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The Amalgamated Conglomeration

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Parent Issue
Day
18
Month
June
Year
1880
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

The greonbackers - Loth wings- and ilic Kearneyites. and the socialista and the n.itionals, and the labor party, and the polit ii:il tramps, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc, asseuibled in grand convocation at Chicago, ju.st as the republicana had ccnipleted the work of nominating the next president and vice president of the United States. They were in fession two or three days, had a li'ht, made up, and rlared up again, and made op again, and closed with a general love f'eat all around. The greenbackers - l'unioroy wing- wcre allowod their plank in the platform, the labor party inserted their little board, the nationals spikcd in a slab, the "regulars" lurnished the big tim)crs, the Kearneyites decorated it all over with skull and cross bones and Cl'inesc rirtoatures, and they closed thoir pow wow by putting on this variagated and highly decorated platform - built on the quicksand bottom of socialism, Gen. Ja. B. Weaver, of Iowa, and Cicn.(?) 15. J. Cliambcrs, of Texaa. And so endeth the fint and only chapter. All the succeeding ones will be filled with blank pages.