The union Democrat., 1869-01-02
The New Work World. the ENQUIRER, md
the Result OF the Late Election.
The Cincinnati E,,ovire, s.vs


We published yesterday the article from the
New lork Bortd. intended as n reioiner to the
E"qatfeF on account OF our reply to il rSla-
tive 70 the false views which it took and pro-
muigated IN regard 10 the late election. 1t
Is grafiiying to us y perceive that the main
point ri issue between and the lpo,{d is
virtually conceded by our contemporary. We
claim these propositions:
4. That the greenback issue could not.
after the action ot the New York Convention
he brought INTO the canYass as an aid to the
Democratic side.
:. That to our inability to present the issue.
our ceteat at the election is largely owing.
y - That the Convention made mistake
in not nominating candidate who was the
cho'ce of the West, and whose personal. and
political popularity would have enabled US
to carry the October State elections. which
proved themselves to be decisive Of the Ne
vember contest.
The World. in its article of Thursday, in
speaking OF the greenbacL issue. remarks:
ut was argumentatively exploded by Gov
ernor Seymour $ able speech in June. 1t was.
for all practical purposes, killed by the Con-
7ention in July, in the successful struggle to
Defeat ito author"
Here is an assertion that the greenback
issue was not made bv the New York Con-
vention but. on the contrary. was killed bv
its action. Yet with an inconsistency as
stupid as it is remarkable. the New York
World proceeds TO say: "The October and
November elections gave it the finishing
stroke by showing that twould not command
the support of Mr.. Pendleton's own State.n
The World it will be seen, first assumed
that the greenback issue was "killed in the
July Convention" after being "argumenta-
lively exploded by Governor Seymour, the
nominee OF that Convention. in his speech in
June /; and second, it charges that the loss
OF Ohio in the Octnber and November cleo
tinns, when it failed to sustain the candidate
whose speech had 'exnloied it in June" and
whose nomination ''kiled' it in July, was
an evidence that Ohio was not for the meas
ure, which by its own showing, was not in
volved in the result. We are held by the
World, to rather opposite, but severe ac-
coun.ability.
Again. we are charged by the Hor7d with
making structures upon Governor Seymour.
We have made none upon him. We simr.ly
>ald that, on account of his anti-greenback
speeches previous to his nomination by the
July Convention, we were unable to impress
the people OF the West with the idea that,
ton, which favored the greenback plan. he
would honestly and sincerely carry it out.
We had no doubt If his sincerity. Our col
umns. day by day. in which we argued in
that behalf to the people. attest it. But we
were crippled and embarrassed by the neces-
sIty of this argument--the more especially as
the Republican State Conventions in Ohio
and Indiana had declared unequivocaIly for
the payment of the ii We twenty bonds debt in
greenbacks.
1t is the World which assals Governor
Seymour when it contends that he was not in
earnest when he accepted the greenbsck
platform and announced his intention of car
rying it out in good faith 1t says in speak
ing of our Presidential candidates Western
speeches:
"The reader Of these speeches will search
through them in vain for any recognition of
the greenbark theory, or any such sentiment
Inconsistent with the speeches he made pre-
vious to the Convention. From first 10 last
Governor Seymour spurned the theory"
We admit that Governor Seymour spurned
the green back" theory in speeches. as the
World irtimates. We were painfully con-
scious of it at the time. The increased Re-
publican maiorties in November over the
October election show that the people fully
appreciated his position.
1t will he perceived, as we have said, that
it is the World. and not the Enqt 'rer, which
has made reflections upon the character of
Governor Seymour. While we always insist
ed, and do now believe, that he would have
been faithful to the platform if elected, the
World ESSAYS to show that he was dishon nest
from the beginning and always intended to
kick it over. The misfortune is that too
many believed in the Hofd's theory, as
now expressed, unjust as it was and hence
arose our disasters. We firmly believe that.
with Mr.. Pendleton as candidate, or with
some other one equally identified with the
greenback issue presented by the New York
Convention. and standing upon a correspond
ing platform, that the election would have
been certainty. So popular is that question
that the Republicans dare not contest it in
the more important Western States: but
their leading representative men, like Sena-
tors Sherman and Morton, have been con-
strained by popular pressure from behind to
adopt it.
That en- issue thus popular. which has re-
eeived the sanction of the peoplc, is now to
be dropped, is absurd. When Democratic
Conventions are held. in this Northwestern
country the Horld will have indisputable
evidence of this fact. For wears to come it
will not only be an issue, but main issue.
Our contemporary tells us that the bonds can
not be paid in greenbacks without an act of
Congress, and that that can not be obtained
in four years. because tie Senate is Republi-
can. This will be news, indeed. Under the law
of Congress, MS it now stands, the fve-twen-
ties can be paid in greenbasks as well as
any other money. If any legislation is ne
cessary by Congress. it is to paw them in gold.
and that is what the bondholders are irving
to get.
The World declares it is the organ of COM
mon sense, and not of the bondhulders. As
to the common sense of paying three or four
times az much as we agreed to paw, we leave
the public to judge. But it strikes us that
the proposition partakes neither of common
nor any other kind of sense.
Our controversy with the World is one of
principle and political policy, founded on
what has appeared in the respective journals.
and upon their wellknown views as to the
future. We seek no mere personal contro-
versy. involving men. although we will not.
IN the calculation of truth. shrink from it.