Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-09-16
GREENBACK CAMPAIGN NOTES.

GREENBACK CAMPAIGN NOTES.
WEST VIRGINIA will poll large Green.
back vote.
GREENBACKERs in Missouri are conf
dent ofgaluing at least five congr essmen.
Scion Chase is the noblest Roman OF
them all in Maine. No fusion in his
blood.
How strangely silent Is the Massachu-
soLts Democratic platform on the finance
question.
MASSACHUSETTS Greenb lcker5 hold
their State convention at Worcester, Sep
icmber %
GENERAL I. d. HoxIE has been nomi.
mated for governor by the National party
OF New Jersey.
GARFIELD is responding, His party
have lost their grip on the people. Weav-
er is the coming man.
FIGHTING has UeBua all along the line
in Indiana, and the Nationals are making
iniolds at every attack.
CALIFORNIA never was in better fight.
ing trim. Look for a big vote in Califor-
MD for the Grecnbackers.
J. B. WEIGH, OF Iowa, is one of the true
apostles Of Greenbackism. He is doing
noble work for the cause.
HoN. L. II. GILLETTE, Of Iowa, is max
ing thorough canvas Of his district and
wll be reelected to congress,
The Greenbackers of the First congres-
siOnal district Of Iowa have nominated
Hon. D. ?. Stubbs for congress.
Texas will astonish the world with her
large vote. q. J. Chambers lives in that
state, and the people love him as they
should true patliot and good mau.
De LAMATYR Is making II warm for
both of his contestants in his district, and
the indications are that he will have a
clear majority over both of them.
J. NJ. KING OF Rochelle, llls., was nom
mated by tho GceenJackers of the Fifth
congre, S onal district ot that state for
congress on the 2Sth Of last month.
The GreenUackers OF the Tenth No.
district have nominated j. NJ. Burrows
of Mercer county for congress. Mr., Bur-
rows represented hi, county in the legis-
lature last winter.
1HnEE is 5ring all along the mo Of the
GreenOack army just nov. We scarcely
pick up an exchange which is not filed
with accounts OF enthusiastic mct tiugs
being held Ill over the country.
THREE CASTS U, attempts OF tue Repub.
llcaus IN Main, to buy votes have come to
the knJwicJg' Of iircentackers there;
aud prosecution against the offenders
will be Immediately commenced.
Hon. A. J. CHAPMAN, Of Detroit, Michi-
gan, is pounding the life out OF the old
tories in that stale. lhs Nationals ought
to send Mr.. Chapman to congress. He is
one Of the ablest men in the party.
GENERAL JoHN SEITz, OF Ohio has left
the Democrats and accepted the nominl-
ton Of the Gre"nbachers in his di trict for
Congress. IT, is the author Of the Seiiz
law, making it pcnItentary oifenSe to
nee money at elections.
A vote for the Democratic party is a
vote to accomplish the same results. It's
leaders aim at the same ends. If they
have not announced this policy plainly,
it is only because they lack the frankncss
an | c ,uragc OF the Republicans.
The best proof that men do not cx-
change their labor cr the products thereof
for money on account Of its intrinsic value
is that no man would exchange II thousand
dollars worth of either for a thousand dol.
lms worth OF gold if he was prohibited
from parting with the latter for such
things as would yield him either benefit
Or pleasure.
The sectional parties are opposed to an
initiation Of grecnbackS, but they have
provided Tor an initiation of bank notes
viii h is limited only by the amount Of
the bonded debt of the country. They
are opposed to an issue of silver, but they
favor an expansion of bonds. They doubt
the constltutionality OF greenbacks, but
they have never questioned the constitu-
tionality Of bank notes.
The Grecnbackers in Iowa are making
things lively. At Alton the other day
Hon, u. p. Staples and Captain II. Z.
Ayers addressed very large and en-
thusiastic audience. From there they
went in the evening 10 Creston, where
they met an audience Of 5000, preceded
by torch.lght procession more thin half
mile long bearing trausparcncics, Of
which the following are samples:
ave bow to God, not to the golden
calf"
"Ns corporation rags. A national cur
rency for all"
Equal rights--Equa( taxation"
"We stand by the dollar OF our dads.
"Tho soldier as good as the brndbod-
er'
"The collective man--no individual.
ISM"
"Weavcr and Chambers"
The speeches were applauded to the
echo. In other places in the state we
hear Of good reports.
Garfield went to New York, met his old
ar,s'ocratic friends at Fifth Avenue ho-
tel, and wined and dined and had a good
time generally, On his way home this
aris ocratin lordling spoke to his friends