The Van Buren press., 1878-10-22
lie. Democrats Pull Together.


sense, and some Of the party, who ar
won't TO wander away from the old an,
better track may call halt by pc
rusal
While such men as Bayard, Gordon
jerry Black, Seymour and Lamar. ar
inscribed on the democratic rolls alons
side OF Thurman, Voorhees,, Pendleton
and Hendricks, there is no occasion fo
democrats who differ as to the exact kline
and amount of currency which SHOULD
be employed by the government, TO dc
cline to act and vote with the democrat
ic party. No party Of one idea can bt
permanent. Wise navigation laws, STATE
rights, wages and homestead exemption
laws, fair tariff, light taxotion, econom
ical government, obedience to the law,
and constitution, control .of monopolies
preservation OF the public lands for &C
tuai settlers, wise systems of internal i'm
provements, obedience Of military to
civil power, and free suffrage, are all
good democratic doctrines. Some dem
ocrats differ with other democrats as to
what is the wisest way to manage
finance, but because of such differences
there is no good reason for voting repub-
llcans into power. Every vote for II
third party, no matter what its name, is
direct vote for restoration of the re-
publicans to government contre,. 1t is
the duty of democrats to stand together
49,. -s, ;,.e, .sffr ftgIsIate WISE
~ on all subjects Those democrats who
think greenbacks the correct thing, and,
therefore, propose to vote with the third
party, resemble the foolish cow, which
stood patiently, until the milk pail was
just about full, when she, with one i'm
patient movement upset it all So green
back democrats have waited through
years of democratic defeat, until Just as
the fruits of their patience was to be
plucked, some of them propose to kick
over all that years OF patience have
gained. Rejecting, sensible democrats
will not commit SO foolish a blunder.
Greenback democrats, there is little
for yoR TO chew. What Il
glittering, glowing, cleaning, glistening
rainbow OF truth, is this article, as it
spans with its beauty our political hor.
rizon, and exposes, by its vari-colored
haes, the errors into which so many are
being led by their blindness to common
sense and reason. Were we not actually
forced toward the reality of the fact by
our optical observation, we should hard
~ be willing TO believe that /" rejecting,
sensible democrats could be guilty of
such monstrously absurd nonsense as is
by some of them. The idea
Of genuine democrat performing an
act that will aid in the destruction of the
party to which he belongs seems TOO sill
y for belief; and yet it is truth. Men
Of good sense, with their eyes wide open
10 all the vast train OF evils that must
follow in the wake Of such a course, de-
iberatey desert the party Of their lives,
TO follow after ghost-the semblance
Of n reality hath neither form nor
These men seem to forget
.l.~ ~-..sotve pve eircuI t,y ef.v. sv.sseI ana
great statesmen of the party, to forget
that they have submerged the money
question in the greater present interests
of the party, and are won away from
their party-obligations by the pititul-
of man for political position,
whose only governing principle is his Of
tice-itching palm. Now, Democrats, who
are you going to follow, men like Sey-
monr, Lamar, Hendricks, and Bayard--
men of capacity and integrity-or the
Greenbaek candidate, who is going over
the State, tickling the horny handed
and telling of the great revolution to be
wrought in the money.interests of the
country through the triumph of Green
backism ? Which of these men, and
their advice, are You disposed to follow
aud be governed by2 The one urges
you to unionize and remain with your
party, and the other bids you desert the
party just as the battle is about to com
mencc, and when common honor and de.
-eency require that you should remain.
Are you not tired of the T" abomination
of desolation" that for almost a score of
years has tapped its filthy wings over
the dostinies of our land ; poisoned the
political, moral and social atmosphere
with the noxious stencil of its own filthy
impurity infected all who were in its
immediate presence with that fraud and
thievery and corruption which as natu
rally belong to it as does the odor to
tho rose? You are Then why in the
name Of heaven do you commit folly
that can do nought else but to aid in
its power-continuauc 7 The air around
the heads of some democrats that we
know, is fairly blue with the awful NAL
elections with which they baptize radi
calism, but yet The course that they
take in the greenbaclk dodge, neutralize,
the effect of their whitening anathemas
" Let us pull together" Democrats, for
there is no safety for us, if we do not
Radicaiism must hunt its grave and De
mocracy must turn the old ship of State
into peaceful waters, ere the voice o