Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-05-16
THE GREENBACKERS.
They all Came to Plymouth Saturday
to Hear Brick POmerOy.

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For two or three weeks, posters
have been strung up in conspicuous
places throughout the county, an
nouncing that NJ. NJ. Pomeroy would
deliver a speech on Money" at Plym-
outh, Saturday, May 18th. The day
came, cool but pleasant. The crowd
in town was about equal in number
to the one usually here on pleasant
Saturday. Pomeroy arrived on the
IL a. m. train from Chicago. Was
met at the depot by John S. Bender,
N. S. Woodward, the Plymouth Cor
net Band, Michael Downey, the Amer
lean fiag-an emblem Brick" didn't
have much respect for some twelve
or fifteen years back-and about
forty men and boys. Not a cheer
was given as he alighted from the
cars-in fact, the only remark our re-
porter heard was from a gentleman,
who. remembering Pomeroy's speech
here in 1864, said: There's the id
secessionist." Brick was immediate
ly escorted to the Parker House.
where he was served dinner, and also,
we suppose. receipted for the forty
dollars given him by the "poor and
oppressed" for his hour and half
harangue.
The speaking was at the Opera
House. The room was well filed
about five hundred men and half a
dozen ladies being present. On the
platform sat the m m reporter, John
s. Bender, N. s. Woodward, J. S.
Reeve, Doc Smith, John Hoham,
Michael W. Downey, John Kelly, =
Mosher, Archibald Caldwell. Robt.
Neil, Rufus Hawley, G. W. Oles, and
several others, whose names we did
not learn. 1t matters not, however,
for we do not think any OF the rest
banker after our giving to the world
that they sat on the platform and lis
tened to speech from the greatest
bankrupt = morally, socially and
financially-in America. The meet.
ing was called to order and the speak
er introduced by Mr.. Bender as the
"Hon. (honorablel pretty good NJ. NJ.
Pomeroy, otherwise known by his en-
emies as Brick Pomeroy." THAT
last Is one better, for it is we'll
known fact that Pomeroy delights in
that appelation, and got it up himself
to suit his own egotistical fancy.)
The speech was smooth and well-de-
livered, and the audience attentive.
He commenced by telling OF the early
settlement of America and the first
money used. Told how an irredeem-
able paper currency was issued dur
ing the Revolutionary war. but for
got to state that a bushel basketful
would scarcely buy a loaf OF bread.
He produced long list of statistics
which showed the Government had
made from foreign countries over one
hundred loans in the first 100 years
OF its existence, and that at the open
ing Of the war our country was in
debt some s69.O0OOO0. He didn't tell
how to carry on a Government with
out money. nor did he explain that IL
the party he was then laboring for
had kept their fingers out OF the
treasury, that the debt would have
been smaller. Said he was educated
as Democrat, admitted that he had
been very wicked in times past, and
had paid little attention to national
finances until the Sheriff sold him
out in New York a few years since.
The greater portion of his speech
was about "I,"-what 1 would have
done, what did do and what I am
going to do, &c. The reasons he
gave for leaving the Democratic par
ty was because 1t was controlled by
bloated bond-holders and bankers;
that Sammy Tilden packed the ST.
Louis Convention, rolled out a larger
"barl" than any other candidate, and
got the nomination. He claimed Au-
gust Belmont, in his Wall street Of
flee, was the head OF the Democracy;
that when August winked, the voters
who composed the tail wiggled, and
until 1876. he wiggled with the rest.
He got off several very interesting
political stories, which history itself
denies, and which none out an idiot
or Greenbacker would believe.
Wound up with a grand plea for
the greenbacks, C"Brick" has many
creditors who would be very much
pleased IL he had liberal supply Of
greenbacks and would use them to
their advantage,) and Greenback
clubs, and left for his Chicago home
on the 4 p. m. train.
Everything conducive to the bet
ter condition or the baby Is sure to