Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-09-26

that placed upon our people by less
than years of internal war. After
going over the history of the last Is
years, in discussion of the results of
the war, he said that Tilden was
elected before the close of the polls
on the 7th of November last, by a
majority Of a million of ring streak
ed and speckled votes, and by a clear
majority of a quarter million white
votes. But Tilden was swindled out
of the office and Hayes was q fraud
ulent President. He was glad, how
ever that Hayes and Stanley Mat
thews had sold out the republican
party and were now carrying out the
principles for which the democratic
party had fought for IL years past,
and which Tilden would have accom-
plishcd had the republicans not beat
them at the game of tot.
He Expressed himself positively
and uncquivocally in favor of hard
money. The republicans were the
only repudiationists-they had by leg
islation compelled the people to take
one-third the value of their property
by statutory enactment, the legal
tender act, and it lily become the Re-
publicans to sneer and denounce the
citizens of Georgia or Mississippi, for
trying to rid themselves of a fraudu-
lent debt saddlcd on an oppressed
people by carpct-baggers, or to sneer
at Greenbackers as repudiationists.
The republican Supreme Court of the
United States had decided that the
law creating Greenbacks was consti-
tutional as war measure. He said
the only possible way to initiate the
currency was to 60 to war again, as
even the Republican Supreme Court
had decided that there should be a
limit to fluctuating and irrcdeema-
BILE currency, and they seemed to
stick to 1t. He dwelt largely on the
purchasing power of a dollar. IRE
decmable grecnbacks did not serve
the capitalists as they did the labor
or. The capitalist could loan his
money on mortgages to farmers and
finally get back GO per cent. more
money than he loaned them in pur-
chasing power. He condemned the
original issue of Greenbacks -
thought it would have been better to
have issued bonds at rs per cent dis
count bearing Z $40 per cent. interest
than to issue greenbacks, which were
only at times worth 35 cents on the
dollar. To the greenback party there
to-day lies between it and eternal
death only 3 per cent, very narrow
plank indeed to cling to, and he
thought there only was one way oul
and that was the old Jacksonian finan.
cial plan which the Democracy
inaugnrated. He particularly de-
nounced the resumption act be.
cause he said gold rose 6 per cent.
within ten days after its passage, and
finally had gone up from per cent.
(what it was worth before this act
passed) to Is per cent, and therefore
it cheated the laboring man out of jus,
that much money, and per conse
quence shortened their supply O
bread and meat.
| Senator Allison, who voted for thi
infamous act, and who knew every
thing, was clambering onto every
stump in Northern Iowa, and nov
declares that he is ready to vote fol
the repeal of the resumption act. TIL,
democratic party were not response
BILE for the present business paralysi
because they had been in such hope
less minority in the State, that figura
lively speaking, you could cover j
with hat. lie said that at presen
there were lots of greenback mer
who did not intend to vote for him
he did not ask them to. He only
wanted men to vote for him who die
so from principle. The tramps o
this country were all due to the NAL
administration of the Republican par
ty.
He referred to the statement circu
lated by the State Register and Hdqck
Eye, (Which were conducted by lin.
cal descendants of Annanias and
Saphira) that in the Autobiography
convention in 1878 he said that the
democratic party was dead, damned,
and ought to be buried" He said no
such thing. What he did say was
that "the democratic party was in
solvent and ought to 60 through
bankruptcy, and if it got through all
right, resume business again." 1t had
resumed business lately in California,
and had done good stroke Of bust
ness in Maine also. There were some
people, however, who had yet to go
through that process evidently al
luding to Sam and Daddy and it
was hoped they, too, might be able to
resume.
He again alluded to the tramp
question, and said tho Republicans
had created a tramp mill, out of
which they had ground two millions
Of vagabonds, clothed in rags, who
were going to back-doors demanding
bread or blood, and when the demcc-
racy should get into power they
would reverse the crank, and, instead
of grinding them down, they would
commence at the bottom and run
them up through this mill back to
peace and plenty. Hayes was kick
ing the political machine to pieces,
and he liked that.
lie then alluded to Senator Wright
who, he said, had stated that green
backs were good enough for him, and
that If Government would only give
him a piece of paper with the words
'sTHIs is A DOLLAR" printed on it, it
was good enough. This he illustrat.
cd by story, saying why not take q
cow-skin, tie knot in it and call it a
dollar, q piece of calf skin and call it
q half dollar, a piece Of sheep skin
and call it quarter, and for small |
change skin the Senator and use his
hide. For his part he was emphati-
cally for the "dollar Of his adde's
the old Jacksonian standard, good
everywhere.
He announced himself as cmphati-
cally opposed to Prohibition that
didn't prohibit in single county in
Iowa. He was in favor Of a license
law, and If LIQUOR sellers sold to mi