The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1878-10-17

hackers, he thought they had taken q step toward
| Democracy, and they should vote the Democratic
ticket but if they could not 90 that far he advised
them to stick to the Greenback ticket He but con-
firmed the warning we have repeatedly given Repub-
lican Observation-Disclosures this movement is encour-
aged by Democrats to get them out of the Republi-
can ranks Every effort will be made to induce Dem
ocratic Greenbackers to vote the Democratic ticket
and to fool Republican Greenbackers into throwing
away their votes by voting the Greenback ticket.
Judge Goodin thought the Rebellion was over, and
that it time to throw the rebel issue aside and
address ourselves to live issues of the present The
Judge was loyal man, and in the course of his
speech he could not refrain from speaking of the dis
tress that the South brought upon herself by terri
BILE and causeess rebellion, and culogizing the Repub
lican party for the grand things it has accomplished
including the abolition of slavery, for which he
thanked God The most eloquent part of his speech,
was his tribute to the great party of humanity; and
in all his arguments, he failed to convince his hearers
that the mission of that grand old party is ended.
In trying to place the claims of the Democratic par
ty as q Greenback party the Republican party,
Judge Goodin showed that the Eastern Democrats
were rs much for hard money the Eastercn Repub-
licans, which spoiled his claim. He said that George
ii. Pendleton was really the author Of the Greenback
idea, and that after promulgatng this idea he
near being nominated for President by a Democratic
National Convention, and only failed because of the
twothirds rule. But he evidently forgot this claim
of the Democratic party Greenback party, when
he insisted that Tiden was elected by majority of
10000 of the popular Democratic vote. At least, he
did not mention that Tlden was the hardest of hard
money men, running upon the hardest of hard money
platform, and that this hard money man, on hard
money PLATFORM did more than Pendleton, for he
actually nominated by a Democratic National Con-
vention, under the twOthirds rule, and had lots of
votes to spare.
The speaker admitted that the Republicans of Kan
sas, in their PLATFORM had demanded the withdrawal
of the National Bank notes, and the substitution of
Government greenback currency, to be kept in snf-
cient volume TO meet the wants of the country but
he cndeavored to prove that this not the senti
ment of the party, because Governor Anthony had
recently made speech in favor of the National Banks
He thus tried to hold the party responsible for the
sentiments of individual, and that individual one
who had been rejected by the Republican Convention
of the State.
He claimed that the Democratic solid South was
solid for the Greenback emitting to state the fact
that the leading hard money advocate in the country,
to-day, is the Southern Democratic Senator, Bayard
of Delaware; and that Gordon, Hill, Lamar Butler,
and other leading Democratic Senators, are hard
money men.
He said that Hayes was carrying out Democratic
doctrine in his Southern policy but he denounced
Hayes financial policy as Republican measure.
This is very convenient mode of argument-picking
out measures Of Administration that he approves
and claiming them Democratic, while denouncing
other measures of the same Administration Repub.
lican.
Judge GoOdn had much to say about the monthly
visits of Sherman to New York, to sell bonds but he
neglected to say that by selling these bonds, which
bear per cent interest," he is taking up bonds bear
ing or per cent thus saving from to per cent.
interest on every dollar that he sells.
The Judges idea of Resumption is, that we should
let it until it ITSELF and that it will do
this by getting the balance of trade with foreign
countries in favor. But he neglected say that
the balance of trade Is in favor and amounted to
800 900 in favor in the last year. He charg
ed the enforcement of resumption upon the Republi
party; but he neglected to state that the repeal
of the Resumption act was prevented at the last
sion, by Democratic House, under the leadership of
Thomas Ewing, Democrat, merely because it did
not suit him on some minor technical point.
He charged that times were hard because the PEG
pies greenbacks being burned, in order to ac
complish resumption. But he knows better. He
knows that law passed at the last session. for
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Tbe Jraoe commended that the nerso,. r,o hor,b,
the United States bonds were entitled to no thanks,
and exhibited no patriotism but that the soldiers in
the field, who received nav in greenback.. without
grumblng, were the patriots. This latter is true
enough; but the men who furnished the money at
least showed their faith in the Government; and had
it not been for those who staid at home, and fur
nshed the money the soldiers in the field would very
soon have been starved and frozen out-as the Demo
cratic party tried to do.
When Judge Goodin showed how much the soldiers
had lost by being paid in deprecated greenbacks he
was illustrating the evils of deprecated currency
an evil that would be multiplied ten thousand fold
by the fat money scheme. 1t was q good argument
in favor of keeping greenbacks on par with gold.
The Judge claimed that the act to strengthen the
public credit, making bonds payable in gold, that
were not sold with that understanding, was not bind
ing a. the Government had not received any addi-