Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-09-26

money to everybody, 50 al would be
ich. Wouldn't II be jolly Old
Sen Butler, in all his demagogucry,
ever did 50 brazen a thinE IS to adyo-
ate fiat money,
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IN OUR article last week entitl
The Democratic Convention, we mac
i conjecture which IS fast proving
SELF true. We said the conditions ca
the sale of the Democracy to the
Greenbacker5 in the endorsement of
Barrows, were probably the endorse
ment Of Wadleigh, for Senator, by the
forthcoming grecnback convention, Or
that said convention would be silent
The last Torch gives the proceed
ings of the Grecnback convention held
on the 18th inst. We give portion
of them.
No delegates were reported from
either of the Waupaca assembly dis
tricts.
On motion, the Chair appointed a
Senatorial committee, consisting of the
following named gentlemen.
Mark H. Barnum, OF Marathon.
S. \. Sherman, of Portage
D. N. Anthony, OF Weyauwega.
S d. Oaks, Of Waepaca.
A Kickbusch then offered the fol-
lowing resolution
Whereas, one half of the district is
not represented in this convention,
therefore
Resolved chat this convention de-
cline to make nomination for the
Office of State Senator for the DIST
senatorial district.
The resolution was unanimously
adopted.
The bargain and sale is now patent.
We have no interest in the Dist dis
trict other than TO see a staunch re-
publican elected, and we hope our re-
publican grecnback friends will SO
plainly soc how they have become
chattels, as to vote understandingiy.
TIE FOLLOWING is the platform
adopted by the Republicans Of the Sth
Congressional District in convention
| n0minatinn Hon. Thad G.. Pound
First The Republicans of the
Eighth Congressional District Of Wis
consin, in convention assembled, dc
clare that they approve and endorse
the platform Of principles published
in the recent address Of the Republican
Safe Central Committee.
.Secoqd. That they hold that the
improvement of the great water high
ways is matter of national interest
and Importance that it is the duty OF
| the government to take immediate
steps to improve these rivers, and that
the means provided should be COM
mcnsurate with the Importance and
magnitude Of the undertaking.
Third. That they are opposed to
Reputation in any and every form,
and believe that public honor and pri.
vate interest alike demand that our
public debts should and must be paid
in strict accordance to the letter and
the spirit OF the contract made by the
nation with its creditors.
Fourth. That they are firmly OPP
posed to uny further contraction Of the
greenback currency. and demand the
enactment of laws that shall make the
paper issued by authority of law,
equal in value ard interconyertible
with gold and silver.
Fifth. That, recognizing the indus
try. ability, prudence, wisdom and
probity of Hon. Thad. G. Pound, and
approaching the value, of, the great
service he has rendered the Disfriot
the State and the Nation during his
term as Representative in Congress
from this District, we present him as a
candidate for Congress, and ask for
him the support of all men who favor
securing to the people an honest and
economical administration of the laws
and the passage Of measures that will
secure to all men and to all sections of
the country equal rights and equal
privileges.
IN THE next greatest speech OF