Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1878 — INDEPENDENT CREENBCK MASS CONVENTION! [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

INDEPENDENT CREENBCK MASS CONVENTION!

A mass convention of the In.’epend-<-tit Greenback voters of Jasper county will be held at the Court House in Rensselaer, Indiana, on Saturday. April 20th, 1878, at 10 o'clock F. M. Ist. To select delegates to the In<ie pendent Greenback State Convention. 2nd. To select tielegates to the Independent Greenback Congressinal Convention, for the Tenth District. 3rd. To select tielegates to the Independent Greenback Senatorial Con vention, f >r th- Twenty-fourth District. 4th. To select delegates to the Independent Graenbaek Representative Convention, for the Forty-fifth Ids 1 rict. sth. To fix the time and place for holding an Independent Greenback county Convention to nominate a county ticket. Cth, To organize an Independent Greenback County Central Committee, and to transact such other business as may properly come before the c invention. All vot* rs who are opposed to the financial policy of the democratic and republican parties, as defined in their j ittonal idatform, and who arc in 1 .vor of the principles enunciated in the platform of the National Green Lick party, are cordially invited to be [■resent. Titos. Borrotghs, O B. Mclntire, Sampson Erwin, Parley Finney, Wm. C Pierce, Jed. D. Hopkins, Sam'lW.Ritchey, Hope B. Miller, Henr ’ Welsh, Elliot R. Bi rk, James Peffley, Arthur Clinton, I Javid V. G arrison, Wm McGlynn, John M. Helmick, B W. Harrington, John H. Shields, Abe. Sparling, Joseph Bray, B F. Shields, Chas. P. Hopkins, H. Z. Leonard, Sam’l M. Black, Jacob Owens, William Major, Lorenzo Tinkham, j Charles H. Price, Jessie Wilcox, George H. Brown, William Beck, and others. At Indianapolis, Sunday inorn’ng, William Bradley was arrested for burglary, taken before the .mayor Monday morning, and bound over before the grand jury. Before 11 o’clock that body had found an iodictment against him. and he was taken befoie Judge Buskirk and given five years in the penitentiary. Quick work. Bro. James talks very flippantly 1 abouta“demoeratic county-seat ring," In the coniie of the canvass there may be several chapters written ! about rings We have the material,) and in due time there will be a howl- ' ing among the hosts of Africa, The ! allusion of the Union to rings is ini very bad taste —very, It is a boome- ; rang, certain, “We (the open countenanced would- i be imitator of Nnsby, whose lovely profileembelishes our Ntisby-like productions) coaxed the republicans to vote against Babcock and Clark who were crippled by democratic bullets,” and you too, dear Horace, sought to be the opponent of Mr. Clark, for whom you now profess so much sympathy, and you either voted against the crippled Babcock for whom you shed so many crocodile tears, or belied your declarations. Poor fellow, how profusely he melts. Babcock’s loss did not prove his gain, ami he sincerely melts. He would, no doubt, melt away if h« knew what little faith his readers placed in bis protestations. They are acquainted with his political chess-board, remember the moves he made, and the stakes for which he played. Bro. James, your ear a minute! When you say wo figured conspicuously in the Bradford convention two years ago. you 1- fib like h— thunder. The fact is Mr. Brown was per sonally our choice, but then we had no part in the convention. However, you would have “sat down" upon Mr. 8,, had he received the nomination. You possibly intended wed, but then things didn’t conspire to work out foi you “a more exceeding weight o! glory,” and you flopped! That flop would have proved disasterous to Mr. Brown, and in that event what could you say in extenuation? We believe you are a friend of Mr. B’s., notwithstanding that little allusion about the officials of the agricultural associa- ' ion associating with blacklegs, gamblers, pimps and thieves, etc., and everlasting. But then you'were grieved because they would not pay you a izig borin'; for their printing. CircumitMDcea arc extenuating. Don’t you whh you were our cousin? Th® ra/ls inz.ongicsi, and in the administrative department of Government, have had n.my positions to dispose of, and might hav.« done handsomely with Gen. Shields, who is deserving •vjthout re'eretiec to hi/. party affiliations, but they never could sec it until an opportunity tiresented to manufacture a litt|y oheap political capital. The other day, they a*tempt<•4 to impress upmi the democrats ol the Mouse thy nceessiiy and propriety

■of electing him for doot keeper. The democratic members of that body, I however, considered that Gen. Shields was more deserving a place and pay j on the retired list than many cow I placed there, and it would be better and more in harmony with right towards the gallant General of two I wars, and immediately put radicals to the test. The bill passed the House I by a large majority, but in the Senate it met with partisan factions opposition from radicals of the Edmunds strife. “The greenback was of republican birth, and republicans will take good care of a child that has been so serviceable.”— Union. Well. yes--it was of republican i birth, but it has had a very unnatural ) parent. It was “farmed out” by its ; authors, depreciated in the hands of the people, but was made valuable by ths unnatural parent to the money sharks. That parent permitted it to { be used, at par, in t le purthase of bonds, but would not permit it to be used in the »edeniption of the same. By this means it has been made to ; operate disastrously with the people. Besides, Bro. James, you remember i only u ;very few y *ars ago you and ' yours taunted and jeered it with be ing a “rao baby!” How unnatural!— I and now you would take care of it ; would you? Well, you’ll not be peri mitted to do so. To-day, your party 1 is opposed to it, and in your opposiI tion to it you are but carrying out i the behests of the paity. The allusion to the stand taken by the Indiana ) delegation, is a little bit of sarcasm. 1 Everybody knows it is “policy” that dictates their action. A few short I years ago, when you voted (if you did) tor George Major, and Charley Price, ! and Henry A. Barkley, and against ) Mr. Clark and tho cripple, Babcock, ' you were possibly in favor of greenbacks, but you were more in favor of Horace E. James. I _ The Sentinel, the able democratic organ at the native home of ourself and Hon. J. B. Belford, ex-member of congress from Colorado, copies the following extract of a recent contribution of Mr. B. to the discussion of finance, fro ji the Neic York Observer: I “And now, in conclusion, permit me to say tiiat the disease of this nation to-day is its vast indebtedness; its indebtedness growing out of the war; its indebtedness incurred by bad speculations ami unprofitable ventures; its indebtedness born in the fever of extravagance for foreign silks, velvets, laces, and gewgaws; its indebtedness incurred in the constructing of railroads managed adversely to the interests of those who paid for their construction; indebtedness contracted in erecting gorgeous church tern pies where religion has every grace except the heart. For this disease experience can suggest < ut one cure industry, economy, and time. This cure disregarded, the fever and deletion! will incieas until universal bankruptcy overtakes us all. This cure applied, though slow, will be absolutely certain.” To make recovery “absolutely certain," further steps will be required. “Jim” should also have recommended the complete and absolute abolition of all thieves in the employ of the Government, and the co-operation of the radical Senate and administration with the democratic House in its effort- to ieduce the expenditu.es; and 1 then the recovery by the Government of vast sums stolen. Add to this the policy of paying the public debt according to the original contract, thus dealing honestly with the people, and justly with the money changers. These recommendations added to “industry, economy, and time,” will eventually bring relief, but nothing short of these.