Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-07-05

!, views him as follows:
.sSuppose the Democracy in thi
Convention should adopt hard mon
ey platform what would the green
: back men do r.
. "They would at once join with til
laboring men and the Changers. an,
upon u platform pledged to nationa
justice and the rights of labor, nom
, mate candidates and continue thi
i warfare upon idle capital, as the oil,
Abolitionists made war upon slavery
until the laboring class of the countr,
were freed from the slavery o
capital
"Wonld the grcenback men
SUPPORT TILDEN
, if nominated 2"
+ 81 answer, frankly, they would sup
port him undcrIlo circumstances.
capitalist worth 100000, a specula
tor in railroads and in railroad bonds
who shamclcssly expends money ant
uses the machinery Of political cor
ruption to secure his own nomination
in manner unprecedented even in
these corrupt times, is not the mar
needed by the laborcrs, mechanics
Changers, and greenback men to work
a reformation"
"What do you think of the presence
of John Morrissey here p
! at is, perhaps. the first instance in
the history of Christian civilization
where prize-fighter came up to O
political Convention to exhibit his
broken nose as a trophy of war or
perhaps, the only instance in which
| the proprietor of a fashionable gamb.
ling hell has ever ventured among
the shadows of the spires of Christian
churches, to engage in general re-
vival and hurry up the millennium OF
political reform. 1t is shameless
neglect upon the part of the railroads
that special car was not provided to
bring him here, as was done in the
transportation of Hammond to Jeffer.
son City. Certainly, after the pres.
encc and power of this political
| Evangelist has done its work at the
st. Louis Convention, its diffused in
fluence among the members of that
body will necessitate the dispensation
of the services of Moody and Sankey
in every part of the land"
"Who will the grecnbackers vote
for?'
either Allen, Hendricks, Tom
Ewing or Hancock"
"What do you think would be the
result of the organization of the
grcenback men in case Tilden is nom
| inated?'
"Thcy, both Democratic and Re-
publican grecnback men, will organ
izc campaign and keep up the fight
until the idle capital Of the country
can 10 longer enslave the active pro-
ductive labor of the people,
"liavc you consulted with any of
the Western and Northwestern men
on the subject?"
81 have in Missouri, Iowa, Illinois
and Kansas. Others have written to
me, and
PLEDGED THEMSELVES
to make nomination i'm case Tilden
or hard-money platform is imposed
upon the people, among the rest Hon.
Chas. Mason, late Commissioner of
Patents. who bore of the honors of a
West Point class i'm which II. Il. Lee
was second. authorizing me TO say
that he was ready to join any such
movement. ! could name many 9TH
crs, but prefer not
what do You think Of Bayard z"
"Mr. Bayard is an Eastern man.
with Eastern sympathies, voted
against the reduction of President
Grants salary, which precludes a
support Of him by our grecnback peo-
pie. Moreover, he is the champion
of the supremacy impossible nonsense
of resnmlng specie payment when we
have no specie to pay with"
GLOW about Thurman 2"
Thurman is very able LAWYER. a
good judge of the law as it is, but a
poor judge of what the law ought to
be:a genial gentleman, of splendid
parts, whom we could well support
il he would favor the payment of the
bonds in grecnbacks and the abolition
of that fruitful mother Of monopolies.
the National Bank system, that nest
of cockatricc's eggs which has Matched
out poverty, bankruptcy and universal
fraud, has been the handmade of op-
preston, the she tiger with her whelps
let upon tho dcfencclcss people to de-
Your them.'
what do you think the convention
will do"
at will either commit suicide by
readopting the Republican platform
| lately adopted at Cincinnati, in which
case the grccnback men of the coun-
| try will abandon or become the rep
rescntative of the people by adopting
Thomas Jcilcrson's method. and Civ
ing to the country paper currency
based upon the credit of the Govern
ment and the taxation of the people. .
"What do you think of the course
OF the Democratic party since 1850 p
''Since that time the Democratic
party has played the part ola coach
dog TO the Republican party, keeping
always at the respectful distance Of
the length of its chain, each year fall
| ins in with the doctrines taught by
the Republican party the year before.
The adoption of a hard money plat
| form by the Democratic party would
be very much like defendant going
into Court admitting all the claims of
the plaintiff. the justice of his cause
the delinquency of himself, and then
gravely asking Judgment in his own
favor. If the Democrats adopt the
Republican platform on the money
question, they would show great wis
dom in reatiirming the nomination OF
Hayes. asking for division of the
spoil of Government, and tell the peo-
pie to GO to the devil and take care of
themselves"