Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-10-18
GREENBACK ORATORY.
WHAT CANDIDATE ARMsrRONG SAID.

'D>ASA VIVA i OxS 20
WHAT CANDIDATE ARMSTRONG SAID.
A Small Audience Greet Harrison and ARM
strong ut the Court House e-Denounc-
ing Corporate Monopoly.
Between 400 and 500 people assembled
in the court house last evening TO listen to
an exposition of the principles Of tho Ma
tiOnal DECENTRALIZATION party. The fact
that Thomas A. Armstrong, the head of
the Greenback- Labor ticket, was to ad-
dress the meeting, and the nOtOriety
which this movement has acquired since
the exposure in Luzerne county, were
sufficient to attract the curious, and quite
a fair audience were gathered together
when the frs. speaker Of the evening,
Hon. Charles Harrison, of Baltimore, was
introduced after five-minute speech by
II. ]. Houston.
Mr.. Harrison said that tho records of
all the great parties had been examined
and entire satisfaction had been found in
none of them. 1t was for this reason that
organized labor determined to adopt q
platform and principles of its own. He
thought in any event the outcome of this
election would be . good governor, for
personally he believed all the candidates
were good mm. After reading tho plat
form of his party and extolling its merits,
be spoke of the right Of labor peacefully
to assemble in defense of their political
liberties, = right which had been denied
them by the monOpOlists of the land. OPP
position to monopoly is not destructive
principle, it is fight for existence Ii
We do not oppose their encrOachments they
will destroy us. He then proceeded to ex-
plain the difference between u monopoly
and y corporation, saying that the latter
was legitimate organization, while the
former was given exclusive rights by law
to practice extortiOn ON the people. He
that the national bank system
all the movable capital vi the
country was tho boss monopoly that
6 600 men composing the national i,ankers
might ut their option bring
universal chaos on the country. IIe as
serted that the Democratic party had
suffered defeat because it ignored tho
great principles Of jefferson and Jackson.
and that tho Republican party would fall
for the same reason.
He claimed that it was not fair that
national banks, having in the aggregate
only $4OO, ,OOO, 900 or $500, OOO, 600 Of United
States bonds, should control the 81 ,OOO, OOO,-
600 in bonds possessed by other holders.
Competition in our banking system
will give the same advantage rs results
from competition in trade. He wished
to know why We had not used our
surplus capital to pay off our bonded in
at lower rate Of interest. The gold and
silver currency was compared to the certi-
ficate issued by the government to the det-
riment Of the former. He closed with an
to all present 10 stand by the
ticket, and predicted that when the votes
were counted, their number would surprise
the thOughtlcss who arc crying down this
movement.
The termination of his remarks were
greeted with applause, after which Chair
man Houston introduced the next speaker,
Thomas A. Armstrong.
The candidate of the Greenback Labor
candidate began by stating that when he
accepted the nomination last May, he
promised to bear the party's standard
through all the counties OF the state, and
Lancaster was the fOrtieth county he had
thus far visited. He said that they had
been having great meetings, which. how
eyer, we're Nnnqtiasd Oy the MetsqpQlit:,n
newspapers. An effort had been made,
he continued, to throw discredit upon
their actions, ON the ground that they were
working in the interest of one Or other of
tho great parties. He distinctly repudia-
ted all snch accusations, and claimed that
his party va; the only party eftLp leapla.
lie alluded fo tho lat6 exposure in Ti:
zerne county, clai inning that the alleged
revelation was made by ) man whom a
corrupt senator had purchased for the
purpose. This was too much for 4 num-
6er OF people, vho pelicye that campaign
orators sl6Hld "aa4ese 20 tho t,ath, and
they quietly quit tue room.J Tho Demo
cratic party, which the speaker termed the
assistant Republican party. was accused OF
being in league with tho Republican or
monarchical party to bring about a perpet
ttal Lease Of E1He for the l;ttGr. The na-
tionalbank s. 5stem was alsO'seserely' '.cosed.
and the speaker said that the Republicans
were already crying for the abolition Of in
ternal revenue in tho interest Of the ma
tionai banking System. lie tried, with
little SUCCESS, to play Upon ths fe3ra af th9
audience by the prediction that We would
soon have . king, lords and commons, as
in monarchy. He terminated his re-
marks by claiming that the National
Grseniack- labor party vas the only one
that really had the interests Of the york.
ing classes at heart.
1t was about y quarter past ten when the
meeting was adjourned by Chairman
Houston, who also informed tho anxious
aIdienle whore Grecnback Labor tickets
might be obtained.