The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1878-05-24
MISRf PRESENTATIONS.

EDITORS CoIUMBTAN.-In your issue of
May Sd, you said members of the Ma
tional party who desire to know what is go.
ing on, must depend on the COLUMBIAN for
their information, as no other paper in the
County contains it," If it is your wish to
inform your readers accurately on the sub
ject and not present them with a mere car
icachure and Misrepresentation Of the facts
you will no doubt avail yourselves of this
opportunity to correct the following mis-
statements in your las. issue
/. You say "a. @. Smith, In speach
designated the platform of the National
Greenback Labor party as "farrago of non
sense, fit only for mob" This statement
is achoily untruei The platform was adopted
unanimously, and was and is, entirely salts
factory to Mr.. Smith, and to every other
member of the convention; and neither Mr..
Smith or any one else, used any such lang
uage in reference to it. Even the Phila
de|phia Times, opposed as it is to the new
party, says that the'declaration of principles
''is one upon which the organization can
stand without blushing," and that it is a
rather sensible platform"
.. Again you say that the Platform first
adopted was "communistic document fit only
only for mob" The truth is, that there
was but one platform adopted, and it was
not adopted "at .frst," but at last, and it was
not "communistic document" and did not
contain a single "communistic," idea.
8. You procede; "True, the more con.
servative elements set up all night, after the
adoption Of the platform, TO construct some
thing else little better calculated to catch
the floating votes here and there, and on
Thursday morning the Labor resolutions
were repudiated, and the Greenback senti-
ment adopted" This sentence is, in form
and substance, in thought and word, ia let
ter aud spirit, utterly untrue" The platform
was adopted on Thursday morning, at, OF
near the close of the convention. No other
platform was adopted at any time during the
continuance of the convention. "The plat.
form" had been carefully prepared before
the convention commenced its sessions, and
was unanimously adopted, in substantially
the same form in which it was at first pre-.
pared. The so-called Labor resolutions,
prepared and presented by the Philadelphia
delegation, were at no time acceptable tC
any considerable number of the members
Of the convention were not adopted by the
convention; and were voluntarily withdrawn
by those who offered them, and the platform
previously prepared, adopted with entire
unanimity.
Permit Inc to say further, that, while the
50 called Labor resolutions" were in many
respects, very Objectionable and were at nj
time favored by the convention, it is tota
misrepresentation of their character to say
that they were ''communistic." The Phila
delpbia papers, followed by those in tn,
country, have done gross injustice to thu
Philadelphia delegation, and to their serie
of resolutions, by applying this term to them
: | challenge any man to point out "com
, munistic" idea in that entire series of reso
lutions, There ao1s no communism in the con
ventiOn or, if there was, no one gave utter
7 ance TO 1t, by resolution offered, by an
public address, or in any other manner s
t far as | saw or heard.
2 Though do not charge that your mis-
statements were intentional, / can see n
] reasonable excuse for such grave departure
from the truth in regard to this matter
e since accurate information was so easy to b
obtained. Do you not think, you woul
r even serve your own cause better, by takin
a little pains to learn, understand, and stat
the exact truth The advantage you wi
gain by misrepresenting and traducing Il;
: will be but slight and temporary the pee
pie will in time learn what the real fact
r are.
Yours Respectfully,
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