The New York herald., 1876-03-10
THE GREENDACK CONVENTION.
Platform of the Connecticut Rag
Baby Nurses.
RECENT CONTRACTION
Charles Atwater Nominated for
Governor.
MERIDES, Conn, March 0, 1876.

ticket TO be voted for on the hrst Monday OF April,
convened in Grand Army Hall at eleven O'Clock to-
nay The hall was well filed. +. H. Gillette was
called to the chair and made brief address in which
he expressed himself being much cheered and n
couraged by intelligence the increasing strength
the greenback movement which reached him from all
parts OF the State.
REDEEMABLE l. BREAD
The following telegram read and applauded:-
NEw YORK March o. 1876
To PRESIDENT GREESBAcR CONVENTION, Meri-
The industrial New greet OF connec.
labor bread people fooled into the
Sy E The Snsmsn nd as
17p failures Let this go ON another year ana
of your sorekeepers clerks and workingmen and women
IN ns,re T ms Ss io'e W enbaes man
beat the apostats Tlden Tomorrow Tor oyernor 20 Tor
Connecticut If keep the of the sharks in
power We are all on the brink OF an4ne En m H9g can
Secretary United States Legal Tender Club.
Committees on resolutions and nominations ap.
pointed and these having retired Tor consultation re-
marks made by various gentlemen present
They all expressed gratncation at the RAPID progress
OF the greenback movement in Connecticut and entire
confidence IN the final triumph OF the greenback
throughout the country.
PLATFORM.
Dr. j. p Philips of New Haven Chairman of the
Committee on Resolutions, submitted the following
platform, which unanimously ratified
The friends of honest administration of government,
and practical just and immediate reform in
rency in convention assembled, resolve,
sAs the intelligent union ot labor and capital Is tho
only legitimate OF individual national wealth,
tights Of producers il should example econ
should discourage all forms of monopoly and should
Seooad-The act fixing arbitrary time for the resump
tion specie payments by creating disrus
has paralyzed enterprise thrown producers wealth
out Of snd has thus postponed the day when
with coin without creating widespread bankruptcy. We,
OF the Resumption act demand tnat similar tring
with the interests of the nation for political be
Is "a
Th,dme government should not dshonor its prom
The greenbaeks disecded before they issued
we demand that e national notes should De made iuli
ernment bonds par with gold coin.
roeative of which should not be deieeacd either
should be gradually retired from circulation and the
with banking it should merely coin and issue the national
tree but no paper money should 6e allowed IN
except that issued directly BY the United states
debt the government should at AL times be ready to
ing The legal tenders should therefore exchange
able Tor nteconyertbe bonds bearing low interest
but sufficiently high maintain them with gold
Whenever the becomes in the surplus would
too would converted into cnrTency thus
making the supply always equal but never to exceed the
Si1@Irhe bill introduced by Senator sherman, and
,osng athrty years foreign gold debt this country We
condemn, aud demand that government look first 70 the
eope Of the United States for loans upon an lntercon
'erti6le bond bearing low of ncrestsuch bond
Scre"th-Our State Legislature should laws
os h the laws @ % h State M SSa be-
squed to pay wages weekly and mechanics and laoores
any other creditors.
DOLLAR GOLD roLLAE.
The Committee ON Resolutions had also been in
Jtruced to prepare address to the people, and f. NJ
Groves, of New Haven, read the following which, he
Said, had been adopted by the committee
To Tik vorERs OF STATE CoSNEcucUr-
who love principle party AN
and 10 effect AN organization preparatory the Presidential
IS Invited '''''' ""''" ''1' support
party organization want of time and facilities
for dhusing information and retutng misrepresentation
val doubtless prevent our polling more than onetenih OF
oots sh stke deep h'o the son ana whose Doushs shall
The American people anmously in favor of
making paper dollar worth gold dollar The question
lorant way, shall do II in careful intelligent way
fha we do II in the most difficult wayn The way desired
md the bulk whose wealth consists Of evidences ondebt
the most favorable to the interests Of the great major
The old political parties are dssolvng and two new par
ties foning their names may not change but change
other is inevitable parties only
by great principles IL impossible to maintain organi
must grappls with the vital issues Of the day perish
belief that those who orcbe resumption
ns g n d & g'ea. u Prom ,S new are are
wo parties must soon arise with clearly defined and anta
side will stand the money lenders the monopolsts
he
uded followers of those who hope by the misor-
OF others by oreeosed. by business
sa.es tie other side will stand the producers the
usiues men the laborers the mechanics and the
We have already chosen sides We wish the American
not solely in the interests OF few. We pre-
scarce the rates of interest very high The price of
aud labor very low and debtors the Of creditors
We purpose end the hard times Wild imprac
ea6e scheme OF attempting to create wealth oy Joint
outions, while laoorers kept in enforced dlencs
N
ldence IN the future gave labor emploment at fair
and supply the conditions under which INDUSTRY and
pmy will make paper dollar worth gold dollar at the
We bitterly opposed by majority of the bankers be-
cause the monetary system advocate would diminish
their profits and of their power alternately
ate contract the currency The OF foreign
present time rapidly approach
ing when they will rich harvest out OF tho necessities
and when gold will be relatively high.
on us in political resistance to The blind ignorant war
which the few have declared against the You have
and TO good financial laws respectable for
sprng will give uf power encourage our
friends other States insure the tranph OF justice in
the Presidential election.
The address was approved by tho Convention and
copies will be distributed throughout the State Tho
Committee Nominations reported that after CONSUL
taton with the Committee on Resolutions 1t had been
pgrced that 1t would be advisable nominate the can
ddatcs In open convention rather than in committee
composed OF representatives from only few towns of
the state. The committee therefore asked 10 be dis
charged, and II was 50 ordered.
THE GovARNoRsnIP.
SIR Groves said that there a gentleman IN New
Haven whose namc was well known throughout the
ktate-a gentleman of high business and social
standing; a gentleman who had frequently rep
resented his constituents in the State Legislature
and who was the democratic candidate for Lieutenant
6overnor IN 1872 on the ticket with the Hon.
Richard ID. Hubbard. lie referred to Charles
Atwatcr. (Applausc Mr.. Atwatcr had signlnod his
willingness 70 become the standard bearer OF tho
grccnOack party and Mr. Groves moved his nomination
by accamaton as the candidate for Governor. ZAP.
plausc.D
The motion was put and the voice of the Convention
unanimous Aye
W. X. Goodnough. OF Hartford, made a brief speech
eulogistc OF Francis Gillette, of Hartford, for
Lieutenant Governor, and Mr. Gillette also unani-
mOusly nominated. Mr. Gillette the arst candidate
Of the republican party Tor Governor OF Connecticut,
and 1856 he elected to the United STATES Senate
by combination of republicans and Know NOthinys.
Dr. J. T. Philips, OF New Haven nominated Lucicn
v Pnney, OF Wnstcd, for Secretary OF state aud he
was ndorsed by the Convention.
Thomas g. Beglcy, OF New Britain, nominated Loren