Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-11-09
FORGERY.
How Greenbackers Make Party Capital.

How Greenbackers Make Party Capital.
The past few days have brought to
hight one of the most disgraceful parti-
san tricks to be found in the history Of
American politics. It grieves us to
write that it was entirely in the interest
of the Greenback party, an organization
of reform, that points to the Democratic
and Republican parties in the self-right-
eous language of the ancient Parisee:
We thank thee are are not as other
men are"
The leaders of this new party rely
largely upon their ability to excite in
the minds of the masses blind and
bitter prejudice against the National
Banks. Many honest men, who have
neither the time nor the documents to
make careful investigation for them
selves, have accepted, and acted upon
the information thus obtained. The OBJ
ject of this item is to call attention to
the last attack upon the Banks.
In the editorial columns of the New
York SIN, of Oct. 25th, the following
appears:
-[STRICTLY PRIVATE.
THE AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATION
PAT BROADWAY ROOM A.,
NEW YORK, Oct. Q, 1877.
Dear Sir:-Please insert the enclosed printed
slip as loaded matter on the editorial page of
nAD1xr Tl1l<
ceipt of this. and send marked copy of your
Yours truly,
JAMES BUELL., Secy
Comments on the slip not to exceed half a
column will be paid for, If billed at same time.
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The slip read as follows:
The prospect is. that in six months. there
will not be a greenback leader in the land.
Overtures have been made by leaders of the
abandon the greenback us n lost cause" pro-
viding he will give good official positions to
about twenty of the most blatant clamorers
for more money that Is based upon nothing.
Mr.. Buell., on the appearance of the
article, at once furnished the Associated
Press the following explicit denial
A forged circular. purporting to be signed
by me, has been extensively circulated among
the newspapers asking for the insertion of a
paid editorial on the Greenback movement.
No such circular has emanated from the Office
of the American Bankers Association. Tie
1rtole is a forgery. JAMES BUELL., Scc'y.
After getting the falsehood well start
ed, the San published the following in
it's neat issue;
"Our reporter called upon Mr.. James
Buell. President of the Importers d
Traders National Bank, yesterday, in
reference to the report that he had at
tempted to bride the influential journals
of the country to print articles in favor
of the contractionists. He said:
1.-the circular is not mine and / am trying
to find out who got it up. | can not imagine
who would go to the trouble and expense, nn-
less it might be infationists, who imagine that
the banks intend to work as a unit for specie
resumption. You can see how absurd 1t IS
when you figure up that there are thousands
of newspapers, and the carte blanche given In
the circular would involve a bill of from $50 to
$500 EACH"
But we fear the foregoing is only a
small portion of this disgraceful bust
ness. Under date of Oct. Both, Mr..
Buell. says:
"Other forged circulars are said
to have been extensively printed, ana
sent to the newspapers, especially in
the West. One of these forgeries,
uhich ,cos nerer signed By me on issued
fIiom this obice is as follows:
"It is advisable to do all in your power to
sustain such daily and prominent weekly news
papers, especially the agricultural and relig-
fous press, as will oppose the issuing of green
back paper mOney, and that you also 1CithOld
patronage or favor from all applicants who are
not willing TO oppose the Greenback Govern
ment issue of paper money. Let the Govern-
ment issue the coin, and the banks issue the
paper money of the country, for thus can we
better protect each other. So long as the
Greenback men satisfied with the intercOn-
vertible bond no harm can come to our inter-
ests. but to repeal the law creating National
Banks or to restore to circulation the Govern
ment issue of paper money, will be to provide
the people with money from other than our
own supplying, and VIII therefore seriously
affect your individual profits as banker and
lender.
'''Be sure and see your member or Congress
at once and engage HIM to support our inter-
ests, that we may control legislation. We can
depend on everything except Congress for this
administration, and IL we are viglant can con-
troll the next one. Write if you have any sug-
gestions to make, or anything of Importance to
communicate, to JAMES BUELL., Sec'y.
"'No. PAT Broadway Qsoom ~"
Now, candid reader, do you not see
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