Source: Patriot
(Harrisburg, PA) Vol. IV - Page 2
Dated: June 4, 1872
THE Telegraph is conspicuously incorrect in stating
that Mr. Buckalew was Alderman M'Mullin's
candidate for governor. The alderman did not vote for
Mr. Buckalew. This, whether true or false, is of no
more consequence than our reminding the Telegraph of the
fact that William M. Bunn is one of the Grant delegates
from this state to Philadelphia convention, and that Bunny's
crowd will repeat for Grant as often as they get an
opportunity.
IT is reported that Mr. Sumner has offered to
the senate an amendment to the constitution of the United States
to the effect that the President shall be elected by the votes
of the majority of the people, and that the office of vice
president shall be abolished.
WE publish in another column the reply of Governor
Gratz Brown to the notification of his nomination for vice
president by the Cincinnati convention. He accepts the
nomination and cordially endorses the Cincinnati platform.
MR. SUMMER's bold and bitter arraignment of
General Grant for acts that render him unworthy to occupy
the presidential chair will not be pleasant reading for the
office holders' convention that meets in Philadelphia on
Wednesday next.
ACCORDING to the amnesty act, persons whose property
ahs been sold under the confiscation act are entitled to
whatever sum the government has received from the sales, less
the costs.
THE democratic county convention in Parke county,
Indiana, instructed their delegates to the district convention
to vote for the Hon. D. W. Voorhees for the next
congress.
JACK SHEPHERD'S Trumpet violently opposes
the election of Horace Greeley. |