Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-08-05
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.

REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.
The republican delegate convention
which held forth in this city last Satui
day was such tame affair that even
u. NJ. Martin and his twenty-five dol.
lars per "Capitie" could not inject life
into it. To begin with only, about half
the precincts were represented and all
that was to be done was to carry out
the pre-arranged scheme of naming the
delegates selected by the bosses some
time ago.
About o'clock the faithful got to-
gether and organized by electing James
ID. Fair of Sharon, chairman and II. E.
Glenn, of Klowa, secretary. We are
told that Mr.. Fair made quite speech
when accepting the craftsmanship, but
not being present at the time, we did
not hear his remarks. Two commit
tees-one on order CT business and one
on resolutions-were appointed. They
were:
Order of BuSiness--Jas. Huffaker. d.
F.Alllson, H. Ii. Case, o. E. Lamport.
NJ. J. Lane.
Resolutions-A. l.. Noble, o. Haber-
| leln, Geo. Eckert, VIM. Crawford, G..
| A. Bucklin.
The committees then retired to pre-
pare their reports and G. M. Martin en-
| tertalned the delegates for about 45
minutes. He devoted himself to the
"Seven Financial Conspiracies'' and
Tin his own opinion) proved the whole
| book to be lie. He rode rough shod
| over the English language and pitted
his own theories against Mrs. Emery's
facts and foolishly imagined he had
| advanced argument. He defended first
the exception clause On the greenback
because it preserved the credit of
the government, but he didn't say that
| the greenback was at par with gold be-
| fore that act was passed. He SAID this
law was enacted when such men as
Lincoln, Thad Stevens and other like
patriots were in high places of public
trust, but he did not say that Lincoln
| signed the bill under protest and that
Thad Stevens bitterly opposed it IN
congress and these men at last sane
toned the bill because they were in the
midst OF the most terrific war the world
had ever known and that the money
gamblers were threatening the nation
on one side and the rebels on the other.
He didn't say that Lincoln and Stevens
| recommended that this law be repealed
at the close of the war and that a dis
elimination between one form of mon
ey in favor of another would ruin the
republic. He went on and. COM
mended the national banking system,
system which enables corporation to
borrow money from the government at
one per cent and loan it to the people
at "A per cent, draw interest from two
sources on the same money and exempt
from taxation while the people bear
the whole burden. This, he thought
was magnificent system. He had moth
ing to say in defense of the contrac-
ton act by which the greenbacks were
called in and destroyed, thus reducing
the amount of money in circulation and
depreciating values and increasing the
bonded Indebtedness of the country. To
| defend this Infamous work was too
| much of task for G. III. to assay, and
he left it go gently by unnoticed. lie
alighted on the credit strengthening
| act and pecked few moments only.
He thought it was grand thing to pre-
serve the honor of the nation. This
a nt od hands NH
with deprecated greenbacks (deprecia-
ted by legislation1 payable in coin. This
is what he call preserving the honor of
the nation. But he had very little to say
in defense of that scheme and next he
tackled the refundlng act and defend
ed it on the ground that thegovernment
| saved money by the scheme. He didn't
say just how the money was saved and
we still do not see how money can be
saved by any government by carrying
an interest bearing debt so or 40 years
when it is capable of paying all or part
of the debt in lawful money. He Drop
ped that matter without much COM
ment and now he was ready to ap-
proach the subject of his hearts desire
the domonetlzation of silver. He
read that part of Mrs. Emery's quota
ton from the Congressional Record,
Ernest Seyd, OF London, who is now
here,o etc., and said the words, "who is
is now here" do not appear on the
Congressional Record proper and that
the clause was inserted by a dirty
scondrel. He said he knew Mrs. En-
cry was liar because McClearey,
congressman of Minnesota, said so.
He didn't quote from Sherman nor Sa-
tan. He said that some two years ago
/ the INDEX published an affidavit from
a man In Denver saying that Seyd was
in this country at the time silver was
demonetized 1.-THE INDEX being tue only
weakly" not ashamed to publish i'll