The Morning herald., 1878-10-21
THE GREENBACKERs.

THE oREENBAcK MEETING AT SEVENTH
AND WALNUT STREETS SATURDAY
NIGHT-TALxINa IN TIE COLD.
The October blasts that whistled and
hewled, and changed the shutters around
the corners ofSeventh and Walnut streets
on Saturday night, made seventy
men shiver a. they stood for two long
hours listening to speeches from John G.
Doyle, A. 81. Weld, Esq, and Factory
Boy Miller of Philadelphia, and one half
of the seventy-nins Greenbackers, sp~
plauded whenever either Of the speakers
scored point.
Mr.. Leary called the meeting to order'
and Mr.. John M. Lewis wss made chair.
man, and he, without making any at
tempt at speech, Introduced Mr.. Doyle,
who was received with applause. Mr..
Doyle mounted the stage, and with the
torches on each side of him Haring ftfully,
commenced something after this 3 tyle:
What is the cause of all this tremen~
dous upheaval throughout the length and
breath of this fair land? f.'s
1t is because the atmosphere is rotten,
and no man breathe it without becoming
contaminated with the leperous leeches
who have made it so. Poor laboring men
have been ground to dust by the cannons
pointed at them, and the whole country
has been placed in corrupt condition bv
capitalists, and it is our mission to restore
it to its privative purity. The right of
franchise is taken away from poor men
and they cannot vote, and to-day, Gen.
Grant is over in Europe learning the ways
Of monsrcbies in order TO come bsck and
king over us. I verify believe that in
century, we will have a monarchy here.
Mr.. Doyle further spoke Of the degree of
slavery on which men were placed, and
then said that he would yield his place to
young man called the "Factory Boy" Of
Philadelphia, but who was born orator,
and all that, and should be called the
Demosthines OF America. r.
The orator of the factory. however had
stepped down tie street for a minute, and
Mr.. Doyle wss prevailed upon to 60 on,
which he did for about ten minutes, at the
end of which time Mr., A, Fl. Weld, the
ca ndidste for State Senator was introduced
Mr.. Wild said that in Delaware, the
Greenback Party had big work before 1t.
1t would have to overcome the disadvan-
tsgs of ignorance, prejudice and afilia-
tion to party rule. By line upon line and
precips upon the precipt of the good res
results could in the end be accomplished.
Neither of the two old parties have ever
done anything for the good Of the works
ing men. The great necessity Of the land
| is plenty of money, and we propose to sup-
ply that need by greenDacks. After
speaking for some time in support Of the
theory of the above proposition.
The speaker alluded 10 the passage of
,he contraction act years ago, by which
twenty-five thousand failures were caused,
which liabilities of $75O,000,00. The
debt of the country is over twenty-five
billions Of dollars, and the amount Of
money in it will never discharge that debt.
We have no hope for future relief from
either of the old parties.
Mr.. Miller, the Cicero of the loom was
the next and last speaker. He made
eommendable ofort, and it was noticed
that he frequently alluded to the way
things we're going on "in the city" (Phils
aaelphia) All his speech covered the
whole of the question, and was we'll res
ceived. -