The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-30
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n Hon. q Saag d. VII, whp ID likely to
Ibe the nexf Democrats United States SEN
ator from 5flssonrL madesa speech ID Sc.
Houis afew day.. aeos In which no exposed
the folly Of the Greenbaekers in fine style,
We give IN extract IT shows that mfr.
lyEsr stands upon The same platform with
tTHuRNAN, PExDLEros, HEsDRfcKs, RAN.
TUCKER, JOE JOHNSTON GooDE, and all
other good and true Democrats.
Mfr. VEST said !:
But, my iellow-citizens, we ore told that
| the Democratic Is equally responsible Win
| the Republican party for these infamous
lacts of legislation. ] deny it absolutely,
junouestionably,. and emphatically. assert
here tonight, and ] have the records-tne
congressional records-and the votes OF the
Democratic party that from 1863, from
1852. when greenbacks were invented, and
lin 1863. when the national bank was putin
lexisrence. up to 1875, the Democratic party
has pcrsisteatIY, consistently, and oDstl-
nateiy opposed every single, solitary one OF
THESE INFAMOUS MEASURES.
4 From 1862 to April, 1873, the Democratic
| marty has opposed every solitary one OF
those measures OF the Republican party ;
and, without wearying you, permit me to
say that on the resumption act every soil
tary Democrat in both houses OF Congress
voted against It, and on the act to put Sill
! yer back in the Constitution where our
fathers had put it, and where 1t remained
until the Republican party demonetlzed IT.,
/ one hundred and eighteen Democrats Voted
1 In favor OF that measure and passed IL over
the veto OF Mr.. Hayes. Loud appiause.l
How long would it take Mr.. sBritton A.
Hill win his absolute money and butter
| milk party, to get 11S votes in the National
4 House OF Representatives? How long
| would il take him, when to-day he has not
got single township and not constable,
as far as heard from and is the Democratic
! party to 90 over to him or the Republican
partyY One party or the other is to give
way to Mr.. Hill, and be proposes to give to
! the country the panacea or cure for all the
financial evils that are affecting. What
remedy does Mr.. Hill proposeio the Demo-
Gratis Of Missouri What to-day is
TIE REMEDY THAT he PROPOSES
10 give us instead of the platform Of our
party and the teachings Of our leaders ?
Mr. Hill. is to-day at the head OF party
called the Labor G reenback- Reform party
OF the nation. They take up the last catch
word. and that is reform. These catch.
words are always caught up by new parties
and new leaders. We had them IN 1879, I'D
what was called the Peoples party IN Mis-
souri,. emo politicians need apply" On
no; the Peoples party OF the State! MY
honest old friend Major William Gentry
was the automaton chess-p!ayer tnat
was put on the front part OF the
underneath Bill Grosyenor and Carl Schurz,
with the wires we'll under his legs daughter
and applause1, and it was not three weeks
until every old political dead-beat, prost-
tute. and street-walker in the State was hid
under the ieans-skirts Of my friend Major
William Gentry, and bawling out, g lie.
| form!" "Reform! Laughter and APP
plause.l And to-day we hear OF the same
things in Missouri, and the cry is now upon
the Labor reenback-R Reform party OF the
State. Who gave these gentlemen the
MONOPOLY OF THE. LABOR
OF the country-that God-given blessing to
earn your bread by the sweat OF your brow
Who arc the leaders OF this par-eXceiiencc
Labor party in the United States and IN the
|
cbusetts and the last labor he is known to
have performed was when he got bill
through the House of Representatives to
nav Farragut and his fleet for the capture
OF New Orleans, and in it got clause in
serted for the benefit of two lawyers called
Proctors, and he was one of those who was
engaged in service but two or three days,
for which they got S14O.00O. Thus thls
horny-handed laborer, with his grlmy
sweat and toll, makes speeches in printing
offices and on dry-soods boxes hlied Win
blank paper, and he says, 81 am here, my
friends, in the interest OF the poor laboring:
men OF the Countrywide honest 'laborers.H
[Laughter.]
PLATFORM 49,.
| "a, This MISERABLE ABORTION
| got up by Mr.. Hill and lot Of political
dead-beats at Sedalia-talk about comparing
that with the great bill Of human rights
made with the immortal pen OF the founder
and creator Of the Democratic party, which
will go sounding through the ages until
| time shall be no more. A second DeclaI1s-
ton of independence assert that whilst
they call it Greenback platform the word
ereenback appears in it but one single,
solitary time, and that is IN The second
clause, where it says "absolute money IN
greenbacks."
:, Now, Mr.. Hill knows what greenback
means. ANY gentleman present fortunate
enough to have one can look at it and see
that it is promise to pay blythe Govern
ment OF the United States. The United
States will pay So or $40. asked Mr.. Hill
at our discussion at Columbia what he meant
by absolute money. He said he meant q
piece OF money branded "United States"
marked SIS, $40, $40, $50, 500, $500, or
81 ,OOO-no promise to pay by anybody, 10
anybody, in anything, or at any time: In
other words, it was sort OF financial per-
petual motion that runs itself up and runs
forever. [Great laughter.]
Whoever before since the foundation Oh
the world has heard OF anything having a
value unless
1T PROMISED TO PAY
something at some time to somebody. VINO
ever before Mr.. Hill invented any suct
thing? He says that they had 1t IN emma
Well, it ought to have stayed there.
To-day the people OF the Unlleo STATES
have 500, OOO, 900 of foreign trade as bal.
ance in their favor in coin. Ii Mr.. HIPS
proposition is carried out, he demands gold
he demands silver, he demands grecnbacks
and he gets this absolute money that no.
BODY on the face OF the earth ever would
take except himself; he builds 4 CONNER
cial Chinese wall around the United States
and cuts us out o! the family OF nations
What does Mr.. Lii propose to do with the
mines Of the United States? What does ht
propose to do with those bonanzas OF un
\ iathomable wealth that rear their glitterine
sides against the western skies, and have
made the people Of the United States the