American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-02
THE NATIONAL PARTY.


The 6Sreenback Men Hold Il National Con
VentiOn at ToIedo-PIatfOrm of Princi
pies, etc.
The National Convention of the Greenbacl
Party was held at Toledo, o., Feb -, dele
gates from % States being present.
General Cary moved that the credentials
OF all the bodies sending authentic delegates
to the Convention, whether they be from
Norklngmen, Industrial or Sreenback or
CARNATIONS, be received by the Committee
on Credentials motion that was heartily
applauded and unanimously carried.
The following were appointed Com
mlttee on Platform:
Maine, Solon Chase; Massachusetts, f. NJ
BOyntOu; Rhode Island, b. G. Chase: Con
necticut, Alex. Troupe; New Jersey, Theo
- u. HoX1G; PennsylTania, ). Il; Mason; Mary
J. Durant; Virginia. T. Daniels; KentucIsv
Blanton Duncan; Arkansas, Chas. f Gun
ninShan; Texas, j. W. Jennings; Ohio, Sam
uel +. Cary; Indiana, .. j. Smith; Illinois, NJ
NJ. Romeroy: Missouri, b. A. Hill Kansas f.
X ltldgelys Nebraska, Allen Root; Iowa, j.
u; weaver; Wisconsin. }. NJ; Buckley; Michi-
gan, H. ~ Robinson: California, j. \. Z.
Crawford; Tennessee, H. Richmond.
A permanent organization was effected
with the following officers:
President, Judge Francis W Hughes, OF
Pennsylyania; Vice Presidents, il shryock.
of Ohio; S. Sinnett, of Iowa; NJ. W. Field, OF
Michigan; L: ID. Hoxie, of New Jersey; Alex
ander Campbell, of Illinois; B. L. d. Guffy, OF
kentucky Chas. Ii. Test, OF Indiana; ID G.
Wilmer, of Maryland; J. ID. Leach, of st. Jo-
seph, Mo. Chas Mclean of Massachusetts:
4, IL. Allis, of Wisconsin; d. J. Durant, OF the
District of Columbia; j. w. Jennings, of Tex
as }. E. Cunningham, of Arkansas; Allan
Root, OF Nebraska; Francis Gillett. of Con
necticut Thos. S. Fitch, of California f. Ber-
rus of Tennessee; SoIon Chase, of Maine
Jones, of Nevada V. s. stevens. Of PennsvI-
Yania; j. W. Dedrick, of louisiana ID. Ii
i1ttman, OF Georgia, and o. Q. Chase, of New
y ork- Secretaries: Ralph L. Hoyt, of Mich
lgan; Cr. H. Jones, of New York, and G. w.
Murphy, of Iowa.
THE PLATFORM.
The Committee on Resolutions reported
the following, which was adopted without
dissent:
We assemble in National convention and
make a declaration of our principles and in
vite all patriotic citizens to unite in an effort
to secure financial reform and industrial
The Organization shall be
known as the National Party, and under this
name we will perfect without delay National
state and local associations, to secure the
election to office of such men only as will
pledge themselves to do all in their power to
establish these principles:
l.. 1t is the exclusive function of the Gen
eral Government to coin and create money
and regulate its value; all bank issues de-
signed to circulate as money should be sup
pressed; the circulating medium, whether of
metal or paper, shall be issued by the Gov
ernment and made full legal tender for all
debts, duties and taxes i'll the Unietd states
at its stamped value.
2. There shall be no privileged class offered
itors official salaries, pensions, bonds and all
other debts and obligations, public and pri-
vate, shall be discharged in she leaal-telder
money of the United states strictly according
to the stipulations of the laws under which
they were contracted.
3. That the coinage of silver be placed on
the same footing as that of gold. -tss.
l. Congress shall provide said money ade-
1uate to the fun employment OF labor, the
equitable distribution of its products and the
requirements of business, fixing a minimum
amount per capita to the population as near
as may be, and otherwise regulating its vol
ume by wise and equitable provisions of law
so that the rate ofinterest will secure to labor
its just reward
5. 1t is inconsistent with the genius and
spirit OF popular government that any species
Of private property should be exempt from
bearing It's Just share of the public burdens !;
government bonds and money should be tax
ed precisely as other property, and Il gradu-
ated income tax should be levied for the sup
its debts.
6. The public lands are the common prop
srty OF the whole people, and should not be
sold to spectators nor granted to railroads
pr other corporations, but should be donated
TO actual settlers in limited quantities.
a. The Government should by general en-
actmentS encourage the DEVELOPMENT of our
agricultural and mineral, mechanical, man
andcOmmercial Resources, to the
end that labor may- be fully and profitably
employed; but no Inouopolies should be Ie-
s. All useless offices should be abolished;
-he most rigid economy favored in every
branch OF the public service and severe pun
shinents inflicted upon public officers who
Jetray the trusts repOsed IN them.
8. As educated labor has devised means for
multiplying production by inventions and
and as their use requires the eX-
5rcise of mind as well as body such legisla-
lion should be had that the number of hours
ot daily toll viii be reduced, giving to the
working classes more leisure for mental iuH-
pfovement and social enjoyment and saving
hem from premature decay and death.
10. The adoption of an American monetary
system as proposed herein will harmoniZe all
llHerenceS IN regard to tar1H ana Federal
.aXation; reduce and equaliZe the cost of
by land and water; distribute
3quItably the joint earnings of capital and
npor; secure to the producers of wealth the
results OF their labor and skill, muster out OF
service the vast army of idlers who under the
existing system grow rich upon the earnings
)t others, that every man and woman may
shat over grown fortunes and extreme pow
erty will be seldom found within the limits of
our republic.
II. Both National and State Governments
lIial statistics, clothed with the power of gath
7ring and publishing the same.
Il. That the contract systom of employing
labor in our prisons andreformatory institu
lions works great injustice to the mechanics
and artisans and should be prohibited.
13 The importation of servile labor into the
United States from China is a problem OF the
most serious Importance, and we recommend
egisl latiOn looking to its suppression.
Additional resolutions were adopted, de-
the Silver bill just passed in Con-
gress as a delusiOn, and Indignantly con-
lemning it as Il financial snare, and pledg
ing themselves not TO affiliate with either of
the old parties, but to organize anew in ev-
cry locality and to nominate and vote for
only men who will abandon all old party
made by the President of the Convention
upon taking the chair, and subsequently by
Hons. S. +. Cary, BlantOn Duncan, Britton
A. Hill, and others.