Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-05-30
he Greenback National Convention.

General weaver presiding. The committee on
Resolutions was not ready TO report and the en-
| tire forenoon session was taken up by brief ad-
| dresses by members of the Convention. The
committee sent word TO the presiding officer that
| , or o clock, and the Convention adjourned
| until o clock. 1t is understood that the com
mittee is at loggerheadS over the plank on the
| tariff, and good deal of debate is expected in
| the Convention. There is some talk of a bolt
over Buffers nomination, but it is not likely to
amount TO much. Crandall says that he don t
like Butler, but if the Convention can afford to
commit the party to such burden he can and
| he will stand by the same.
SECOND DISPATCHl
| INDIANAPOLIS May 29th-The Convention as
Sembled pursuant to adjournment, and the Com
mittee on Resolutions not being ready to report,
| the intervening time was occupied in the max
ing and adoption OF motions of thanks to various
| persons, including the Committee of Arrange
ments, presiding officers, the local press and W.
II. English, for the free use of the opera-house,
| etc.
\ resolution extending sympathy to Union
printers and organized labor in the boycotting
| fight against the New York Tribune was read and
referred.
| THREE PLATFORMS.
| 1t was after 3 o'clock when Chairman
Weaver announced the Committee on ResOlu-
| lions ready to report, and ii was then aScer-
| tanned that there would be three reports The
minority reports were made by Jones of New
| York and Blanchard of Michigan and We're
| H..
| to- and occasionally interrupted by applause,
| the report of Blanchard meeting an enthusiastic
approval, and its author receiving many con-
CALCULATIONS on the stand he took in favor of
temperance and woman suffrage. Jones report
| differed from the majority report in demanding
that while Congress shall issue full legal tender
notes, they shall be used in the payment OF Gov
| eminent debts, constructing public improve
| mentS, to reduce transportation charges, com
| pleting public buildings, building Il navy, and
| for such other purposes as Congress Is now asked
to appropriate money, until the surplus labor OF
| the country is employed, Il profitable home mar
| ket for the products of American farms and
| workshops is created. and business done on Il
| cash basis Jones did not insist on his views.
and there was no split on the platform The
| majority report was read by Mr.. Norton. CHAIR
| mad of the committee. 1t contains lengthy
| preamble setting forth the objects of the Green
| back party, and what it has accomplished. say
| ing Congress had repealed over Sl2OOO,GOO an
nual taxes for the banks. throwing this burden
| upon the people to pay interest thereon. Fol-
| lowing is the platform:
THE PLATFORM ADOPTED.
l. That we hold the late decision of the SUI
preme Court on the legal tender question to be
| a full Vindication Of the theory which our party
| has always advocated on the right and author
ty of Congress to over issue legal tender notes,
| and we hereby pledge ourselves to uphold said
decision. and To defend the Constitution against
| alterations or amendments intended to deprive
| the people of any rights privileges con-
| ferred by that instrument We demand
the issue of such money, and in sufficient guam
titles to supply the actual demands of trade and
commerce, in accordance with the increase of
population and the development of our indus
| tries We demand the substitution of green
| backs for national bank notes and the prompt
payment of the public debt. We want that
money which saved our country in time of war
and which has given it prosperity and happl-
| ness in peace We condemn the retirement of
| fractional currency and small denominations of
greenbacks and demand their restoration. We
| demand lD1rOS
| locked up in the United States treasury by ap-
| plying ii to the payment of the public debt now
| due.
| > We denouncc rs dangerous TO our repub-
| lican inStitution-those methods and policies of
| the Democratic and Republican parties which
| have sanctioned or permitted the establishment
| of land, money and other gigantic corporate
mOnopOlieS and we demand such governmental
action as may be necessary 10 take from such
mOnopOlies the powers they have 80 corrupuy
and unjustly usurped. and restore them to the
people. to whom they belong.
>. The public lands being the natural inher-
lance ofthe people, we denOunce that policy
which mas granted to corporations vast tracts
of lands, and we demand that immediate and
vigorous measures be taken to regain from such
corporations. for the peoples use and benefit all
such land grants rs have been forfeited by rea-
son of a nog-fllltllment of contract, or that may
have been Wrongfully acquired by corrupt legis
latiOn and that such railroad lands and other
public domains be hcncefOrth held as ii sacred
trust to be granted only to actual settlers in
limited quantities, and we demand that alien
ownership of land, individual or corporate,
shall be prohibited
l. We demand Congressional regulation of in
terssatc commerce We denounce pooling"
stock watering and discrimination in rates and
charges and that Congress shall correct these
abuses. even. if necessary, by the construction
of national railroads. We also demand the eS
Establishment Of a Government postal telegraph
system.
j. All private property of all forms, money
and obligations to pay money should have their
inst proportion Of the publictaXes We demand
81 t,raduatcd income TAX
ZION of labor bv enforcing sanitary laws in i'll
dustrial establishments. by the abolition of the
convict labor system. bv a rigid inspection of
mines and factories by a reduction of the hours
Of labor in industrial Establishments by foster
inc educational institutions and By abolishing
child labor
We condemn all importations of contracted
labor made with a view of reducing to starya-
tion wages the workingmen of this country. and
demand Laws far its rreycntion
& We insist mon a constitutional amend
ment reducing The terms Of United States Sen
"torS
a Iye demand sucl, rulas FIR tho government
of Congress as shall place all REPRESENTATIVES of
he ,7I,Ic mon an iGnoI footine9 and take
~ az ,t no,r Ietr than
F+ha Pr1,njIort 49,
10 Tho nncstion AZ IN tho onount of dutics
IN no leviad unop ,nrious articles Of
i,nnnrt has bpan a0it.tnd u1nrreled
nlidr and has divided cnmnunIties for
nearly - hundred Years # is not now and
never will he srttIed Inless Inv the abolition of
iri;ra,,t tysatiCY II l. q, c1GnI.o,,ien, iss,,a
always raised when the people are excited over
abuses in their midst. While we favor Il wise
revision of the tariff laws, with view of rails
| ing revenue from luXurieS rather than ncces-
saries we insist that as an economic question its
IMPORTANCE is insignificant as compared with
| financial issues for whereas we have suffered
| our worst panics under low and also under high
tariffs. we have never suffered from panic or
| seen our factories or workshops closed, while
the volume of money IN circulation was ade-
quate to the needs of commerce. Give our
| farmers and manufacturers money as cheap as
Won now give il to our bankers. and they can
pay high wages to labor and compete with all
! the world.
H. For the purpose of testing the sense of the
people upon this subject we are in favor of sub
| hitting to a vote of the people an amendment
, to the Constitution in favor of suffrage regard
| less of sex and also on the subject of the liquor
| traffic.
| l.. All disabled soldiers of the late should
policy of keeping a small army of office holders,
| whose only business is to prevent, on technical
GROUNDS, deserving soldlefs from rom obtaining
~ ,s o,,r nan,e indicates we are q national
| ,artv lnn,ring no Fast no West no North no
| Sn,ti U,,.in77, no Sectional nrniudicoe Ivc CON
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| Inc lnaJorlt! report "aS aiopled: ana the
| Convention proceeded 10 select cahdiuates 1or
/ President ana Nlce,rreSlueht. A ron OF states