Republican County Convention Delegates Called for Freeport
The Republican party in Stevenson County and the city wards of Freeport urge delegates to a County Convention at the Circuit Court Room in Freeport at 1 p m on Tuesday September 10 1872. Delegates are allotted by township ward and Republican vote totals from 1868 with each township and ward receiving one delegate plus additional delegates per fifty Grant votes or per twenty five votes fractions. A list of townships wards committee men and delegate counts will follow.
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Sam Ships
Stepnenney
Freeport
Circuit Court Room
General Grant
Commelleenen
Seratugabecetadesssa
MAN Reece
Dakota
Angi Etna Terese Nal
Templeton
Sand
W. Graham
Wiotonce Cersereecessses
Saneavees
Ist
Knapphed
R. Little
Beveet
R. Leigue Coed
Jefferson
Salter
Lancaster
LOTAD
Peter
A. Kolender
S.S
West Point
Perrin
Winslow
Renee Wenee Roe Phil
Swesley
Ponto
City Hall
Polo
E. B. Warner
Congressional Committee
George Youngs
Ogle
Chard
Hom
Burghtars
Cyncet
Congress
Congressa
Alican
Republican Party
Trumbull
Senator Trumbull
Horace B. Gov. Palmer
Carl Schurz
Califa
Connecticut
New Hampshire
Grant
Illinois
Third District
Fata 4
Political Party Committee Address and Historic Quotes
The State Central Committee meeting place is listed as 16 Congress Street Rollins 10 L1 12 and 14 Inter Oceanic Block Chicago with Lt. Charles Farwell as Chairman and Daniel Suepard as Secretary. Included are quotes from Gen Grant and Horace Greeley on presidential candidacy and unity within the Republican party and a January 5 1871 speech reference.
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Republican State Central Committee
Congress Street
Rollins
Chicago
Chas. B. Farwell
Daniel Suepard
Sec
Freeport Campaign Journal appeal and political notes
The Freeport Campaign Journal announces a low price subscription through November 1st, 1872 and urges supporters of good government to join. Fires destroy about 400000 worth of property in New York and Brooklyn over the weekend. The Pittsburg Soldiers’ Convention backs Grant and Wilson, and the Geneva Arbitration favors the United States claim. North Carolina election day is coming.
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Freeport Journal
Friends of
Horace Greeley
New York
Brooklyn
Geneva Arbitration
United States
Renomination of Hon Ht C Burchard at Polo Republican rally
The Polo Republican convention promptly renomined Hon Horatio C. Burchard for Congress after a first ballot unanimous vote. The piece notes his Ways and Means committee tenure under Speaker Blaine, his strong record for constituents, and predicts a full turnout and large majority victory in the district.
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Polo
Congress
Horatio CO
Burchard
Blaine
Committee of Ways and Means
House
Pressing charge of centralization and imperialism in 1872
A heated letter critiques Sumner Trumbull and other critics ridiculing centralization and Cedarism while citing the New York Tribune’s July 10 1872 defense of Grant’s form of government. It questions the notion that the president will alter the government and urges an end to the inflammatory rhetoric.
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Grant
Charles Sumner
United States Senate
Copperhead
Lyman Trumbull
Cincinnati
Baltimore
New York Tribune
the Tribune
Messrs. Sumner, Trumbull & Co
N. ¥. Tribune
N. Y. Tribune
Senator Trumbull Denounces Grant Slur in Dixon
The Sterling Gazette reports Senator Trumbull dismissed Greeleyites’ claim that President Grant drinks. He said he had never seen anything to suggest Kant is addicted to liquor, ending the slander and silencing its promoters.
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Sterling
Whiteside Co
Irish Republican National Convention Scheduled in Philadelphia
An Irish Republican National Convention will be convened in Philadelphia in September to advance support for Grant and Wilson. The plan highlights advocacy for the party’s goals and coordination among supporters in the eastern United States.
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Philadelphia
Grant
Wilson
Democratic Meeting at Settingers Hall in Freeport
A letter to the editor recounts a Saturday night gathering at Settinger's Hall called by old-line Democrats. Speakers praised Grant, criticized Greeley, and debated party unity, with censure of irreverent jokes and calls to form a Greeley and Korner Club. The writer, a Republican, hopes such meetings boost GOP support. Additional notes report Hon. E. L. Burchard’s renomination momentum in White County and list Tammany leaders supportive of Greeley with critical remarks about Gratz.
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Freeport
Niant
Freeport Journal
Settinger’s Hall
A. P. Goddard
W. J. McKim
Ceshuleresquire
McKim
Wm. Shannon
Shannon
Grant
General Grant
Long Branch
Greeley
Uncle Horace
Wright
Burchard
Congress
J. C., Kean
D——Dst
Kean
Giles
Greeley and Korner
Wilson
W. B.S
Fort Nominated for Congress by Republican Convention
Colonel Greenbury L. Bart of Marshall County is nominated for Congress in the new Eighth District at Fairbury. The slate includes Fort, a lawyer and former state senator, praised for integrity and leadership. Voters in Marshall Livingston Kankakee Iroquois Woodford Ford counties urged active support. Fort expected to win and lead in Congress.
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Greenbury L. Bart
Marshall County
Congress
Fairbury
Strevell
Livingston
Wood
Iroquois
Starr
Kankakee
Harper
Woodford
Fort
State Senate
Marshall
Ford
Oglesby Introduced as Illinois Governor Candidate in Mattoon
Judge Charles B Steele led a Mattoon meeting praising Richard J Oglesby from laborer to statesman and introducing him as the next Governor of Illinois. Ex Postmaster General Randall died last week in Elmira New York.
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Covernor Oglesby
Mattoon
Charles B. Steele
Illinois
Richard J. Oglesby
Dick Oglesby
Randall
Elmira
New York
Congressional Convention in Polo elects Youngs chairman
Delegates from Carroll Jo Daviess Ogle Stephenson Whiteside choose George Youngs of Ogle as chairman U. S. Representative H C Burchard is nominated and wins 53 votes across counties with 12 from Whiteside and 10 from Jo Daviess. Warner is named for State Board of Equalization after a formal ballot.
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Carroll
G. S. Melendy
Jo Daviess
T. Napper
Whiteside
May
F. Clendenin
Stephenson
James
Cochran
Ogle
Millican Hunt
A. Nase
J. C. Smith
HK. B. Warner
S. D. Atkins
Asa Dimond
Hiram Terrell
Wm. Dodds
J. W. Clinton
Geo. W. Clark
Philo J. Hewitt
Wm. Lane
Albert F. Brown
Isaac Rice
Albert Fields, Jr
E. S. Potter
George Youngs
C. W. van Brocklin
W. W. Robey
Mr. Jones
State Board of Equalization
Efner
E. B. Warner
D. G. Shottenkirk
Warner
Shottenkirk
R. G. Bailey
Carroll County
J. B. Brown
Jo Daviess County
W. W. Burns
Ogle County
Stephenson County
Leander Smith
Whiteside County
H. ©. Burchard
Hl. S. Street
J. B. Johnson
Mr. Bur
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Ulysses S. Grant
Sinois
Henry Wilson
Massachusetts
Republican
Macon Co
John L. Beveridge
Cook Co
Weorge H. Harlow
Tazewell Co
Charles E. Lippincot
Cass Co
Edward Rutz
St. Clair Co
WM. Selden Gale
Nth
W. D. Henderson
Moses M. Bare
M. H. Chamberlain
Hugh Fullerton
Martin B. Thompson
J. W. Wilein
Joun BP. van Donrison
Joan H. Yeager
Joan Dougherty
William H. Ropissox
Horatio C. Burchard
State Board of Tequalization
State Central Committee
Gen. Grant
Howarck Greeley
The
Freeport Campaign Journal
Pittsburg
North Carolina
Ht. C. Borchard
Nelly-Varden
Grant Unt Wilson
Mr. Hathaway
Dolly Varden
Harlem
Grant Party
Mr. Bathaway
T. T. Abrams, Esq
Jeff
Davis
Abrams
Democratic
Mr. Garmann
Simon
H. C. Burchard
EI. C. Burchard
Morrison
Pulton Journal
Tammany
Grand Sachen
William M. Tweed
Sacnems
Richard B. Connolly
Isaac Bell
Peter B. Sweeny
John J. Bradley
Samuel B. Garvin
Charles G. Cornell
Joseph Dowling
Nathaniel Jarvis, Jr
A. Oakey Hall
E. B. Hart
Matthew T. Brennan
Douglas Taylor
James B. Nicholson
Gratz
John J. Davis
West Virginia
Fifth Congressional District
National Republican Party
Republican Party of
Oglesby
Beveridge
G. W. Clark
Daniel G. Shottenkirs
Maj. Nase
Mt. Carroll
Rochelle
Fifth
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