Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-06-26
CAMPAIGN NOTES.

The little town of Springfield, Ohio,
"sums out'' seventy Greeley Republicans.
The Liberal Republican club Of Spring
field, H., numbers 500 members who voted
for Grant in 1868.
Mai. Gen. Milo HascaIl and ex- Gov. Paris
G.. Dunning, distinguished Republicans in
Indiana, have declared for Greeley and
Brown.
Greeley clubs are forming all over the
State of Minnesota, and are meeting with
great success. The latest is a Scandinavian
Greeley club at st. Paul.
One of Mr.. Summers friends in Wiscon-
sin writes him that, after travelling all over
the State, he is convinced that at least one
fifth of the Republican vote will be cast
against Grant.
There is more rejoicing among the Presl-
dents newspapers over one Democrat who
s'repudiates Greeley" than there is over
ninety and nine OffiCe-hOlders who vote for
Grant.
The entire Republican Central Commit
tee of Clayton county, Iowa, with Thomas
Updegraf as chairman, have repudiated
Grant, and, in common with all the leading
men of both parties in that section, are ar
dent Greeley men.
Gerritt Smith went to Philadelphia, but
his own son Green and his nephew GeTritJ
II. Smith are both out for Greeley. His
county and the adjoining county of Yates
contain 1000 Republicans, good solid men,
who are warmly for Greeley.
A large number Of the prominent Repub-
Iicans of Chicago have joined the Liberal
Republican Central club recently org anized
in that city. Among them are Hon. John
Wentworth, Judge Otis, Senator Wood
ward. Murry Nelson, A. n. LinsCOtt, Sidney
Thomas, S. NJ. Booth, G. W. Waite, j. W.
Kreamer, Gen. Lieb, Otto Peltzer, Gen. r..
w. Smith, Gen. o. Ii. Mann, E. F. Cooke,
etc.
Mr.. David Clark writes from Hartford,
Conn, that Mai i.-Gen. William Franklin has
declared for Greeley. He further says that
the delegates to the Baltimore Convention
will be unit for old Honesty, and not 10
to 2, as they stood for a time. Mr.. ClarE's
letter closes with solemn assurances that
Connecticut will give Greeley and Brown
not less than 5000 majority.
A Gdesburg, His, correspondent of the
Chicago Tribune. says that the bar of Knox
county, Illinois, which gave Grant 10 votes
in 1868, will give him but four in 1872
Seventeen out Of tWenty-One of the Gales
burg lawyers are against him and nearly
all of them are for Greeley and Brown.
The same correspondent says that 700 Re
publicans in that county will support
Greeley, and that the Democrats are un-
animOus for him.
The Liberal Republicans perfected an or
canization at EfIiDgham Ills, on the 18th
Hon. G. i. Vending spoke to a large audi
ence on the occasion, announcing himself
a candidate for Congress in the Fifteenth
district and promising, whether nominated
or not, that he would support Greeley and
Brown. He declared that the Cincinnati
ticket would carry the district by MAORI
| ty at least six THOUSAND.
TIE Danville, Ills, Times IS already
alarmed at the prospective defeat Of Jos. q.
Cannon, the administration candidate for
| Congress in the Fourteenth Illinois district,
1t saws that his opponent will probably be
Gen. Chas. Black, Liberal, and that change
of but 42G votes will pike the Administra-
! ton gun. 1t therefore advises its friends
to be very tolerant and friendly to the
| Greeley men.
Mr.. Jed. z. Ladd, member Of the Liberal
| Republican national executive committee
| of Vermont, announces that State central
committee will soon be appointed who WI
| at the proper time call d State convention
| for the nomination of State officers, and al
| so Congress district committees, who viii
| call conventions for the nomination OF can
didates for Congress. Mr.. Ladd ha'
| knowledge of the formation of number OF
| Greeley and Brown clubs in the State, Will
memberships varying from ~ to lyO each