The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-07-11
POLITICAL.

The New York Tribune has taken rank
as the leading Democratic paper Of the
country.
Gratz Brown is despised by the leading
Democrats of Missouri. st. Louis Dem
Crat
II care nothing for promotion SO long
as our arms are successful. '-EGrant to
Sherman.
The London Spectator says President
Grant has done nothing to ALLEVIATE the
masses, though much to irritate the poll
tlcians.
The Albany Journal says that two rn-
successful attempts have been made to
get up Greeley convention in Rensse-
laer caunty.
The rebel General Bradley johnson
who has come out for Greeley, is the one
who has commanded the prison pen at
Salisbury, North Carolina.
Day by day the lines of the parties
grow clearer and more distinct. Bepub-
licans close up solid for Grant; only
Democrats support Greeley.
Montgomery Blair, in recent speech,
said Greeley was the candidate of the
Democratic party instead Of the nom
inee Of the Liberal Republicans.
Steady Republican progress is being
made In the Michigan mining region.
The upper peninsula has heretofore been
that states Democratic stronghold.
In 1859, the Richmond rebels offered
So. 500 for the head of Greeley. They
got the entire body in 1872 for much less
than that sum. But its head was gone.
We have positive adyiccs from nearly
every county in western Pennsylvania
that the detection from the Democratic
ranks is alarmingly on the incrcse. tits
burg Gazette.
A South Carolina paper says. "If
Raphael Semmes and Braxton Bragg can
vote for MIR. Greeley, we cannot we'll per-
ceive how any Southern man can see any
insuperable objection of doing the same
thing"
Horace Greeley is not now nor never
has been man who ought to be trusted
with an official position requiring prac-
tical wisdom, ordinary craftsmanship, or
firm, consistent action.-[ Chicago 1ri6-
une not very long ago.
Politics and Dry Goods is the cap
ton of an editorial article in the Chicago
Tribune. This is not to be wondered at,
Dry Goods is an article of merchandise,
and so is politics with the Liberals. TO
ledo Blade.
The Omaha Herald, Democratic, is
now an ardent supporter of Greeley.
The Republican of the same place, has
been examining the Herald's files of last
year. and finds the following as some of
the pet names which it, the Herald, then
had for Horace "a veteran rascal,
putty-faced ambling old sim
rer, and, not only an acrobat, but hell
born and rotten; not only unmitieated
faisifier, but shad-bellied and wicked.
Drained not merely false to friends, but
false to truth; journeyman blackguard
as we'll as a malignant vili6er; mad in
the vain pursuit of office, and an arrant
knave as we'll; an old reprobate and
profuse old granny"
The Boston Globe (Independent) has
an article on the coming campaign. which
closes as follows; $50 far as the oppo-
sltlon to Grant Is concerned, 1t Will be
the most purely and intensely personal
contest that can possibly be conceived of,
and the alternative presented will be the
erratic, wild, visionary Greeley. the con-
Gdence dupe and tool ofcorrupt rings and
spectators, against a man whom the
public have tried both in war and in peace.
Mr.. Sumner has sounded the keynote
of this personal contest, and the mingled
disgust and Indifference with which his
fanfaronada has been received is quite
Indicative of Mr.. Greeley's fate in the
coming contest