The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-06-18
BEN'S BULLETIN.
Massachusetts Wry-eyed Statesman Ac.
knowlcdges His Nomination.
A WINDY WASTE OF WORDS.
lie rnkcsa Running start and Jumps Into
the Greenback slough of Dcspond
Cheap CIapirap tn Catch
the Wcakling Voter,

back National convention, zen. Bullof
says:
LOWELL, MASS, June l7.-Gcntlomcn Of the
Committee;
have received at your hands official
announcement of the action of the con-
vcntion NJ indianapolis with deep sonsi-
bility. In the ordinary course of politl-
cal events the choice of conVcn-
tion of representative men of any con-
siderable portion, my follow
citizens, In according to ne this
highest honor they can confer, would
cali for grateful acknowledgements even
though IL might be u selection to repre-
sent the thoughts of such convention
upon questions which commonly divide
political parties. Views on such qucs-
lions may have been inherited or AN out
growth OF measures merely of 0dminis-
tratiOn. The great questions YOU pre-
sent are higher and grander than any
political measure. Nearly quarter of II
century ago, when the very existence of
the Republic and the establishment of u
Democratic government hung In the
issue ofthe greatest civil war the world
over know, on may eycy know,
by wisdom born of impcrious
necessity II financial system, sprnging
from II patriotic impulse TO save the Ma
TONS fife and revive the hope of free
institutions for all mon, from goingdown
forever in darkness and death, was de-
vised by the great and good men of that
day. To whose care n Republican Govern
mcnt to bc administered for the people
and by the people had been compiled.
That
SYSTEM or FINANCE
for free people in its infancy saved the
life of the Nation, pcrishing without it,
and broke the chains which cnSlavcd
four millions of men. II gave this
contry. while the war was raging,n pros
pcrity il had never known. IL enabled
The =. .plc to assume upon themselves
and pay taxes of an eNtenI before un-
known in any country. II made 1t pos
siblc for the government To repay three
fold all ii received in loans from any
creditor, or gave to him security more
profitable and stable than ever issued by
any power IN the world, and made the
financial system of the government at
once the envy and admiration Of all men.
This was done by n legal tender cur
rcncy, while questions as 10 its stu-
hilitV were raised by the very
form of legislation by which IL was en-
acted. and while still graver doubts pre-
vailed in the minds of many wise men
whether II legal tender currency, mex
pcnSiVe--in fact, resting not on the in
trinsic value of the material in which
!
constitutional competency and power
of Legislative branches of the grrern-
mcnt. That question having been three
times submitted to the Supreme court
of the United States, the highest tribu-
nal of constitutional construction, was
at last decided in the affirmative with
such unnnimlty rs to show there might
have been Il posSil doubt
against it. one purpose of your
organization and of those who I,orEht
and voted with you, althoufn not Il it,,
was to support and sustain Nlis money
as the currency of the people. This peo-
PIES currency, You viii say, was dcsig-
mated by its friends by the pet name of
the 'grocnbnck." Two hours ago | did
myself the honor TO say ,urrency so
commended by the merits OF its great
deeds wrought for the peoples safety
and prosperity, enacted by the highest
legislative power, adiudicNtcd by such a
court and decision about to DE affirmed,
was
An ACCOMPLISHED FACT.
never again 10 he disturbed or doubted
so that its friends might well say: "SCc
the end of our labors in this regard has
come; let us rejoice" Let those who
aided in the great work press ON 20 deal
with equally important unsettled meas
urcs for the welfare of the whole people.
The legal tender having become beNcrY
foundation of as well as the uic.sure of
value, intertwincd with all tlo business
of the people, the engine of tn property
of the nation, ii seems to nio-alnost an
act of cruelty again to disturb cause
lesslv financial question, which has
been so set ut rest with the assent of all
good men, as much so rs w.N the ques-
ton of the right of n man 20 hold
his brother man in slavery. Therefore
] said: "I am glad that the question is
no longer part of political considora-
ton and craftsmanship. We may now
turn from it as the country has turned
from the questions of slavery and the
war, but alas, the power of the darkness
of error! The resurrectionlsts of false
ideas of the dead ,ast have
dug up the moulderng remains
of contention from peaceful graves,
where they slept, and threatened by II
rchash of exploded resolutions, iormn-
lated into platform by u party conyen-
tion, To rcvivify and sgitatc the
commercial values, hinder and delay
the business energies of our people,
with apparently but the single object To
extend n system of purely paper cur
rency, issued by corporations established
by the government, indeed, but for pri-
vate cmolument and gain To the corpora
tions, which currency itself Is to be valu-
nlllt hillN Dt'NNNO ~ ~ iitb' ~
which this ghoul-likc agitation
SEEKS TO REPuDiATE,
overthrow and destroy. Such
a currency, Andrew Jackson
with the wisdom of u statesman, by
the iron hand of Il soldier, sustained by
the Democracy of more than genera
ton ago, had wholly crushed out
and in the hope of the wise
and good had buried forever, rs
one of the grievious errors of
administration which had insiduourly
crcpt into the government for the ag-
grandizemont of the few TO the destruc-
ton of the people. As . Democrat.
taught in the Jackson seE0oi in my early
youth, with my Judgment mstured by
many years converse In prilic affairs,
aided by earnest and dcepsnidy with in
tcnsity of purpose, with topic OF such
magnitude affecting every interest oi
the people-nay, IL may be The the very
existence of free constita,ion-I am
constrained, were it the last act of my
life, ii view of this attempt to undo
what Jackson so well did, COM
ing from whatsoever question
il may, TO say TO YOU,
gentlemen, there seems a wisdom IN
deed, necessity for the further continu-
ance of your organization In renewed
exigency, and therefore upon this con-
testation I am with you, end If there
were but two Of us we ought To stand
together against this great wrong and
call upon all true men TO stand
with Us. either inside or outside, as
the case may be of the other political
organizations which may aim 10 perfect
other measures for the good OF the
country. thank You for your sugges-
tions In Other matters toward which
your organization turns. The
INTERESTS OF LABOR,
The preservation Of the lands of the
people for the benefit of the people, the
control of agencies created by the gov
ernment To be used for good people TO
regulate and control a system Of inter
state commerce, which shall control
and cheapen the Transportation oi