Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-07-01
MONT PHOENIX, BRATTLEBORO FRIDAY. JULY l. 1892
stcvcnsou's Financial Record.
Abundant Proof that He Was Green
hacker and Free-Silverite.

Abundant Proof that He Was n Green
hacker and Free-silverite.
Aldai +. Stevenson, the Democratic can
didate for vice president, is quoted by the
Boston Herald as telling one of its CORE
spondents that che never was a Green
hacker, and that he never favored infa-
ton This statement would seem to have
been a very unfortunate enc on Mr.. Ste
venson's part, for it has led to the investi-
CATION Of his financial record, and the
proof is ample that he has been both
Greenbacker and an infationist. The
proof appears to be unquestionable that as
member of the Forty-fourth Congress
Mr.. Stevenson voted repeatedly for the re-
peal of the resumption act: and that he
was elected to the Forty-siNth Congress as
a candidate of the National Greenback par
ty with Democratic Endorsement The
Boston journal says:
There can be no mistakes as to his atfili-
ations. He was classed in the carefully
edited Handbook of Politics for 1850 as a
| National GreenbaCker and he voted steadily
with Weaver and other Greenback leaders.
In the FOrty-tourth Congress we find him
voting for the repeal of the resumption
act January Il. 1876. and again on the
10th of March, the LIST of May and the 10th
of July. On the 7th of February he voted
against a resolution which declared that
| all legislation touching the legal tender
currency of the government should keep
steadily in view the resumption of specie
payments Here are five votes which he
cast against the resumption of specie pay
ments and in favor of the continuance of
a paper currency.
In the Forty-sixth Congress Mr.
Weaver, the Greenback leader. introduced
a resolution declaring it TO bc the sense OF
the House that all currency. whether ne
tallic or paper should hc "a full legal
tender in payment of all debts. public or
private. The same resolution declared
that, 10 facilitate rctundmg. "the minis of
the United States should bee operated To
their fun capacity in the coinage of stand
ard silver dollars" For this resolution
Mr. Stevenson, with all the other National
6rcenback members. voted.
The New York Mail and Express goes
directly TO the official reports of congrp,-
sional proceedings, and this is what il finds
them.
Fortunately Nj. Stevenson left q record
which ], printed In the official reports of
the congressional proceedings, These
show that he was not only Grcenbacker
iu 1874. when hc was first elected 10 Con
grrss, but that he was worse than Green
hacker when hc was reelected in 1876 for
az that time he placed himself ON record a.
opposed tu the resumption OF specie pay
mcnts and in favor of silver coinage.
In the record of the second session Of
the Forty-iourth Congress. Vol. V. Part
3. page 2l2j, We lind these facts On the
"a OF March. 1877. Mr.. Stevenson asked
the unanimous consent of the House that
a bill be printed in full in the Record The
bill was entitled as follows IAN act to
compel the gradual retirement of national
hank currency and to authorize an issue OF
United States treasury notes in lieu there
Of also to repeal an act Of Congress ell
titled An act to provide for the resump-
ton of specie payment. approved Janua-
ry Il. 1870, and also 10 provide for the
coinage of silver dollars.
Mr.. Stevenson was a Greenhacker in
1874, when he was first elected In 1876.
when he was reelected, and he continued
to he Greenhacker in the Fortv-siXth { on
gress. where he was serving his third term.
and when he had no excuse for not appre-
ciating the peril Of his position on vital
financial questions. In the proceedings Of
the Forty-siXth Congress, third session
Vol. Nj, Part !, pages j6}-jti4. will be
found the statement that on January .
1881. the House resolved itself into com
mittee Of the whole for the purpose of re
newlng consideration OF the funding bill.
and that Nj Stevenson tAdlai L. opposed
this measure, which authorized the issue
a.