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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1872
Page
4
The document presents a Liberal ticket slate with Horace Greeley for president and B Gratz Brown for vice president. It lists presidential electors by district and names for governor lieutenant governor secretary of state auditor state treasurer and their home counties.
The Democratic voters of Lee County are urged to send delegates to the County Convention in Amboy on September 2 at 2 PM to nominate county officers and elect delegates to the 12th Senatorial and Representative District. Basis of representation is one delegate per twenty five presidential votes of 1868. Local towns listed with delegate counts. A Liberal Republican convention is also anticipated the same day. Included are scattered notes on Greeley support among various party figures and regions.
Special Reporter covers Friday gathering in Franklin Grove with speakers Smith D. Atkins of Freeport and county Judge John Crabtree. Atkins defends free speech and attacks Grant critics while Crabtree counters nepotism claims and cites investigating committee reports on Louisiana and Chorpenning.
The passage credits James Watson Webb of the New York Courier Enquirer for a standout week, alongside other prominent reporters, highlighting a strong performance across the period.
A fragment lists products and quantities associated with PF K Priesix and Bloomington Nursery including trees, hedges, seeds, fruit and flower plates, and four catalogs, indicating available garden supplies and related mail order items.
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