Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1878-11-21
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER .. 1878.
Sold to the Democrats.

We ask every honest. earnest man,
who was led away. in September, from
his old party, and persuaded to join the
new Greenback movement. as il was
called, to read carefully the two edito-
rial articles which we have taken from
the Bangor Commercial and the Pro
greSsirc Age, and which are found in
another column.
They tell the whole story, a story
which ought to have been as apparent
in September as it is now. BY far the
larger half of the Democratic party was
then, and now is ready TO drop for the
time. all its old hard money doctrines
and traditions, and appear 10 embrace
national dishonor. reputation or fiat
money. for the sake of tolling off Re-
publicans from their own organization.
That such rupture of the Republican
party in Maine was only meant in the
end to build up the fallen fortunes of
Democracy was plain enough 10 most
lliGll W l8b AbuAh SNN al saNAi cNApAN AAiNt'
noses, but now that the scheme has SUI
cceded in one election. and the Repub
licans have lost the State temporarily.
all coucealment is laid aside and the
leaders in the movement trusting TO
the freshness and docility of their fol-
lowers who left the Republican side,
proclaim boldly that there is no half way
house, but that all must bring up in the
Democratic camp. And Mr.. Rust of the
ProqreSsice Age, Republican of TWEEN
ty years standing, tells bis Greenback
companions that they must lay aside
their party name and take the label OF
National Democrat" and Mr.. MARCEL
lus Emery. who has illustrated every
offensive and hateful side of Democracy
for the last twenty years, but who has
vet always claimed 10 be a''National"
Democrat, shouts applause, and is will
ing that seeding Republicans shall be
called by the name which he has so no.
tably adorned.
1t is an attractive show TO which the
Republican is invited. Does he think,
when he gets inside the tent, that Mr..
Rust will bs ring master or Mr.. MARCEL
lus Emery? His waiting there will be
of the shortest before he hear. the crack
of the Old Democratic whip in the Pan Ban;
to that sort of business. and. having
driven a good many decent Democrats
into disgust or rebellion by his insolent
ways, he longs for new recruits on
whom to Law his lash.
Neither he nor any of his associates
who with him control the Democratic
party in Maine have forgotten or taken
back one single disloyal, reasonable ut
terance of the war period; not one OF
them has eyer lifted a finger 10 help in
the difficult work Of e-constructing the
rebellious South: not one OF them has
ever had anything but icers and deris-
ion for murders of colored Southern Re
publicans, ard not one Of them, to-day,
but that in his heart welcomes a solid
South as the instrumentality by which
the Democratic party is again to reach
national control.
Mr.. Rlst and the men who 90 with
him into the Democratic party of to-
day. must give up every cherished SEN
timent OF the past, must see every prin-
ciple made sacred by long years Of po-
litical battle beaten down and cast un-
der foot, and must be thereto witness
and consenting.
And all this just when the country is
arousing to the danger which the Solid
South again presents; when the Repub-
iican party. planting itself upon the
solid rock OF the maintenance, both of
the national honor. and OF the right of
the citizen in every State, is being sus-
tanned by overwhelming majorities in
nearly every northern State.
No, Messrs. Rust and Emery: YOUR
plan will not work. A good many Re-
pubicans tried its virtues last Septen-
Der, and will have no more of either of
you. The near approach Of resumption
puts gold and the greenback on level.
and bark loudly as you will, you cannot
change the value of either to the extent
of the tenth part of mill. Moreover,
honest, sincere, country-loving men ev-
erywhere, Republicans. Greenbackers,
and Democrats not few, begin to see
that free republic means freedom for
all its citizens, that fraud, violence and
murder must be outlawed, because they
strike at the life of the republic, and
seeing this, they see, of course, that to
lie down in bed with the Democratic
party is to find the grave Of every bright
hope, OF every sound political principle