Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-10-13
OUT OF The TRAP!
The Greenback Candidate for
Governor Of Indiana
Withdraws from
the Canvass.
His Reasons Being that the Organ
izatiOn is Being Used Solely
as a Tender Of the
Democratic Party.
He Urges Republican Greenbackers to
Support the Republican Ticket.

Democratic Party.
He Urges Republican Greenbackers to
Support the Republican Ticket.
The following letter from Hon.
Arson Walcott, the Independent
Greenback candidate for Governor of
Indiana, was received by the State
Central Committee of the organiza-
ton, Oct. 5th:
II. Il. Olleman, Esq, Chairman
of the State Central Committee
DEAR SIR: My most recent observa-
tons have confirmed me IN the be-
lief that the sacred cause OF the peo-
pie in the work of financial reform
cannot at the coming State election
be materially advanced. Party pref
udices yet have more control over the
people than their reason, quickened,
as their reason should be, by their
great suffering. But very few men
Of any prominence in the Democrat
ic party, loud and clamorous as some
of them have been, and are in pro-
fessed zeaf for the greenback cause,
have attached themselves to the In
dependent Greenback party; but on
the contrary they are among the
most active workers in the Democrat
ic organization. The Democratic
party is as distinctly and positively,
in its national organization, hostile to
the greenbacks as permanent cur
rency as is the national Republican
organization.
Neither is friendly, and the people
are left without choice as between
the two parties on this question, and
friendliness to the greenback by the
national Democratic party is false
profession, yet this false profession
and the strength of party prejudices
are holding almost the entire masses
of those who in former times have
voted the Democratic ticket still in
that party; while, on the contrary,
many men in this State who have
hitherto been more or less prominent
in the Republican party have most
earnestly and zealously devoted them
selves to the work of building up a
new party of the people in the Gauss
of financial reform, and with these
large numbers of men of Republican
antecedents have joined the hide
pendent organization, so that the In
dependent party as now constituted,
consists mostly of men who, aside
from the financial question, have been
and are Republicans.
1t is true there are many Demo
Gratis III the Independent organiza-
tons, but the number is comparative
ly limited. Were those who profess
to be greenback men, both Demo
Gratis and Republicans, all true to
their professions, it would be the du
ty of those engaged in the green
back cause to perseyere in their noble
work; but when only division of
the Republican party can result from
our perseverance no success can
come to our cause, and defeat may
result to the Republican party, no
Republican can favorably contem-
plate such a result as a matter of pre-
meditatcd purpose. Not until the
people of both parties have suffered
sufficiently to emancipate them from
the thraldom to the old party organ
izations can the greenback cause sue
coed. The people are not yet disci
plined by their adversities. Present
success is hopeless, and therefore,
Mr.. Chairman, l tender to you, as tie
representative Of the Independent
Greenback party, the withdrawal of
my name as the candidate of that
party for the office of Governor of
Indiana.
My convictions as to the merits of
our cause remain una!tered. and my
belief is that the depressed industries
and the pauperlzed and suffering la
borers will find no relief till the evil
steps in financial legislation shall
have been retraced and the Ameri-
can system of finance shall be per-
manently adopted by the nation
But the cause belongs to the people,
and until the people are ready and
willing to move in their own behalf,
nothing can be accomplished. | hope
the day will speedily come when the
people, unintluenced by political
prejudices, and controlled by no par
ty leader, will, without reserve, unite
their irresistible powers for the adj
vancement of their mutual interests.
Republicans divide upon this issue
while the Democratic party remains
united upon the old issues.
Censurable as, in some respects,
the Republican party has been, it is
the party which preserved the Union
of the nation, and it is the party
which still has for a cardinal princi-
pie the enduring purpose Of main
tanning the perpetual union of the
States. 1t cannot be forgotten that
many OF the prominent leaders Of the
Democratic party at this time direct
ing the movements of the party were
willing, during the late war, to see
the national existence lost, and many
even were active participants in the
rebellion, and, as indicated by the
course pursued by some of them du-
ring the late civil war, it may with
truth be said that in the leadership of
the Democratic party there are as
many enemies to the government as
friends.
The Southern states--the states
that rebelled and invoked the trial of
armed conflict-are very largely
Democratic.
If the Greenback cause can gam
nothing, and if our efforts may have
the effect to turn our government
over to the doubtful friendship of
the Democratic party, many of whose
leaders yet reek with the crimes of
unrepentant treason, reason and duty
call upon greenback men to remodel
their organization and start anew,ex-
cept where existing efforts are fairly
and honestly united in by men of
both parties, and then the work
should 60 on.
The contest for Governor in this