People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1895 — MORTON THE CUCKOO. [ARTICLE]

MORTON THE CUCKOO.

At One Time a Greenbacker and Candidate for Governor for That Party. The populists are not cranks, fanatics or theorists, as many people believe. Some of the great leaders of the democratic party have been our associates in other days, and advocated the faith they now seek to destroy. Populism is an offshoot of greenbackism—both contending that the coinage of gold and silver be supplemented by an issue of paper money sufficient in volume to permit the transaction of legitimate business. Vice-President Stevenson was once enrolled in our ranks, having been elected as a greenbacker to tfie forty-sixth congress. “Why, the fact seems to have been forgotten that J. Sterling Morton, at present secretary of agriculture, and the most ardent and irrepressible advocate of gold monometallism, was within the past two decades the stanchest of stanch greenbackers! “Here,” said Mr. Dunning, producing a long slip of paper, “is a bona fide original greenback national ticket for 1876. At the top you see ‘For president, Benjamin F. Butler, of Massachusetts.’ Then follows the list of electors for the state of Nebraska, and below that the full state ticket. Do you observe that it reads ‘for governor, J. Sterling Morton.’ This gold standardist is the same man who nineteen years ago was proud to nave his name appear upon the greenback ticket with that of Ben Butler.”—N. A. Dunning’s Interview.