The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-07-15
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NOT UP IN HISTORY.
Colonel Norton Gives q Writer, Who Evil
IDENTIFY Needs Them, q Few Pointers.
A correspondent for a so called mid
die of the road paper, going back 80
years in political history, thinking
probably that he will find few people
we'll enough posted in events of those
days to dispute his statements, says:
"Look at the Neutrality-suspicious.
Greeley, Tilden, Hancock, Cleveland,
all of Wall street."
Any man who ranks Horatio Sey-
mour, Horace Greeley and General
Hancock as''Wall street, men is either
ignorant himself or imagines that his
listeners are.
Horatio Seymour fought Wall street
tooth and toe nail. He made one of the
bravest and most gallant fights in the
history of the country for the payment
of the bonds i'll greenbacks and denounc-
ed in all his public speeches the infa-
nous public credit act ~(pigeonholed by
Andrew Johnson and afterward passed
L 1cOUJ NAlCu IlttlC Liz JULIUS puy dU10
in coin instead Of ~greenbacks. The plat
form that he stood upon declared that
"the dollar that was good enough for a
musket holder and the pillow holder was
| good enough for a bondholder."
Horatio Seymour was a victim and
not an ally of Wall street. He was be-
trayed and sold out by August Belmont,
tho A ~, o,rioon oronf Of thn Pothcoh;1lo
and chairman of the national commit
tee, and by Manton Marble, the pub
Usher of the New York World, the
leading organ of the Democratic party,
which threw CONSERVATION into the
ranks OF the Democratic party by de-
handing Seymour's withdrawal on the
eve Of the election.
We voted for Grant in 1868, but we
have come to believe that since Lin
coins time there has not been an occu-
pant of the White House who was or is
the peer Of Horatio Seymour as a patriot
and a statesman.
And, as for Horace Greeley, there was
not a drop of blood in the old mans
veins that had a particle of sympathy
with Wall street. Had he been elected
the financial policy Of the government
would have been changed. Men like
John Sherman and Hugh McCulloch
would have been kicked out and kicked
down stairs after they were u He
was too good and great a man to be
ranked as a "Wall street man."
And who does not know that General
Hancock sacrificed his only chance of
being elected by writing a letter of con
graduation to Harris M. Plaisted, a
Greenbacker, on his election as governor
OF Maine in September, 1880, prior to
the presidential election in November?
That letter cooked his goose" with
Wall street. and he was defeated. Had
ne not shown his esteem for the Maine
G~reenbacker and manifested his friend
ship for the cause which he stood for
the chances are more than even that
Hancock would have defeated Garfield.
AS to Tilden, nobody ever knew ex-
actly what he did believe, but it is pos
sible that he would have enjoyed a tilt
with Wall street as he did with the cor
rupt rings in New York when he wa
elected governor. Still we never had
much faith in Tilden. But he cannot
be properly ranked as a Wall street
man.
Up to Cleveland's time the Demo-
cratic party was not a Wall street party.
Under Cleveland, however, it hauled
down the banner of the people and sub
stltuted the piratical flag of Wall street.
we 90 not believe in fusion with the
Democratic party nor with any other
party, but we see no good to come
from misrepresenting men who happen
to be Democrats or Republicans.
There are just as good men in the
ranks of the two old parties as there are
IN the Peoples Party, and we want to
see them all rounded up under a banner
OF reform, forgetting old animosities
and quarrels, just as the blue and the
gray, burying the dead past, are today
marching side by side under the old
stars and stripes.-Norton's Monthly.