Republican Fifth District Convention at Polo Illinois
The Republicans of Illinois Fifth Congressional District will send delegates to a convention at Polo on Thursday July 95 1872 at noon to select a candidate for Congress. Representation bases are one delegate per 300 Grant votes in 1868 and one half that per fraction. Counties listed include Calhoun Daviess and others with several delegates each. Representatives named include Warner Shaw Burns Brown Atkins.
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Illinois
Polo
General Grant
Calton
Delegates Back H C Burchard In Congressional Re‑nomination
All delegates reported from the County Conventions in Car roll Daviess and Whiteside counties favor the re nomination of Hon H C Burchard for member of Congress. Ogle county caucuses not yet held. No opposition evident in the District, a compliment to him and pleasing to his friends.
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Carroll
Daviess
Whiteside
H. C. Burchard
Ogle
Democrats will vote their conscience in Greeley dispute
A Tribune report quotes Desockar Musy and other Democrats arguing against caucus coercion and for personal duty in supporting or opposing Mr. Greeley. They acknowledge his flawed theory of government and lack of executive qualities, insisting Liberal Republicanism becomes relevant as Illinois politics shift.
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Desockar
Greeley
Mr. Greeley
O& Lawor
Baltimore and 1872 Democracy in the Northeast
A summary of 1866 Johnson convention scorn contrasted with the Baltimore opposition to Greeley and Liberal Republicans. Reports include Rock Island Grant Wilson club formation, Portland anti Greeley editorials, and a humorous Baltimore hotel anecdote.
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Andy Johnson
Baltimore
Johnson
Political traveler calls movement a miserable shell
A traveler visiting Springfield and Carlinville declares the Republican movement a total failure with no real strength anywhere. He notes liberal sentiment across counties in the last five to six weeks and cites Horace Waite’s Chicago Tribune explanation of Mr. Greeley’s stance from 1861.
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Springfield
Carlinville
Bloomington
Mars
Minervia
Greeney
N. Y
Chicago Tribune Page Nonsense About Greeley and Brown
Readers see a fragmented clipping from the Chicago Tribune about Horace Greeley and B Gartz Brown’s nomination at Baltimore. The text mocks the editor’s intoxicated state while noting the flash announcement and immediate reactions such as cannon fire and cheers.
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Chicago Tribune
Horace Greeley
B. Gartz Brown
Cannon
Baltimore
Greeley
Brown
Alpina Fire Destroys Village in Michigan
The village of Alpina Michigan was destroyed by fire a few days ago. Losses around $10,000. Several lives were lost.
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Alpina
Mich
Wright Will Construed in the Illinois Supreme Court
The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled that Mary Sophia Wright Scott holds a fee simple title to lands from her father Orestes II. Wright by applying the Shelley’s case rule to her will. The decision upholds a Stephenson County Circuit Court foreclosure decree after Scott conveyed about $40,000 worth of lands under warrantee deeds.
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Supreme Court of Illinois
Illinois
Frederick Baker
Mary S. Scott
Supreme Court
Stephenson County
Circuit Court
Mary Sophia
Shelley
Scott
Brown
Republican County Convention at Freeport July 1872
At the Stephenson County Republican Convention in Freeport on July 15 1872 Conrad W Van Brocklin was chair and Jas S Cochran secretary. Delegates named from many townships and a slate of congressional and senatorial delegates was approved with unit voting and pledges to support Grant and Wilson Oglesby and Beveridge and the party platform.
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Stephenson County
Freeport
Conrad W. van Brocklin
Jas
Cochran
Rock Grooge
D. Bellman
L. Goodrich
W.F. A. Bolander
W. H. Henrick
Richett
Saml. Taggart
Michael Moyer
Dr. Walton
A. F. Foll
A. Weaver
Henry Wingart
Waddams
John Boynton
Chas. Craves
D. H. Welty
Wm. Dively
Jefferson
S. A. Fry
Sami. Hayes
Orangeville
Woods Graham
Silver Creek
W. W. Robey
Wm Young
Chas
Blanchard
Lancaster
Robert Bell
Samuel Bechtel
J. Reitzell
Kent
Jacob Gabe
C. Salter
D. Gable
Rock Run
Wm. Kramer, Sr
T. B. Young
J. Mallory
A. W. Smith
Joseph Stewart
H. D. Cole
Krin
N. J. Churchill
I’. J. Kauffman
F. A. Darling
Dakota
W. R. Alman
Jas. A. Templeton
John Brown
Harlem
Wm. Wright
J. R. Leigh
A. German
John Wright
1Stward
B. T. Buckley
A. Bergman
HH. Menzenkamp
C. H. Knapp
A.T. Green
Buckley
Gen. Atkins
J. A. Davis
L. F. Youngs
Friends of the Union
Friends
Friends of Liberty
Friends of Free Schools
Friends of Progress
Reform
New York City
Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Gorrilla
Reublican Party
Democratic Party
Philadelphia
Grant
Wilson
Republican Party
Tinos
Oglesby
Beveridge
Congress
SO. Burchard
H.C. Burchard
Debt Reduction Under Grant Administration
The national debt fell from March 1, 1869, to July 1, 1879, by 333,976,917 dollars, cutting annual interest by 22,401,087 dollars, averaging nearly two million dollars each month during Grant's presidency.
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Grant
Buckley speaks in Stephenson on rebuilding South after war
Congressman Charles W. Buckley visits his brother in the city and delivers a long speech at the Opera House. He argues the 14th Amendment was briefly rejected by Alabama, defends Reconstruction measures, and urges loyalty to the Union, civil law, and national unity while opposing Democratic charges of oppression. Buckley praises Grant era enforcement and warns against mob rule and secessionist sentiment.
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Charles W. Buckley
Congress
Alabama
B. T. Buckley
Mr. Buckley
Stephenson County
Opera House
Ireeport
Buckley
Republican Campaign Glob Club
Republican Party
United States
Johnson
South
General Crant
Congress of
States
Georgia
Tennessee
Orpen
Army
Stars and Stripes
University of
Virginia
Ing
Loya
Greeley
Actiaye
Etn
Sumter
Brown
Bert Wi
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Freeport Journal
Ulysses S. Grant
Henry Wilson
Massachusetts
Republican
Richard J. Oglesby
Macon Co
John L. Beveridge
Cook Co
George H. Harlow
Tazewell Co
Charles I. Lippincott
Cass Co
Edward Rutz
St. Clair Co
James K. Edsall
Lee Co
C. D. Trimble
Bureau Co
N. C. Hamburger
Adams Co
J.W. Campbell
Washington Co
Wm. Selden Gale
W. D. Henderson
M. Bane
M. H. Chamberlain
Lugh Fullerton
Martin B. Tilsompson
J. W. Wilkin
Joan LP
van Dorrson
Joan H. Yeager
Joan Dougherty
WilLiam H. Ropinson
State Central Committee
Republican State Central Committee
Congress Street
Chicago
Lil. Chas. B. Farwell
Daniel Shepard
Sec’y
Honenessioun
Gen. Grant
Moorace Greeley
Morace Greeley
Lyman Trumbull
Reg
Izzard
Horkacé Greevey
Congressional
The
Chicago Times
Ilinois
Tribune
Niagara
Charles Sumner
N.Y. Times
Tammany
New York
Augusta
Rock Island, Ill
Grant and Wilson
Court House Square
J. B. Hawley
Portland Oregonian
Plaindealer
East Portland Era
Eugene Guard
Jacksonsville Times
Portland Herald
Chappaqua
Lunatic ‘Asylum
Barnum’s
Lee
Boyle Roach
Wright
Republican County Convention
J. S. Cocuran
C. W. Buckley
Ala
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