Salt Lake Herald | 1890-08-28 | Page 1 | National Greenback Convention

National Greenback Convention IXDA roLls Aug 21The National Greenback convention convened to day About fifty people assembled and outside of Indiana New York sent the largest tie legation le-gation sixteen in number The remainder are scattered pretty evenly over the house Colonel Jones took charge of the convention He pointed the dangers of sectionalism and scored both tho old parties for both what they had and had not been He cia ci-a financial policy based on a fixed volume of paper money regulated by law He said the business of the convention was to put candidates of the old parties in districts where the Greenback party had none and lastly to bring aboutacomplete reorganization reorganiza-tion of the National Greenback party throughout the whole country A love feast followed