The daily gazette., 1878-01-01
WHAT THE PEOPLE SAY
LETTER FROM sAM'L TOWNSEND


Mr.. q. p. .JoHNsoN:-I have been watch
Ing the signs Of the times, and the squirm-
ing Of politicians and parties. When first
commenced voting 1t was IN the height of
a monetary war. the question was whether
foreign capitalists with their American
hirellngs, should rule the United States, or
whether the American people should rule
IL. Our champion leader was the honest
great man, President andrew Jackson, ne
stormed the foreign citadel In Philadelphia,
the so-called United States Bank, and re-
moved the u, s deposits, and dispersed
the enemy. they re-organized and tried 10
make q stand under the name of tariff, 1t
was again put to flight; rallied again under
abolitiVnism gained victory, caused q
civil war and nearly ruined the country;
issued and sold bonds 10 their foreign
friends, and pledged the country TO pay
these bonds in specie, and compelled our
own people to receive paper money. The
richness OF our great country and time be-
gan to remove the obstacles out OF the
| way, and after gold and silver together and
| unitedly, from the foundation OF our gov
eminent down through the exciting times
of jackson and others, was considered
specie, and in all resolutions passed by the
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specie they meant gold and silver com
blned. 1t now appears that these foreign
bondholders and their hirelings in Con-
gress In 1873, struck out the word silver
and made foreign bonds payable In gold
| only, and when this trick Is found out and
the great democratic party again getting
| control OF the United States. There Is great
excitement over this foreign bondholders
bill granted by our Congress, and opposed
| by all true men who are IN favor of Ameri-
| can interest and the old time honored demo-
| cratic policy, by restoring silver TO the
position that our forefathers placed IL along
side OF gold with equal power and both to-
gether unitedly called specie. And now my
principal reason for writing this com mmuni-
cation, was that In my GAZETTE of Satur-
day evening. saw the names ofBayard and
| salisbury, set down In EwIng's list as
| opponents in the Senate Of this silver bill
| as Il Is called, that only restores silver
where II was In Jackson's time and all
| other times, except the last three or four
years, this report about our Senators can
not be true hope l was one OF the five
| committee from this county at the last
used the word specie as of old, meaning
gold and silver; and as Belmont the foreign
banh er In his organ, the New York World,
| says Delaware democracy are opposed to
the silver bill which makes silver as well,
| as gold mean specie. / tell Mr.. Belmont
| and his organ. IL liz a fiat lie, and that he
| cannot buy the rank and file of the Demo-
cratic voters Of Delaware, and the sooner
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Belmont, out Of the Democratic PARTY the
| better. Now every man of fair sense well
| knows Belmont ana such foreign bond
holders as him, do not care one cent for the
success Of the Democratic party, further
than to advance the bankers and bondhold-
ers' interest and they are the last and most
dangerous men TO be allowed TO control the
democratic party, and u is well to let the
democratic party of Delaware know, that
Il when at the last State convention, the eem-
mittee of fifteen on resolutions met in
room; there was three sets of resolutions
I! offered. one set, and also with them, q let
ter from Mr. Bayard, was presented by
Thomas Holcomb, Another set offered by
one of the committee from sussex; another
and the third and shortest, presented by
James Walcott, a member from Kent
IThey were all read ana discussed, the
Bayard set, presented py Holcomb, was
| voted down; also the Sussex, and the Wal
alton, and when we ca 10 into the meeting
i some question was ay,. and we were not
| shown the courtesy 10 -ke our report at
once, therefore we mad v wait a few min,
their was quite buzz when certain fellows
found the Bayard resolutions presented
by Holcomb mad been voted down. The
committee was requested 70 meet again in
and Immediately we were begged to recon-
slider and pass the Bayard resolutions, as
Mr.. Bayard was prominently before the
and IL this matter OF his resolutions was
voted down In his own State by his own
party, 1t might injure him, and as we had
no desire to injure our candidate we re-
considered with a smile and let the resou-
tions presented by Mr., Holcomb pass. But
now on the re-assembling of Congress let
| Mr.. Bayard and Mr.. Salisbury vote with q
small minority of the Democratic Senators
against putting silver back as in Jackson's
time as specie of the codntrt, and they
| will find out the Democratic voters or
Delaware will not tamely submit. Rather
than there should be any trouble In the
Desa ocratic party, let there be Democratic
mass meetings held in each county of
| the State, and the sense of the Democratic
party ascertained before said Senators
vote against the silver bill.
SAMUEL TOWNSEND.
L Tow nsaud Dec al 1877