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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1872
Page
3
The item lists the Liberal party ticket with Horace Greeley for president and B Gratz Brown for vice president, followed by a long slate of presidential electors by district and several statewide offices including Lieutenant Governor Joan Charles Black, Secretary Edward Rummel, and Auditor Daniel O’Hara with associated counties.
Democratic and Liberal Republican voters of Lee County are urged to send delegates to a county convention at Amboy on September 26 at 2 PM to nominate candidates for Clerk of the Circuit Court Sheriff Coroner and County Attorney. Delegates are apportioned by votes cast in 1868 with various town totals shown beside entries that include Meson, Palmyra, Brooklyn, East Grove, Sublette, Willow Creek, Lee Centre and others.
A humorous tale recalls a rats convention debating bell the cat and references Gen Dix and Moses in 1861 New York and Fort Sumter. It notes Dix as a Grant candidate for New York governor and Moses as a Grant candidate for South Carolina governor, ending with a question about the rats and the cat.
Dr Truesdale accepts nomination at Liberal Convention in Princeton for the 6th Congressional District. He thanks delegates, cites health limits, and pledges faithful service while endorsing Liberal Republican aims to heal sectional divides and reform government abuses. Continued on Fifth Page.
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