Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1872-08-27

sH COlfaX, the meek ana mia recluS
of South Bend, has spoken faintl
. for Grant, but his lungs are soweal
he dare not repeat the eXertion.
The "Grant Blues is the name o
campaign organization. 1t vii
4 be the name of an epidemic mex
: November.
A correspondent of the Syraeus'
Standard, from Troy, N. Y, says
that city is running over with Gree
, ley Republicans.
Three out of the four Republi-
can members of the lower branch
; of the Wisconsin Legislature, from
Milwaukee, are working for Gree
ley and Brown.
Vi The Ti9-States Union, Republic
can paper at Port Jervis, N. j.,
comes out for Greeley and Brown,
and brings 164 names along.
The Trenton Gazette, Republican
authority, says that the Greeley
men in New Jersey outnumber the
potato-bugs, and potato-bugs are
thick.
Rushforce, Mimi, has less than
twenty Democratic voters, and yet
the Greeley club there numbers 81
members.
Another conversion III New
Hampshire I! John Y. Mugridge,
president of the State Senate in
1869, has concluded that Sumner
and Banks are pretty safe company.
Though Longstreet was an office
holder under Grant, and Alderman
was a member of his cabinet, the
Radicals are dreadfully afraid that
Greeley will put rebel in his cabi-
net.
One hundred Republicans of
Willimantic, Conn.,, support Gree
ley. The call for a Liberal meeting
in Stamford is signed by thirty
eight citizens, equally divided by
the Democrats and Republicans.
There seems to be stampede
of Republicans from Grant to Gree
ley in Suffolk county, the eastern
end of Long Island. In the single
- a g -i--,i-n IA ---.-~ ,l,aII Sixty
Republicans have signed a call for
a Greeley and Brown meeting.
The Chicago Ecening MoH has
been inquiring into the politics of
the lawyers of that city, and finds
that they divide nearly equally be-
tween Grant and Greeley, about
one-third Of the Republicans favor
ing Greeley.
A correspondent of Groton,
Tompkins county, N. Y, says
there are ninety Greeley Republic
can voters in the second election
district of that town. The Repub-
lican majority last year was 49,
The detection will tie the district.
There are only three Republican
of New York State alive.
They are f. ID. Morgan, Myron ii.
Clark and Rebuen +. Fenton. The
first is for Grant and the two last
for Greeley. Fenton has one hun
dred times the influence among the
Republicans Of the State that Nor
gan has.
Mark b. Brady, the head of the
Radical electoral ticket in MISSISSIPPI
pi, has resigned his position and re-
fuses to support Grant on the Phil
adelphia platform, because the lat
ter is not sufficiently fat-footed on
the subject of universal amnesty
and universal suffrage.
A correspondent writes from Low
ell, Mass, that he does mot know
a Democrat who will vote for Grant,
while hundreds who voted for him
four years ago will now vote for
Greeley and Brown. The GRANTEES
will have to east larger vote than
they did in 1868 to prevent losing
the city"
The loyal papers are publishing
Mosby's Grant speech with thanks
and praise. Such epithets as
guerilla "traitor," 'horse-thief,"
with which they were wont to en-
bellish every mention of his name,
are held in reserve for the present.
Let Dick Taylor, Hood or Hampton
make Greeley speech now, and
the loyal vocabulary will be serious
ly and, we fear, permanently disa-
bled by the disuse of its favorite
expressions.
The Indians Lament.