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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-10-12

crat. Both of the old parties cry ere
form" while he considered Tilden q lit
tie the better of the two candidates, he
thought there was no material difference
in the parties. He thought the people
should drop all the old questions which
are settled and should be buried, and
take up the new. and support Cooper and
Cary.
Mr.. Rooney desire,l that the Conven-
ton should adopt o resolution. which
shall require all who accept nominations
from this convention to pledge themselves
to work for the national and congress-
ional nominees of the Greenback party.
Thereupon, on motion. the Chairman
appointed NJ. B. Slocum, W. D.. Peck
and B. T. Walker a Committee on Res
olutions.
After few moments spent in consul
tation, the Committee presented the
following resolutions, which were unan-
imously adopted:
Resolrcd, That this Convention fully endorses
the nomination of Peter Cooper for President,
and Samuel +. Cary for Vice President OF the
United States; and also the platform Of the
National Independent party.
Resolued, Also, That those who acceptl the
Mountainous OF this convention shall thereby
pledge themselves to full and hearty support
Of the Independent platform and candidates.
Mr.. Peck suggested that the conven~
ton adjourn for few days in order that
they may have time to consult with one
another, and be better prepared to nom>
mate ticket than they now are.
B. I. Walker, of Waltham. objected
to adjournment. He thought they were
as well prepared to nominate ticket
now as any time. He said both parties
had outlived their usefulness, and the
Greenback ticket would poll big vote
at least.
MI. Rooney also opposed adjourn.
ment.
The Chairman favored an adiourn-
ment as also did Mr.. Slocum and Mr..
Rhodes.
At this point "Hotch" was called up
on and made a rousing speech. He IA
vored the Convention. sympathized with
its principles, etc. Had always been
Greenback man. He said there was not
q man in q legitimate business in Austin
to-day, whose business was paying him
iarthing! II a party wanted him to
support its candidates, they must be OF
the right kind.
On motion of w. D. Peck, the Con.
vention adjourned to Tuesday next Oct
ober 10Th, at 9 p. m. at the court house,
in this city, when a ticket will be placed
in nomination.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-10-12
CARL .SCHURZ AND HIS SOPHIS-
TRIES.
TRIES

Carl made speech the other day in
which he referred as follows to lthe In
dependent plan Of SOS bond:
A bloated money~baS. to use phrase
Of our opponents. may have money, but
may not ut the time be able profitably to
use it. What does he do? He goes with
that money to the treasury OF the United
States and puts it in at the rate of 3.65 Of
one per cent. Who is it that pays in>
terest to him? 1t is the government of
the United States. What docs the gov
eminent OF the United States do with
that money? Does it proftably employ
it so it will yield revenue? Not at all.
The money remains there with the
government Of the United States, and it
lies there idle.
"Now my fellow citizens, while the
bloated money-bag. who has put that
money into the treasury, got out his 3. IS
bonds, and gets his interest day after
day. who is it that pays that interest to
the bloaied money bag? Why of course
it is the taxpayers of the country who
furnish the government with those funds
that the government cxpends. Now,
what does that meano Il means that
when a capitalists has money that he
does not know what to do with. he can
put that money into the treasury of the
United States, SO long as he cannot en-
p.oy it with profit to himself. and then
you are all invited to pay interest 10 that
bloated money>bag for the privilege of
having money lie there idle. Now ask
my fellow citizens whether that is not a
gross absurdity. A good thing ior that
bloated money bag, indeed. Laughter
and applause"
Now the fallacy and falsity of all this
is shown in the fact that the ..bloated
money bag can 60 now. to-day. to any
government depository, and invest his
money in q per Ct. gold bond currency
instead Of 3.65 bond. and not only
. drawn interest upon it but also receive
90 per cent back in bank notes and lend
them.out to the..pcople at II per cent per
snnum, thus obeaining from the poor
taxpayers, for whom Carl Is % dread
tuly concerned. nearly II per cent per
annum II currency.
No ono pretended % believe that the
monsy invested u SIS b00ds woald IL
idle = the hands ofthe g0vsEnDenk Il
: bark has . avsEagS e 91Oo, 900 H.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-10-12
BLAINE-S ATTACK ON CHARLES
FRANCIS ADAMS.

Mr.. Blaine is demagogue of the
worst kind, as was illustrated the other
day in his virulent attack upon Charles
Francis Adams.
Mr.. Adams was in the House Of Rep
resentativesi in 1861 and was member
Of the committee OF thirty-three, or one
from each state, appointed December
4th 1860, to whom was referred ''as much
Of the presidents message as refers to the
present perilous condition OF the coun-
try." or his action as q member of that
committee Mr.. Blaine says:
mir. Adams knees smote with fear,
and his tongue became palsied for any
utterance except in support Of slavery.
His whole course during the closing
session OF the 36th congress, intervening
between MIR. LiDcoln's election and his
Inauguration, was one of treason to the
cause Of liberty, and desertion from the
cause OF the nation. He offered every
humiliating concession to the south
agreed to abandon the prohibition Of
slavery in the territories, and as climax
Of degrading and dishonoring conditions
he offered to amend the constitution OF
the United States. so as to render the
abolition OF slavery impossible ss long
as single slave state should object.
The amendment 50 warmly urged by Mr..
Adams declared in effect that no amend
ment to the constitution in any way in
terfering with slavery in the states should
ever be even 80 much as proposed except
bv one OF the slave states, and should
not be adopted except with the consent
at every slave state. When, In 1888,
Arkansas applied for admission into the
union, with constitution which forever
prohibited the legislature from touching
slavery except with the consent Of the
shareholders, John Quincy Adams de-
clared such provision to be
INFAMOUS BEYOND THE POWER or Ex
PRESTON,
and vet Charles Francis Adams, in 1861 ,
offered, urged and entreated and pleaded
for an amendment to the constitution Ol
the United States, which applied to the
whole country . tar more infamous prin-
ciple than was contained in the Arkansas
constitution 10 1883. Every franchise
you enjoy under the constitution Of the
United States-your right to vote, youl
freedom Of religious opinion, your trial
by Jury. your right even to representa-
ton, were left open to change By the Or
dinary process oi smsnding the cons titu.
ton bat Mr.. Adams proposed to eivg
slavery far more sacred guarantee thar
had ever besa given 70 liberty, and 4
enshrineft = something ofsaperior rieaf
placing & be5ore the power cf ninsey.
nins hundrsdths q the people of IL
IYns6a6 Qenfaa u nh01Ssh 4 mn1e~s = a1~v1
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-10-12
ONLY HALFA CONTENTION.

As an illustration of how little the re-
cent Democratic convention, held at
Hastings, represented the Democracy OF
the district, we would call attention to
the fact that only one half of the eish-
teen counties in the District were re-
presented by delegates residing therein
and regularly elected therefrom. These
nine counties were Carver, Dakota,
Goodhue, LIE Sueur, Mcleod, Rice, Scott,
Sibley and Wabasha- The unrepresent-
ed counties were Brown, Chippewa,
Kandiyohi, Lincoln. Lyon, Nicollet and
Redwood while Renville was represent
ed by worthy gentleman who, although
elected as a delegate, resided in Dakota
county. Thus one half OF the District
made the nomination of Judge Wilder.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-10-12

Spur, vol. No. 4, published at Decatur
Illinois, G. F. Kimball, editor and man
ager. It bristles all over with good
points, and is greenback all over.
In Minnesota the greenback cause is
now advocated by the Rochester Record
and Union, The Litchfield Independent
the Elk Rirer NeaUs, and the Faridas<lt
Independent.
Come on gentlemen there is room for
more.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-10-12

had open war with the bullionists rather
than be stabbed in the back after this
fashion? Now your hands are n'anacled
and your mouths gagged
Come out and help Peter Cooper and
next year we will show these SIC, 900
Democrats something that will astonish
them.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-10-12
AGOOD ADDRESS.

Hon. James Z. Child of Waseca de-
livered at Owatonna July 9th before the
Temperance Union an address entitled
.The Use OF the Ballot in Temperance
Reform"
It was very able speech, showing
great research and power. =
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-10-12
Anti- i-M|umupolist.
lCNATIUS OONNELY Editor.
NOTICE..

Election tickets for Cooper and Cary
can be obtained at the office OF THE AETI-
MONOPOLIST.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-10-21
MIR. HAMILTON'S SPEECH.

Mr.. VIM. T. Hamilton spoke at the Dem
ocratic mass (?) meeting, at this place, on
Tuesday. The burden of his song was
that hard times were caused by the Repub-
lcan administration, and that the expenses
of the Government and particularly of the
Interior Department were enormously
heavy. Nobody but low demagogue
would undertake to attribute the depres.
mercial nations at this time, to any admin
istration. Mr.. Hamilton knows that fail
ures in business and lack of employment
for laborers are causing even more distress
in England to-day than in America, and he
knows further, that these things are caused
by over production and imprudcnt pur-
chasing, and that no governmental policy
can be either the cause or the cure for such
commercial disasters.
When Mr.. Hamilton talks of the enor-
nous expenses of the Interior Department,
does he suppose that Cecil people are so
ignorant as not to know that those in
creased expenses are wholly caused by pen
sions to over eighty thousand invalid SOL
diers and to the widows and orphans of
over a hundred thousand dead soldiers,
manned and killed by Democratic rebels ?
A year ago, Mr.. Hamilton had the good
opinion of many Cecil people, but man
who will allow himself to indulge in false
and vulgar appeals, suppressing facts. and
withholding information which he knows
would make his whole speech a tissue of
misrepresentation, will not long retain the
good opinion or even the common respect
of intelligent and decent men.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-10-21

FAILURE OF THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS
BETWEEN TAMMANY AND ANTI TAMMANY.
"A special dispatch from New York, dated
the 18th instant, to the Philadelphia Times
says:
"The efforts to unite the Tammany and
Anti-Tammapy parties in this city were
entirely ended to day by the withdrawal of
John MoIrissey from the latter and the
Anti-Tammany subsequently adopted a
resolution to confer with other organiza-
lions for coalition against Tammany-
Morrissey, in Withdrawing, accuses the
Anti-Tammany leaders of plotting to sacri-
flee anything to obtain their own nomina-
tions for important city offices. The Anti
Tammany men in return accuse Morrissey
of scheming to turn Anti Tammany entirely
over to Tammany. The Anti Tammany
resolution to unite with other organizations
means a coalition with the Republicans.
Nevertheless, Morrissey says the split will
not seriously affect the National ticket.
He says Anti Tammany cannol control over
five thousand votes. Well informed Judges
place their number ut from twelve to twenty
thousand. The negotiations being at an
end, Tammany will to morrow nominate a
straight ticket. Smith Ely, Jr., will be the
candidate for Mayor.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-10-21
THE PROCLAMATION.

The Presidents proclamation is tardy
but firm and decided response to the deli
ance of the "Ritle Clubs ~ of South Caro-
lima, which, as he truthfuly says ride up
and down, by day and night, in arms, muir
dering peaceable citizens; which combna-
tions, though forbidden by the laws of the
State, cannot be suppressed by the ordinary
course of justice.
These clubs were organized to strike
terror into the hearts of Republicans, and
they have done it. We would go to war
with the first Nation in the world, were
half dozen of our citizens abroad treated
as the bulk of the Republicans of South
Carolina have been treated the past two or
three months.
The President means business. The
United States troops will modest no peace
" riiieman or not. They will not intimi-
date single Tilden gathering. They will
not prevent colored citizens of South Caro-
lima from holding Tilden meetings, if they
are IoolS euouSu W w IL. DuC tuey Will
repress and stop these armed marauders
who are riding all over the State. and occa
sionally killing a few "niggers, by way
of example, for the purpose of preventing
the colored Republicans from exercising
their political rights. This, and this only,
will be done. One class of citizens will be
deferred from trampling upon the rights
of another class, and this simple Justice
diamonds
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-10-21
DEMOCRATIC BRAG.

In this campaign the policy of the Democ-
racy seems to be to pretend that they are
sweeping all before them in every election
that takes place. They are "making be-
lieve very hard" very much after the
fashion of shabby, genteel family, they
are determined to keep up appearances.
They have Dragged from the first about
victory just as though it were in their
grasp, and through all their disappoint-
ments, when the substance eluded them,
they have chung to the shadow. After the
election in Maine and Vermont they shout
ed themselves hoarse over imaginary
triumphs. They did not have the eff'ront
cry to claim that these States had gone
Democratic, but they pretended to believe
that their gains were SC great that they
would sweep those States in November.
On the day after the Vermont election
their organs screamed "well done, Yer
mont" The Maine election was as promptly
claimed by these ver-sanguine Democratic
watchmen, and when they found that the
shoe was upon the other foot, with APP
parent delight they showed that the Re-
publican majority in that state had gone
down to 1000. The state authorities
have published the election returns from
which it appears that the Republican
majority is 15,037. To this day we sup
pose there are humble followers of the
Democracy who believe that the Republi
cans lost in Maine and Vermont. Just as
vigorously they kept up the pretense over
the result of the Western elections. Dem
ocratic papers, in benighted regions, are
still announcing, with hysteric joy, that
Ohio has gone Democratic. They pretend
to rejoice over the result in Indiana as
though the loss of the Legislature and
five congressman and a greatly decreased
Democratic majority were something for
Democrats to rejoice over. We notice
that none of their papers even whisper
that they have lost ten Congressman in
these two States, and that few more
victories like that would be their ruin. 1t
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-10-21

is amusing. very-thr spectacle of 4
diminishing army marching along with
shouts of cheer over every loss from it's
ranks. We have no doubt hat that the
last Democrat will bawi out "v!Gtory as
he goes under. We wonder how the de-
feated Congressional candidates in these
two States enjoy this frantic rejoicing over
their eXtinguishment. Doubtless they
have some coagratulatory words FOR their
fellow Democrats when they reflect that
"victory means that they are elected to
stay at home. We believe the Democracy
have determined TO carry it out on this line,
acknowledge nothing, claim all. IT'S good
policy for a losing party; there is nothing
like keeping up ones spirits. When re-
verse comes and the Democratic sky looks
dark and gloomy, throw up your hats aud
make believe that all is going glorously.
This line of policy we believe will be kept
up by the Democratic leader until the final
overthrow of their party and the end comes
in November.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-10-21

at Washington, instead of
trct owe it to themselves to show to the
country that our representative men are not
all "nincompoops." To do this, elect
Hon. J. Morrison Harris.
THE nincompoops Of Mr.. Tilden's
Literary Bureau says the New York Times
become occasionally confused. They have
a formidable task in hand. They are en-
gagged in the manufacture of dispatches to
suit all conceivable emergencies, and in
keeping posted the Tilden organs all over
the continent. 1t is not surprising, there
fore, that they now and then send to
Northern newspaper what was intended
for use in Southern ATTITUDES, or that a
Southern editor is driven to his wits end
by the receipt of matter prepared for a
totally different market. A Wisconsin
paper has been victimized by one of these
blunders. The Waukesha Democrat re-
ceived from the bureau, and printed with
out reading, paragraph purporting to
come from Washington, which was evil
IDENTIFY intended for Georgia and Missis-
sippi. 1t is an attempt to vndicate Mr..
Tilden from the suspicion of being loyal
in his sympathies during the war, and we
need not say that the vindication is easy
and complete. The South is reminded
that Mr.. Tilden stood on the same level
with secessionist sympathizers about whose
fealty to the Confederacy no doubt has
ever been entertained, and that from the
beginning to the end of the war he was
where he placed himself in his Kent letter.
According to the Waukesha Democrat, Mr..
Tilden is mortified by the thought that he
has desired to disguise his attitude toward
the rebellion. He glored in it, we are as
sured, and that is why the South "goes
solid for him. There is a funny story
atloat as to the way in which the Tilden-
ties of Waukesba received this frank an
nouncement of their local luminary. What
the editor of the jackson (Miss.) Clarion
said when he received the paragraph pre-
pared for Waukesha, We shall probably
learn in due time.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-10-21
MARYLAND AT THE CENTENNIAL.

Maryland makes poor show at the Great
Exposition. A few enterprising firms, such
as Mccullough Iron Company and Pool Il
Hunt, of their own motion, make most
creditable exhibits; but nothing like syste.
matte effort was made to bring together
samples of Maryland productions or manu-
features. But on Thursday last, the 18th,
Chosen, we presume, because the 10Th is a
day dear to Maryland rebels, reminding
them of the valiant shooting of Massachu-
sets soldiers in BALTIMORE, our State ex-
hibited her chvalry in a grand Centennial
Tournament. A bakers dozen of young
sters, clad in toggery never seen outside of
the circus, with wooden sticks i'll their
hands, ride at three CT four iron rings sus-
pended in the air. Good exercise it may
be for boys of eight or ten years, but when
great State, one of the original thirteen,
who in her early years boasted of Carroll,
and Martin, and Pinckney, and Writ, de-
signates one day as her own in the hun
dredth year of our National existence, is
there nothing better she can show as the
result of the century than this puerile play?
Is this the best development Of our hun
dred years of labor aid endurance that we
exhibit it before the eyes of the world !?
What a comment upon our hardy republi-
canism, that after a hundred years of sepa-
ration from and protest against the idle,
useless employments Of the habltues Of
Courts we 90 back to Il weak, pueiile
aping of the knighthood of bygoue CEN
turtles, like boys playing with wooden guns.
And just this and nothing higher is the
outgrowth of Southern chivalry All hon
est labor which soils the clothes or hardens
the dainty hands is mental employment,
and for which there must he mental class.
For all who do not adopt this mental labor
there must he employment which becomes
a chivalrous gentleman, and the racing of
horses and fighting of cock chickens, which
were adopted in an earlier and ruder period,
now give way to heraldry and knighthood.
The sublimated coxcomb who FITS in the
gubernatorlal chair at Annapolis must make
even the me-honored seal of the State
conform to his chvalrous conceitS. The
eagle, emblem of American freedom, must
give way to the count paatines coronet,
and " argent and gules, d" cross bottony,"
ducal coronet and other heradic nonsense
The truth is, these people have no SIM
pathy with democratic institutions. Their
longing is for princely titles and courtly
pursuits. Plain, honest hard work is not
to their liking, and they go capering about,
dressed like clowns, subjects of deIision
for all earnest mon
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-10-21
Carl SchurZ on the Situation.

The speech Of Hon. Carl Schurz to his
German fellow citizens in New York, on
Saturday last, was one of the strongest
of the many strong arguments of the pres
ent campaign. He gave a seathing review
of the Inconsistencies of Democracy, sum-
ming up as follows:
| pray you, business men of New York,
mark what | now tell You: for i'll the event
of Democratic victory, continued iluctu-
atoms, new complications, new disturb
auces of confidence, new stagnation of bus
mess, further postponement of better
times to an uncomfortable distance of time,
will inevitably follow. That. my fellow
citizens, is the inevitable consequence OF
Democratic victory, and of a tluctuatng
financial policy which is inseparabe from
it. Whoever does not wish to prevent this
the man in whose estimation hard times
have not lasted long enough-let him labor
as he may for the Democratic party: but
he should do it with the consciousness that
every word spoken for the Democratic
party contributes to the revival Of the soft
money party IN the South, to the destruc-
ton of the victories achieved last year, and
to the continuance of the financial evils
groaned for so many years.
He discussed political corruption in both
parties at length, especially denouncng the
spois system born of Democracy, and
hoped to be perpetuated by that party.
Comparing the letters of the two candi-
dates, upon this matter of civil service,
Mr.. Schurz atfirms that, in his opinion,
/" no public man ever brought forward a
civil service reform programme which was
so full and clear, in all its provisions, as
that which we find in this letter of Mr..
Hayes. 1t omits nothing, has no vague
ness, and has no back door by which to
escape" We have only room to quote the
the great orators closing words:
| know what | say, and say it with the
fullest conviction, that the interests of i'm
migrants would he safer in no ones hands
than in those of Hayes. Show once more
to Americans that the Germans understand
the great interests of the nation as well as
they, and that they will never suffer them
selves to be diverted from the right path
by demagogues. Independents, reflect what
responsibility would rest upon your Shout.
ders if you should help to bring about a
Democratic victory, and if by this means
the people should for many years to come
sigh under the heavy yoke of Democratic
power, pointing at You with the word
" You have done it." | appeal to you,
Germans, to assist in the victory of Ruther-
ford b. Hayes. and in honor to the German
name suffer yourselves not TO be defrauGed
of your share in the glory of that victory
Citizens of New York, you know that in
your own State the contest must be decided:
do you know your responsibility? Devote
the few remaining weeks before election to
the public welfare, that on November It'll
the brave people of New York may clasp
hands with the brave people of Ohio on the
platform of honest money and reform,
good government, and Rutherford b. Hayes
and William A. Wheeler.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-10-21

HAYES and Wheeler represent credit,
confidence, and stability; Tilden and Hen
bricks represent change, experiment, and
revolution The people must decide be-
tween the two.