The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-06-19
BEN'S BULLETIN.
Massachusetts Wry.cyed Statesman Ac,
LnOWlcdges His Nomination.
A WINDY WASTE OF woRDs,


NEW York, June l7.-In response IA
the formal announcement of his nomi-
nation by the Committee of tho Green
back National Convention, gen, Butler
says:
LOWELL, MASS, June l7,-Gcntlcmcn of the
| Committee;
have received ut your hands official
announcement Of the action of the con-
vcntion NJ indianapolis with deep sensi-
bility. In the ordinary course of polti-
cal events the choice of u cOnven-
tion of representative men of amy con-
| siderable portion, my fellow
citizens, in according to me this
highest honor they can confer, would
call for grateful acknowledgement, even
though IL might he II 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 Oran out
growth of measures merely of admins
| tratlOn. The great questions you pre-
sent are higher and grandcr than any
political measure. Nearly quarter of n
ccntury ago, whom the very existence of
| the Republic and the establishment of II
Democratic government hung in the
ever knew, or may cNey know,
by wisdom born Of impcrious
necessity financial system, springlng
from patriotic impulse To save the Ma
tion's fife and revive the hope of free
institutions for all men, from g0ingdown
forever in darkness and death, was de-
vised by the great and good men of that
day, to whose care Republican Govern
ment to be administered for the people
and by the people had been complied.
That
SYSTEM OF FINANCE
for free people in its infancy saved the
life of the Nation, perishing without il,
and broke the chains which enslaved
four millions of men. 1t gave this
contry, while the war was raglnga pros
perity il had never known. 1t enabled
the people to assume upon themselves
and pay taxes of an extent before I'M
known in any country. IL made IL pos
sible for the government To repay three
fold all il 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 ut
once the envy and admiration of all men.
This was done by Il legal tender cur
rency, while questions as TO its sta
bility were raised by the very
form of legislation by which it was en-
acted, and while still graver doubts pre-
vailed in the minds of many wise men
whether Il legal tender currency, mex
pensive-in fact, resting not ON the in
trinsic value of the material in which
il was coined-was within the
constitutional competency and power
of legislative branches OF the govern
ment. 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 unanimity as to show there might
have, have been o,a lrnaaa possible q, doubt unt
organization and of those who thought
and voted with you, although not of it,
was to support and sustain this money
rs the currency of the people. This peo-
pies currency, you Will say, was dcsig-
mated by its friends by the pet name of
the "grcenback." Two hours ago | did
myself the honor to say II currency so
commended by the merits of its great
deeds wrought for the peoples safety
and prosperity, enacted by the highest
legislative power, adjudicated by such u
court and decision about to be affirmed,
was
AN ACCOMPLISHED FACT.
never again to be disturbed or doubted
so that its friends might well say: "See
lnc emu OI our III tlllS IcSUTu HAS
come; let us rejoice" Let those who
aided in the great work press on to deal
with equally important unsettled meas
ures for the welfare of the whole people.
The legal tender having become the very
foundation of as well as the measure of
value, intertwined with all the business
of the people, the engine of the property
Of the nation, it seems to me almost an
act of cruelty again TO disturb cause
louslv tinpppiul fIIngtinn which has
been so set at rest with the assent Of all
good men, as much so as was the ques-
ton of the right of Il man to hold
his brother man in slavery. Therefore
| said: ~ 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 resurrectioniSts of false
ideas of the dead past have
dug up the mouldering remains
of contention from peaceful graves,
where they slept, and threatened by Il
rehash of exploded resolutions, formu-
lated into platform by a party conven-
controversies which will unsettlo
commercial values, hinder and delay
the business energies of our people,
with apparently but the single object to
extend Il system of purely paper cur
rency, issued by corporations established
by the government, indeed, but for pri-
vate cmolument and gain to the corpora
able only because it is made re-
deemable in the very greenback
whioh this ghoul-like agitation
SEEKS TO REPUDIATE,
overthrow and destroy. Such
a currency, Andrew Jackson
with the wisdom of a statesman, by
the iron hand of Il soldier, sustained by
ton ago, had wholly crushed out
and IN the hope of tho wise
and good had buried forever, as
one of the griovious errors OF
administration which had insiduourly
crept into the government for tho ag-
grandizement of the few to the destruc-
ton of the people. AS q Democrat,
taught in the Jackson school in my early |
youth, with my Judgment matured by |
many years converse in public affairs,
aided by earnest and deep study with in
tensity of purpose, with IA topic of such
affecting every interest of
the people-nay, it may be the the very |
existence of free CONSTITUTIONS am
were it the last act of my |
life, in view of this attempt to undo
what Jackson 50 well did, com, com,
it may, to say to you,
gentlemen, there seems Il wisdom in
deed, a necessity for the further continu-
ance of your organization in renewed
exigency, and therefore upon this con-
testation / am with you, and 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
which may aim to perfect
other measures for the good of the
country. 1 thank you for your sugges-
tions In other matters toward which