The Hartford herald., 1880-09-08

that has bankrupteti you. You say that
has ruined the business interest of this
country that il has built up the bond
holder and impoverished the plow-hold-
er. And now you propose to go right
hack AMI readopt that system which
you claim has been ruilIOus, To issue
greenbacks and and fiat money to the
bOnd-hOlder. Now how much better
off will you be? Are you not travelling
over the same road? You reform moth
ing, nothing whatever; you simply
adopt the financial system and legisla-
lion OF the Republican party, call it all
right and go ahead.
Now | say these are facts and no man
can dispute or deny it becausel have read
from the record, from the platform and
| from Gen. Weaver's speech pledging
You tn that dOctrine. Now I will read
from Brick PomerOy's paper, The
Greenhicker. and belivc most of you
Greenbackers Of I.acle,le county two
years ago We're organized under Brick
Pomeroy's aIspicies; he WAS your lesld-
er, hear what he has got la say about
y
-. BRICK PoMERoY. E Id
1--WE are a t;reenlst;k man il there is
a t'reenhtck party that in lis platis,rm
demands tn, death of usury. If there
IL III such party, nO such candidate,
then We must do ~ others do: chonse
between policy and principle. We
want the national debt wiped out of ex-
istenee AMI will vote with the party
that will wipe il out the quickest and
nd tor thuse who demand the Olser-
vance of AN unlawful contract" (Wea-
Yer says il Is lawful.l Things have
come Ia u pretty passs; three parties in
tine iield aIId the one that Processes tai
be- Greenlack the only one that de-
nI;,Ii,iS the payment Of the bonds ac-
cor,lng to the contract"
That j. what your Greenback Brick
Ponieroy tells yo,I, AMI he tells yon
AN ABSOLUTE TRUTH.
You cannot deny IT, | do not speak for
the Republican, party, but 10 say in no
Democratic platform can you find such
IA declaration as that, no pledges made
Of that sort. j. your Greenback party
and Is your tireenback candidate to he
the only party and the only candidate
that in direct terms and i'm 50 many
words says this? We except Mr.. Gar
field, hecaIlse in his speech he declared
that he wants the bonds paid i'm gold.
But | dnn't think you can find a Demo-
cratic candidate making any such
pledges or expressions, or Democratic
platform containing them. And your
platform is the only platform, ~ POme-
roy says, that expressly declares you
will pay bonds according to the con-
tract; you plant yourselves right there
ON the record, and you cannot under
any circumstances escape from ii.
BEN BUTLER.
No wonder that Ben Butler does not
take much stock i'm this party. /
want to read little extract from Pom
eroy's paper, the Great West. before
mentioned. of July 10, 1850, headed "a
Back Set :"
"B. Ii. Harris, one of the Nationals OF
Denver, has hitherto placed the great
est confidence in the brain power 0f Ben
Butler and his ability to prophesy cor
rectly. A few days since when Butler
was in Denver, Harris with other adj
mirers of the schemer, paid him visit
during which Harris said, The Nation
ais will carry Texas and few other
States, will they not C;eneral:' Butler
replied, Garry h--l!' Laughter.
They won't carry a single State North,
South, East or West"
Now, when Brick PomerOy aud Ben
Butler find yOur party in such u had fix
that they cannot stay ia il, in the name
of G0d how can anybody else: Laugh
ter.
wEAvER's REcoRD.
proprose 10 read little further from
Gen. weaver's speech that befors al
luded tn.
Mr.. Weaver was questioned upon this
subject by Mr.. Bayne.
"Mr Bayne: Will the gentleman al
low me to ask him QUESTION?
Mr.. Weaver: Certainly.
"Mr. Bayne: Where will the govern
ment get the money to pay the mature,i
bonds?
"Mr. Weaver: Id is very easy tai an
swer. First, from the surplus revenues
properly increased by judiciOIis income
tax. Second, by the coinage Of silver.
The bonds are not mature; they are
paysl'is. at the option of tine govern
nent.
government get money tai pay when
they ,lo mature.
"Mr. Weaver: They are only paya-
ble at the option ofthe government, and
the government can coin all the silver
that il necessary. .l
MIR. Bayne A" And where will the
government get the silver,!'
MI. Weaver: Where does il get it
now: II buys it with surplus revenues,
and manufactures silver dollars, and
four millions a month, even under the
present law, will pay of the principal
and interest Of the debt now maturing,
in half the time that is proposed tn fund
it,"
Now, my greenbaek friends, Glen.
Weaver tells you that these bonds can
be paid of in silver dollars i'm half the
time that they propose to take in re
fundilg it. know it has been charg-
ed by the Greenback party that the
Democratic party proposes To refund all
these bonls. and they allu,le To Wood's
refunding act, and because Fernando
Wood is Democrat, and happened to
report funding bill, they claim that
the whole Democratic party Is going to
pass il The fact is his refunding bill
was 80 unpopular that they never gave
him an opportunity even to take il up
and consider it, except to allow him to
make one speech ON il. They do not
propose to do any such thing. u
Gen. Weaver, your candidate for
president, tells you that out of the sur
plus revenues of this country to-day, as
1 the law stands, without any change at
all, you cam buy four millions worth oi
bullion and coin it into silver dollars
and pay off this debt. Now, four mill
lion dollars worth of silver bullion will
coin about four and half million OF
standard silver dollars at the present
price of bullion. noticed little dis
patch the other day stating that Secre-
tary Sherman was buying the bonds,
recleeming them at the rate, believe,