The daily gazette., 1878-09-16
Would be Rulers,
MEETING OF THE GRKENBACKERs ON
SATURDAY EvENING-ELECTIoN OF OF.
FIcERs-DR. WELSH GETS OFF HIS
STEREOTYPED SPEECH

ahoCmhS VI bllt uTbtnDaCkerS was
held on Saturday evening at the City
Hall, for the purpose of electing officers
for the County Executive Committee
and to select time and places for the
hoiulng OF the nomination election. A
majority OF the delegates that had been
elected at the Ward meetings were pres
ent, and some were conspicuous by theil
absence. The attendance was quite large
the hall being comfortably filed, but il
was easily discerned that a large majority
OF those present were not in sympathy
with the movement.
| Mr.. Price called the meeting to order
and nominated John w. Lewis as tenn
porary Chairman, and MIR. Goodwin as
temporary Secretary. Both of the noini
nations being concurred in, the object OF
the meeting was then stated to be the
election of Chairman, Secretary and
Treasurer of the County Committee.
| The chair then wished to know if there
were any delegates present from the diff.
ferent Hu ndreds and receiving no an.
Swer, the Secretary was instructed to cal
| the names of the different Wards in the
/ city, which was done, a majority OF
which answered. The following was the
| result:
| First Ward-John p. Cornell, +. ID
| Moore.
Second Wari-Francis Sceeu, B. Rog,
| ers.
Fourth Ward-C. L. Stroeple, James
Dorman.
Fifth Ward-Dr Marshall, Wm. Gard.
ner, NJ. q. White.
Sixth Ward-J. w. Lewis, j. Leary.
Eighth Ward-J. s. Bullock.
Tenth Ward-John Doyle, Jas. Coop
| or, G. Z. Hall.
A motion was made and adopted that
| committee of five be appointed on per-
manent organization.
The chair. appointed the following
named gentlemen: q. =. Hall, of the
Tenth Ward, +. Scheu, of the Second,
| Isaac Bullock, of the Eighth, q. NJ.
Combs, of the Fourth and r. M. Sheckle,
of the Ninth.
Mr., Gardner moved that the Presidents
or Vice Presidents of each Ward act in
conjunction with the committee, as he
thought that the chair had too much
power in selecting a committee. The
motion was adopted. The committee
then retired to the police waiting room,
and during their absence, the chair intro
duced to the meeting Mr.. Bean, of
Philadelphia, who spoke for about an
hour, in rambling sort of way, making
all kinds of charges against the two poit-
ioal parties, and proving none of them.
During his remarks he said, that at one
time, this country::was the asylum for the
Oppressed the land of the free, and home
of the brave, but within the last few
years it had become the home of the
favored few through narrow legislation,
and that legislation had been the means
of turning hundreds from their hemes
and making tramps of them.
He then spoke of legislation and asked
his hearers to search legislation for the
past few years, and see how many acts
hn1 hna oaI s,,N s..t.., NFt = L.,
boring classes; after searching you will
only find one act, and that is the home
stead act, but that does not amount to
anything, as a poor laboring man would
never get there without money. The
government should have passed another
act giving to the man enough money to
get there, and then let him have enough
to i've on one ye ar afterwards. He next
spoke of the money power and the banks
acting in conjunction with one another,
and advised his hearers to bind them
selves together and act likewise, ,and they
would be sure of carrying everything be-
fore them. Referring to the expectation
of goods abroad, he said we are under
selling John Bull, every where's but with
all this we are starving, owing to class
legislation.
He then read an extract from speech
delivered by Hon. b. +. Butler IN Con-
gress on May 18th last, in which he
showed how much money had been given
by the government to railroads and pri-
vate corporations. Nothing is said when
the government gave to railroad one
hundred and sixty-two millions of dollars,
but when anything is spoken of for the
benefit of the laboring classes, then the
hue and Cry is raised. He next spoke of
the dishonesty OF our representatives in
Congress, and said if they had been
honest, and not have accepted bribes we
would not have had this kind of legisla-
ton. He cautioned the members of the
party to know their man before eleciing
him to Congress, do not guess at hlm, but
know him thoroughly
He believed that the party was destined
to bring back the grand old ship of State,
from among the breakers where she had
been run, and after selecting proper Of
ficers to run her, they would steer her
safely into port. He next referred to the
corruption in Philadelphia and said that
the people there had been under ring
rule so long, that the man with the worst
character, is the one selected for office;
manufacturers bad been driven from the
city by the ring rule but the Greenback
party intended to break up that ring rule.
Why it was only few days ago that this
same ring tried to defeat the nomination
of Judge Kelley by offering large amounts
of money to delegates to vote for the
ring candidates, and then the papers
tried to cry him down. He wished to
know why the press cried down good
men? Was it because they were subsl-
dized? Referring to the election in
M aine, he said the cyclone, came waited
over Philadelphia, and you never saw
sickcr set of men than the leaders of both
the old parties. They came to the head
quarters of the Greenbackers in the Cir
ard House, and asked what would be the
effects OF the election of Maine, on Penn
sylvanla. The fight in Pennsylvania had
now narrowed down to Dill and Mason,
as the Republican candidate is entirely
counted out. The Western part OF the
State is a unit for Mason, but the party
would have hard fight in Philadelphia
owing to the rotteness that prevailed
there.
He closed by saying that the day would
come that the laws of this country would
be administered by honest men, from the
ranks of the laboriug classes.
DIR. Welsh. was next introduced, and
commenced to speak his stereotyped
speech, but before he got through, the
committee returned and reported the fol-
lowing perlnanent officers
President-Harry Brown.
Secretary-T. o. Cooper.
Treasurer-F. Scheu.
The report of the committee was adop-
| ted. and the gentlemen named were una