The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-07-02
Ohio Greenbackers Supporting the
Democratic Ticket.

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The Greenbaekers in Ohio have divid
ed among themselves. They who ar
sincere in their professions for financia
reform, and are not mere factionists anC
pretenders, have refused 10 support tht
Greenback nominee in order to support
4 Ewing, the Democratic candidate fol
Governor, az the best and truest repre-
sentative Of the reform movement II
4 their recent Convention at Toledo, they
adopted the following resolutions which
are IN strict accord with the record OF
Gen. Ewing on the money question and
with the platform of the Ohio Demo
cratic Convention
The following resolutions were reported by
General Carey, chairman Of the Committee on
Resolutions, and unanimosly adopted
First-The effort to revive sectional animos-
tiles and rekindie the passions OF the war Is
the more criminal because made to serve the
ends OF party and divert attention from a
subject that vitality interests every citizen OF
the Republic.
Second-This republican government, hav-
ing been established by the people in defiance
OF the kingcraft OF Europe, and maintained
solely by their own money and their own arms,
IS able, and OF right should, exercise its most
vital function-the coinage Of money indepen-
dent Of the action OF any foreign Power
1hird-1hat II is the exclusive function and
imperative duty OF the general government to
supply the entire circulating medium that
all bank issues of currency should have been
suppressed and that money issued by the
government, whether 1t be gold, silver or
paper, shall be received by the government
itself for all taxes and dues and be legal |
tender Tor all debts, public and private and /
that neither the Secretary OF the Treasury nor
any other officer OF the government nor bank /
ING corporation shall be allowed to determine |
Is volume.
Fourth-We declare that the so-called
pecie resumption is a fraud and a swindle !
hat II has resulted only in further pauperiza-
ION OF labor and in rendering the condition of
III who are in debt still more hopeless and
desperate and in placing the accumulation of
industry at the mercy Of Shvlocks and usurers.
nj TINS, too, IN the presence of the most
ounteous harvests ever bestowed upon us as
people The locking up in the Treasury OF
he United States of the larger part OF the
eanty volume OF the peoples money we de-
ounce as an atroclOus crime, without excuse
r pallatiOn II
Fiith-All bonds OF the government should I
G paid IN accordance with the law under
hIch they were created.
SlNth-Ne demand the unlimited coinage OF 9
he silver dollor AT 4l29 grains. In
Sevcnth-While the laboring population /
e required to protect their country by the i
aIhcG o. their time and personal service, /
lie wealth OF the country should bear the bur J
N OF his protection by graded and liberal c
come tax. lit
Eighth-We recognize the mutual depen- 4
nee of capital and labor and deprecate ali "
forts to antagonize them. We demand a
eap capital and well paid labor in the place Il
dear capital and cheap labor. n
Peter Cooper, the original founder of ,
e Geenback party and its candidate h
+ the Presidency in 1876, addressed n
tier to the Convention, in which he W
id: a
must say, therefore, in response 10 your ci
quest for advice, that | think this nomina- &C
n OF General Ewing ought to be sustained. 81
lthout wishing to imply any disparagement W
the excellent gentleman nominated BY the 10
eenback Convention in Ohio or wishing to Sc
tate to any one III the free exercise of their Il
ltIcal Judgment | must say that ii | were a W;
zen, should vote Tor General Ewing as an
only consistent with the great principle pr
which We contend as an Independent party. tn
also rs the best method OF securing sue WI
; lin our contest against the vicious policy IL
Is distressing our people. 1ol
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Now, Mr.. Cooper is an honest man, sal
has no other object to accomplish m
the achievement of financial reform me
the relief of the country from the ais i
combination for whose ben an
the legislation of the country has Hi
II directed ever since the war. and ~,
refore he sees the folly of discarding sta
onl Y party which is willing and p,,t
ing enough to accomplish the desired pee
,ot dat
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