The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-07-25
THE GREENBACKERS.
THE PLATFORMS ENUNCIATED IN THE TWO
STATES OF OHIO AND NEW YORK.

THE PLATFORMS ENUSCIATED IN THE TWO
STATES OF OHIO AND NEW YORK.
SYRACUSE, n. u, July 23.-Over 700
delegates to the Greenback state conven-
ton, which met at noon, are on hand. The
convention probably will do little more
than organize to-day, and an evening SEES
sion is probable. The platform will en-
body Peter Cooper's views and be more
radical than that adopted at Toledo. The
leading features are as follows: The Green
hackers believe that the panic was pro-
duCed by war against common sense
by Secretary Sherman and gold worship.
pers; and resolved,
/. To pay the war debt according to CON
tract, in greenbacks. They to be at all
times convertible into three per cent. bonds,
and they in turn convertible into green
backs
.. Greenbacks to be taken for customs
duties.
3. Legal tender certificates to be given to
our miners for all silver bullion deposited
with the government. This would utilize
the whole silver crop in week, and render
III eiiNi Noiiih-o unnecessary
4. The government to order new issue
to the amount Sl,000000,000, the said
greenbacks to be expended in ship, canal
and river Improvements, works of first i'm
portance to the republic.
The Grcenbackers also favor the election
of president and vice president by the direct
vote Of the people, and the election of
United States senators every four years by
direct vote of the people
THE OHIO CONVENTION.
COLUMBUS, July 23.-The state conven-
ton Of the National Grcenback- Labor party
meets at the city hall at 2 o'clock this after
noon. There were $50 delegates in the city
this morning. When all arrive it is expect
ed that over 400 will be present. There
was an informal caucus of delegates already
in the city this forenoon to canvass the status
of candidates for state offices. The com
mittees will not act until all delegates arrive
this afternoon.
G. W. Leckcnby, of Cleveland, offered
the following resolutions
Resolved, That in the opinion of this
convention, secret organization is no more
necessary for the well being and progress
of our noble cause; we therefore recon-
mend open meetings, so that we give no
oitense or cause Of complaint to those who
would charge us, with secret designs caus-
ing controversy Of the wire pulling parties
whose dirty work we oppose.
The resolution was laid on the table.
Judge futile, of gainesville, Ohio,
whom it is expected will sweep James A.
Garfield out Of congress, was called on fora
speech and stated that he was once
Garfield Republican but is so no longer.
Equal rights and equal money is what he
favored strongly.
At 5:l5 p, m, the committee on resou-
tions through their chairman, Gen. S. +.
Carey, reported us follows:
THE PLATFORM.
|. We endorse and rc-atiirm the platform
adopted at Toledo.
?, The want of harmony of sentiment
on financial questions in both Republican
and Democratic parties renders it absolutely
necessary that those who demand financial
reform should abandon old organizations
and unite together in the National Green.
back Labor party to save business men
from bankruptcy, working classes from
starvation the whole country from rcvolu-
ton, and the nation from population.
.. We dcnouncc as crimes against the
people the law making greenbucks only
partial legal tender the act creating nation.
al banking, the act changing currency
bonds into coin bonds, the act of exempt
ing bonds from taxation, the act repeating
the income tax, the net demonetizing silver,
the act for issuing interest bearing bonds for
the purchase Of silver bullion to be convert.
ed into subsidiary coin, the act for the
forced resumption of specie payments, the
act for the indefinite increase ofthc national
bank circulation and enormous contraction
OF the volume of the circulating medium,
and we recognize the financial legislation
of the government, from the commence.
mcnt Of the civil war, rs arbitrary, by the
action Of the syndicate bankers and
usurers, with the simple and settled pur.
pose Of robbing the many to enrich the few.
a. To remedy and counterfeit the evils
OF. we demand that the govern.
ment shall issue full legal tender paper
money, adequate In volume tor the employ.