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Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-10-23

ID States senators one-half, and making
hem elective directly by the people; al
80 making the President ineligible to
reelection.
9. We demand such rules for the
government of Congress as shall place
qll representatives OF the people upon
an equal footing and take away from
committees veto power greater than
that Of President.
10. The question as to the amount Of
duties TO be levied upon various arti-
alcs OF import, has been agitatcd, quar-
relied over, and has divided cOmmuni
ties for nearly hundred years. 1t is
not now, and never will be settled, I'M
less by the abolition OF indirect taxation.
Ii is convenient issue, always raised
when the people are excited over abuse,
in their midst. While we favor a wist
revision of the tariff laws with Il view OI
raising revenue from luNuries rather
than neccssaricS, we insist that, as al
economic question, its importance is in
significant as compared with the iinan
cial issue; for whereas we have suffered
our worst panics under low, and alst
underhigh tariffs, we have never suffer
ed from panic or seen our factorie
and workshops closed while the vol
ume Of our money in circulation wa
adequate to the needs of commerce
Give our farmers and manufacturer
money rs cheap as you now give on
bankers and they can pay high wages t
labor and compete with the whole wOrlt
II, For the purpose of testing tn
sense of the people upon the subjcct'
we are in favor of submitting to Il vot
of the people an amendment TO the Coz
stitution in favor of suffrage, rcgar,
-, less OF sex, and also on the subject I
/ the liquor traffic.
y. All disabled soldiers of the LAT
war should be cQuitaby pcnsoncd: IN
we dcnounce the policy of keeping
+. small army Of olice-holdcrs whose on
Y business Is to prevent, ON tcchnic
I grounds, deserving soldiers from o
:, tanning Justice from the goycrnmei
q. they helped to save.
l. Is. As our name indicates, we are
l. national party, knowing no East, l
l. West, no North. no South. Having l
It sectional prejudice, we can proper
n place il nomination tor the high Ollie
e Of state men from any section OF d
y Union. We appeal to all people wi
Y believe in our principles to aid rs
n voice and pen and votes.
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GREENBACK PLATFORM.
Adopted by the National Convention
at indianapolis, hay 20, 1884.

/. We hold the late decision Of the
Supreme Cour, on the iogll-lcndrr qur,-
tion to be 81 full yinlicalion OF the the
ory which that party has always adYo-
Gated ON the right and authority Of
Congress over the issue oi lcgal.tpndcr
notes, and we hereby pledge oursclyc,
to uphold said decision and to defend
the Constitution against alterations or
amendments intended to deprive the
the people Of any rights or privileges
conferred by that instrument. We de-
mGnd the issue Of such money in suili-
cicnt quantities to supply the actual de-
mands OF trade and commerce in ac-
cordancc with the increase Of pOpula-
ton and the development of our indus
tries. We demand the substitution Of
grecnbacEs for national bank notes,
and the prompt payment Of the public
dabt; we want the money that saved
our country in time Of war, and which
has given it prosperity and happiness
in peace. We condemn the retirement
of fractional currency and small de-
nominations of greenbackS and demand
their restoration. We demand the is
sue of the boards of money now locked
up in the United States Treasury by ap-
plying them to the payment of the pub
lie debt now due.
?. We dcnounce as dangerous to our
republican institutions those methods
and policies of the Democratic and Re-
publican parties which have sanctioned
or permitted the establishment of land,
railroad, money and other gigantic cor
porate monopolies, and we demand
such governmental action as may be
necessary to take from such monOpoles
the powers which they have corIllptly
and uniustly usurped. and restore them
to the people to whom they belong.
$. The public lands being the natu-
raj inheritance of the people, we de-
nomce that policy which has granted
10 corporations vast tracts of lands, and
we demand that Immediate and virOr.
Ous measures be taken to reclaim from
such corporations for tho people's use
and benefit all such land grants as have
been forfeited by reason of nop-fulfill.
ment of contract, or that may have been
wrongfullv acquired by corrupt lerisla-
tion, and that such reclaimed lands and
other public domain be henccforth held
as a 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 prohib.
tied.
4. We demand congressional regu.
lation Of interstate commerce. We dc.
nouncc pooling" stock watering, and
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flag, it was necessary for some one TO
climb the pole to a point &C feet high,
which difficult feat was performed by
that brave Grccnbackcr, Mr.. jim Hurt.
and for which he is entitled to much
praise. At night meeting, addressed
by the editor Of the CRISIS, was held at
Davis 'Storc,wmch WAS not large enough
to hold those assembled, many having
to listen from the oui side.
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more. lie served IN every grade-prl-
yate, corporal, sergeant, third lieuten-
ant, second lieutenant, first lieutenant
captain, major. lieutenant colonel, colo
mel and brigadicr-general, making il a |
point 10 hold all these positions in due
succession.
In 1910 he was admitted TO the bar. |
He quickly won his way to lucrative
place that knows it shall know it no
more forever. TO my own house, !,
with this hand, will first apply the
torch. | ask but this: Give me time to
get out my wife and children. All !
have in the world consecrate TO the
| hamcSN
Those who have heard General But
Ter speak can form an idea Of the tre-
mendous force with which he would ut
ter words like these. He is Il man capa-
bic Of infinite wrath, and on this oGcG-
sion he wa, stirred to the depths of his
being. The audience were 50 power
fully moved tina, cry arose Tor the
burning of the town that very night,
and there WAS even the beginning OF q
movement towards the door, But the
speaker instantly relapsed into the tone
and line Of remark with which he had
begun the speech, and concluded with 4
solemn appeal to every voter present to
vote as his judgment and conscience
dictated with total disregard to per-
sonal consequences. The next morning
the notice was no more seen. The elrc-
tion passed peacefully away and the
? tcn-hOur ticket was elected. Two price.
less hours We're thus reserved from the
day of toll and added to those which
rest and ciyili1e.'
- Such man is the friend Of the labor
cr.
In this sketch we can only briefly
state Il few important events in Genera
- Buffers history. He was elected del
y, cgatc to the Democratic National Con
=, vcntion, held in Ch0rlGStown, in April
.. 1860. In that convention he voted 10
J. Mr.. Douglass rs long Us there was an,
~ hope Of procuring his nomination, an,
- then gave his vote for Jefferson Davis
Butler. at the head Of the Ma,sachu
sets delegation at the Baltimore con
vcntion in 1859, in which the reopen
/ ing Of the African Sluvc-tradc was siren
+. unu.ly demanded. bolipd declaring tina
Ia La conlj ..no lou,rer ;ii in Il conycntio
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TAKING the State over, the Rcpubli-
cans are giving us five times as many
votes rs we are giving them. Certainly
such IN exchange is one which should
be entirely satisfactory to the Green
hackers. Gen Butler showed us how to
bring this about. All his life he has beer
able toamakc his power felt, but in this
his most Strategctic Strokemaking cy
cry vote count six he has cclipscd hi
history.
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Charlton Greenbackers.

The Greenbackers of Charlton county
are by no means inactive, especially in
the northeast part of the county. Al
Bynumville, last Saturday, they, under
the supervision of Mr.. Martin Green, Il
veteran Greenhacker, aged 72 years,
raised Greenback flag pole, which
towers III fl . inches above the ground
and from which may be seen, for miles
around.t the Greenback banner triumph
antly floating. In order to remove the
ropes to permit Of the hoisting of the
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TUESDAY, Gen. Butler was sum
moncd to New York city by telegram.
We are inclined to think this means
fusion with one party or the other in
New York. Butler is bound to have
some electoral votes in New York. II
they don't give him part, he and the
New York Sun will make a strong pull
for them all.
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The democrats have conceded
everything to New York for twenty
years, McClclland, Scymore, Greedy,
Tildrn and Hancock, were all New
York men. Now they come again with
another New Yorker, and II Wall street
"houest money platform. Must every
candidate be conceded to New York and
principles sacrificed to please the Shy.
locks? Old jackson would say, "by
the eternal never.
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STATE TICKET.

Fur Governor NICHOLAS FoRp.
OF buchanan county.
For 1t. GOvcrnOr-H. NJ. SrhRKLOFf,
Of st. Louis county,
For Secretary Of Statc--PAuLJ. DINOS,
Of Livingston county.
For State Authorizations SANDS,
OF Adair county,
For State TrcaSurer-JAMEs c. THOMPSON,
Of retiiS county
For Attorney Gcncral-DhvID MUMMY,
OF ST. Louis
For Judge Of supreme cCourt-DAyIp WAGNER
Of Lewis county
For Railroad Commissioner InuN BATES,
Of Barton county
For Register Of Lands -GEORGE BoND,
OF Ste. GcmCvicNc county
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Is democratic townships, the enemies
of John NJ. Hale, our candidate for
Sheriff, report that he is Il Republican,
and in Republican townships they re-
port that he is democratic bushwhack.
cr. Mr.. Hale is Grcenbackcr and u,
for the bushwhackcr charge, the fac
that he was only eight years old whcl
the war commenced answers that ful
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WHEN the democrats had three hun
dred majority in this county, their cam
paign cry was, "nary scratch, vote her
straight" Now that they find them
selves t7s in the minority they go over
The county whining for scratching. Let
them take full dose of their own med
icine, this time.
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Tas fusion arrangement is giving
the Greenback cause hearing. At
points where heretofore no Greenback
orator could get a crowd, thousands
now greet our speakers, who pour the
Greenback shot into them.
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GEN. BUTLER says give him the Nu.
thority, and with his forty years eXper'
icu:c a1 a lawyer,he thinks he can take
tdc water out of the railroads and put it
in'y tie canals.
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For Congress, Second District,
WILLIAM L. GUNBY,
Of Livingston county.
GREENBACK MEETINGS.

Judge Donovan, candidate for repre-
sentative, and Prof. II. +. Kapp will
speak at the following times and
places, ON the political issues Of the
day;
FAIRVIEw TP.
Vaughn School House. Thursday
night, Oct. 23rd.
Green Scho House, Friday night, Oct.
"a
Avalon, Monday night, Oct. 27th.
GRAND RIVER TT.
Shannon School House, Tuesday night
Oct. 18th.
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GREESBACKERs, in Nick Ford you
have man as true to the Greenback
cause as is the needle to the pole. lie
IL an advanced Greenbacker and one Of
the first. We have met him in cOnyen-
tions and know he is Greenbacker to
the core,
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COUNTY TICKET.

For Representative JomS W. DONOVAN,
Oi Medicine township.
For sheriff joins NJ. HALE,
Ol SampSel township.
For Treasurer -WILLiAMT DAVIS,
OI Green township
For Prosecuting Attorney -JuHN y, WAIr,
Of ChilcUthC
FOR County SurycyOr-H. NJ. Ambrose,
OF FairvlCw township
For Pubic AdminlstraiOr-JuuNN \. BOYD,
OF Cmllcnthc
For Coroner DAWN GORDON.
OF ChillicuthC
For Co. Judge. Eastern DiS TiInS Z. SCurr.
OF Grand River township
fOr Co Judge. Western DiSl JosErn PNr0N
Ol SampScl township
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THE New York Sun, with its mill
lion week circulation, is supporting
Butter. The Sun is u democratic
paper, but it can't 20 Cleveland.
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TIE democratic and greenback fusion
in Iowa and Michigan will probably
carry the day-most sure to in Michi-
gan. Carlisle, of Kentucky and many
other prominent and able democrats
are in Iowa, speaking for the fusion
ticket
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By ORnrR OF COMMITTEE.

TAXING the State over, we Green
bacIcrs are getting five votes for ont
AM we are in duty bound to faithfully
psy the one.
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Nix. JONI NJ. HALE, our nominee for
shcrill',has had two years experience in
the sheriil's Office As Mr.. Lcepcr's dep
uty. He made Il good officer and prov.
ed himself the man for the place. Our
readers all doubtless remember when
he and Mr.. Lccper made Il brave effort
to capture two murdercrs-fugitivcs
from Cooper county justice-Ilalc re-
cciying pistol shot wound at the hand,
Of one of the dcsperadoes. Mr.. Hale is
the only man, we believe, who bears u
wound received in the discharge Of his
duty rs IN officer Of Livingston coun
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WE understand that some Of the OPP
ponents of the Hon. Nicholas Ford, in
this county, have got down in the filth
and are circulating the dirty falsehood
that Mr., Ford is the father OF the low
devils of Lessn James nntnriniY.
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GrccnbackerS will please see that ev-
rrybody in the vicinities has notice Of
these meetings.
Speakers can be had for other points
by applying to John NJ. Hale and DR..
4. s. Cloud, who are the committee on
speakers.
d.. n,,np,, 80, r,,,,,,r.r,.,.
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OswEGo, N. Y, Oct. 2O.-Scycn
thousand people heard Gen. Butler
make speech tonight. r, &. Hol-
brook. of the Vulcan iron works, in
troducrd the general. In speaking Of
the lawlcssncss and murder at the
South the general excited thundcrS OF
applause. He said "If you will elect
me president will either 90 into my
seat or into my coffin, and | will either
stop these murders North and South OF
III have lot of first class funerals to
| keep ne busy
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BUTLER IN NEW YORK,
Great Popular Uprising in His Be-
half.

Gen. Butler is speaking two or more
times day in New York. His meet
ings are described by the associated
press agents (who are more liable to
under than to over-estimate Greenback
meetings. are mammoth in size and
wild with enthusiasm. Gen. Butler, ii
is estimated, will get about 100000
votes in New York. With this backing
he will probably be able to effect a
fusion with the Democrats or Rcpubli-
cans in that state, in which event there
will hardly be shadow of doubt but
what he will hold the balance of power
and the Republicans will have to choos,
between him and Cleveland,
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Two constitutional amendments will
be voted upon nj the coming election
one 10 extend the jurisdiction of the st,
Louis court of appeals so as to include
number of counties and TO establish q
court of appeal, nj Kansas City, aud
the other to authorize Il levy Of fifteen
cents on 800 for road and bridge pur,
poses.
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Misz WILLIAMS, chairman of the Green
back state central comnittee, was in
this city, Monday, aud spoke at the
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weekly In the country.
Al ~ the wcckrs are printed on WcdncS-
day, the morning papers III the morning, the
rOSI- DisrATrii IN the evening. The morning
wcClilcs have no later date on markets thau
Tuesday, the POsr DESPATCH has all market
quotations OF Wednesday,. aud all the telegraph.
ir and local news uf wednesday In lis weekly
edition. because ii is not printed until all the
news iS gathered, Morning and evening week
lies 20 out by the same mail on "Wednesday even
ing. reach the subscriber, at the same time, and
yet the person who has bought the POsTDIs-
rATCH has a day later paper than his neghhOr
VINO takes 4 morning weekly.
The subscription price is INC dollar year
with liberal discount to clubs,
Agents wanted in every town In the United
States, 10 whom unprecedented commissions
win he paid.
The Daily POsT.DlsrATcH is delivered hy
nearly 800 agents all over the country at 10 cents
Il week.
Subscribers at places where there are no
agents are furnished by mail with the paper AT
the rate of s. per year and pOportionatcy for
parts Oi a year.
Address I'LL communications to
The POST-DlSPATCH,
st. Louis.
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WHAT the farmers OF the West wan
is better prices for their products and
the wage worker of the Eas, wants bet
ter price for his labor. How rcduc-
ton OF the tariff can bring this about is
more than any one eau explain, and
this is the only remedy proposed by the
democrats.
The correct remedies are advocated
only by the Grecnback party. They are
as follows:
Abolish banks of issue and issue in
the place of bank money legal tender
grcenbackS.
Issue greenbacks sufficient in volume
to meet the wants of business and to
raise prices to an equitable basis, as
between the debtor and creditor.
Unlock the idle hoard in the treasury
and pay bonds with it.
Adopt such measures rs will pre-.
vent railroads from making eXtortion'
ate charges.
These measures would bring about
better times than this country ever saw
and their adoption would do injustice
to no man, woman or child. They ar,
proposed only by the Grecnback party
The democrats are not opposed TO banl
money, as is clearly proven by theil
vote in the U. S. Senate last Spring,an
their platform. They are not in favol
of the Greenback money, MS is clearly
proven by their introducing, in botl
Senate and House, measures providing
for constitutional amendment to TAX,
away from congress the power 10 issu,
greenbacks; and Us is also proven BY
their platform for ''honest money" NJ
word can be found in their platform
which even squints at paying out tb,
idle hoard in the treasury.
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UTICA, II. Y, Oct. 17.-Thcrc has
not been in many years such crowd
to welcome public man in Utica as
that which greeted Il. +. Butler, tine
peoples candidate, tonight. He was
met at the depot by the more enthu-
SiaStic of his admirers aud escorted to
the opera house which was crowded
with people. When Cen Butlrr saw
the Situation he called out; Close
right up here, ill up the aisles and
make room for others. When Gen
Butler stepped forward to make his
speech he was received with great
cheering. In his review Of railroad
practices Gen Butler said: "IniS
West Shore road YOU have is q failed
road a road in the hands Of Il receiver,
u road in the courts Of Justice, and yet
it is competing with another road.
Who ever heard Of such thing? What
does this West Shore performance
mean? II mean, simply that its man
ayers will iorcc the New York Central
to buy ii, and then you will only hay,
50 much more water to pay interest
on" Before Gen. Butler finished hi.
speech he put into a few words the es.
srncc of the movement he has origin
ated. Equal rights, equal powers
equal privileges and equal burden, tC
al men under the law, and this is thC
first, the middle and the end Of th,
peoples party The general wcnt
back to his ear amid the cheers Of til,
populace and once in his car closed hi
eyes in sleep. Gen. Buffers hotel ca
reached Little Falls while he was thcr,
this morning and half IN hour after
| wards he was at ease in an arm chai
in his private room on his way to Rome
The fame of the car had preceded i
and countrymcn clambercd up tn,
steps and pcepcd into the Old regula
tiOn passenger coach the general ha
arrived in. Nearly all said they "didn'
see as it was so very wonderful.
Gen. Butler had Il hearty rcccptio
in Rome. Bands played and cannon
belchcd forth their welcomes. In tn
opera house the general addressed tn
people. Being interrupted by Il tips
man the general quicted him by +,
marking, II think can make thi
speech better than you can Th
general made short addresses at othC
places ON his way to Utica, befor
reaching which he refreshed himsc
t with 4 short nap.
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Manning School House, on Saturday
night Nov. lst.
T. IL. Kemp, Esq, will speak at some
Of the above meetings if he gets home in
Imn.
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court room at night. Hcreported Ford's
meetings as simply immense; great
crowds greeting him everywhere. Mr.,
Williams says Ford's election is sure
and probably the whole state ticket,
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WHEN Weaver ran for president, the
democrats asserted and claimed proof
thereof that Wcavcr's expenses were
paid 10y the Republicans. Now they are
making the same charge against Gen.
Butler. One sU-callcd "Gcncral' Par
sons is the proof referred to in this in
stance. 1t would be queer indeed, if the
Republicans would pay Gen. Buffers
expenses while he was working for the
Dcmocratic-Grcrnback fusion in Michi-
gan and Iowa, where the fusiOnisls are
showing such strength that both Blaine
and Logan have seen it to their interest,
to go there and Ito what they could tc
save the States. OF course it is Il cam.
paign fabrication and Butler denies it
in toto and with great wrath.
ELSEWHERE we publish an address d
State Senator Jacobs to the voters o.
this Senatorial district. 1t is in rcspons,
to circular address issued by DR.. J.B
Freeman, who is also n candidate 10
the Senate. We have not investigate,
the issue involved, because we have no
had the time, for 1t would take conSid
cradle time and some statistics whicl
we have not AT hand. We can say this
however, Mr.. Jacobs has not dodge
the issue, nor taken refuge in silence
but met it with boldncss to be admin
ed.
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Sneed School House, ,Sampsel tp.Wcd-
neSday night, Oct, 18th.
Raulic School House, Thursday night,
Oct. 30ih
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MEDICINE TT.

Mccormick School House, Tuesday
night, Oct. 2Sth,
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Other Meetings.


John NJ. Voris, Esq, will speak AT
EvcrSonvillc,on Tuesday night, October
2Sth.
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Hicks School House, Wednesday night
Oct. 90.