Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-09-26
THE MONETARY CHILD.
The Republicans the True Friend Of
the Greeubackers.

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the Greenbackers.
Extract from Speech by Hon. M. A. McCodd.
Except they are repudiationists,
there Ia no place for the Greenback
party to stand.
All tenable ground is occupied; oo-
cupied by the Republican party.
First. II Is the author OF the green
back. 1t is its father and mother.
There was another standing by at
its birth, but she wanted to strangle
1t and murder it, even as a child Of
war.
Second, The Republican party was
its early friend and defender.
1t saved the life Of its payer, the
nation. -
Clothed 1t in respectable dress.
Placed upon it the regal wealth to
pass for payment. Gave it character
and social standing by solemnly
pledging the faith OF the nation to
soon redeem it.
1t has placed 1t in good society
along with gold and silver, standard
coin, nurtured and cultivated it until
it is their equal In power and infid-
ence. -
1t has expressed the party's wish
that as an equal to any monetary
child in the worlds market. or on the
worlds streets. it shall continue.
That as much as can be kept con-
vertible. redeemable and equal to
gold and silver coin, shall be kept In
existence.
Beyond that line is reputation.
Beyond that line is dishonor to ,he
greenback. Beyond that line lies the
taint OF nconstitutionality. Beyond
that line Is national shame. Beyond
that line Is initiation. Beyond that
line Is imitation. Beyond that line Is
demonetization OF gold and silver and
the contraction OF their withdrawal
from the volume Of real values In cir
culation.
Up to this line, fully and squarely,
the Republican party is the only
Greenback party. Beyond that line
extending away into the quagmiret
OF depreciation and reputation, and
initiation, is the Blackjack party OF d
dishonored treasury note.
The Republican party Is the only
party which to-day proposes the re-
monetization OF gold, silver and
greenbacks. as the equal, convertible
national money Of both government
and people, both note-holder and
bondholder, both capital and labor
Goth cabin and castle, both barn and
bank.
There Is a national standard prac1
tice OF medicine, in which the profes1
sion claims by tho judicious use ol
drugs to aid nature in the recovery
OF the sick.
There is an irrational quack prac-
tice, in which the doctor" has a spe-
cific which Is claimed to be panacea
for all ills from the cradle to the
grave.
The Republican party is the Ma
tional Greenback party.
The Blackbacks, the quacks with 9
panacea called the American None
tary System" which in the ninth res.
olution OF the Toledo platform is ad'
vertised as the cure for all-every ma.
tional i'll.
There are extremists In every.
thing. The Democratic party, in its
last authoritative statement Of prin.
ciples in 1876, demanded resumption
denounced the Republican party be-
cause the greenbacks had not beer
paid Off and destroyed during clever
years Of peace; and they yet as 1
national party hate them. Their hol
low pretence In this State Is regarded
only as diversion to catch votes.
They have been the enemies Of the
greenback from its birth to this hour
Their last act in the last House wa
to defeat it as a payment for four pc
cent. bonds and duties on imports.
They are the extremists for hare
money. and against greenbacks.
The Blackbacks are the extremist