The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1875-09-28
REPORTS or MORE DAMAGE
A SAD HOWL.
The Greenback Doctrine SWeeps
Ing Pennsylvania.

Philadelphia Cor. New York Tribune.
A week has passed since the Erie Con.
vention yoked hard-money man and a
greenback man together, put them on a
raft of rag-money wind-bag rlanks, and
set them afloat, trusting to the rising
current of imitation sentiment to carry
them into office All the indications
point to succe ssful voyage. The Erie
resolutions uncovered the strength OF
the imitation movement throughout the
State. and it must be admitted that it is
alarmingly powerful. Not a dozen
Democratic newspapers openly dissent
from the wild and destructive financial
theories advanced by their party. There
are perhaps as many more that swallow
the platform with something like grim
ace, but the great body of the Demo
cratic journals come heartily up to its
support. Worse still, some Reputli-
can newspapers commend it, and seek
to twist tue currency plank OF the Lam
caster Convention into an Endorsement
of the greenback imitation. For exam
pie, tue Pottsville Miners Journal, a
newspaper of great influence in the coal
regions, says that the Republicans mean
to do just what the Erie resolutions
promise A Republican County Con-
vention held in Pittsburg last week DE-.
clared sqnarely for imitation. 1t would
seem that in many sections OF the State
the Republican leaders are attempting
to keep their party together by going
further than the Democrats in denounc
ing contraction and specie payments
After looking over the field carefully
reading the local newspapers, and talk.
ing with public men from nearly every
county, am forced TO the conclusion
that the only portion of Pennsylvania
where hard money ideas predominant to-
day is the section lying east of the ALE.
ghanies and south of the anthracite coal
fields; and even here, wherever there is
depressed manufacturing interest, the
inhationists have the upper hand In
the anthracite counties of Schuylkill,
Carbon, Luzerne and Northumberland
capital is fighting the imitation battle
hand in hand with labor, and the same
is true of the iron-producing districts
along the Lehigh and SchuYlkill Rivers
In the counties OF Lycoming, Clinton,
Cameron, Union, Tioga and Potter,
where numbering is the chief interest,
the cry of "More greenbacks'' carries
everything before it, the lumbermen be-
lieving that imitation will set everybody
TO building houses, and thus bring their
product into brisk demand.
West Of these counties is region
whose chief staple is soft coal. Wher.
ever you find a coal-miner, whether he
be owner. boss or digger in the pit, you
find an infationist Be it soft coal OF
hard coal that he mines, he is always
for soft money. In Bradford, which is
farming county on the New York Dor.
der, the Granger organization takes q
majority of all the voters, and has eff.
fectively sown the seeds Of the green.
back heresy, under the lead of Mr.
Piolett, the Erie nominee for State
Treasurer. Susqnehanna County, fur.
ther east, is in little better condition.
When one goes to the northwestern
part of the State he finds almost the
only hard money element to be the nu
merous German population of Erie
County. In Warren County met on
Tuesday a prominent Republican ex
member Of Congress, who has been 6
consistent resumptionist for ten years
He said that if he were candidate now
he should not feel sure ofelection M
less he ran on an imitation platform, SC
strong was the demand for "more mon
ey" in his district. South of Erie, the
petroleum counties Of Crawford, Venan
go and Butler are rampant for rag
money. West and south Of these liz
the iron and coal counties of Mercer
Lawrence and Beaver II their dele
gates to the Erie Convention we're trust
worthy representatives Of the public
feeling there, man who should make {
hard-money speech in that section
would stand good chance for being
mobbed.