The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-03-09

OF, Loulhi muiOH ~ lowe
Brick Pomcroy's wing ofthc Grccnbock
party is in National Convention assembled Mt
Masonic hall to-day, for the purpose of put
ting up candidates for President and Vice
President. About two-thirds Of the States
arc represented, the entire number Of dole.
gates present being about two hun
dred and fifty. One of the most
singular and noticeable things about
tho convention Is the absence of for
mer prominent and enthusiastic mon of the
party, and their manifest disposition TO not
BIO identified with the deliberations Of the
present assembly. This is thought to be be-
cause of the fact that Brick Pomeroy is the
head and front of this wing, and that instead
of being strictly Greenbsck organization.
with fiat money and the other financial vaga-
ries as the principal plank of the platform,
it has the "labor" attachment,
SO prominently and violently agitated in the
Irish World, and which Is really m extreme
and nonsensical arraying of the Working
classes -against- the Gaplta Of inc country.
And this is out of all reason now, when
rates of interest on bonds and security in
yestments are being brought down to such
rate that the moneyed men ofthe land are be-
ing induced to put their cash into improve
ment enterprises which will pay them better
andgive the poor man work perform, This Is
doubtless why such men rs Murch and
Weaver and Gilett and Wash Jones and
Scion Chase and Pllsbury, and the Hoosier
Rev. Gilbert De La Matyr, and other soft
money luminaries, have refused to allow their
names to go before this convention
as candidates on the ticket to
be put out. They will come
to the front in Chicago
on juno 9th, at what is to be the regular
party convention. If these leaders can SEQ
that it is to their advantage to have ticket
in the field at that time, they will doubtless
influence the nominees Of this ST. Louis con
vention to withdraw and fuse their forces in
favor of the men nominated at Chicago.
Rivalry exists, some say, because this Ma
tional Union Greenback party are in favor
of wiping out the bonded Indebtedness SO
soon as the bonds become due, while the Ma
tional Grcenbaek Labor party which meets
in convention at Chicago in June, are in
favor Of wiping out the entire Indebtedness
so soon as they secure the reins ofgovernment
The Texas delegation-some calling them
selves "Broadhorns" about the most nu-
merous of any except the Missouri delegation,
and have urged nomination. The
candidates named for the honor are Stephen
d. Dillaye, of New Jersey, for President, and
b. j. Chambers, of Texas, for Vice President
But we are dwelling too much upon small
subject, and the readers of the
HERALD will be posted by press
dispatches of the full ac-
ton Of the convention before this reaches
them; 50 bid the Greenbackers adieu and
tarn to something else.
PILGRIM PARNELL.
Charles Stewart Parnell, the Irish sufferer
champion, arrived here to-day, and much
preparation to receive him, especially by our
Irish citizens and the various societies and
relief committees is being made. The money
collected will be turned over to him
this evening and forwarded at once to Ireland
for distribution among the starving sons and
daughters Of dear old Erin. A grand re-
ception is in waiting for Mr.. Parnel at the
Lindell, AMI tonight mammoth street pro-
cession.
JAY GOULD
And his railroad associates spent couple of
DAYS in st. Louis and left for Texas last
night, but as the telegraph informs the
daily papers of their ar
rival in Dallas the people of Texas are aware
of his plans and projects in your State more
fully than / can inform them. And referring
10 railroad men reminds me that another i'm
portant line is being agitated just now
to our capitalists and business men by par
ties directly interested in that scheme, and
aid being solicited to put it through. 1t is
the
ST. LOUIS Il MEXICAN GULF RAILWAY.
The plan Is to construct road from
Pierce City, Missouri, on the st. Louis &
San Francisco railroad south TO Sabine Pass
in Texas, via Fayetteville and Fort Smith,
Arkansas, making the distance from st.
Louis to Sabine about 800 miles, and it is
claimed to be 70 miles shorter than the
shortest present line. The advocates of the
new enterprise claim thatit is of vital import.
ance 10 st. Louis TO see to the construction OF
this road, for If she does not see that tits
built. Chicago will, and that much of the
trade of Southwest Missouri, Northwest Ar
kansas, Texas and Mexico, will go with this
line when constructed, and that it remains
for 81. Louis to say whether this city or the
queen of the lakes shalI be the beneficiary.
N.