The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1880-05-13
AS EXPECTED.


To THE EDITOR OF TIE NEW NORTHWEST
/ intimated in my last communlca.
tion to your paper that the National
Greenbackers would seek to drop the
suffrage question at their called meeting
in Chicago June 9th, 1850. I herewith
enclose a letter from Hon. f. VI. Davis,
Of Philadelphia, to the Sentinel, a Ma
tioual paper published in Chicago,
which letter fully verifes my suspicious
Of those Nationals. Il is hoped, how
ever, that the better judgment will pre-
vail among the majority OF their Con-
vention, and that the suffrage plank in
the platform adopted at the St. Louis
Convention will be retained by the
Chicago Convention. Yours for the
right N. S. BoorH.
HON. r. ST.. DAvIs's LETTER.
PHILADELPHIA, March lG, 1850.
Editor Sentinel Your issue Of the
llth, with a quotation from my circular
letter, and your comments, are before
me. ! reaiirm what you quote. Since
made the statement first, l find that
many Of the Western papers had the
"call' as IL was read and adopted
Whether it was oversight that you and
maDy Others got the call right, or
whether it was intended you should,
am not yet capable Of proving. As far
as / can ascertain (and this "ciiuueD
covers its tracks with great care), the
whole Associated Press was to have il
as altered. The Associated Press that
supplies the City Of Washington and all
the papers on the Atlantic Coast got the
cali as changed, aud in that mangled
way u appeared in their papers. The
parties that supply the Western papers
got % as adopted, aud 10 was of before a
change could be made. But | have
some reason to think that 10 was in I
tended that the words suffrage re-
formers" should in the West-where f.
they are more numerous than here-be I
but that for the East the /
words should quietly be dropped Some I
oi the Greeuback papers IN Ohio got il I
right, but throughout this STATE, New T.
loTki aud further East, / doubt if one .
had tue call as read and adopted. | /
nave seen great many, and not one in /
ciudes the words suffrage relormers.n - I
All our Philadelphia dailies aud New .
York daiiie5 published the CALI but .
without the words suffrage reformers.n - /
/ hope you will correct your statement .
that the words "weTe not left out"
Our friend Shilling's paper in Ohio .
published il right. He wrote me that
he made up the call from his notes cor .
rected from notes Of Washington re-
porter and got it right, but that was
within an hour after its adoption; bat
The Washington report was "over-
hauled" before be got his report into
type, and IN that paper the words were
omitted, as they were in every paper i'm
w Nashiugton, including the Washington
IjclC.
l am sorry you did not publish the
whole Of my circular letter, but hope
you viii, with this, in your next issue,
sud hope you will help me make il 80
rot for the person or persons who did
his dishonorable thing, that the Green
Jack papers Of the land may print the
lames involved In black lines. What
yGs stricken out is of secondary i'm
)Ortauce. Ii we submit for moment
o this das'ardly act, We encourage its
epetition, aud a. a party take the dis
ionor that belongs 10 a portion only.
l have written nearly one hundred
etters about the matter, and have had
great many responses. / am making
report Of my examination into the
natter I have asked the editor Of the {
National liCLC, where my charge was 9
irst made, if he would publish my re-
'ori; but although I had but a few
weeks before sent him my cheek for I
100, he treats my request, although re- 9
'eated, with silence, which he means, ]
4 course, for contempt.
/ am still working at the matter. It
hOws, or will when done, the kind Of I
Material our party is composed Of, at '
east our Eastern "wing." IL shall 90
o the public il l have to start paper
or that special object. S
All Of which is respectfully submitted. b
T.. NJ. DAVIS. 3