The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-03-01
THE BEST IN THE NORTHWEST.
FRIDAY, MARCH /, 1895.
Hr. Mills Question.

Mills, of Texas, talked Mr.. Hill, OF
New York, to q standstill, and he did
it in two minutes The member from
New York had declared himself for
"the gold and silver of the constitu,
tion," and he added, 81 am not green.
hacker now and never have been.
Then Mr.. Mills asked, "where were
you, then, when the great state of New
York sent Horatio Seymour TO the
democratic national convention and
nominated him for president on a
platform providing for the payment of
all public obligations in green backs %
Mr.. Hill didn't say word. In low
tone, Senator Gray suggested that Mr..
Hill was too young TO vote at that
time, but the suggestion wouldn't do;
Hill was twenty-five years old when
Seymour ran for president.
That was in 1868; the democratic
national convention of that year was
one of the most remarkable in the an
nails of this country. Grant was the
candidate of the republicans for the
Office of president. The democrats
held their convention in the city of
New York. Mr.. Pendleton was the
conspicuous candidate, and he was
the foremost advocate of the payment
of public debts in the then badly de-
preciated greenback.
Salmon p. Chase, secretary of the
treasury under Lincoln and afterward
chief justice of the United States, was,
essentially, the founder of the ma
tional banks Yet, so consumed was
he with a desire to try it on for the
presidency that he was willing to ac-
cept the nomination of this demo-
cratic convention. He even sought it,
and he was willing to enlist in his sup
port that last of all men for such an
alliance, Clement L. Vallandigham.
Andrew Johnson, accidental repub-
lican president at the time, hoped and
doubtless believed that the convention
would probably pick him up. In fact,
be received the second-highe vote on
several ballots. In the convention
were several rebel soldiers hardly re-
constructed-men like Gordon. For
rest and Hampton; several of these men
supporting Gen. Winfield Scott Han
cock, who had met some of these con-
federates at Antietam and Fredericks-
burg and Charlottesville, and who fell
from his horse at Gettysburg. Sanford
T. Church, chief justice of the state of
New York and the predecessor of the
lamented Charles j. Folger in that
office, was candidate, and Samuel ].
Tilden, delegate in the convention.
was willing TO see Church get il.
lfharc faIIya1 Oh g.
ination, and there were strong men
among them-Asa Packer, of Penn
sylvania, English, of Connecticut. Joel
Parker, of New Jersey, Hendricks. of
Indiana; at one time the friends of
Hendricks felt that he was sure of it
The convention started in with
Pendleton at the front and the green
back for the payment of public debts |
as the battle cry. Twenty-one ballots |
wore Pendleton out, but notihe green
back. Horatio Seymour had been
talked about, but he was not seriously |
pressed After the twenty-first ballot |
Seymour was placed in nomination.
and he won on the spot. There were
plenty of people who believed at the
time that this surprise" was one which
the New Workers had planned at the
The greenback proposition was CON-
pactly framed into the democratic
platform that year, just as Mr.. Mills
asserted, last Wednesday. In the cleo.
toral college, Grant beat Seymour by
more than two and half 10 one. Yet
fat green back and all. Seymour carried
New York and New Jersey, the states
that are now parading their particular
owe for the alleged honest" gold dol
ar Indeed, Seymour was only three
hundred thousand behind Grant in the
popular vote