The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-09-18
MASsACHUsETTs GREENBACK-
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| MASSACAUSETTS GkEENBACA-
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ben. Butler Nominate tod for Govern.
or. The Platform.
The National Greenback Labor Par
ty of Massachusetts, held their State
Convention at Faneuel Hall, Boston,
last Friday and nominated the follow
ing ticket:
For Governor, Benjamin F. Butler /;
Lieutenant Governor, Wendell Phil
lips Secretary of State, Jonathan Ar
mold !; Treasurer, Wilbur f. Whitney ;
Auditor, David j.. King; Attorney
General, Horace B. Sargent.
The resolutions declare that stability
in prices can only be secured by MAIN
tanning q uniform relation between
the volume and uses of money, and
this can be secured only by full legal
tender paper money issued by the
Government.
That legal tender notes should be
substituted for National Bank notes
in circulation. .5 20, eif...e l..sqa=
Favor Immediately the use of the
coin in the Treasury for the reduction
of the bonded debt.
Also declare that the soldier and
sailor should receive q dollar as good
as the ,bondholder, and il, in defiance
of contract, honesty, equity and Ma
tional honor require the payment of
one hundred cents in gold for forty
cents loaned, it is alike demanded by
honesty, equity and honor that the
same measure be meted to those who
shed their blood in the cause of the
country's salvation and received de.
preciated money. .2lni iel'Ea.ff8t
That the truth of the Greenback
philosophy has been grandly vindica-
ted by the adoption of two Greenback
measures, viz: the st0ppage Of con.
traction in 1873 and the raising OF
greenbacks to par by receiving it at
the Custom House. DO, ..,i..s5.l...b FL
That q graduated and progressive
tax on incomes exceeding one thou.
sand dollars from every source with
the total exemption of small home
steads is right and in accordance with
the constitutional rule that taxes
should be tequal and proportional
That coin resumption Of the Repub-
lican party is sham and deluslon, by
making paper bank notes redeemable
in paper United States legal tender
notes, and those notes eXchangeable
for coin over only one counter In the
United States In sums of not less than
fifty dollars. a ao-..ts.-. =.
That hours of labor should be short.
ened and employment of young chill
dren in exhausting factory labor be
prevented. ns f'7t h.ie ft:=,eisiTf
That labor-saving machinery is
loan of God, rather than an ,instru-
meDts of torture, to wiring out larger
profits for capital by bringing the Ia
borer into heart-breaking competitor
with muscles that never tire.
Free school books are an important
part of the system of free schools.
The contract system of convict la
Dor should be abolished ~
The National Greenback Labor par
ty will support no candidate for the
State Legislature unless he be pledged
to vote for compulsory secret ballot.
We cordially indorse the amend
ment to the Homestead act presented
to Congress by Hendrick W. Wright
of Pennsylvania, and favor the aboli-
ton of the poll-tax.
An amendment to the flourish reso-
luton, asserting that equity demands
that the difference between the SOL
diers' dollar and bondboldere' dollar,
with interest from date of each defic-
lent payment, now amounting to near
ly five hundred dollars per man, be
paid to the soldiers and sailors of the
late war, in full legal.tender money,
was subsequently, adopted, and the
adjourned. I
E. M. Boynton, chairman of the
Platform Committee, protested against
the substitute resolution being accept
ed as the sentiment of the Greenback
party.
There is no foolishness in the aboye
like that of the Ohio Greenbackers in
their Columbus platform declaring
in favor of issuing sufficient legal ten
der notes to pay the entire debt of the
Nation at once.