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Wheeling Times And Advertiser
Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia
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Report on the September 3 convention where 300 former Van Buren supporters switched to Gen. Harrison and joined the procession; additional straight-outs from Marshall county and convention attendees did not participate.
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We purposely omitted, in our last, naming the straight-outs at the meeting here on the 3d Sept. because we wished to make a separate article for them, and to ascertain first the true number of them. This we are unable to do, but we are able to say that in the procession there were three hundred who supported Van Buren at the last election and now support Gen. Harrison.
The straight-outs in Marshall county were not in the procession--not being prepared in season. There were also hundreds at the convention who did not go into the procession. This was one of the most interesting bodies in the procession, as their badge evinced that they were patriotic enough to leave their party for their country's good.
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3d Sept.
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300 former van buren supporters switched to support gen. harrison and participated in the procession.
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At the local meeting on September 3, straight-outs (former Van Buren supporters now backing Gen. Harrison) formed an interesting group in the procession, numbered at 300 participants; Marshall county straight-outs absent due to lack of preparation; hundreds more at convention did not join procession; their badges showed patriotism in leaving party for country's good.