Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-07-26
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THE RECKLESS INFZATIONIST or
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1t has sometimes been said that the plat
forms OF party conventions have little
meaning or influence, but that is certainly
not true when there is some great issue of
overshadowing Importance upon which
parties feel compelled to make some cx-
plicit declaration. The effect of the inila-
ton plank in the platform of the Ohio
democrats has been something remarka-
BILE. 1t has brought out in that party some
of the worst specimens of demagogism
that this country has ever produced. and
has forced even the solid and conserva-
tive leaders into strange fellowship and
virtual support Of heresies which they
had previously denounced. 1t is a strange
spectacle to find men in this enlightened
land appealing to the prejudIces of the ig
norant VI unthinking, and trying to incte
war upon capital which would threaten
such disgraceful scenes as characterized
the days of the French revolution.
1t was for renegade republican from
Philadelphia to give the cue for inhamma-
tory harangues against bondholders, and
to brandish the torch of Communism
among the iron workers of Mahoning Val
ley. But the democratic orators have ac-
cepted the lesson and bid fair to better the
instruction. Mr.. Carey, the democratic
candidate for Lieutenant-G Governor of the
great State of Ohio, has been INDUCING in
violent TRADES against what he calls an
'untaxed aristocracy,' and coupon clip
pers." and representing that 4 return to
specie payment threatens disaster and ruin
TO the great mass of working people. The
recklessness with which the party orators
are using the plausible sophistry which has
been refuted over and over again in the
inevitable bankruptcy and ruin that has
followed upoa the prolonged use of ire
deemable paper currency must be alarm
ing to those democrats who understand
the dangerous tendency of such argu-
ments. II they have any confidence in the
intelligence and good sense of the people
Of this country, they cannot but see that
these reckless demagogues are preparing
the ruin of the party.
And yet there is not one of them who
has the courage or the manhood to raise
his voice against the common cry and
stand firm for principles whose soundness
has been demonstrated by experience
There is the platform of the party and on
it they must stand. or let the party go to
defeat. Defeat is what it deserves. and
they know it; but they lay the Aattering
JUNCTION to their souls that it may be per.
mitted to win on its initiation platform, and
the heresy that it contains be purged from
it afterwards. The effect of the adoption
Of this wild heresy in the democratic creed
is curious. There is Governor Allen, pot
metal Bill Allen" he was called in the cid
days, making senie speeches, in which he
at once denounces the republicans as the
authors of rag money" and commends
its perpetual use when the special emer-
gency which alone justified its creation
has long since past. He falsifies the record
of a lifetime and scouts at principles of
common honesty, because he is a candidate
for Governor on rag money" platform,
and considers himself possible candidate
for the Presidency, if its abominable doc
trines are accepted by tie people.
There is Allen &. Thurman, another pos
sible candidate for the Presidency. He
knows that his party has placed itself in
the wrong, and must utterly detest the
spirit displayed in the harangucs of such
men AS Carey and Allen; aud yet even he,
the champion of hard money, and the un.
compromising opponent of imitation in the
United States Senate, is co.worker with
the dcmagogues. The only honorable and
consistent course for him is pointed out by
the New York Tribune, when it says: ale
must repudiate the platform, the candi-
dates. the course Of the press and the in
cendiary harangucs Of inllationist orators"
if he would act consistently with duty to
his party and to his country and his own
honor;" but he will not do it. His derelc-
ton may forever put him out Of the Geld