Year: 1878

The Republican, first and
third congressional discl inne-
sofa have met in convention Eelib-
erately reaffirmed the hard-money,
Wall-street-J John-Sherman-Jay-Gould
August. Belmont platform on the
financial issues of the day.


The first district met at Owata ma
July 10th and declared:


Fifth-That the experience Of the
country has demonstrated the sound
ness of the financial policy of the Re-
publican party, and the wisdom and
sagacity of the resumption act, and
that no brighter page adorns the an
nails of any party than that which re-
cords the financial triumphs of the
Republican party during the last six
teen years of our country's history.


Think Of that! 1.-The experience
of the country Ito wit, bankruptcy,
ruin, starvation, suicide, communism,
not law, demonstrate the soundness
of the financial policy of the Republi-
can party !"


And the financial triumphs of the
past sixteen years are the brightest
page in the annals of any party ~


The Republicans have squarely
thrown down the gauntlet to the
Greenbackers of the first COMPRESSION
al district and if there is spark of
manhood in them they will surely
take it up, whether they poll ten
votes or ten thousand.


We are glad to see that this abOmi-
nable doctrine did not pass without
objection. The report of the proceed
ings says:


DIR. Leonard held that the platform
was bad in several respects. Better
follow good man with no platform
than bad one.


But Mr, Dunnell, who was renomi'
mated for congress took the bull by
the horns in the following utterances:


When the army was created the ma
tional faith. was linked with it to pro
vide for it's supports. The national
legal tender was csAsted. and proved
the last sinew of war. 1t had no date,
but was a promise to pay in the dim
future. 1t was made when the repub-
lie was tottering in civil war. When
the strife closed. the Republicans i'm.
mediately took means to redeem it,
and set time to make it equivalent
to gold. This was renewal of our
faith; d renewal of our pledge. rest
ing on honor. We know that after
January lst, 1879, this legal tender
will be recognized as equal to gold; in
deed, it is to-day used in the great
marts Of the world. Some drink in
the sophistry of Dan voorhees, and
forget that at one time he was calling
the greenDacks rag. We propose to
make this rag equal to gold and re-
deem the country. propose to talk
TO the people on this subject, and do
not believe they will depart from the
faith of the Republican party.


All this is not very clear. 1t was
the undougted purpose of the Repub.
lican party to destroy the greenbacks
by funding them into interest-bearing
bonds. and after having destroyed
millions of them they were forced
from their purpose by the clamors of
the people melted by the Greenback
party! This newborn tenderness for
the "rags" is quite refreshing!


In the third district the following
ambiguous utterance is all we have
on the financial question:


To restore stability to the national
finances by an early return to specie
payments and the preservation of a
uniform standard and measure of val
ues, so that the rights Of both labor
and capital shall be respected and Sc
cured.


If this means anything it means a
gold-standard and measure of values.
But our readers will observe that in
neither of these platforms is there
one word about FUN remonetizatim
of silver. or the receipt of greenbacks
for duties. or the retention Of green
backs as part Of the bernanent cur
rency.ci.tha equity. -.


They rroiose' to fight the campMen
on the ground that. the regular shah
not be. feslIced in nu:pbeis or In pay. :
One would think: to hear them, that
it was the few thousand regulars
who put down the rebellion, instead
Of the millions of volunteers, a large
share of whom are now tramping the
country, begging from door to door
for something to eat. There is no
tenderness for them in these plat
forms.