The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-07-18
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strate the sweeping revolution in the
public opinion of the country, effected
by the Greenbackers, than the sum-
mersault turned by Senator Thurman
of Ohio. His past record is thus re-
ferred to by The New Haren, (Con.)
Union:
In the great struggle of the past
nine years between the advocates and
opponents of contraction in Congress
it was in Mr.. Thurman's power to do
much to checkmate the schemes of the
money power in the Senate. and to
arouse popular sentiment in his
party against forced resumption of
sufficient force to have overwhelmed
the Tildens, EatOns, Kermans, Bar
nuns, BayardS, and all that crowd of
Eastern Democratic wOrshippers at
the shrine of Wall street. Mr.. Thur
man failed to do this. On the con-
trary he allied himself with the
enemies of the people and was lavishly
praised by the monopoly sheets for
his betrayal of the interests of his
constituents. He cannot point to one
vote of his in his whole Senatorial
career, where he recorded it against
the measures of the coin assumptions
lists. The whole burden of his song
has heen that we must return to the
specie standard and get rid of an
''irredeemable currency. When his
uncle, the venerable and noble Will
liam Allen. ran for Governor of Ohio
in 1875, Thurman refused to canvass
the State in his behalf, without pro-
test allowed his henchmen to actively
engage in furthering the Eastern
Democratic plot to defeat Allen for
f9ar he would become the Democratic
candidate for President on green
back and antibank platform. The
whole course of Thurman during
this eventful period was disgraceful
in the extreme, and while it won for
him the praise Of the subsidized
organs of Sam Tilden it brought
down upon his head the condemnation
of the antimonopoly press Of the
country.
And now this man Thurman, who
hopes to become the Democratic
standard bearer in 1880, has the
audacity to claim that he has been a
consistent advocate of currency re-
form for the past nine years. He
indorses the aggressive greenback
platform adopted by his party the
other day at Columbus, and will take
the stump to expatiate on the sound
ness of its timber. He sees that
there is no living hope in the future
for public man who clings to the
skirts of the money pewer, and aban.
dons in moment the convictions Of
a life time.
The other day Thurman was inter-
viewed by the Cincinnati Enquirer
with the following result:
The doctrinal part of the plat
FORM he said. sis substantially the
same as the platform of last year.
l have never seen a Democrat in Ohio
who found fault with that platform.
and don't think that any fault will
found with this. / don't see why you
ask for my opinions. for they are well
enough known by every one who has
paid attention to my speeches and
votes. For instance ! spoke and
voted against the resumption at
when it passed the Senate. / have
repeatedly spoken against it since.
upon the stump and in the Senate;
and only about one month ago / voted
in the Senate to repeal it, : !:
Then as to the silver question p.
LAS to the silver question, every
one knows that have been the advo-
cate of unlimited silver coinage. and
no one worked harder to bring about
the reconciliation of silver than
did. As to contraction of the cur
rency, l have steadily opposed it
during my term of service in the
Seaate. now over nine years. As to
the gradual substitution of fgreenbacks
for national bank notes, / believe that
/ wrote the first resolution that ever
passed a Democratic State Convention
in Ohio favoring that substitution,
and If am not mistaken Mr.. Woolley
80 stated in q card published in a
Cincinnati paper soon after the ad-
jOurnment Of that convention"
when was that, Senator -