The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-05-08
Michigan Greenbackers.

The National Greenback Convention of Mich
igan assembled at Kalamazoo, and was largely
attended. &. 5. Hampton, of Harbor Springs,
was made temporary Chairman. and made q
speech denouncing the Republican party a. cor
rupt and recreant to its trust, and the Democrat
ic party as played out. The people were rising,
determined to have new order OF things. He
alluded 10 Butler rs the coming man, and the
remark was received with great applause. The
organization OF the convention was entirely in
the hands of the men who favored fusion in the
past and still favor it. Rev. &. L. Deyo was
elected permanent Chairman.
The Committee on Resolutions presented a
platform of great length. 1t points with pride
to the record of the Greenback party: to the
continued coinage OF the silver dollar; the pres
ervation OF the greenback currency; the rapid
payment of debts: the establishment Of the
greenback on par with coin by the Supreme
Court decicion; the defeat of all attempts to re-
peal the legal-tender act 1t claims that, had
there been no Greenback party, greenbacks
would have been destroyed; the bonds perpetu-
ated; the silver dollar demonetized: the Legal
tender act repealed; NATIONAL ank notes
our only paper currency; gold our only
debt-paying money; all debtors ruined
business in panic: labor idle; the
money lords dominant; and bloody revo-
luton impending. That these events have not
happened is owing to this party, and they are
justified no party ever was in pointing with
pride TO the undeniable record OF their good in
fiuence. 1t favors making greenbacks receiv-
able for customs; the forfeiture of all unearned
land grants; the regulation OF railroads by
Congress; the retirement OF national bank cur
renCY ana the OF RreenDacks Jnere-
for; advises submission of a prohibitory amend
ment in Michigan indorses Gov. Begole and w.
ID. Fuller, Chairman of the State Central Com
mittee. The tariff plank was greeted with pro-
longed applause, and Is "a follows:
"ResoIUed, That the policy of restricting the
liberty of commerce by taxes designed not for
Government revenue, but private advantage Is
in violation of the fundamental law of liberty
and equality; that it is injurious to the farmer,
the price of whose products are regulated by a
foreign market. and are now, in spite OF tariff,
forced down by foreign competition almost TO
the level of their cost, while all his necessities
are increased in price by taxation: that ii is
ruinous TO the laborer, to compete with whom 1t
admits a horde of pauper laborers from Europe,
while IL rgidly excludes the cheap necessities OF
his life; that it hui Dis up colossal fortunes for
the few rich and brushes the many poor under a
deeper load of degradation, want and squalor
that it favors illegitimate speculation and dis
courages steady and solid business by aiding TO
bring about alternate periods of wild activity
and depressed STARVATION. Therefore we f'Gor
the immediate beginning of a reform Of this sys-
tenn which. without too sudden changes shall
tend gradually to commercial liberty"
After adopting the platform with hurrah the
convention proceeded TO the election OF dele
gates-at-large Gen. William p. Innes, of Grand
Rapids, ex-Congressman Moses w. Field, of De-
troit, w. ID. FGller, OF Newaygo County, and Q.
5. Hampton, of Summit County, were chosen.
Among the alternates is one woman, Miss Matte
Strickland, of Clinton County. full set OF
district delegates and alternates from eleven
Congressional districts were also chosen. Among
the alternates were two colored delegates from
the Third District. All delegates are instructed
for Butler for President.