Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-31
Republicans, Stand by Your
Colors,

IN laC
party propose to vote the Labor and
Greenback ticket, they Just having
received a gleam of light on the ques
ton, which is, that the leaders of the
Democracy have never been Labor
and Greenback people They have
been the very opposite, having been
the champions of slavery, and plain
tiffs in court prosecutions to estab-
Gsh the unconstitutionality of the
greenback currency.
The leaders of the Democracy are
alarmed; they fear that their party
in large masses are about to vote for
the Republican party, which is the
father of the greenback, and the
greatest champion of labor the world
ever knew; or that large masses of
their party will vote the Labor and
Greenback ticket, to do either of
which is just the thing for such Dem
ocrats as favor the Labor or Green
back movements; for if they vote for
the Democracy they Will forever re-
main away from what they profess to
believe to be correct in governmental
finance. 1t is because of the indica-
tons of a change on the part of
the Democratic masses that the lead
ers of the Democracy manifest alarm
United States Senator Wallace, an
astute leader, has shifted the danger
in the Democratic camp, and he
rushes to the rescue; he gets up in
his place in the Senate and offers a
.'high-fying" bill on the National Fl
nance, ito coin S4OO,OOO,OOO worth
of silver dollars, half dollars and
quarters, the same to be a legal-ten
der for all debts, public and private !;
also bill to issue S100,000,000 of
$50 bonds IN lieu of that amount of
4 per cents, said bonds to run for
sixty years, and to be exchangeable
for coin or legal-tenders. Legal
tenders to be again re-issued and ap-
piled to payment of $40 bonds, ="
which is a good thing for the Senator
to do, and which indicates what
good thing Republican finance are,
when the steady progress they have
made so impress themselves that the
toughest of Democratic leaders begin
to throw semi Republican. financial
proposals to the membership of their
party, with the hope that such acts Will
keep the mass of the Democracy in line
This half recognition, on the part of
the Democratic leaders, of the sound
ness of the Republican financial pol
icy should animate every Republican
with renewed purpose to stand BY
his cofors, till complete recognition
has been forced from the old oppo-
nent of the labor and greenback
questions, that they are not to be
disturbed by any revolutionary move
ments of backward tendency.
What happy set of people the
Republicans will be when they real
ize that the old Wlld Cat Bank Dem
ocracy have turned Greenbacker to
vote the Greenback ticket. But, Re-
pubhcans, be cautious: let no man
be caught by the chaff bill that the
willy chief is throwing out. Once the
Democracy have put themselves on
the record by their rofes at an election
or tDo as in favor of the Greenback
organization. it will be time enough
for the Republicans to fly their hon
orable course, and join with them in a
revised issue The Senator may be
in earnest, and he may not so be-
His bill may be only decoy to hold
those of his party who are about to
leave it, for the Labor and Greenback
movement. Be the object what it
may. the weakening that it indicates
should cause every Republican to ad-
here to his past faith. When such
leaders manifest a disposition for
Republican finance, the Republican
party SHOULD unitedly vote their tick
ct. It is high compliment to Re
publican finance, when the Democ-
racy favor its adoption in part They
will adopt all of the good that is in it
by and by. Till then. let Republi-
cans stand by their colors