The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-08-29
6 Bobs, schilling's Greenback
Meeting.

The notorious Bob" Schilllng mar. !
respectable crowd for about |
two hours last Thursday evening from
the Band stand, in Court House park.
We hsYe neither the time NOR space to
review his speech, and ii had we have
not the disposition to do so. AS q
specimen of the reckless manner in
which he shot off his mouth we need
only allude to single declaration in
the beginning of his speech, in which
he asserted in substance that there is
little or no difference between the
Democratic and Republican parties on
the financial questions involved in the
contest. Now, the man who makes
such an assertion is either knave or
an idiot. Mr.. Schilling knows that
the difference between the two parties
10 a. wide % the poles, and that differ
ence is one of principle. He knows
that, from the days of Jefferson down
to the present time the Democratic
party has been opposed to comforting
upon any corporation or body Of men
other than the United States Govern
ment itself, the power to create and
control the currency with which the
business Of the people is transacted,
claiming that to furnish such curren-
cy is one of the sovereign powers con-
ferred upon the government by the
constitution. while the opponents of
the Democratic party, from the earli-
est history of the country to this hour
have been the champions of banks and
privileged corporations and in favor
of vesting in them this great and dan
gerous power. He knows that the
greenback doctrine had its origin with
the Democratic party, and that we
have not only proclaimed the faith,
but have fought the initial battle and
gained the first fruits of q glorious
victory; that we haye remOnetiEcd
silver and rehabilitated it as part of
tho current coin that we have stopped
the further contraction of the currency
and haye prevented the total destruc.
ton of the greenback. A Democratic
House of Representatives passed the
following bills: A bill to repeal the
Resumption Act bill to substitute
treasury notes for National Bank
notes bill to restore the unlimited
coinage of silver, and bill to make
greenbacks receivable for custom du.
ties. These measures are all opposed
by the Administration and large
majority of the Republican party.
That they haYe not already been en-
acted into laws and become settled
policy of the Government is not the
! fault of the Democratic party. which,
since 1860, has had control of but one
department of the Government, and
even that for but three years. Mr..
Schilling knows all this full well, and
yet he has the audacity to say there il
| no substantial difference on the finan-
cial issues between the two old par
ties. What more could he and hif
new party have accomplished with the
same limited power? And yet, il
this hour when victory is about te
perch upon our banner, when the
dawn of the day of relief begins tc
break in the east and to shed its ligh
abroad over the land, he and his fol
lowers, professed advocates of these
identical measures, imperil their tri
umph by getting up divisions among
their friends. Was there ever greater
evidence of either insanity. idiocy OF
knavery? Their action is utterly in
comprehensive.