The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-07-26
What the observation-disclosures Party
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What the observation-disclosures Party
Wsus4skctehes oftEao speeches m
the Kew York Convention.
1svR .cusE. July .a3.-The Convention
nominated as temporary chairman 3. q.
5erg1son, who on taking the chair said the
SneoT,le Of the United States had their eyes
i nn fl,e Convention. The people OF Europe
we're also watching for the result OF It's de-
alterations. Laboring-men all over sne
world, with their wives and families, are
looking to see you cut loose from the great
money power that Is struggling every
body. The money kings have so levied their
tribute upon the people as to bankrupt the
whole earth. 1t should be national
policy that no nation shonid pay interest
on its Indebtedness. for by 80 doing 1t
will lead to bankruptcy and Reputation:
You must not allow bon dholders to controt
tile Convention and introduce their schemes
in your platform. "a Other Interests are ut
stake. Vanderbilt, Scott, and Garrett pos
.sess to-day the greatest eentralization OF
power on the face of the earth. When
these men come together they agree upon
tariff rates that take hundred million dol
lars from the pockets of the people. They
have but to scratch their pen to rob the
people. They exercise power that Con-
gress dare not. Better centraliZe the power
over railroads III the hands Of the Govern
ment rather than to these nien. You should
declare in your platform. for railroad COM
mission to have power and control over
railroads. tr .aas aEs i"t-.e
A millionaire cannot live thirty. days
without the help Of the w0rkingmen- Every
laborer has an equal share in the wealth be
creates. In the cities of the East are peo-
pie begging for bread-in this land Of over
production. Take these men and place
them upon the public domains OF the West.
There they will become producers. That
nation is the best which best protects the
rights of its people. ii
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Alexander Troupe, Of New Haven, adj
dressed the Convention. He said the cry OF
the Democratic party was fraud, fraud,
fraud. You can't feed the people on fraud.
We are here to institute measures that will
give them relief and put something more
substantial than fraud in their stomachs.
The Republican party thought more OF put
ting a certain man 10 the Senate OF the
United States than they did in relieving the
wants OF the starving people. What can you
expect from lawyers, and bankers, and bro
kers who are sent to Congress, who leStslate
solely for the monopolists? The lever that
is making this great uprising against the
politicians is the poverty OF the people. Out
OF the railway strikes OF last summer las
grown The great movement that has culml-
mated in this Convention to-day. II you go
on until November with the same perse-
yerence that has thus far characterized your
movements the nominee Of this Convention
will be elected. He declared that Maine
would elect the labor ticket without doubt.
In Connecticut both parties were for hard
money and for hard times; but the parties
were so evenly divided that the labor cam
didatc would step in and secure the VIC
tory. They would control the election OF
the next United States senator in Con-
necticut. He predicted that the labor or
greenback ticket would swoop nearly every
New England State. He said IL taking
the power from the bondholdcrs and mo-
nopolists who are crushing the laborinS
man, and comforting that power upon the
people of this vast country was commu-
nism, he was communist in the hroadest
sense of the term. The labor party wants
equal and exact justice and rights with the
bondholders and the monopo!st, and they
mean to have them, too. That is the plat
form OF the party. The politicians OF both
parties read the handwriting on the wall.
n Mr.. Conkling does not read it yet he
will wake up to find that the result OF this
Convention will seal his political fate. Mr..
Herman, too, will read it quick enough. He,
too, i, doomed to give way to man elected
by the labor and greenback party. Our
marty will elect the next United States sem
ator. ..r .
THE PLATFORM.
The following is the platform:
Whereas the so-called Democl attic and
Republican parties have legislated in the in
tcrest OF the money power Of this country
and Europe and against the interests OF
land and labor, which are the sources OF all
wealth, therefore we assert our complete in
dependence OF said parties and declare our
entire confidence in and adhesion to the ma
tionaI labor greenback party, which name
is hereby adopted by us. and that the fol-
lowing are the principles tuunciated to
guide US In the government of the State and
nation, should Providence permit us to at
tain to the same: "
First. The greenback dollar must be a
full legal tender for the payment OF all
debts, public and private. and by the Gov
eminent issued, protected, and received as
absolute money.
Second. We declare that all acts Of Con-
gress changing the origihal bond contract
to wit, OF 1869, 1870, and 1SI3-and the re-
sumption act of 1875, were enacted without
consent, privity, or procurement, and were
and are fraud upon the rights Of the peo-
pie. Therefore we demand the immediate
calling in and payment OF all bonds in abso-
lutte paper money without regard TO the
time they may have to run on their face,
and no further issue by the Government OF
any bonds.
Third. We demand the repeal OF the ma
tional-bank act the immediate withdrawal
from circulation OF national-bank notes,
and the substitution therefor OF absolute
paper-currency.
Fourth. Equal taxation OF all property
owned by individuals or corporations.
Fifth. The increasing poverty OF the
working-classes Is attributable in great
part to the monopoly of the soil, the natu-
raj source Of wealth, and therefore we de-
mand the adoption OF land-limitation laws.
Sixth. That it is the duty OF the Legisla-
ture OF this State to limit the growth OF rail-
road monopoly and save the citizens from
the great abuses in railway TRANSPORTATION
that now prevail and make serious inroads
upon the business prosperity, including the
small stockholders OF the railways. Com
missoners should be appointed, consisting
of men whose business does not identity
them with the railroads-men OF known
character and abllity-to investigate and as
certain the actual cost OF rail tranSporta-
ton, to the end that proper legislation may
be had for the control Of the railways by the
State.
: Seventh. We favor protective tariff pro-
hibitlng the importation Of all marufac-
tured articles OF which the raw material Is
nrndrnad and tie labor to manufacture the