Daily Republican., 1880-03-02
GREEMBACKERs.
The Three Factions I'm whining.
tsn-TwO or Witch want 10 At.
tend Different C0nventiOns-And
Ono Does Not.

sond Different Conventions-And
Ono Does Not.
The story Of the "busting Of the
choir" because some wanted one thing
and some wanted another, would apply
TO the state Of affairs IN the Greenback
party OF Delaware just at present. 1t
would be much easier to tell who com.
pose the Greenback party here than to
state what II processes TO be. In the
minds Of many 1t has almost passed out
Of existence, but some can recall the
moonlight meetings of the Fall Of 1878,
when the torches fared In the wind,
and orators, that were more windy than
the autumn gales, proclaimed the sure
doom that awaited the bloatsd bond
holder. Those were the halcyon days
for the party leaders.
Then all was harmony and relentless
wsr upon the callow financial skeptic
was the order Of the day, and grave
digger Doyle, in his chip hat and linen
duster. pranced around the meetings
and shook his fist in the faces Of the
newspaper reporters like a very Ksar-
nyite unclaimed on the Sand Lots.
But things have somewhat changed
now. A number of the leading lights
have gone back to the well-beaten
track Of labor agitation; others have
given up their hopes of being Mayor
and members Of Congress and returned
TO their work shops and farms, and
only a few of the most determined
remain to testify to the past greatness
OF the powerful Greenback party OF
1879. Those who still continue within
the party organization have the same
sentiments as OF cid, and the great
trouble Of IL all is that different mem
bers hold different opinions.
It is precisely in the condition OF the
"busted choir" The difference OF
opinions exists On the question, in
which national convention, shall the
party in Delaware be represented. A
meeting was called some evenings ago
to decide the vexed and all important
question. An interloper, who occu
pied dry goods box in one corner of
the room, says the meeting was atten-
ded by a large and enthusiastic body
of eloquent Greenbackers, numbering
exactly ten.
The question was stated that Of tive
conventions, the meeting had to choose
the most preferable. One was to be
held in 81. Louis on March 4th, 1880,
and another at Chicago on June 9th,
1880. Discussion waxed warm for some
time, and Mr.. Doyle, Barney Rosenblatt
and others emblazoned the merits Of the
different conventions with respective
Hibernian and Polish eloquence.
Finally the end came.
"I'm in favor Of St. Louis" said
one.
"So'm l." chimed in five others.
~ aint," said an opposing voice,
"I'm going to Chicago"
"And Itoo, put In two more mem
bers.
DR.. John B. Welch at this point is
said to have declared that he wasn't
going to either convention, and then
and there cut loose from both the st.
Louis and Chicago factions.
The opposing members of the party
then mutually agreed to disagree, and
resolved that each should follow his
own preference. The matter stands in
that position and this is why the
choir is so disarranged. Six are in fa-
vor of the st. Louis convention, three
are in favor Of the Chicago convention,
and the acknowledged leading aud the
strongest man among them, is in faver
of no convention at all.
To the St. Louis Convention us dele.
gates will bs sent, owing to the fact
that delegates are scarce In these parts
and the contents of the party exchec-
quer, (greenbacks) scarcer still. How
ever letter has been written and
Delaware will be represented by proxy
and the vote cast for whatever sandi-
date had better bs nominated, for no
choice appears to exist among the par
ty leaders, and no canvass has been
made Of the masses.
The Chicago faction will, Of course,
attend the convention there in Juns
and help nominate another candidate.
As the campaign wakes warm, of course
the different divisions will stir up the
State with their efforts to surpass each
other in the number of votes secured.
Some one has suggested that the friends
of DR.. Welch will nominate him for the
and run him against the St.
Louis and Chicago candidates. This
done, the political contest in Delaware
the coming fall will not even lack its
usual humorous feature.