Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1880 — Greenback Central Committee Meeting. [ARTICLE]

Greenback Central Committee Meeting.

An Kftsrt to <Mln#c wHb tbe Bmt Honest Mom Berest rise Each Polltleal Tab Mast Stand On Its own Bottom. Notwithstanding the emaciated condition ot the Greenback party in Jasper county a few straggling members of that nearly defunct organisation are endeavoring to keep the issues alive until after the fall election. A self-constituted central committee held a meeting at the court bouse last Saturday afternoon for the purpose of fixing a time for holding a connty convention for the nomination of county officers. After the meeting was called to order, James A. Burnham, the chairman, attempted to harangue the handful of men present into tbe dishonorable conviction of colluding with the Democrats, but his speech had but little effect upon the minds >f those who were possessed of common honesty and political pride. At the close of his remarks a letter from the chairman of the Democratic central committee was read, which favored the same measure, and another fiat individual made a speech in support of the motion, but the rank and file of the Greenback party were not willing to sell their principles for a mess of pottage, and when the vote was taken they effectually sat down on the colluding scheme and tbe men who proposed It. The Democrats of Jasper county have been truck!icg to the Greenbackers for several years, hoping .through a union of efforts to gain a footing to success, but now they have been kicked aside unworthy of political or official fellowship. Dishonest politicians must come to grief sooner or later and we were not surprised to bear that tbe wouldbe leaders of the Greenback and Democratic parties in this county, who are so willing to sacrifice principle for office, have been- so effectually snubbed by men of their own political household. It will be remembered that a late Democratic county convention adjourned from the 22d of May to the 3d of July in order to curry favor with tbe Greenbaekere by permitting them to make their nominations first, but the Greenbackers won’t have it that way and set their convention for the 17tb of July.

So far the leaders of these minority parties have been defeated in their efforts to get into office by unfair means by their more honest followers, and we hope this last chastisement will teach them a lesson worth remembering. There are a half dozen Greenbackers and Democrats hanging around the court house who are willing to sacrifice the principles and dignity of their parties for the privilege of gaining official position, but we are pleased to report that there is a sufficient number of honest men in both parties who are possessed of sufficientintelligenoe to observe these schemes and take steps to defeat them.