Show whig whis alio Ste senan to the question who is stevenson we reply mr stevenson is one of tho the remnants of the old greenback party he ile was nominated to catch the riffraff of the old fiat flat money craze bat but it is rather doubtful it if be he can even gather up that scattered wreck of very attenuated matter we should say that the bid for the greenback vote would profit the old barn storming party very little we suppose that the eighth section of the platform was intended as ft fk standing for mr stevenson it is a proposition to return to wildcat banking pure puro and simple and if allowed would compel a traveler to change his money every time he should cross a state line the democrats would do nothing by halves not even in revising the tariff they propose to lift the defenses against wildcat money or rather to substitute depreciated paper for the full par value we now have and which is good anywhere in the united states the object of this is to create a kind of currency that will not pass outside of the state of issue this it is argued will make money plenty for use within state bounds this may not bo be the view of sir mr stevenson who believes that the government presses should print as much money as the people may want we presume that if the states do the same thing for their citizens it will do as well philadelphia north american ican |