Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-06-25
OHIO GREENBACkERS
IN CONVENTION AT TOLEDO YES
TERDAY.
Slim Attendance and but Little enthusi-
asm-No Nominations Made-Hearty
Reception Of Letter from Peter
Cooper Endorsing Ewing.

TOLEDO, o., June N.-Ihe ConYen-
ton Of the Nationals who withdrew
from the Columbus Convention was
held here to-day, with 4 small attend
ance, only ten OF the twenty Congress
sional districts in the State being repre-
sented. A number of the supporters Of
the Columbus ticket were here, under
the lead of Robt. Schilling, of Cleveland,
but were not admitted to the hall, tick
cts being issued only to those in SYM
pathy with the movement. The Con-
venton was called to order by NJ. n.
Odell, OF Lucas. j. r. Throckmorton,
of Ross county, was elected temporary
Chairman, and Charles Coughlin,
editor OF the True National, Toledo, Sec
retary, and two assistants.
Platform.
The following resolutions reported by
Gen. Carey, Chairman Of the Commit
tee on Resolutions, were unanimously
adopted:
/. That the effort to revive sectional
animosities and rekindle the passions Of
the war is the more criminal, because it
is made to serve the ends of party and
to divert attention from subject Of
vital interests to every citizen Oi the Re-
public.
2. That this Republican Government
having been established 10y the people
in defiance OF the kingcraft Of Europe,
and maintained solely by OF their own
money and their own arms, is able and
of right should exercise its most
vital function, the coinage of money in
dependent of the action OF any foreign
power.
3. That tits the exclusive function and
imperative duty OF the general govern
ment to supply the entire circulating
medium; that all bank issues of curren-
cy should be suppressed; that money
issued by the Government, whether it
| be gold, silver or paper, shall be re-
ceived by the Government itself for all
taxes and dues, and be a legal tender for
all debts, public and private, and that
| neither the Secretary Of the Treasury,
nor any other officer OF the Govern
ment, nor banking corporation shall be
allowed to determine It's volume.
1. We declare that the so-called specie
resumption is fraud and swindle; that
il has resulted only in the further
| pauperization of labor and in rendering
the condition OF all who are in debt still
more hopeless and desperate, and in
placing the aCCumulatiOns ofindustry at
the mercy of Shylocks and usurcrs AMI
this, too, in the presence of the most
bounteous harvests ever bestowed on us
as a people. The locking up, in the
Treasury Of the United States, Of the
larger part of the scanty volume Of the
people money, we denOunce as an afro
cous crime, without excuse or pallla-
ton.
5. All bonds of the Government
should be paid in accordance with the
law under which they were created.
&. We demand the unlimited coinage
of the silver dollar Of 4l2t grains.
Z. While the lahoring population are
required to protect their country by the
sacrifice of their time and personal SER
vices, the wealthy OF the country should
bear the burden OF its protection Ivy a
graded and liberal income tax.
s. We recognize the mutual depcn-
dence of capital and labor, and dcpre-
cate all efforts to antagOnine them. We
demand cheap capital and well paid
labor, in place OF dear capital and cheap
labor.
8, We demand proper sanitary safe
guards and regulations for the work
shops, mines and factories, and favor
the enactment OF laws giving mechanics
and laborcrs first lien on all descrip.
tlons OF their work for their full wages.
III. The importation OF seryilc labor
from CHINA or elsewhere, and the con-
tract system OF employing labor in our
prisons, must be prohibited.
Letter from Peter Cooper.
A number of letters were read from |
different men Of prominence, among
which was the following from Peter |
Cooper:
New YORK, June II, 1879.
To General S. r. CdrTy:
DEAR SIR In your recent letter You
request of me some advice in reference
TO National affairs and the late nomna-
tiOns i'm Ohio. 1t seems to me clear, rs
] told Mr.. Eyarts, our Secretary Of State,
but lately, that the time has come when
this question OF National money and
currency must be settled, and it must
be settled in the interests of the whole
people, and not as it il now III the inter
csts of special mOneycd class. The
people are suffering from untold miser-
les, from ruin in business and want OF
employment arising from this very
cause. Class legislation on the sub
ject of money, to permit the pco-
pies circulating medium To be
4,l in M xal.
which must be sustained by taxes
on the people, ,is now thegrcat oppression
| of which this nation complains. This
cruel policy turned S2O0,OOO,OOO Of
circulating medium i'm the shape of legal
tenders, with which we could pay our
debts and iructiiv all our industries, into
an Oppressive tax on those very Industries
This money was all real money, drawn
from the Government by the labor SER
vice, and material furnished by the peO-
pie, and hence paid Tor as so much gold
| and silver. The investment Of this real
money into bonds il the yoke under
which the people grOan this day, for It
removes the very tools Of industry and
substitutes taxes for money, which makes
it impossible for the people 10 pay their
taxes; and these bonds must bc paid rs
soon ~ possible and in strict conformity
| To the law under which they are issued.
ANY course or party action that will
hasten that day will be an incalcubablc
blessing 10 the people. Hence, i re-
! ioiccd when heard that the great Dem
ocratic party in Ohio had nominated
, one Of the most Out-spokcn and ablest
/ advocates Of a sound National currency
issued solely by the Government 1t
seems 70 me that this is one oi the best
and most significant facts in regard to
! the progress OF our cause in the West.
] must say, therefore, in response
to your request for advice, that
! | think this nomination Of Gen. Ewing
ought 10 be sustained. Without wish
ing TO imply any disparagement TO the
| excellent gentlemen nominated by the
Greenback Convention in Ohio, or wish
! ing 10 dictate To any one in the free ex-
crcisc oi their political Judgment,
must say, if | were a citizen Of Ohio
would vote for Gen. Ewing, as not only
consistent with the great principles for
which We contend as an Independent
party, but also as the best method for
securing success in our contest against
the vicious policy that's distressing our