Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-05-02
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The financial question has set
the old political parties, and their
leaders, completely adrift. The
Presidents veto Of the currency
bill has split parties completely
asunder, and made "strange bed
fellows" of politicians. The Gin
cinnati Enquirer, the leading DEM
ocratic paper in Ohio, boldly as
sails Senator Thurman for his
course on the financial question,
and at the same time is quite
sssweetn on the Republican Sena-
tors and members who voted for
and sustained imitation. 1t says !:
I'VE can not permit the saeri
flee of any man who has been true
and faithful on this question, what
ever may have been his political
antecedents. The Congressman
who are staunch and true against
the moneyed power, and in favor
of public relief, are our political
friends, whether they have been
Republicans or Democrats. The
tools of Wall street, the cham
pions of dear money and cheap Ia
Dor, we utterly repudiate and con-
tenn. and and the more emph3t-
ally if they assume to call them
selves what they have no right to
do Democrats"
This is pretty open and distinct
avowal, from the leading Demo
cratic organ in the West, that old
party lines are to be ignored-that
it will standby Republican infla-
tionists and "go for' Democratic
hard money advocates. 1t even
goes to the extent of reading out
of the Democratic party all who,
like Senator Thurman, sustain the
Presidents veto. On the other
hand, the New York World, which
assumes to be the leading Demo-
cratic Journal in the country, sus-
tains the Presidents veto, and is
very severe ON the Enquirer and
lis followers. The same adverse
positions are maintained among
the leading Republican Journals
On the currency question, and
threading out of the party is now
the order of the day. All this
must result in good to the People,
who have too long submitted them
selves to be made "hewers of wood
and drawers of water" The cur
rency question will enter largely
into the coming Congressional
elections throughout the States,
and in the contest old party lines
will be completely broken up
The Cincinnati Enquirer sounds
the key note when it proclaims
that all the present members OF
Congress, Democrats and Republi-
cans, who voted for the Finance
Bill vetoed by the President, must
be sustained and returned, ilre-
spective of their party affiliations.
Those who oppose the Bill and sus-
tain the veto will, of course, meet
the inhationists on that ground,
and old party lines will besmashed
TO smithereens in the contest.
We shall be found on the side of
those who oppose imitation. We
believe the great majority of the
people of all parties, as we'll as the
business and manufacturing inter-
ests of the nation, will heartily en-
dorse the Presidents veto. We
know there are many good men
but they are growing fewer every
day-who believe in a flood Of pa
per promises as the one thing need
full to revive business and indus
try, but they will now be apt to
look closer into the question, 10
revise their opinions, and, we
have no doubt, will readily accept
the present situation as the best
possible for the country; the only
one, in fact, that promises stabil-
ty to business, ultimate prosperity
to producer and artizan, and the
maintenance of national honor and
good faith.