greeley. The Chris
tan UuiOn, the Independent, the lLetIs-
odist, the OJseyrcr, and the Cath
Ollie press, the Ta5Iet, the Frecnaal's
Journal and the Catholic 7clegrdph
all oppose Greeley because of his peculiar
religious views.
lsham &. Harris supports Greeley but
he doesn't love him. Some one suggested
that Greeley would look better if he would
shave his chin. "Oh, yes" replied Har-
ris, "but it would suit me great deal bet
ter if he would shave everything Off close
to his shoulders.
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