Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1882 — ANOTHER GREENBACK LETTER. [ARTICLE]

ANOTHER GREENBACK LETTER.

Editor vlege to anuounjb my resignation as comTuiiteeninn of the once respected Greenback party of Jasper county. I feel justified in using that terin, by the past doings of its professed friends.. There.a re still a tew tiuflinciiiiig ones left whom 1 designate as the still respected party. With such lam still in harmony; but knowing, as T do, that since its existence as a party in Jasper, it hue been run in the interest of the Democratic party. In proof thereof I will give a few stubborn facts; Once fie elected a Representative and a Senator, called themeelves Groanbackers; sent them to the Capitol; proved false to the party; glided back to the Democrat camp. Then we had a Wolcott. He too played his part; with a well filled purse he returned to his old camp, to be treated as an “Arnold’’ by his former friends. Four yeans ago the party in the zenith of its glory, when Starr’s Hull reeehoed with tne readin" of candio ’lutes credentials of fealty and undying love in the cause, (for office of course,, and the desire of some were gratified. Then we hud another convert; candidate for Sheriff on the brain; rode more miles than a circuit preacher to convince his friends he was a Grsenbacker; undertook too big a job, rani again took shelter in the Democratic camp. Still another, more fortunate, obtained his desired office, and represented the party as a delegate in the Chicago convent:on, seeming proud of standard bearer J. E Weaver, but ere the time rolled round a change came o’er his dream, and he too left pur ranks, and now takes position in tht;JgPemocriitic front. Hus he forgotten thaV ‘Johnuy Gilpin” ride,—a la BombastieS^yurioso—from Remiugton to Wolcott to learn the truth of Wolcott’s treachery? Oh! consistency. Still another, who in his great zeal to go forward, burned the bridges in his rear, making his retreat impossible. When next sehn he was back at his old camp, weary wtith wading the stream minus the bridges. While the lamp holds out to burn, Sore-beads, repentant, may return. Still another, Treasurer on the brain, a jgowl G. 8.. but those tormenting Democrats mixed iu and spoiled his dish; too toad it was! But then they took him home again to camp, a sadder, if not a wiser mad Still another over-anxious office seeker-G. B.» of course, once a Republican then a G.B , then a stump speaker in a sister State, tloseing out Democratic doctrines to Hancock admirers; assumes a new role in the play of Independent; finds it too lonesome; teps forward and takes an indorsement dose from the quack leaders in the quack t convention of the sth, called G-gr con ven- # tion, and sails in once more a full fledged ..Greenbacker. Still another, a Greenbacker when convenient to be one, brought his credentials, once elected by us suffering G, B, and now the suffering g-bs to extend to him their suffrage} once more, but, alas, those naughty Domocralti forced him to their front rank to give battle in theirbelmll, to the .doughty champion , of the Republican hosts, St. George: and all Greenbackers have been called upon to buckle on their armor to do battle for a suffering Demo-Greenbacker. Such the order in the absence of*the suffering one, (as issued from the council on the sj.il of August, 1882.) Its former friftnds ne’er mention it; The name, never heard; Their Hps are how forbid to speak The once familiar word—of Greenbackor. The abofte is but a faint sketch of the winy scenes and taiaia of the so called Jasper county Greenbacks. And being opposed to side shows running in connection with the main, I am. like "Uncle Dick” iu his letter, going it alone, independent of caucus or convention. Yours respectfully,

S. ERWIN.