Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-09-30
GEN. WEAVER IN NEW YORK.
An Immense Audience Assemblies in
Cooper Institute to Listen to an Ad-
dress by Our Candidate.

New York Herald
AS the Grccnback party in this city is
generally considered to consist of the ven
cradle Peter Cooper, and as last night was
exceptionally stormy and disagrecablc. il
might be supposed that the audience which
assembled at Cooper Institute to hear the
address Of Gen. James Il. Weaver was
rather a nragrc one, and il is certain that
not few persons went there with the cX-
pectatiOn that there would be- ample choice
of seats. II was somewhat of surprise
therefore, on entering To find that the vast
hall was filled from the platform back to
the doors. Despite the weather and the
topic Of discussion several thousands of
people had turned out, and the audience
itself was not the least interesting feature
of the gathering. II was composed almost
exclusively of working men of the better
class. artisans and mechanics. comfortably
dressed, and looking like men who earned
good wages. In the front seats was fair
sprinkling of ladies accompanied by gen
tlcmen whose faces are familiar ut liberal
N'''' "'i'l SUM ''-''' q lh'l' WI IINN ''lll-
mmistic tingc. II was an orderly cnthli-
siaStic asscmhlagc. The platform was
filled with members of the National Green
back Labor Club. Mr.. Peter Cooper wa,
also there. and would have acted rs chair
man had his health permitted. As he was
unequal To the task the active duties of the
post were discharged by Mr.. John W.
KcOugh. Mr., George q. Jones called the
meeting Ia order and after the election of
chairman and the singing Of the national
hymn by the audience the orator of the
evening was introduced and received with
hearty applause.
Gen. Weaver came forward and bowed.
II needed but glance 10 discover that
he came Of the real puritunic. New Eng
land stock. There was no miSiaking the
characteristic contour of the head and
profile; only when he turned his full face
to the spectator one recognized in its COM
parativc breadth and massivencSs the New
England growth Of the West. His address
lasted about an hour, and was in the main
the same as he delivered in Newark on
Friday evening last, and which was re-
ported in the HcrdH of Saturday. There
were, however, some new features which
deserve mention. His main line of argll-
ment may be summarized thus: lie as
sumed as an automatic truth, to which, he
said, political economists of all schools had
subscribed, that prices are increased or di-
minished according to the volume of money
in circulation. If this be true, then il must
follow that those who can control the vol
ume of money control the price.
The national banks by one law have the
right to decrease their circulation as they
shall see fit; by the resumption law they
have the right to expand it as they wish.
Therefore, since they have the right by one
law to expand the volume of money and
by another to contract il, II follows that
they can raise or lower prices rs suit, their
convenience. Arguing from this, Gen.
Weaver insisted that since 50 great power
existed, and one 50 important to the mate
rial welfare of the country il was one
which should be lodged in the hands of
the people of the whole country, and as the
hhNiuh"i Nlullt W It's lIlp ltnl(i-
sentative Of the whole people it was in the
hands of the national government alone
that the power should be- lodged. There.
fore abolish the national bank money and
have government only, consisting of
gold, silver and paper. He declared that
1t was owing to unequal laws that our
cities were filled with men of enormous
wealth, who had'n nd accumulated il by
slow and patient labor, as our forefathers
made their fortunes, but by means of great
and violent changes in prices and values
which these unequal laws have brought
about. He declared that so far from dis.
turbing dheSc men in their wealth he would
shed his own blood in their defense; but
what nc and the party he represented did
demand was that the inipuitouS laws by
which these vast fortunes were rendered
possible should be torn from the statute
book
lie gave an amusing account of his eX.
pcrlence in Alabama and the way the
voting was done there. "When you went
up to the polls to vote" he said, you found
little pigeonhole in the wall about a,
high as You could reach Through thi.
you handed in your ballot, but as TO what
was done inside there was not the slightest
chance to see. At the pigeonhole, behind
the ballot box, sat two inspectors or judges
Of elections, who took the ballot and in
spected 1t. If 1t was one that suited then
they put It in the box, and II It was moi
they tore 1t up and put In one that did,
tGreat laughterl He asserted that tn,
Greenback party carried the state by 49,,
900 majority If they could have their vote
counted. The Democrats struck then
down, mot he added, "that they had any
thing against us, but we were an obstacl,