The Portland daily press., 1878-05-28


porter says Gen. Anderson's "views on the
money question have somewhat softened re-
Gently" A similar statement might be
made concerning his backbone.
Other Democrats push Mr.. Anderson hard.
Mr.. S. c. Andrews thinks contraction has
been too rapid; thinks the 7-30 bonds were
currency; says if his friends think he is the
best man for them he is willing to have his
name used has always held these views. Mr..
Lewis Pierce thinks the Greenbacker in the
west IS one thing and in the East another,
leaving the inference to be drawn that he is
favorable to the Eastern variety. 1t would
sorely puzzle him to point out the difference.
Mr.. s. Il. Lyman, former Postmaster "and
wich hopes to be agin," has been reading up
on the question, and so far takes an "oppo-
site view from Gen. Richardson" What
that view is may be conjectured from the
response of Gen. Richardson, who, faithful
among the faithless, opposes the Greenback
doctrine in every shape. The York Democrats
are not behind their fellows of Cumberland
In that county whole shoal of small Demo-
cratic politicians are putting themselves in
the forefront of the Greenback movement
with the purpose of using it to further the
interests OF the Democracy. Most conspcu-
Gus among them is Ephraim c. Spinney of
Klttery, one of the most blatant of copper
heads during the war, and devoted admirer
and follower of Marcellus Emery.
These correspondents, who have evidently
made careful canvass of the State, and
have interviewed prominent men in all Sec
tions, apparently entertain no doubt that an
intrigue between the Democratic chiefs and
the Greenback leaders is progressing. The
plan at first seems to have been for the Ma
tlonals to nominate independent candidates,
the expectation being that the Republican
Greenbackers would support them, and the
Democratic Greenbackers fall into the old
party lines at the last moment. But it was
feared that this plan would give the Repub.
llcans plurality in the Congressional Dis
trlcts, and so it has been abandoned. the
reckless and INSCRIPTIONS political adventur-
ers who have in many sections assumed the
leadership of the Nationals undertaking to
lead their entire force into the Democratic
camp. The intrigue will be thinly disguised.
The Democratic chiefs, no less unscrupulous.
have promised to endorse the Greenback
nominations il the candidates are Democrats.
This is the feast to which Republicans, who
have honestly gone into the "Greenback move.
ment," are invited. They are asked to assist
at Democratic side-show, to send men to
the national councils with whom they have
been at war all their lives, whose political
principles they detest, and whose patriotism
they distrust. They are to be used to secure
Democratic majority in the next House,
majority which will be under the control of
the South, now as ever the bitterest and most
relentless foe of the laborer and of the North.
ern middle classes. Before they conclude to
go into this combination in which they give
all and receive nothing, they will be wise to
do little hard thinking.
And they are thinking. From all parts of
the state come murmurs of dissatisfaction and
revolt as the intrigue develops itself. When
the proposal is seriously made in the interests
of the Democracy, to throw overheard Solon
Chase, the Oldest and the ablest of the Green.
back advocates, because he is opposed Ito use
his own forcible and picturesque expression)
to "ining drives" with the elder organiza-
tion, sincere Greenbackers begin to ask
themselves why they should contribute to
the success of the Democratic party which
has no genuine sympathy fol. them and only
seeks to use them for the furtherance of its
own selfish interests