Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-04-17
oLDPARTIEs REPUDIATED.
The Gyeenbaclters declared to be the SaIUa-
ton of the Land.

The Greenbdcicefs declared to be tie S2tc0-
tion Of the Land.
The farmers of Westline, Redwood
county, Mimi, have held meeting, and
after citing their reasons why they pre-
fer the National Greenback Labor
party, they proceed to wipe the old
parties out as follows:
Resolved, That We, who have sup
ported the Republican party, believe 1t
our duty to no longer support it; because
it has departed from the Republicanism
of Abraham Lincoln, Horace Greeley and
-Thaddeus Stevens; because it offers no
remedy for the evils of the past, thus
giving us no hope for better future; be-
cause it is making no endeavor for gen.
uine civil service reform, inasmuch as it
still adheres to the spolls system, which
ended in the death of our late
President; because it is making
no effort to change the laws so that the
people can vote by ballot, direct, for
president, vice president, and senator's;
because it has, through its representative
leaders, "pooled issues" with the leading
democrats, and endeavored to perpetuate
our burdensome national debt; because
it has legisiated our national banking
system into existence, and virtually per-
nit the bankers to make living on the
interest of what they actually
owe; because it has given
these bankers the power to expand
their currency at will, thereby permit
ing them TO create an artificial Cuisines
BOOM" such as we now have, only to be
followed by panics, depression and gloom
becase it has given its teese Dangers the
power to contract their currency at will,
thereby empowering them to create de-
pressions, financial disasters and panics,
of which the 'hard times" of
1873 are sample, with their attendant
railroad riots, anarchy and proposed
bread and water Diet because it has by
special legislation created millionaires at
our expense; because it has done nothing
to check monopolies, but has helped to
squader the public domain; because it has
exempted millionaires from taxation
thus throwing the burden of government
on the farmer, laborer merchant and me-
chanic; because we cannot comprehend
the arithmetical progression by which
many of its leaders become milllonaires
in only dozen years or so, on salaries of
from S., 900 to $4,000 a year, although
constantly living in costly luxury and
splendor.
Resolved, That we, who have sup
ported the Democratic party, believe it
our duty to support it; because it no
longer represents the time honored De-
me- cracy of Jefferson and Jackson, and
is Democratic only in name; because its
leaders have catered to the monied
aristocracy of Europe; because it has
"pooled issues" with the Republican
party, to benefit the national banks,
against the interest of the people;
because it only proposes to change men
in office and not principles; because
riches rather than honest merit repre-
sents the leadership of the party; be-
cause at the last presidential election it
placed VIM. Fl. English, a national
banker, as candidate for vice president;
because it leaders have shown no moral
superiority over the Republican leaders,
but have In their struggles for office de-
scended to the same low level.