The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1872-09-03
THE PEOPLE.
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
Greeley and Brown the Candi.
dates Of the Honest Masses.

The Boston Herald Radical, puts up
the flag of Greeley and Brown.
The Addison IN " Advertiser sub
stituted the Liberal for the Grant ticket
on Wednesday last
The Traverse City (Mich. Bay Eagle
has renounced Grantism and hoisted the
Greeley and Brown flag.
The Cincinnati Weekly Post, hereto
fore an independent journal, has raised
the names of Greeley and Brown.
Grant has the support of only two
German papers in Wisconsin. Fifteen
lpapers support Greeley.
James White, Esq, Republican May.
or of Newark, elected last spring by a
majority Of lO4, is now Greeley man
Thus it goes all over the country.
Governor Stephen S. Harding, of In
diana, one Of the original Republicans,
is out III strong letter for Greeley and
Brown
The Oconomowoc wis Times,
heretofore Grant paper, has taken
down the Administration ticket and rails
cd the names of Greeley and Brown.
The main reason why the Grant party
don't want to "clasp hands is, because,
if they open their paws, their stealings
would fly away on the wind.
One hundred and thirty four Republi-
cans of Berrien county, Mich who have
hitherto supported the Radical ticket,
have signed call for Greeley and
Brown mass meeting at Berrien Springs.
A letter from Galva, ILL.,, says: "The
organization of the Greeley club was
begun only few days since, by num-
Der of influential citizens, who have al
ready obtained the names of nearly 100
members, large majority of whom
were staunch Republicans in 1863
The Detroit Free Press would like to
know how many more such men as Aus
tin Blair. Charles S. May, Jacob Ferris,
and Randolph Strickland the President
can lose in Michigan and still have
hopes of the State in November?
There is more trouble among the
New Hampshire GRANTEES. The Hon.
George G. Fogg has resigned his posi-
ton as editor of the CONCORD Statesman,
the Republican organ of the State and
goes for Greeley. He cannot afford to
support Grant, in view of the exposures
made of his official misconduct.
William NJ. DeCamp, Of Shueville,
Iowa, Union soldier, whose arm is
withered from wound received in the
war, and now a supporter of Greeley,
replied 10 the taunt that the man who
shot him would vote for Greeley, with
the plump declaration: "Yes; and the
man who received the shot will vote for
him too"
| In New Hampshire the detection OF
the Hon. E. II. Rolling from the Grant
and Wilson ranks virtually settles the
election and secures the State for Gree
ley and Brown. The influence of Mr..
) Rollins carried the State for the Repub'
: licans last spring, and his abandonment
Of Grant is the most serious blow theiI
cause could receive in the Granite State
1t is said, with the loose assertion OF
the second-rate or dependent press, that
Greeley's associates were not the mos,
exalted men; yet who ever heard of him
taking entertainment from James Fisk
} or attending horse race, or lunchine
with Josephine Mansfield, or playing
poker with Rufus ingalls,, or writing let
ters to lock up gold under the dictatior
of Abel R. Corbin?
The Chicago Tritune puts down the
sum of S314,719.5S as the amount o.
Secretary Robeson's robberies. The
Louisville Courier-Journal says: "Wt
shall not venture to request Mr. Robe
son to tell US how he contrived to ge
away with the s314,7l9; it would bt
}, asking too much of him; but we woulc
D like to know what he did with that 5s
cents"
The Cincinnati Enquirer says there
: are lis papers printed in the German
y language in the United States. They
are thus divided politically: For Gree
ley and Brown, 81; for Grant and Viii
son, 30; neutral, l. Most of the Gran
papers receive pay in some form from
the National Treasury.
The Eastern Argus says: cat th,
mass Liberal Republican Convention
which nominated Colonel I S. Lans
for Representative to Congress in op
position to Mr.. Blaine, the chairman re
; quested none to vote except those who
had acted with the Republican party th'
, past two years, and the result was eigh
, hundred and forty, (S40 y
=. The Hartford Times says: IA gen
{ tieman who arrived in this city yester
: day from Vineland, N j., informs III
e that in that place there are just abou
n 1000 voters, of whom 500 are repubIi
Y cans and 200 Democrats One of tn,
I. former, Grant man. stated to our in
formant that the prospect is that Gree
f ley will carry that town.
The Mobile Register says: "The ne
!. gro voters of Alabama may ponder thi'
J. fact with much profit: Virginia, unde
: Democratic rule, has established owe
seven hundred schools for the coloret
man, while South Carolina, under Radi
II cal rule, has not Only done nothing 70
a them, but the Radical State governmen
has stolen all the school money and bro
t ken down the negro schools that wer
y already established.
:, Not many weeks ago distinguishe,
II office holder in the New York Custom
House approached old Tom Alvord a
l. Saratoga, saying ''Mr Alvord. you mus
q come out for Grant without any NOR
e delay. The Republican party wants Il
q make you it's candidate for Governo
" this fall" To this remark Mr.. Alvor,
said: eff you thought you could elec
s me guess you wouldn't want me fo
/, your candidate Nothing would indue
: me to accept your nomination" So tn
conversation ended And now tb