The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-07-09
THE aHEENBAcK LABoRERs.
The Sedalia Platform Ratified in
st. Louis.

The Sedslia Platform Ratified in
st. Louis.
81 Louis Republican, sofia
The National Greenback Labor party
had a meeting last night at Lucas market
for tine ratification Of the platform and NOM
nations at Sedslia on the 18Th inst.
The meeting MAS respectable 80 tar A.
Numbers were -concerned-ten or Twelve
hundred ,sr-ons being in attendance NJ one
time.
Fire rockets we're sent up and cannon
fired. A stand was erected. garlanted all
around with Chinese lanterns and iran-par-
ehces.
Some Of the inscriptions on the latter
were the following:
.Sbo.makers make good congressman"
"Keduce the salary Of mayor; better pay
for poIicemen or fremen.
"Wnrkinymen, dem and your rights, and
have them"
Cole, Metcalfe. l,tner-Who are they =
"No interest, no bonds"
bonds that would employ 5000 men. Down
with interest"
During the evening small PROFESSIONS
from the different wards with bands OF
music, banners, transpareacieS AMI torches,
arrived and .welled the crowd to some ex-
tent.
A young man, Mr.. Ri,chey, presided,
who, after suspension "f the rockets and
mu.ic. invited the crowd to take the "side
with the " nd in order 10 hear the speak
ing.
lie REQUIRED 10 the object Of the meeting,
the ratitica. ion Of the ireenback Labor
nominations, and mod.s,ly claimed thai the
party would have twice As many votes AZ
both Democrats and Republicans.
He introduced the next speaker, Mr.
Wes,brook, delegate 10 the seda!ia con
ven.ion, who gave an account OF that as
semblage.
AT this point there Was some interruption
and confusion; some inquiring who 1t was
that was presiding. The speaker silenced
the interruption by expressing hope that
the meeting would conduct itself as orderly
n the Labor party did a, Seda!ia, and
thereby show they were ~; cn;-throa's and
rowdies. They met at Se'ialia large
element al Changers and mechanics. They
were not revolu,ioniSts or communists
They were the Conservative element. The
farmers were the Radical element. They
pledged ifeveryihing else failed they woald
stand b. them with their muskets. As re-
garded himself the speaker had never been
4 reyolutionlst. lie had been painter
and had felt the stinss OF poverty, IA I'd gone
home to his family when they had not a
mouthful to eat Therefore he could APP
urec,aie the distresses Of the laborer. The
Wurkingmen md Changers and 'ireenbacS
ers had Met and chri-tened the National
Greenback party. which w"n!d sweep the
Canary from Maine Ia the Pacific. They
intended TO get their rights through the
ballot box, and if in the minority they
would submit, but il in the IN j .rity they
did not intend 10 be defrauied by any elec-
floral commission. lie advised tie audi
encs l., go nome aud read tine platform AMI
compare With The D..nacra,ic AMI Rernb-
licsn platform, which newspaper Saia
we're alike. lie aavarte.! To- the distress oil
the time., when the barns "f the farmer
were filled, the stores were Overlooking WIN
goods, while the streets were crowded with
starving work ingmen aud the fan:t was laid
10 corporations. m allegation which The
speaker ri,iicnied,
The next speaker put forward WAS Mr.
Christian Raub. An employee on the NJ"
custom house and whose name will be f"''nf
in the United States statutes At large, a
the head Of tue corporations named tn tn
charter for the ST. Louis bridge as original.
passed by congress.
Mr.. Rub, with his German accent an
an. points. caused considerable amusement
He thou xht our fathers made mistake II
following the English system, making III
government sovereign over the pe"pi'
while the people should he sovereign owe
the government, and denounced Jackson {"
his claim that "to the victors belong th
bmoty." The negroes mad been made Ire
hut, he asked, where are We?
Mr.. Hill WAS called for, and taking III
stand sliscoursed for half an honr on abs
lutte money and the greenback system.
Mr.. Mcbride was called for, but thar gel
tleman not appearing the chairman declare
the meeting adjourned.