The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-05-11
NATIONALS MAKING READY.
THE EyECt TIVE COUNCIL PREPARING
ron A STIRRING CANVASS.
tn. Progress. orthe Party In Maine-The Man
whom Blaine styled Old Greenbacks-Peter
Cooper. Hun for the Presidency senator
Bnrnum-The Nationals In Pennsylvania.

Bnrnum-The Nationals In Pennsyivania.
The Executive Committee Of the National
Marty consists Of one member from each State
and each Territory. This committee. being
necessarily unwieldy. has appointed a sub
committee Of fvc to whom II has delegated It's
executive powers. The subcommittee IL called
The Exc utive Council. 1t assembled yesterday
in the Grand Central Hotel. to consider sys-
tematizcd and uniform plan Of organization
throughout tho country. and 10 provide ways
and means of carrying on its canvass with
ygor. Its Chairman IL DIR. d. Il. Sturgeon OTTO
lcdo. o.. who il also Chairman OF the Executive
Committee
1t is specially set forth that the local councils
are 10 be in no respect secret societies. The
Secretary OF the Executive Council is Mr. Alex
ander Troup Of New Haven. and the other
three members Of the council are Mr.. Thos. j.
Durant Of Washington. ID. c.; Mr.. /. 7. Devices
Of Pottsve. Pa; and Mr.. o. J. Smith Of Terre
Haute. Ind. There met yesterday with the
council two other members Of the Executive
Committee Mr.. Ralph Beaumont Of Emra. n.
". and Solon Chase Of Chases Mills, Me. Mr..
Chase glories in the name OF Old Green
backs" conferred upon him by Mr.. Blaine He
Is over 90 years OF age bald. has a twinklng
blue eye and fringcs his face with short black
whiskcrs. He says that he'has always been
Postmaster Of his place. and that II the dc facto
President doesn't like his views he can put him
out lie has set the State OF Maine on fire. and
tho two parties there are. he says. thinking
about uniting in order to oppose the National
party. In Chnses Mills there are forty voters
Thirty eight Of these voted for Peter Cooper for
President in 1876 At that time the State gave
MIR. Cooper 500 votes. The next year It gave
Mr.. Munson. for Governor $500 votes. and in
the town elections this spring the National
party candidates polled in the State $4,000.
A mass meeting OF the National party was
held in the evening in the large hall Of the
Cooper Union; Two;thirds of the seats were
Various points SIN in the ball but good Ygp order pre-
vailed. and II was withdrawn before the meet
x nS with fSGs cheek shirt front and ermS
hands, called the meeting to order. He snid he
wanted It distinctly underStGod mat those S VINO
the persons who had conducted the meeting OF
Dr. l.. i. Miller was called to the chair He
eaid that those who missed from the platform
tho benevolent features Of Mr. Peter Cooper
at that moment 10 tie sunny south. whittier he
had gone to establish another Cooper Institute
crew OF the shin Of State. he said. insist upon
1T that they can run the vessel safely
ana fa Tsn months %Te
OF specie payment policy. he thought. would
wind up all the national banks in the country.
He was engaged in fight between peoples
money green6acksi and bankers' money bank
notesl John. sherman would haye TO stop
burning greenbncks that were actually worth in
Wall street 30 cents in gold
Mr. Troup. the next speaker, said they would
endorse the platform OF the Toledo Convention
Congress had no right To delegate its powers TO
nny corporate body. either national banks or
the balance Of power in the close states 1t
would make Don Cameron take q back seat.
the goose Of Senator Barnum Of Connecticut.
lie described the instigators Of the late socalled
National party. meeting in room "a, Cooper In
stitute. as political strikers who had stolen the
name OF the new party t9 serve the devll with:
tried to set he National cSpdiiaies eleeted in
western New York to 90 10 Albany pledged 10
He had read in n newspeper that the Commun
lists were nrming in ~. Louis. The word WAS
one that the newspapers had tried 10 fasten
there we're but 500 votes east for Peter Cooper
In the four cities, 81. Louis, Cincinnati. Chicago,
and New York. II. then, the Communists were
strong enough 10 be formidable. they must be
either Republicans or Democrats. He recon-
mended John Kelly TO look out Tor them in this
city. In q triangular race in Pennsylvania, he
believed that the National party stood as good
cnanc" as either Of the other two. In Maine.
Eugene Hale and Gen. Frye could begin 10 pack
their carpet b9gs. o.,- ,,,,-
nounced as the next speaker The audience
caught the twinkle OF his eye as he walked
tlowly forward. and began 10 laugh and ap;
ylaud. His face Is wrinked and bronzed. and
his threalbare and faded coat lung awkwardly
over his STOPPING shoulders, He came close to
the edge Of the platform. and when he began TO
speak he bowed out his knees and bent his body
u get as close down to the audience as he could
He wanted the idle bond, the idle real estate
and the idle laborerto be governed by the same
law. He wanted things fixed SO that all the
values should shrink together, and then the la
borer would have chance. He had man cut
ting wood for him whose only pay was his
hoard. and yet neither himself nor the wood
chopper made anything the MY one who made
anything was the bondholder who got his wood
Tor 81 a cord. Mr.. Chase then told about his
thrunk faster than they grew. lLaughterl
The bondholders had taken the growth OF these
steers out Of them by the Resumption act. Mr..
Chase gave the national banks a shot by show.
Ing, as he claimed how they got double interest
5o gSsg Saa NefDRs Of Rs
Spectacle Of 10000 men on strike in Eng
SRd was that they were brought to
money and falling prices. He condemned the
financial policy Of the Government as tending
trat"d the Resumption at 10y the story Of the
man who sud AN egg Tor a dnrning needle; got
Inc seller Of the needle 10 treat him 10 glass Of
vino W tn the same egg in il, and then got an
double ynik. lCreat laugitrrJ The nromoters
OF the Resumption act were constantly asking
ior another dnrnlng needle. lLHughter.I Mr.,
has ioIl the house ~ constant mirth, and
}iavHn with storm Of applause in his wake.
u missed th1 train, however. AMI came back ut
II 9olo"k, when, IN Obedience 10 rall from the
agdlou'r. he spoke again in the same vein.
IN Dr. d.. SiaiE.on sad i" YouiJ mo.d.stly report
bal dor" q me Guni Central Hotel during the
day. II had conNtru ted tine machinery 10y
elect tho roN' Prsldont OF NJ United States 1t
circulated tIn truth rrEr'lim; the position OF
lNs ruly IN Hsi4ut Tho country.
,o"riary } Ian Enuie read a -rrIcs of rcsou
u@nS' Wh ~ wore aulstn ntlully "a reproduction
O. ih@ I"I"lo platform with tie addition VI the
lulloWiug rHus":
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