The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-09-26
INDEPENDENT VOTERS SUPPORT
ING TILDEN.

| AS much has been SAID as 10 the Ten
dency of the Independent voters If thi:
canvass, the following list, which we cut
from the World, will show what the facts
in the case are. The list comprises the
names not only of those who have lately
been classed as "Libersl Republicans
and Independents" but of number Of
gentlemen who have until the present
canvass been actively Unidentified with
the Republican party:
Charles Francis Adams, of Massachu-
sets.
Andrew G, Curtin, Pennsylvania
"War Governor"
Ex-senator Trumbull, of Illinois.
DAVID A. Wells, of Connecticut.
William Cullen Byrsnt, of New York
Parke Goodwin, of New York.
Gideon Welles, President Lincoln's
Secretary of the Navy.
Justice David Davis, OF the Supreme
Court, United States.
Elk. Governor Austin Blair, the "War
Governor" of Michigan.
Ex-Governor K. Gratz Brown, of Mis-
souri,.
George w. Julian, candidate for Vice
President on the Free Soil ticket, 1852.
Cas.ius NJ. Clay, of Kentucky.
General John NJ. Palmer, Ex-Governor
of Illinois
General William +. Bartlett, of Masss.
chusetts.
Professor w. G Sumner, of Yale col
lege, who wrote the Republican State
platform of 1874, and who has now writ
ten the strongest letter of the kind yet
published in behalf of Tllden.
Professor A. l.. Perry, of Williams
College, the distinguished political econ
omist.
Colonel Augustus ii. Fem, the Repub-
lican candidate for Lieutenant Govern"r
of Connecticut last year.
Frank w, Bird, of Massachusetts,, the
founder of the Republican party.
Ex-Congressman John +. Farnes
worth, of Illinois.
Charles Francis Adams, Jr., of Massa-
chusetts.
Henry Brooks Adams, of Massachu-
sets.
Colonel Nicholas Smith, representing
the Greeley family.
George w. Fenton, of Chautauqua,
brother of Senator Fenton.
Colonel Fred. A. Conkling, of New
York, brother of Senator Conkling.
Fighting Joe" Hooker.
Charles A. Dana, editor of the Sun.
In al ,E
the Philadelphia Times.
Judge Henry K. Selden, of New York.
Howard Potter, of New York.
Charles G. Davis, of Massachusetts.
Ex-senator Ross, of Kansas.
Ex-senator Upton, OF Nebraska.
Ex-senator Cowan, of Pennsylvania.
f. S Cleveland, late Republican Post
master of Hartford, Conn.
ID. ID. 5. Brown, of Monroe county.
General +. +. Jones, of BrOOmc county.
Judge Edwin A. Reynolds, of Orleans
county.
Colonel Charles James, of Orleans
county.
Porter Sheldon, of Chautauqua county.
Ex Governor David z. Lewis, the last
Republican Governor of Alabama.
Judge Daniel 5. Gooding, Lincoln
elector-at.large in Indiana, 1864.
Elk. Congressman James Nj. Ashley, OF
Ohio.
General Jacob Brinkerhoti, of Ohio.
Judge Hoadley, of the Supreme Court
of Ohio; supported Hayes for Governor
last year.
f. w. Kittridge, the eminent lawyer
of Gin :innatl; supported Hayes last year.
Charles Reemelin, Of Cincinnati, who
supported Hayes last year.
Emil Hoffman, of Cincinnati. who sup
ported Hayes last year.
Elk. Lieutenant-Governor Jacob MueI-
Ter, of Ohio, elected on the Republican
ticket in 1871, who supported Hayes last
year.
Judge J. b. Stsllo, of Cincinnati, who
supported Hayes last year.
Frederick Hassaurek, late editor OF the
Cincinnati Tolksbtatt, who supported
Hayes last year.
August Theme, editor of the Cleve.
land Wachter am Erie, who supported
Hayes last year.
Colonel Edward Jussen, of Chicago,
brother-in-lsw of Carl Schurz.
Ex-Governor Koerner, of Illinois.
General Franz Sigel, of New York.
The eminent Germans last named who
have abandoned the Republican party to
support Governor Tilden, represent the
great voting rank and file of the Ger
mans in America. There Is not single
German of national reputation, with the
solitary exception of Carl Schurz, who
now trains under the banner OF "Zach
Chandler"
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