The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-06-21


the destruction or greenbacks, is
still going on; the expansion of the
bonded debt through the thIeving
syndicate still continues; taxation,
direct and indirect is increasing
bankruptcies are multiplying; the
working classes are rapidly grow
ing poorer, and the idle rich are
growing richer; the Republican
party has shaped financial legista-
ton for sixteen years, and is to be
held responsible for the result II
remains, in view of the ruin it has
wrought, wholly Indifferent to the
distress of the country, and has pro-
posed no measure for relief. A
reckless strife for Office prevails.
Congress is absorbed in jobbery and
incipient revolutionary schemes,
without an apparent thought or
care for the sore distress eff the peo-
pie. The present, as well as the
preceding administration, repre-
sents the interests of foreign CAPT
talists, instead of the people, to
whom it is responsible, and whose
interests it is bound by oath and
honor to serve. The Republic
revolution and ruin.
If the nation is to be saved it
must be by the patriotic 1abors OF
the National Greenback and Labor
party, and by its rapid advance to
the control of the Government.
Such q work as lies before us ought
to inspire every patriot to the most
unselfish and energetic efforts.
Your committee proposes to dc
it's full duty, and expects that every
National Greenback and Labor man
in the State to do his duty in the
pending campaign, to the end that
the State ticket nominated al
Springfield may be triumphantly
elected, and the party, in the State
and Nation, established in power
the conspirators st the head of af.
fairs deposed; the nation restored
to prosperity, and the Republic
saved from the impending dangers
which so seriously threaten Its in
tegrity.
There is everything to encourage
us in this State. The people have
been thoroughly aroused to the con
dition of affairs. The Democratic
party has been compelled to coun
terfeit our platform and principles
It is divided hopelessly-one enc
hard money, the other greenbacks-
with an impossible gulf between thu
! irreconcillable divisions of the par
ty. The Republicans are substan
TALLY in the same fix. They will b.
compelled as at their last State con
vention, to counterfeit our platform
Dut the counterfeit will not pass 70
the genuine coin, as it did then
They are likely to be forced t.
adept our candidates as well as GU
principles, or suffer defeat. Tn
leaders begin to tremble and to cas-
about for some shift by which sue
cess may be snatched from impend
ing disaster.
In this condition of political par
ties, the course of every wise ma
is clear, namely, join our party ant
help the cause that deserves success
Stand upon the genuine and not up
on the counterfeit platform. Re
member that Democratic and Re
publican pretensions to Greenbacl
and Labor principles are inslncer
and hypocritical. Their platform
in all the Eastern States are sincere
ly hard money and untsxed interes
bonds; in the West, insincerel
greenbacks and payment of bonds
Every honest man will scorn sue
insincerity, and act with the Green
back and labor party, which is sin
cere, and which deserves success
and, appealing to the people wit
rectitude and confidence, wi
achieve success
A. J. GROVER,
Chairman of the Executive Commit
tee of the National Greenback an
Labor party of Illinois.