Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-06-17
THE TRIpARTIrE CONVENTION.

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THE TRIPARTITE CONVENTION.
The Labor Leagues Throw of Their Mask
and Absorb the ~Greenbackers and
Communists.
The convention called by the La
Dor Leagues to meet in Chicago and
and nominate Presidential candidates
assembled on the 9th inst, in the
Exposition Building, lately occupied
by the Republicans.
1t styled itself the "Greenback La
Dor Party" and consisted of 6l7
persons, the great majority Of whom
were citizens of Indiana, Iowa, Mas
~sachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New
York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wis
cOnsin.
There convened ut the same time
at Farwelt Hall a body composed of
1913 individuals assuming to be the
''Union Greenback party, (which held
a meeting at st. Louis in March, and
after nominating Stephen D. Dillaye
of New jersey for President, and Col.
B. j. Chambers of Texas for Vice.
President, and making a political
platform, adjourned to meet the
Labor League Convention and
control its nominations and deliver
ances. This body marched from Far
we'll Hall into the Exposition Build
ing, but not r~elishing its reception
there, fled out and back to its start
ing place. After negotiations and
explanations, it entered the Exposi-
ton Building u second time and was
absorbed by the larger and moro as
tute assembly, which had previously
increased its numbers by the recep
ton of A Socialists, 6 Workingmen
and 6 Eight-hour advocates. With
the club Greenbackers, the body con-
stituted q grand total Of 851 individ-
uals, heretofore expressing separate
and conflicting opinions, but now
protesting to be cemented into a new
organization by the adoption Of an
advanced platform supposed to be
well adapted to the attainment of of.
fetal position.
The views of the communists in this
and other countries are we'll known,
and wore engrafted in their most dis
tinctiye and offensive forms upon the
new platform. The club Greenback-
ers were not so fortunate in securing
as clear a recognition of their rag
baby views. The st. Louis COnven-
ton had proposed that call L. S.
bonds should be paid in such money
AS government might have Or could
issue Is they matured, insisting that
paper must be an universal legal ten
der, issued by government and pro-
tected and received as absolute
money" The new platform sets
forth ''that the bonds of the United
States shall not be refunded, but paid
as rapidly AS possible according to
contract. and that to enable govern
ment to meet these obligations, legal
tender notes should be substituted
for the notes of the National Banks :;
the national banking system abol-
ished, and the unlimited coinage of
silver as we'll as gold established"
1t says nothing about bond holders
accepting fiat upon pain of forfeiture.
Neither does it contain provision for
loans Of any sort. 1t endorses
Viewers proposition to distribute
five hundred millions among the sol
diers of the late war, advocates the
adoption of the eight-hour labor sys-
TEN and the regulation of wages by
legislation, and winds up with the
SOcialistic resolution that 1--WE de-
clare that land, light, air and water
are the free gifts of nature to all
mankind, and any law or custom OF
society that allows any person to
monopolize more Of these gifts than
he has . right to, to the detriment OF
the rights of others, We earnestly O
demn and seek to abolish" As the
paper issued by government is legally
redeemable on presentation, and all
the bonds in existence contain on
their face stipulations for coin pay
ment, If any reliable construction can
be placed on the words ''accordiag to
CONTRACT they ought to mean MAIN
tenance Of specie payment, bat no one
can say with certainty what is intend
ed. The original bond contracts
contemplated payment in lawful
money. If that is what is meant, a
sufficient amount of greenbacks is
sued to meet the bonds and equalize
the army pay rolls, added to the one
thousand millions of dollars now in
sight, will make fat as plenty as
blackberries in midsummer, and
quite as cheap, if not more worthless.
Such are some of the platform
planks accepted by the Greenbackers
in abandoning their previous sentl-
ments and club organizations.
The new body next threw off its
pretended representative character
and entered upon the selection OF
candidates in its individual capacity.
Upon an informal ballot
Weaver received. .226 votes
Wright ...."........124
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