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GREENBACK NOTES.

Several prominent western Green.
hackers are to stump Massachusetts
for Butler.
The Republican state committee of
Ohio allow the Greenbackers there
100000 votes.
If Ben Butler is elected governor
OF Massachusetts Gen Grant will not
occupy the white house for the next
six years.--.San Francisco Post.
The Greenbackers of the thirty
third New York district have nomi
mated Silas Vinton; those of jersey
City. Thomas Jacobs; and those of
Westminster, N. Y, Colonel Nicho-
las Smith, Horace Greeley's son-in-
law.
Special kilograms according to the
Louisville Courier-J ournal are daily
pouring into the Indiana Democratic
headquarters from solid Democratic
towns reading like this: "For God s
sake, send us Voorhees, or Hendricks
on the, or we are lost. The
Greenbackers are raising HI here. -
For twenty-five millions in gold
secretary Sherman exchanges forty
millions of legal tenders, and aug.
ments by two hundred and fifty mil
lions of dollars the public and private
Indebtedness of the people. This lis
the resumption policy of the Republi.
can party.-Rocky Mountain Ne,cs.
The strength Ben Butler had
among the Democrats of Massachu-
sets was largely the result of his 20.
sition upon the currency question.
The ranks of the Democracy, even in
Massachusetts,. take more kindly to
the Greenback than the leaders OF
the party. The people are always
ahead of their leaders upon every
great question. Ben Butler has
mixed things badly, but he has aided
to show the Greenback strength in
New England.-Cincinnahi Eaquir.
err, Dem.
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THE WORK GOES ON.
Meeker County Puts an Excellent Ticket in
the Field and Resolves to Bury
Wochhuvn
Special Telegram to the Globe.

Meeker County Puts an Excellent Ticket in
the Field and Resolves to Bury
Washburn.
Special Telegram to the Globe
LITCHFIELD, Sept. 24.-The Meeker
county National Greenback conven.
ton met pursuant to call at IL O clock
a. M. and effected a permanent organ.
ization by the election of Judge Mar
tin chairman and A. P. Ormsdorf
secretary.
On motion of w. j. Jebb, commit
tees on credentials and resolutions
were appointed. whose reports were
duly submitted and accepted, when
the convention took a recess.
On the reassembling of the conven-
ton seventy-one delegates answered
to their names, representing fourteen
towns. Harmony characterized all of
the conventions deliberations. The
resolutions reaffirm the principles of
the Toledo platform and express a
disposition to consOl' date all differ
ence with the Democratic party to
present a determined and united front
to the Republican party, which was
esteemed a common enemy, a pOliti-
cal and moral ulcer
The convention proceeded to ballot
for candidates with the following re-
suits:
Senator-V. P. Kennedy.
Representative-Hon. w. M. Camp
bell.
Auditor-G. B. Phelps.
Register-A. KOernar.
Attorney-L. G. SpOoner.
Surveyor. J. Male.
Commissioner Second District
ThOs. Venock.
Hon. w. N. Campbell, Democrat,
and l.. G. Spooner and A. G. Jebb,
Greenbackers, made rousing speeches.
The Hon. 1. Donnelly was then intro
duced amid applause, and made a
speech replete with wit and words of
encouragement. His speech was re-
ceived with enthusiasm, and deter
mination was expressed to work Wig
orously for his election to Congress.
The feeling of the convention and
among the people is that a November
sun will set upon defeated Wash.
burn. The convention adjourned in
the best of spirits.
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name and comforting words these |!
ana from the lips of Christian
minister tOO-a prOfeSsed follower of
Jesus. A man who talks about his
love Tor humanity, who pretends to
Deileve in the brotherhood Of the
race. and to devote his life to the
cause of religion and truth. s'AIas |!
how have the mighty fallen" How
SAD, that this mans voice, once so
strong in behalf of the oppressed and
down-trodden every where. should
now give forth words as strong that
will crush lower the unemployed,
starving thousands who. through no
fault OF theirs, now wander here and
there, without where to lay their
heads, save on the bosom of mother
earth, under the sky's clear, over
hanging stars. We ask, how dare a
man who demands for single lecture
three and five hundred dollars night
hundreds of nights is succession, speak
such cruel words to starving men
and women. How dare he stand be-
fore the people and insult them by
the utterance of such wretched stuff
as this. Is it true that this dis
tinguished C) teacher through his
own ragged edge experience has
turned the honey of his life into bit
terness +? Is it true that this man
whose own load of guilt, but for a
dead conscience, would have bowed
his face forever in the dust, ruthless
ly tramples upon the quivering heart
strings of the children of toll and
suffering
Let this oracle of the Brooklyn
Tabernacle use his own regiment.
and apply to himself his "means of
grace and see if it is good for the
soul to feel the pangs Of hunger, as
we'll as the agony and shame of a
guilty conscience. Thine for justice.
ELvIRA WHEELOCK.
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THE BALANCE OF POWER

The merchants of this country
constitute the conserving class of it's
citizens. They are it's men of affairs
who are continuously engaged in at
tending to their own business
Among them are not to be found the
political agitators who are always
seeking prominence and preferment
at whatever cost to the country. To
them in times of peril the nation
never appeals in vain for ways and
means. From them is drawn the
revenue that supports the Govern
ment and pays its debts. They are
the bed rock upon which is to be built
more and more in the future the
national superstructure. Commerce
is to be the keystone that shall hold
secure the completed arch of our
nations prosperity. Into the hands
and under the control of it's
merchants is to pass the machiner,
of the government. Not in the
sense of monopoly, not in the sense
of covering class, but in that of a
controlling principle which shall
permeate and infuse itself into every
feature Of our governmental relations.
The future statesma ship Of the
country is to be in the direction Of
commerce. The future political
parties of the country are to depend
upon the business relations of our own
people to each other and to foreign
nations.
The future agricultural, manu-
featuring and mining interests of the
country are all interviewer with and
dependent upon our commercial re-
lation with other people. We are on
the eve of great development to in
ternational commerce. There is an
intense competition amongst the
nations of the world to gain the con.
troll of trade. The craftsmanship of
Europe is more intent on
securing commercial ports
than strategic points. Commerce,
from holding second place in the
esteem of nations, has advanced to
the front rank, and the far.sighted
wisdom of England is being emulated
by slower nations. America has the
opportunity. Will she embr ace it,
or will she permit her strength and
substance to be again wasted by the
f1ippant and blatant vaporing of a set
of lazy blatherskites who are doing
their best to stir the clear tide of
returning prosperity into frothing
and noisy scum upon which they hope
to ride into place and power! The
answer to this question depends upon
the merchants. They constitute a
vast army of no less than three mil
lions of earnest. active. intelligent.
conservative citizens. They are in
every State and Territory, every
county and town. every ward and
precinct of this vast country. They
come in daily contact with every
citizen in the land. To them their
friends and neighbors are accustomed
to lend willing ear. Let them but
array themselves on the side of honest
and honorable government, and of a
liberal policy towards the devel p
ment of our domestic and foreign
commerce and the country is safe.
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nation that had extorted more than
$l5O, 900 annually out of the people of
this State. Voters of the Third Con-
gressional district of Minnesota, can
you hesitate which of these men you
wish to represent you on the floor Of
Congress! Take warning by Maine.
Ii the Democrats and Nationals had
united as they did in the Fourth dis
trlct (Powers) they would have swept
the whole State. In union there is
strength, and "don't you forget it, .
my Democratic friends. R. P. c..
ELK RIVER, Sept. IL, 1878.
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from the other end of the line. It
comes from the voters Of the land,
and will be as permanent as the
principles upon which it is founded
are vital to civilized society; and the
party will live while there is human
labor and it's products to be distri-
buted.
In Massachusetts We expect to
make Gen. B. F. Butler Governor.
In Texas the organization is being
rapidly perfected and will poll an inn
mense vote, not enough to overcome
the $4,000 Democratic majority, but
to materially lessen it. In 1880 we'll
carry the State, there is no doubt.
The nucleus Of the Greenback party
in Texas is the Democratic party and
the entire Republican party, which
has been absorbed. In Louisiana
and Alabama the party is formed in
about the same way. In the latter
State We'll get the greater part of the
cOlOred vote. The leaders of the Ma.
tional party in the South will be, in
the main, whites who have hereto
fore acted with the Democracy, ma
tives of the soil. In many counties
in Tennessee the party is already
strong. In Shelby county (Memphis)
we showed our strength in August
last, electing full line of Greenback
county officials. We elected five out
of eleven county officers in Davidson
county (Nashvillej, as well as carry
ing other counties in the State. In
Georgia. North Carolina and Old and
West Virginia. we will poll a very
heavy vote. Missouri's Greenback
tendency is well known. We hope to
elect Congressman or two there.
Colorado to will give us 4 good vote
possibly enough to reach plurality.
The railroad combinations in that
State support the Democratic candi-
date for Governor and the banks sup
port the Republican candidate. In
Iowa we will poll an immense vote,
mark that. Michigan we will carry
this Fall. Wisconsin and Minnesota
| will give heavy Greenback votes, and
Illinois will elect, I think, four
Greenback Congressman. In Ohio,
the Toledo district will probably
elect Greenback Congressman"
'From present indications, the
Greenback vote of Indiana will be
largely in excess of what the mana
gers of the old parties expect. We
will certainly elect twenty-five men,
bers OF the Legislature in October,
and probably forty. In some coun-
ties the Republicans have endorsed
our nominees, in others the Democ-
racy have done the same. These af-
filiations have been made in nearly
half Of the ninety-two counties of
the State. There is no certainty that
Mr.. Voorhees, will be sent to the
United States Senate. The Nationals
will probably hold the balance Of
power, and in that event will prob
ably nominate their own United
States Senator, and vote for him until
they bring one or the other of the old
parties to their support, or continue
ballotings until this session expires by
limitation. If the old parties in the
Legislature unite to beat us, it would
SO demoralize their voters that they
would never be recovered.
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DONNELLY OR WkShBURN.
cogent Reasons why the Former Should be
Elected.

Cogent Reasons why the Former Should be
Elected.
To the Editor of the Globe:
Permit me few suggestions in re-
gard to the two candidates in the
Third Congressional district.
ex Washbuln or Donnelly, which! One
or the other must represent the Third
district in Congress-, and it is for the
people to choose. W. D. Washburn
came to the State of Minnesota armed
with commission from the general
government as surveyor general of
the State, not pioneer, but the pet
of Office and the child of fortune,
served term in the State legislature,
and the only measure inaugurated by
him was bill to cOnfscate the 6OO,-
900 acres of internal improvement
lands by dividing them between diffe.
rent railroad companies then in ex-
istence, his own receiving the lions
share. After series of years as a
business man. he appears on the list
of bankrupts, a victim to the policy
of party of which he is to-day the
standard bearer. But by an ingenious
device heretofore known, viz: putting
up his assets as prize packages. he
auctioneers them off accompanied
with hint of fifty cents on the dol
lar) to his unsuspecting creditors at a
good sound price, pays his creditors
in prizes instead of cash and has
plenty left.
Such in brief is the record of the
standard bearer of the hard times, hard
pan. or hard money party of this dis
trict whose policy has destroyed the
prosperity OF. the country and smitten
every material interest with the
paralysis of death. A vote for Mr..
Washburn is an Endorsement of the
party that brought this great calam-
ity upon the people.
On the other side is Ignatius Don
nelly, who came to Minnesota poor
and friendless, backed and supported
by no other capital than his intellect
and indomitable will. He east his
fortunes with those who had the
pluck to follow the star of empire.
The people were not slow to discover
his abilities, and accordingly he was
soon called into the public service.
He was our war congressman, and
after an honorable career of six years
retires without being tarred by the
stick of corruption. Also many years
of official life in the state where his
public and private life stands unfair
nished and unchallenged even by his
most malignant enemies, of the many
good acts of his life in the National
and State legislature; and one for
which the good people of Minnesota
will always bless him, was the last
and crowning act when he stood up
against the school book ring that had
invaded the legislative chambers,
debating to. and debauching its men,
bers with money. While others went
over and voted for high priced books
Mr.. Donnelly stood up bravely for
the right against the most gigantic
wrong and secured for the people Of
Minnesota first-class school books for
less than half the price they were
forced to pay this ab0minable combi-
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THE p. p. SWALLOWS ITS LIE.
correspondence of the Pioneer Press


LITCHFIELD. Sept. 25.-Being
known here as your special reporter
and being accused of sending you a
report in to-day's paper in regard to
the greenback convention held yes
terday. wish to say that said re-
port is false in every particular except
that u convention was held. Don
nelly had large audience for this
place. and his speech was we'll re.
ceiyed and the audience we'll behaved
The strong probability is that Mr..
Washburn will not get majority in
Meeker county, and it is better for
him to know the truth. The Re.
publicans of Meeker county can
afford to be fair, and such reports
will do them no good.
J. V. BRANHAM, Jr.
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GOD ALMIGHTY RESPONSIBLE FOR
THE HARD TIMES.

To the Editor of the Sun:
INDIANAP$LBs, Sept. "a, 1861
am Republican. l love the name
Republican. 1t brings to mind such
names as Lincoln, Stevens and others,
whose memories do honor to the ma
ton. But l went last evening to q
Republican rally on the corner of Col
lege avenue and Seventh street. The
first speaker was General somebody,
he looked rather general and talked
somewhat general, and from
the general run of his
supposed that the smoke had not yet
cleared away from the battle Of
Sumpter. The only thing he said
which concerned the living issues OF
the day was that it was not the stamp
upon money which gave it its value,
that $40 gold piece was worth just
as much if you would pound the
stamp off and melt it up into lump
of gold. If that is fiat am glad to
know it, for / have several friends
who have been swindled by taking
.'trade dollars" of 42O grains Of sill.
yer, (Which in their present condition
is only worth ninety cents.) in the
place and stead of United States sill.
yer dollars Of Az IL grains which are
worth 100 cents. Now, if the Gener.
ais statement be true, shall advise
my friends to pound the stamp of Of
their trade dollars and then they will
be worth 102 cents each, because
there is I wO cents worth more OF sill
yer in them than in the dollar Of
412 IL grains,
The next speaker was the Hon.
George Grubbs. Republican candidate
for senator; he proposed to talk to us
upon finances. After saying great
many things in which he did not say
anything, he made this assertion:
.Legislation is not the cause Of the
hard times; ! believe that the hard
times would have come il con-
gress had not assembled from 1855 to
the present time" then with his
hands and arms directed upward, he
said: "the cause OF the hard times 10
high above all legislation" AS / said
before, / am a Republican, but /
have this 10 say, either God Almighty
is cruel. unmerciful fiend, or this
Republican candidate has terribly
belied him, and If this is the best the
Republican party IN do In account
ing for the hard times, then / must
dissolve partnership with it Tor I
don't propose 10 take part in any
such an indictment against God Al
mighty.
RKPCBLICAn.
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| DUNNELL ON "MONCRELS" HOW he
REGARDS THE CREENBACKERS.

FOUNTAIN BROOK Sept. "a. 1878.
Editor Anti. Monopolist:
Enclosed you find card handed us
by the 2. NJ. at Fountain Brook, and
received by him, from the gentleman
who is ''swinging round the circle in
this First District of Minnesota, fight
ing the terrible war of the rebellion
over again, melting the basest pas
sions Of men against their fellow men,
trying in this way to still rope in vot-
ers enough to send him back to Con-
gress where he has full long enough
misrepresented the interests of the
people of this district. Make such COM
ments upon it's contents as you feel
that the occasion requires. 1t was
surely intended as an insult to the
free and independent thinking people
of this district. We feel ourselves
entirely incompetent to do it justice.
The postmaster has informed us that
he has written Mr.. Dunnell that he is
glad to be able to say to him that none
others but "Mongrels" are patrons of
this Office.
Yours Respectfully,
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A MEETING TO BE HELD IN OPERA
HOUSE BLOCK TOMORROW NIGHT,
The Young Mems Donnelly club
will hold public meeting tomorrow
evening, at campaign headquarte rs,
Opera House block. Good speakers
Will be present. A full attendance is
desired, in order to perfect thor
ough and effectual organization.
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The OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

Time, 2:44.
Almont took first money, Sport sec.
Ond and Herod third.
Tomorrow the 2:35 class will be
run, with the following entries: Flora
Bell, by John Oswald; Mambrino
Prince, by Frank Hall; Grape Vine,
by Frank LOOMS; Chas. Taylor. by
}. Bushnell; Colonel, by j. H. Nc
Card; Susie, by VIM. NJ. Veazie.
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COUNTY CONVENTION.

The National Greenback party of
Dakota county will meet in delegate
convention at Pennington on Satur-
day, the 18th day of October at IL o.
clock 4. n. for the purpose of putting
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THE WHEAT SHYLOCK.
FARMERS. THROW1OFF THE YOKE OF
PLUMBER.

ARinging Address from the St. Paul Cham.
Der Of Commerce Communicable Set
tiers Called Upon to State Their
Grievances and Organize for
Protection-A Circular Every
Paper Should Print.
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Yours Respectfully,
F 4 F.
OWATONNA, Sept. Q. 1873.

OwATONNA, Sept. 9, 1878.
DEAR SIR:-Please send me as soon
as possible, list of voters who get
their mali at your office, marking Re-
publicans "R" Democrats, ID"
would like as full and complete list
as you can conveniently make. Note
Germans &c" and Norwegians IN"
if they cannot read English. If there
are any Prohibionists or Greenbackers
or other Mong, els, make a note of it.
Yours Truly,
NJ. II. DUNNELL.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-07-06
INCIDENTS OF THE DAY.

The little roam horse of Mr.. Smith
Terrence became frightened while going
around the track, ran away, threw its driy-
er, and materially damaged the sulky to
which it was attached
The Kentucky gentlemen who own
trained horseilesh attempted to pull the
wool over the eyes of the Cairo gentlemen
who own trained horseflesh. But the thing
wouldn't work, and Kentucky got beat in
the only race run.
The arbOrs and other secluded places
of the park afforded fine opportunities for
trysting matters. And the opportunities
were by no means lost. Spooney couples
were as thick as blackberries along the line
of the c. & V. RR.
1t was noticeable that our visitors, on
the Fourth, with few exceptions, were all
from counties in this end Of the State.
The delegation from Missouri and Ken
lucky were unusually small. This is &C
counted tor by the fact that neighbcring
towns in those States had local celebrations.
A colored woman started from the
park about nine o'clock, got half way
down town, when she discovered she had
lost something. 1t was her child. She
fastened back to the park, making her
lamentations along the route exceedingly
distressing to those who had the misfortune
to hear them. She found her cherub under
a tree-obliyious of the sport going on
about it-picked it up and fondled it for u
while. 1t then seemed to strike her with
great ssddenness that it was somehow the
young ones fault, and the music that
midget howled out upon the midnight air,
under the inspiration of its mamma was
simply appalling.
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letters, was followed by the Diamond
Star which was succeeded by the Polka Bat
tery, Liberty Tree, Chaplet of Roses, Pris-
matte Wheel, Silver Fountain, Cross of
Malta, Gallopadc and "Good Night in
large letters accompanied by myriads Of
stars, cannon reports, etc. The fireworks
over, large numbers of those who could not
dance, and would not if they could, started
for their homes, leaving the young people
and the band in sole possession Of the
grounds. The dancing was kept up until
an early hour yesterday morning.
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PERSONAL AND N0TI0NAL.

According to Douglas Jerold, Ben But
Ter belongs to the jerks, as she has dis
covered that "he's just beautiful, and when
he smiles, perfectly lovely"
ion intimates that London ladies are
enormous consumers of Sherry, and that
their potations figure largely in their gro
GERS bills under the fiction of "tea'
The famous artists Mario and Grisi
earned professionally fully Sl,5oO,OoO, and
yet subscription for the relief Of the
former is now circulating in Europe.
-Ofcourse the Nationals will be cheer
cd by their sweeping success in San Fran
cisco, and will not fail to profit by the en-
enlargement it gives.
AS George Alfred Townsend never was
hight as to any question Of fact and as
events always falsify his predictions, it is
to be feared that "lily-livered Sam will
not be the Democratic nominee in 1880.