Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1884-06-05


ought to convince anybody who needs
convincing that there are but two po-
litical parties. and that the agyre-
CATION calling itself greenbackers Is
simply u miscellaneous assortment of
men and women whose ideas are un-
settled upon almost every subject.
There is no issue before the country
upon which the greenbackers represent
either side. They have no principles
which they themselves or anybody else
can understand; no plato III that is
not liable to be tinkered cut of exist
ence a dozen times "A Year; no policy
of national breadth, unless universal
looseiless and vagueness can be called
~ policy. and not brains enough TO re-.
dnce its dis ,inted notions to system,
or To MAINTAIN cohesive organization
Of any sort Ii is made up of political
cranks and adventures. each with II
crochet of his own. having no eom-
mon purpose beyond desire for noto-
rirty aud a chance 70 let the cnhcern
out to spue representation TT its
own intellectual opaquenrss, ke Be
COLE: some tricky ,len,agogue like But
Ter. or some minority party that IL con
tent To make use of its v6tes f5f the
sake of dividing the Offices
The idea of s-ttin: the In1ianapo!i'
with the tariff was ridiculous from the
no'aia no opalnio's aboat ife tari n i ihdrvr" T
ualS among them may believe in n re-
publican tariff or a. democratic tariff,
bur there is no such thing ns ~ green
back tariff. II they could have II plat
form upon Nl,icli they could all stand.
il would contain rs many planks as
there are grucnbackers y declaration
of principles coming from them lias no
more Significance than u similar docu-
nent coming from the crowd in cir
crs tent. nr the chance patrons of IA
rattle Show. IL is norhins hut rni-
v-rsal growl from parcel of people
who are at sea in all that pertains 70
finance and. partly through Ignorance.
holly discontented with the existing
order of ti.ngs.
-Four years ago thes" same visiona-
rips got rl niseives tcgeIhel In thica
90 and hni what tlic, called nation
al convention in the opposition build
ing which had been occupied 10y the re-
publicans a. faw days before. There
were numerous portrnits Of deceased
republican |. drrs lung about the
sides of the auditorium. and one brill
| !ant movement of the grtenbaCkers
was to appo'u! n committee of tire,
TO take down the picture III OLD
Zach chandler " Ii he had been there
wn,i,i PROBABLY have been n god den
enlarged. Weaver. who waS cliairinai
"f the indianapolis show. was noml
mated for president of the Cnlte,
States ut the Chicngo exhibition. an'
the chief speakers were Dennis Rear
nr,.. two or three women (diSgruu
tied y from New York. and several del
egatrs from Canada Brick Pomer' e
one If whose conventions had chris
tened the greeulack hy thr nam
they now bear the greenback laho
party-caIne over with n little squa
of his followt r. from Farwell hall {
join the exposition aSseinblage, an
Joe Murphy was there IA the represent
ative "of the oX-tram drivers and -
.erS of Colorado" Brgole was a
that time trying 10 get himself elrcte
, To Congress a. IA greenbacker from iii
sixth Michigan district. and manage
10 poll ), 900 votes in n total of ~. 81!
The governor of Michigan Was sal
to have some expectation that 10y bow
, ing down before Butler. ll- might hin
, self be assigned to n position ar I'll
;. tail or the greenback ticket, but I'll
=. prostrations were in vain The con
hination of Butlrr anal b-Gole. ALA
. will not have an opportunity To swee
the country like n prairie fire. Tw
:r.erals guard the greenbackers
front end reur l3u-i"r aud West.
ease OF tall rr 80 caTy hie assault uI
f, ou rhe 'eIuortatic nomination al ti
p cayo, Butter may conclude to sell OF
the whole stock Of nominations to Il
: democrats at cost, or n little less, ~
:, content himself with running uii,
=, more over the familiar home track Il
;. governor of massachusetts, 90 Post al
, 7rijuio.
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