Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1880-09-08

Captain James ). Wilson, hepuo-
lican candidate for Sheriff Of Wa
bash county, Illinois, has become q
member of the Mt. Carmel Han
cock club. Captain Wilson was
elected Sheriff by the Republic
cans two years ago by a majority
Of 1913 over the Democratic nomin-
nee.
About one hundred names have
been put upon the prescribed lists
Of the departments. The cause is,
refusal to pay the two per cent. as
sessments. Perhaps the National
Republican Committee could make
more by discharging all the clerks
and Offering the vacancies to the
highest bidders. We charge Mr..
Jewel nothing Tor the suggestion
Boston Post.
Clark johnson, well known
Republican of Rochester, declares
he has got through with Garfield
and his party.
Let it he remembered that the
criminals who helped to steal the
Presidency are receiving n re-
ward from HAYES administration
the sum of 1888, 029 annually,
We don't blame the Republicans
for failing TO enthuse over Gar
field. What honest man could en-
thuse over candidate with such a
record as GarfielG's9
1t was Roscoe Conkling who de-
clared that no Republican could he
elected and inaugurated but Gen
eral Grant. He appears to be of
the same opinion still.
General L. J. Blair, of Auburn,
Ind, prominent Republican, form
erly Treasurer of his county,
gallant soldier and fine speaker,
has repudiated the Credit Mobilier
statesman and come out for Han
cock.
Four additional Republican
names have been added to the War
rem Hancock club list making total
of thirty-one Republicans who
have for the past four year been
identified with the Radical party.
Wyoming Times.
Such distinguished citizens and
soldiers as General Palmer, Gener-
al Farnsworth, General Rosecrans,
General Franz Sigel, General Pear
son, Colonel Forney, Hon. Charles
Francis Adams Ex-Governor Cur
tin and Others of the brightest men
in the Republican party are leaving
the miserable wreck.
j. G.. White, of Mercer, Pa, a
prominent lawyer and the Repub-
lican candidate for Congress in his
district in 1874, has pronounced for
Hancock and English.
Captain Romeo H. Start, State
Attorney for Chittenden Country,
Vermont, heretofore a strong Re-
publican, made a stirring speech
for Hancock at recent meeting in
Burlington, Vermont.
In Weston, Schuyler County,
New York, six Republicans, who
never voted anything but the Re-
publican ticket, have come out for
Hancock and English.
Ex-senator Ross, who as a Re-
publican Senator. voted for the ac-
quittal of President johnson in
the impeachment trial, is the
Democratic Candidate for Governor
of Kansas.
VIM. Fuller, for ten years post
master Of Nunda, New York. I'M
der Grant and Hayes, is one of the
number of Republicans IN that
place who are pronounced Hancock
men.
Samuel c. Bolton, one of the
prominent business men of Cor
ham, Maine, who has always here
tofore voted the Republican ticket,
has hoisted a Hancock and English
flag.
William X. Young, prominent
business man of Saratoga, who cast
his first Presidential vote for Abra-
ham Lincoln, since then having
voted for U. S. Grant and r. B.
Hayes, will, next November, vote
for General W. S. Hancock.
Capt. John R. McNary, Chair
man of the Greenback b Central
Committee of Cass County, Ind,
in 1878, and for many years a
stalwart Republican, is canvassing
his county for the Democracy. He
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