The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-08-29
NEW JERSEY GREENBACKERS
STATE ORGANIZATION EFFECTED AND
A PLATFORM ADOPTED
No Cut and Dried" Programme Permitted
Many Things 60 he AboIished-N othinu 60
DO with the Question Of Female Suffrage.

| Inc state convention or the National
Grccnback- Labor party Of Now Jersey was held
yesterday In Clarks Opera House. Elizabeth.
or one hundred and sixty-cight delegates mp
pointed in the several counties only forty wcro
absent and their places could readily have been
! filled from tho throng OF earnest partsans pres
ent from all parts Of the State. had It been
deemed advisable to follow the established
usage OF conventions in such matters.
Tho officers Of the permanent organization
| were: President. stephen ID. Dillaye Of Mercer
| County; Vce-Presldent John q. brow OF Union
| County: Secretaries. Thomas jacob OF Hudson
| County. George W. Reid Of Cumberland County
Mr.. Dillayc, on taking the chair made an ad-
| dress that awoke his auditors to positive en-
thusiasm. lilo reviewed the history Of the in
PRODUCTION Of tho groenback, and Of tho ma
| chinations Of the nnanciers. by which thoy
succeeded In depreciating it. giving a fictitious
| value to gold and forcing the Government to
issue bonds and enable the founding OF nationa
banks Tho national bank system no de-
nounccd as monopoly moro Infamous and
| more dcrogatory to civil liberty than was ever
| known in any other Government. and" he said
we must swear to put down tho combination
of the banks"
&" Yes Yes Let us swear now 70 do IT,
shouted an excited delegate. Up men. and
swear to put down the national banks"
The delegates sprang to their feet cxclaim-
! ing, Yes. we swear to do it," and as they ut
tered their loud CALCULATIONS and waved their
right hands above their heads tho scene was
| for II few minutes quito novel and dramatic.
Then they sat down again. and the speaker
went on but in few minutes he was inter
| rupted by voice from the rear OF the audience.
| dcmnnding Would you demonetize gold p
! o., h"s sir. replied the speaker. would II
| II II mere commodity, au article OF exchange
! and sale in the market rs wheat is Tho
delegates npplauded loudly and then gave three
Gold ana silver" continued Mr.. Dlaye.
stand rs the ,tyrannieal representatives Of
| dead capital. We stand as rcsentatives Of
| living capital the bone and muscle. nerve and
| brain. and tho time OF the tyranny OF dead
affirmed. debt Of sixteen hundred millions
| Of dollars, in bonds. and II. instead Of issuing
bonds W. had issued ,greenbacks. and nothing
| hut greenbacks. and hal funded precisely what
| VIZ have paid Ms interest on those bonds, We
! would to-day have two thousand millions in the
| world. Enthusiastic and long continued ap.
| plause.l When he spoke of the ACCESSIBILITY Of
| paying OF at once the bonds. many voices
shouted together .Grecnbacks Pay them with
| greenoacks Give EN- greenpacks' and loud
| applause followed.
| On the conclusion of the Chairman's address
| Gen. Hoxscy moved that the chair appoint
committee II seven to prepare platform. This
| move had been expected by the moro radical
| delegates. They knew on Tuesday that 1t would
b. attempted and had organized their op-
| position mainly by telegraph on that day. No
| cut-and-dried business here" cried out a mum
| per II tneS We kot II n nNeu, there was not
uSh u.s. u ; our coming shlaiIned one sturdy
nlauded The Chairman snt Will his eigoatv
rr hi an sd q Gen Wnxse 2n ,ne .9e
platform which he had already all nicely writ
| enrh drlayatinu from, a ConvressInnni Iistri..t
oppointinS onn men,ber rims constitI,,ed !,
consisted ~: FIRST District. y. +. McCollest.r:
John 6. brow. Fourth District. Geo. IT. Harri-
sem Finh District, CENT. j; HoXsey; Sixth
Ja,no pr. mas ". Ipnns WA appointed Sc,
with the Committee ON Platform As that com.
| mitiee was going ont some one suggested that
5eit;r, 6ifad hen IN. JERsScapsn alares prop$T,
h XIV ~ ,,,v ISL =, ~ ~ t.cii 10.
recess was taken. after which the organization
| Of a State Executive Committee. on the basis Of
ihrec memErs from each Congressional dis
trlt' was elected - follows
r., De- rs = Nee Hester Franc" pauten.
hlit
t..r" m''net-h A. Martin Jas stanton
! ht't , a..
| tit hs'u'' -irri ; hf. AUGUST seminc uiiis' O.
.s,>'' p.ilet-D ". wilson, b. Genuas cha. "
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,I ...il y',. f,ii ~ i,,,, Xxx H. H. i i..
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Comntten Va Platform returned and repOr,el
thcfIiiowine:
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nc tnymc',f All i,Ht. tl'e i t mn, i ,i
G.,eruiacnt .ss4,J pr1t, ,ci ami received IS a.uai.
money ~.
s,r'nl-lhe immediate PAYMENT " gu bonds strictly
an., NIX w, W. i'-,i 6. n,IA,t ,..,.. ,
t..,.' oi an, hii i, t, a. .rnn',t, f''''''""H "'
| r.rtii-i ,re' hale ft. Al ~ t,, rs.ifnt,,oi act
Fifth nm,i .a'a r.ieai II tle Natonal Bin.ins at
| sNih- Immediate i.monguMuou ~ soi amt silver
SrN,nh ien"l ohcnee Zoo pay wages 30 ans iAius hat
! "Elti n,,re tt,n ,f ,ri., labor ,,t,l ,
! 81 ishor 'N'' i'' ''''' "'''' "'"
Nuu-No more imported Chinese contract or other
| sINg a,nr
iIenh- f's,' hour. ,ceal a.. work
at.i ,tri x"'' '"N""'" VI a" F'''''' '"' "N'''u
wilma protective tariff rrohnitn. the i,nnoria
uon Il all mahliactute ariiccs Of which the ran ma
icual PRODUCED ant the labor 60 Manufacture te
!shuih ~ U.s. ny 4r,les when "ed' not "
'.r,r, ,lt.T T uv , i thi,s, 10 Ill
pe t. he sacfedy Rai In tr,s for lie Iomrs of Ri,"1
can citizens The Government 20 furnish ad t. families
DESTROYS Of Sttins hcreupon m amuni sufficient 10
euhhle mem 20 cultivate an. improve Inc same. instead
private .Iccnaiors 1''''''' '''" WI '"o"'
Fourieenih-Ihc highest object Of government should
be to educate and protect mar We deprccaie and de-
noHnce all sditous ami violent measures ami apr.a