The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-09-12
GREENBACK NOTES.

Inc held a
conference in Birmingham to-day.
To Butler-Ben-jam-in. To Butler
men-Jam Ben in.-Boston Standard.
Ex-Mapor Albert A. Fernald of
Portsmouth, n. H., has joined the
Greenbackers.
There are seventy-one organiza-
tons of the National Greenback
Labor party in the city of ST.. Louis.
The Albany Express prOnounces
the National movement an unknown
factor in New York State politics.
jeff. Davis brother Reuben has
been nominated for Congress by the
G~reenbackers Of the First Mississippi
district.
The Greenbackers of the Congress
sional district OF Reading, Pa, (Cly.
mer's son Saturday nominated Daniel
YOder.
Greenbackism has at ;last struck
Hancock county. and struck it heavy,
too. Eugene is terribly alarmed
Bangor Commercial.
The Greenbackers of Missouri pro-
pose to elect Congressman inthe Sixth,
Eighth. Tenth and Twelfth Districts,
IL nobody can prevent EN-.
Judge Jackson and Professor S. S.
Calkins addressed a large meeting of
Greenbackers on the public square,
Cleveland. Saturday evening.
B. F. Long advertises himself as an
independent candidate for Congress
in the Second District of North Caro-
lima on a Greenback platform.
They don't say there is no third
party now; their sole efforts are d.
rected to make it appear that the
third party is draWinfi more from the
other fellows.
The Republicans are trying to
prove that the Democrats, and the
Democrats that the Republicans de-
monetiZed the trade dollar. If, as the
Terre Haute Express says. the fiat
money is of no consequence 1why
should these brethren quarrel about
it.
Eighteen cents worth of nickle
formed into twenty-five cent pieces,
by fiat of the government, passes for
one dollar; ninety cents worth of sill
yer in the trade dollar, lacking the
fiat. it is worth but as much as an
equal weight of silver in any shape
Richmond (ind.) Independent.
Some are asking why TO efforts are
made to have kearney speak in Cleve-
land. The only object to be attained
in having him here, would be to sat-
isfy Il morbid curiosity to see the
man. His speeches contain no argu-
ment. and we are fully supplied with
mud batteries in the shape of the old
party organs.-CiereLaad .idrance.
4 little while ago the cry was made
that the G%reenback party was dying
out. Since that cry was started from
the Republican State Convention
meeting, three papers in Maine have
changed their politics from Republi-
can to Greenback. We name the
North Star, Pressure Isle Sunrise and
Bath Commercial.-Cumden (Me.)
Herald.
The Greenbackers had a rousing
rally at Lagrange, Me-, Thursday. A
procession nearly a mile long. headed
by a band of music, came in from
Bradford and Charleston. So great
was the multitude in attendance
that but a portion of it could get into
the hall where the meeting had been
notified to be held, and it vas ad.
journed to a grove nea by.
The government agreed to pay the
soldier S13 a month in gold. The pay
was increased to Sl6, but he was
paid off in greenbacks worth forty
cents on the dollar. The bondholder
bought his bond (the greater part of
them in greenbacks at forty cents
on the dollar, and by the acts of 1869
and 1873. the bond was converted into
gold by a change of contract. The
soldier was to have gold and received
deprecated paper. The bondholder
was to have paper. same as he bought
with, and had it converted into gold.
a meeting of the members of the
State Committee of the National
Greenback Labor party of New York
city was held Saturday afternoon at
No. 254 West Fourteenth street, Mr..
George Blair presiding. The county
organization vas recognized as the
genuine representative body. A com.
mittee of three, consisting Of John
Livingston. f. p. Miller and A. w.
Gazzan. was appointed to an
address to the citizens of New York
county. and to confer with the bust
ness men of the county. 1t was also
resolved to appoint George Blair as a
member of the State Executive Com.
mittee.