Nevada County picayune., 1888-08-15
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 mocracy with high criues and mis- demcanor. and asks Us to plead. We say not guilty. It says;
 ist. BelmoYt, failing to control ,, the platform in 1868 defeated Sey- m >rc.
 We say that neither Belmont nor any other man has the power to die cate a platform; and the fact is that , the south was disfranchised by the very party which has consolidated now with the |. l.. F. is the reason that Seymore was defeated. Furth- ] ernorc, Bclmont's influence could not have been very great for he lived in New York and Seymore carried that state notwithstanding Belmont opposition.
 I 2nd Count, Tilden and Dor sheimer controlled the platform, and r in 1876 was not in the interest of the : Hazards circular, etc.
 We say nc two men could dictate platform, and that the platform Cf 1876 was not in the interest of the Hazards. Because Dorshelmer stamped his foot on the floor and said : he stamped greenbacks out of the platform, proves nothing. Because Peter cursed the Savior is no reason that the whole christian church is D set of blasphemers.
 n 3rd. s'The Eastern press in 1880 n whipped the south and west into lire in favor of the Hazards and n etc."
 0 Now Bro Ansley we are surprised J at YOU. You have about ten lines v from the New York Day Boon which n you rely on to prove this charge. This ten lines you call the Eastern lress. We have no idea that ten men in Arkansas saw copy of the . Day Boon that year, and yet you say ten lines would whip the south. You were a good soldier Captain, n and we are surprised that you would say ten lines in fifth class New . York newspaper could whip four mil lions American citizens and make them tools and minions. Now Capt. if newspaper clippings are good evl- ' dence we can prove by them that YOU are an anarchist. and your repu- tation would not be safe.
 4th. '.Out of l33 democrats in the House 7S favored recharteriDg National Banks in 1882.
 Your grand jury when 1t made this charge was mistaken in the ev- idence. It failed to cross | amin. the witness. You count Tn |tl mocrats whom you say fa- ,. he banks, 57 who did not vote. Now Bro. Ansley we do not z know where they were, but suppose they were at the same place you ' was when the mortgage bill was by the legislature of this state Tn 1883. The record shows they were - absent, it also shows you was at the same place when the mortgage bill passed the last time. Many demo- 0 crats were opposed to national banks bat knew that if the charters failed if would take over $500 ,OOO ,00O dol lars out of circulation. MT. Bland, of Missouri (the man MT. Weaver calls the grand old democraD offer ed substitute to place the same amount of treasury notes in circula- ton in place of the National bank notes, this failed to pass, five green packers voting against it. The Con gressional Record says: "A number af democrats who voted for the bill o said they were opposed to the banks but they were afraid that to take ov- er $500 GOO GOO out ol circulation would be too great a contraction or !, tbe currency without some other currency to take its place. - And five ot the greenbackers vot- ed against substituting treasury votes which was tic klnd of money the greenhackers called for in their platform.
 5th. count charges Cleveland with recommending the Hazard plan, and placing the treasury in the centro of Wall Street,
 Now Captain, this charge knocks the wind out of your first, second and third charges. In the first, sec and third charges you virtually say the democracy is subject to one man rule Cleveland iB recommending the suspension of silver coinage, an tagonizcd his party and they repUdi-