The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-10-24
A Greenbaek Camp-Mseting that Did
Not Come on.

CehSlthto hu buIuuIuLucHt W tNS SOult
House in the city, where series Of adj
dresses were delivered by Col, Jesse Har-
per, OF illinois; john eitz and Chas jenkins,
Of Ohio; S. W. sturm, Of West Virginia,
and Ms, Lois Waisbroken, Of Caliior-
min, The Journal has good word to say
about these addresses. The speakers were
all earnest and respectable sort of people,
and evidently believed in their mission,
which they conceived TO be the enlighten-
ment Of the people Of West Virginia in re-
gard to "the principles Of the National
Greenback party"
Itseems little late in the day, us well
as late in the year. to DO holding camp
meetings to propagate such principles, but
We presume that it is not to be expected
that the Greenback party will die out all at
once everywhere, and make no sign, even
a last expiring and spasmodic one, in its
death. Greatayalanches have been known
to fall on people without killing them in
stantly, The injuries were mortal, but
death did not elsne Immediately, They
have fingered along for good while, and
have been tempted to entertain hopes Of
recovery, And 50, while great avalanches
OF votes and verdicts have fallen on our
Greenback friends, burying them beneath
the wrecks in almost every State OF the
Union, yet good many Of them have up
parently been dug out ina wounded and
MANNED condition, and begun to talk again
of new lease OF life,
To us, OF course, viewing us we do the
Greenback Juror as passing craze, growing
out Of the panic OF 1873, this would-be re-
vival seems little else than ludicrous, II
there is anything that We regard as dead in
the country 1t Is the GreenbaCk party, 1t
has had It's day and perChance served
It's uses, although we should be chary
about admitting its uses, except on the
principle that everything in this world is
said to have its uses. GreenbaCksm, pure
and simple, was mischieyous heresy. We
speak Of 1t In the past tense, for we cannot
bring ourselves to contemplate 1t now as a
living reality. But there were incidents
connected with 1t and incorporated into It
that really did not belong to it, that should
and no doubt will survive the passing
away Of the Grccnbuck party. One ofthese
was the 9th resolution Of their National
platform in the lastcampaign, reading thus:
ut Is the duty Of Congress to regulate
Interstate commerce. All lines OF com
munication and transportation should be
brought under such legislative control rs
shall secure moderate, fair and uniform
rates for tho passenger and freight traffic."
This is aplank in the Greenback plat
form that is not found in either of the
other party platforms, and 1t Is one that
will survive the disintegntion Of the party
that adopted II, II deals with one Of the
great questions OF the future, and one that
the party in power must meet The rapid
absorption and consolidation Of railroad
lines into continental system, in the hands
Of such men MS Gould and Vanderbilt, Is a
new order Of things which Congress must
control in the interests OF the people.
1t does not appear from tho published
proceedings Of tho Parkersburg meeting
what were the special points discussed by
the Greenback speakers, and least OF all by
the lady who addressed the meeting. We
presume, however, that 1t was in support
OF that resolution in the GrecnbaCk plat
form that demands "that every citizen Of
due age, sound mind and not ielon, be
fully franChised, and that this resolution
be referred TO the States with recommenda.
ton for their favorable consideration"
This was the famous resolution In support
Of female suffrage that made the Green.
back party popular with great many agi-
tators Of female suffrage in the last cam.
paign. We suspect, hover, that the party
as such did not lay much stress on the res
olution. While II is one Of the questions
Of tho future, IL is not one that Is pressing
at oil urgently on public attention at this
time.
II the scattered remnants of the Green.
back party desire 10 make themselves felt
in the future they must get rid Of the old
name and address themselves to live issues.
They cannot galvanize tho old organiza.
ton into life as Grecnback party. That
issue has been fairly tested and is played
out.