The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1876-07-29
To the Legal Voters Of the State Of
Illinois.

HAD QUARTERS
INDEPENDENT STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE,
l27 Clark st, Rooms II and Is.
CnlCAao July lst 1875

Of popular sentiment that must inevitably make itself
felt At the approaching election in the utilizing Of the
greenback or Independent element
| ON the one hand the Republican parry it, ad
herence to the miserable dogma Of forcible specie re-
SUMPTION declares that people United States
shall continue to be ubsersient TO the money power
that business shall continue he depressed that the
bOndholder shall continue lord il ploW hold
er the nefahly rotten system Of national banking
snail continue with it, burden Of hundred millions
q dollar q TAXATION upon the industries Of the
/ Try, while the people Iec~i,- ne recprccal henent
whatever that legislation whether be NATIONAL state
municipal shall continue "a t,r directed the inter
est IL capital And the humiliation lAl.or that the
sX thousand millions q SulAr> ~hlch the y-Ssle have
paid into the national treasury the lat yeArs
taxes, shall he followed By another Thousand mil
lions only to be diverted A. that from legitimate
purpose and the nAti'nAi dets >i resaAanx uBimia-
shed that the intelligence. q the loye shall
I" he insuIte By the pA@bs Alsuri,s q rrtarn To
a specie payment. ~hen u . knvSn that nelther By
legislation ans human devise cAn such a coasuInnlA
ton 10 effected. at least seBeratio ga short
that the corruption ~h,h las be-n the at-suBdins
characteristic Il the Republican F~r1y durns the IAs
decade shall continue iuAsuch As the cty unmistAk
able plank rs platform tie declaration that is
| power must w perpetuAt-d
on the other hand the pemo,rAtic party IN il plat
form sticks hard With it, prototype declaring for the
same homogeneous, inconsistent and imp enforce
mert ot resumption BY legislation sitting With the
aid Of the money power any and every attempt the
friends Of the peoples none, he heart in It's con
yentou, snd to al IN nominating for the high
Office II President Of the United States man whose
I record is rocking with political infAmy man in
whose entire public there found solitary
redoundns the welfare of the ind lstrial classes
man whose connection with the Tweed ring with rail
road johhing and election frauds has been % recent.
that his espousa q political movement Tor reform
/ be5omes little less than fArcicS
1t beheoye> therefore, IN view a thus situation Of
our Poticalanar, To the work u anchor
atng the appalling condition Of the people We have
slready manifested strength in this state at time
when the people we're comparatively indifferent upon
\ the subject Il the currency We then succeeded lr
youd oar most sanguine expectations What cannot
We accomplish nov, when VERY famer every lAborer
every mechanic, eysry manufacturer and indeed every
citizen sho hi, bread b, he sweat q his brow
feels the heavy hand Of noneyed oppression bearing
him down o. want. renury. aye, 10 starvation What
cannot accomplish nov, when We realize the As
tound ng fact that with the other gigantic evils brought
upon Us BY that Congressional infAmy the Resumption
Act han thirteen thousand bAnkrupts with liza
btes amounting than eleven hundred mil.
hons u dollars have sought peace with their creditors
And what canno' accomplish when with one accord
We shall appeal 10 thst arbitrator Il all political cues
tons the ballot box, and then express our determine
on that neither by party Vaccinations Ight By the
Shyloeks q Wal street, ~ the cAjoing % political
leaders ~ he swerVed from the prosecution o
this cAmpAigu In tehAlt q the people and against
| financial siiiAiny
We have perfected organizations in nearly every
county Ia the State. and IN many counties there are
GreenbAcL clubs in every tO~nship The sentiment is
broadcast, and all ersA ing that from the specie re
SUMPTION dogma proceeds all ~ financial distress.
Let 10 IL that this sentiment shall be mAtured
educated and expanded until every town, village and
hamlet shall be imhued with its spirit and impressed
with its vital Importance
Upwards q seventy newspaper the State have al
ready hoiste the hammer ia favor ~ the people, sney
and are doing noble work for the ,ause In Indiana
| Ohio Minnesota, Wisconsin, lowe, Missouri and Kan
sas, the good work going and the cause lie daily
gazing ground In each II these great States, whose
people are Intelligent enough appreciate the source
Of their distress there formidable organizations
and it is By improbable that by the frst Tues
day Of November next, there will he army Of de-
termned soldiers u take up in the great
70 The hearts OF the political
| dris who are drawing the peoples lfe-blood.
1 Voters Of Illinois We eonjure you 10 consider this
great question: and yourselves If remedy I,r this
intense financial distress, and Impeachment not
be found lnd administered Ask yourselves whether
you contentedly affiliate with either Of the Rreat
political parties q the country after they have sacrificed
you and your interests to the Moloch Of the money
power Think of these things carefully seriously and
with view Of conducting your future political course
as will tend 70 the welfare 81 yourself and Of the whole
people and the result will he overwhelming victory
for TIKI PEoPLE's MONEY
The Independent Greenbaek National Convention
which met al Indianapol. on the 18th Of May pre-
| scented the name Of Peter coO , Of New York. o. the
candidate Of the party for the President Of the
United States and Newton N Booth q California for
that Of Vice President
OF Mfr Cooper II Is scarcely Necessary 10 sAy any
thing by way II euoy 10 portion o. the American
people. They have ever know him a. a lArxe-heArted
phlAnthropst, whose purse-strings were always I'M
loosed At tie -s % struggling poverty whose aid in
the cause Of advancing science has never been with
held whose benencence has reared die grandest moi
uinent 10 the q education and human progress
the world has whose DISTINGUISHED eener
ity enabled Morse t. pat in successful operation the
magnetic telegraph that grandest and greatest triumph
Of genius. and the wonder n all civilization whose
character and a citizen during long public
career has been without blemish and who. though
many years the senior ~ Democratic candidate
the same Office is younger IN all the attributes
sary successful and satisfactory administration Of
that exalted station. His remarkable calculation Of
the currency question: and his Admontory appeals
the people calling their 70 dangers which
threatened the republic from financial legislation,
served to bring him prominently before the public a.
man whose counsel is invaluable and whose assistance
in thus our extremity is indispensable History Affords
many instances when the time and the occasion have
demanded the services Of men who have attained .
ripper aye than has Mr. Cooper, and he like them, will
20 where duty calls and like them retire from public
service with consciousness that he has done nAuRht
| TO sacrifice the public esteem.
A At accompaniment the nomination d Mr. Cooper
| was the nomination Of
| Hos. LEWIS STEWARD,
Of Kendall county, for the once Of Governor Of Illinois
In all the places Of the dspt nsAton Of public and p
vAte charities there is singular similarity the
reer Of these two men. Mr. Steward like Mr. Cooper
has given largely Of his abundant 70 every public
undertaking. only in the vicinity d his home but
in distant portions Of the State. No deserving young
has appealed in vain 10 Lew Steward for the
means TO enable him get a In life. Though not
a member Of any religious denomination, his morey
has been donated without stint TO the erection and
mAintanee Of more than forty different houses o.
ship in the State. He Ia the soul Of honor, upright
dealing and positive irAnkness In all hs businsm
lAtioas he Do integrity itself
With Lewis steward Cor Governor Of Illinois, thu
people will stand in drsad Of psculakion from con-
tgent funds Of the prostitution q his once to the
accomplishment Of selfish Or political ends. Every
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