The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-07-27

maintenance De It's existence = -
ii, the southern tiersot counties In New
York the farmers are 6 set '5en green backs.
Along the line OF the Erie railroad and in
ths large towns Is Is q g Labor Reform =
uarty. while the farmers OF the outlying
AGRICULTURAL towns furnish the " Green
back, element. The Labor Reform branch
are the most numerous, and include the
strikers who raised such turmoil In that
region last summer. In fact, they are some
times called the g strikers party by their
enenies-a term of repronch which the
party, as now organized, strongly resents,
while it disavoWs any sympathy VIII the
laWless acts committed last year.
Indiana politics are lively. The Greea-
t5acker of IA and '76, while be y +! sIin LOT
war, Is less jealous than in 1876. iWe. ue'
tents have dampened his ardor. he Is VIII
ing to vote, but disinc|lned 10 spenu nls
time or money. But the National makes up
in zest what the Greenb hacker has lost. ne
Is a fresh convert, and therefore an actlve
one. Defeat has not weakened hlm. ne
sees success in every movement, ana DIS
time and some money are Freely gwen.
Already he has six congressional Candidates
in the field, and by the end ofJuiy VIII nave
at least three more.
The nomination Of Gideon j. Tucker by
the National Labor Greenback party or New
York as their candidate for Judge 81 the
Court of Appeals is gross burlesque, an
shows how utterly incapable that party Is TO
iudge OF the fitness of things. We agree
with the New York Times in the opinion
that Mr.. Tucker is q political fossil, who has
contriyed to keep his name before the pub
Tic during the last few years by his activity
in fostering the greenback movement in that
State.
On the Both OF June, 1864, one thousand
ereenback dollars were worth only 1881 in
gold, A year later one thousand greenback
dollars would fetch S704 in gold, and at the
end OF the last fiscal year they would fetch
1894 in gold. II the Sam. Caryites bad
their way they would soon put the green
back where it was in 1864, and eventually
make il utterly worthless; and that Is eX.
autly what many Of them want to do.-Cht
cago Times.
The political managers who have become
bankrupt everywhere else will surely go tc
the Greenback- Labor camp for subsistence.
The new aspirants, who want immediate
prominence and care not what they favor,
will 60 tbither if they think there is {
chance Of success. Then the movement has
the sincere support of some enthusiasts
and of great number OF well-meaniug but
il-lnformed voters Tribune.
General Grants friends are displaying
great industry in'kee2ing him in the public
mind. Letters and interviews abound in
the newspapers. One of the former, writ.
ten by a companion OF the Generals from
Amsterdam, and published in Detroit, re-
presents him as saying, in reply to remark
that when he went back TO his country he
might be candidate for President, "fi
thought that / would not go back at ALL
Not particle OF conservatism appears in
it. Its fifth proposition is so nanifestly
acrarian that we can but wonder that the
farmers present allowed it to pass. 1tsDeaks
of "the monopoly Of the soil" and urge.
the adoption of Iandlimitation laws" in 6
manner which the agriculturists, IRON
whom the greenback movement derives it:
strength, will find rather hard reading.-
Neu York Times.
What connection congressman can pro.
perly have with this question is past oui
comprehension. Whoever may receive the
nomination of this. convention will have his
name placed at the head of this paper as ou1
candidate, and will be earnestly supported
by us against any and all opponents
Mecklenburg Democrat.
St. Louis Times (Democratic): "If there
is a northern man in the South fool enough
or coward enough to be driven out by the
speech of JEFF Davis or anybody else's
speech the South may thank itself for the
radiance. 1t would only be misfortune
that he couldn't be scared clean out OF the
country"
AIRS. Weathers, OF New Albany, Ind,
whipped her daughter Alma, aged thirteen,
who thereupon tried to commit suicide by
eating up all the matches in the house and
then throwing herself into the river. Her
mother tished her out and whipped her
again.
Yes, there is something in it. II Green
hacker hires horse and returns only the
picture OF horse marked "This is horse.
John Sherman, Secretary Of the Treasury"
the stable. keeper, il also q Greenbacker,
would have to be satisfied, or else deny bis
own logic and become grasping capitalist.
LoaoeH Courier.
Delightful little name that is for reporters
and printers" Shoewaccamette "-for a
boat club. Harvard College is said to be
looking up six-story Greek name for next
season, and Sitting Bull has been engaged
by Yale to furnish ten-foot Indian title
that will make the Shoe-what-y ll-'ems
green with envy.-Boston Commercial Bull
Letin.
No man can 60 down into the dungeon
of his experience and held the torch OF
truth to all the dark chambers and hidden
cavities and not come up with shudder
and a chill as he thinks of the time when
he undertook to talk politics with the deaf
old father Of his first sweetheart while the
girl was present. Cincinnati BREAKFAST
Table.
Miss Warren, Texas girl, goes to par
ties in suit Of striped cloth such as con-
victs wear. Her brother is in prison
uniustly, she contends-and she takes this
method of advertising her belief in his in
.nocence.
Under law just passed in Brazil foreign
ers who commit offences against subjects Of
Dem Pedro are liable il found within his
domn.ons to be tried just the same as il the
offences had been committed in the Empire.
Ine uOS cnoleTa is very destructive IN
Wisconsin this year, but there are still fi-
teen candidates In the field sfor the seat in
the United States Senate which Tim Howe
is going to vacate next March. Boston
Herald (Ind.).
An English medical authority says that
the man who blows the big horn in band
rarely lives beyond period of three years.
This is about two years, eleven months, and
twenty-nine days longer than his next door
neighbor wants him TO liye.- Norristo,on
Herald.
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