The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-12-12
POLITICAL POINTS.

The members of the Executive Com
rnittee of the National Greenback party met in
Washington, last week, and organized by the
election of F. P. Devices, of Pennsylvania, as
Chairman, T. J. Durant, of Washington, as
Treasurer, and Alexander Iroup, of Con-
necticut as Secretary. The Committee issued
an address to the people of the United States
reviewing the rise and progress Of the party, pre-
dieting continued success and the rapid spread
Of it's principles, and expressing confidence
that the party will elect its candidate for the
Presidency in 1880, with majorities in Congress
and in nearly all the State Legislatures The
address denounces the action of the banks,
speaking through the Clearing House Associa-
ton of New York, and says, the contest is not
between the Republican and Democratic par
ties. 1t is between the money power and the
people between bank bills based on untaxed
bonds and Government legal-tender cur
rency, and the people have no chance whatever
of ever securing their emancipation from in
dustrial thralldom, either through the party Of
the money power, the Republican party, or it's
ally, the Democratic party" An appeal
is made for organizations in the in
terest of the National party in every
school district, city, town and ward A
conference of the leading members of the party
was subsequently, held, at which the following
resolution was adopted: t.ad u
Resozved, That the National party, SO far as it is
represented by this conference, denounce the re-
sumption Of specie payment as fraud and delu
sion impractcabe in this or any other civilized
country yet if persisted in by the Secretary of the
Treasury we insist that it shall be carried out as
to be equal in its operations in all sections and to
all classes, and enforced for the redemption OF
national bank notes as well for legal tender notes
ued by the Government.
A Washington correspondent of a
Western journal says that Southern Congress
man, who lately called at the White House,
states that ''the President minated that he
entertains kindly feelings for the South, and
has lively interest in it's prosperity. He
considers that the language he used in his mes
sage as applied to Southern politics was mild
under the circumstances, and that he was full
filing his constitutional duty in calling the at
tention of Congress to what he can only look
upon as violations of constitution and law. He
says he could not be expected to remain silent
when, in his belief, the laws which he was sworn
to execute have been disregarded. He says, as
he has several times before remarked, he does
not impute any want of good faith to either
Gov Nichols or Gov. Hampton" .... 4.
Hon. W. d. Kelley, of Pennsylvania,
the prospective candidate of the Nationals fo1
Speaker of the House of Representatives, says
he does not propose to support any measure in
Congress calculated to embarrass tine resump-
ton of specie payments. He thinks the inter
convertible-bond scheme is one upon which the
extremists of both sides could unite So fa1
from the discussion of the financial question
ending on the LIST of January, Judge Kelley
thinks it will be then only beginning.