Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-09-30
BUCKNER's REPLY,


receipt of your note of the first inst.
informing me of your appointment to
speak at J%oneshurg on the 9Th, and
offering to divide the time with me,
and also expressing a desire to make
an arrangement with me for future
joint discussion in the District. l am
greatly obliged for your courtesy,
but as | have declined several invita-
tons to address the people during the
current month, and have resolved to
give my voice and throat needed rest
certainly until the first of October, l
must decline your invitation. You
seem not to be aware that | have an
other opponent besides yourself for
congress. while the Republican party
of the District, SO far as | am advised,
has not taken action in the premises.
If, as you no doubt anticipate, the
Republican leaders, IN consideration
OF the support OF the little faction
you represent for their electoral ticket,
shall decline to pat up a candidate
for congress, and agree to transfer
the rank and file of that party to you,
you would thus become, to all practi-
cal purposes. their candidate, and
the issues before the people would he
greatly simplified. If, on the con-
trary, the Republicans should nomi-
nate a candidate, inasmuclI as 1t is
the Only party that bars the way of
the Democratic party in this Stvte or
elsewhere, l should feel that it was
my duty to discuss the great issues
involved in this presidential contest
with the representative of that party !;
and to he under the necessity of
meeting all three of my opponents on
the stump, would be rather nor than
l should like to bargain for. l beg
you, therefore, to await the develop
ments of the near future before you
begin to air your financial vocabulary.
and enlighten the benighted minds of
the people of the District on fiat
money and l~egal-tender greenbacks,
and to belch forth your venom against
the great party at whose hands you
| were so anxious to obtain a nominal
ton for the General Assembly a
few years ago. But if you
find yourself unable to restrain
the outflow of your pent up financial
knowledge, permit me to suggest to
you when you get to Jonesburg that
You extend your visit to the neigh
boring counties of Warren and St.
Charles, and engage in the business
of organizing greenback clubs after
the pattern furnished you by your
distinguished co-laborer Brick Pom
eroy, until the first of October. The
people OF these counties of sour
District are IN the grossest financial
darkness. They are still imbued with
the antiquated notion that labor ear
alone produce money and pay debts
and taxes, and if you a succeed in
turning them from the error of their
ways, and proseltying them to your
patent-right-Brick Pomeroy process:
of raising the wind, you will have
accomplished a marvellous work
Yourhote, written the same day
was nominated as the Democratic
candidate for congress in this District.
assumes that / have notice that yot
have been nominated by what il
called the Greenback party as it,
candidate. 1t is part of the history
of the times that this so-called part,
has put forward candidates for Presi.
dent and VIce-Prcsident, and nothing
in the future is certain thai
that, unaided by members Of one O
the other of the real parties of thu
country, there is not a ghost Of ,
chance of their obtaining a single
electoral vote. The same may be sal,
of every candidate for congress /,
this State and out of it. In Missouri
you are relying upon coalition will
the Republicans, the contract bein,
already sealed and delivered, judgin:
from the pregnant fact that your petit,
faction of soreheads has not yet nom
mated an electoral ticket. This, too, a
a time when one Of the most mo
mentous questions ever presented 70
the discussion of the American peopl
has to be passed upon at the Presi
|, dental election, whether they vii
approve or condemn this century,
browning crime, by which the Presi
|. dency was stolen four years ago
Your little faction, led by disap
.tpointed soreheads and disgruntle'
malcontents, studiously ignore thi
paramount question. Intent onl,
upon feeding fat the grudge you bea
/ the Democratic party, because of it
neglect of the claims Of its leaders t
Official preferment, it has put on til
livery Of Greenbackism to serve tn
party whose candidate for the Pres
dcncy was one Of the chief perpetrs
tors of this great wrong to the witt
principles of republican government
with a platform Of no present pract
cal value, and without the bares
p possibility Of enforcing any Of il
: protested principles now or hereafte
: without the success Of the Democrat
. party, it is engaged in dickering an
!. trading with state and local republ
can organizations with the hope til:
some Of these soreheads maysby SON
of the accidents Of party politics ST
cure d few Of the crumbs that ia
from the table Of the unholy alliance
Consumed, as the leaders Of your Ii
tie faction are, with hatred for til
Democratic party, and praying da
and night for its defeatin the ersuir
a presidential election, you have neith'
o. the mahlHiess or courage to proclai
z your real sentiments, and take yol
..dplaceaat. the foot of the Republics
q column, FOR lear many Of yo,
q honest and misguided followers w
desert your. thinned and thinnir
: franks. 70 be plain, IL more plainne
= { speech is needed, your greenbat
. faction in this State is 8 transpare
fraud and 'braxen faced cleats III
= were an indietAbie offence under Il
/, Iawsor.ihis State "a obtafa votes |
Ffaise pretenses, as it ID 10 obta
money or property, l would pledi
'e myself to, convict its leaders and sci
them to the l5enitentiary before al
/. impartial judicial tribunal. The
never HAS beenssthefe never. will b
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