Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-09-12
True as Steel.


The republican party, which has been
true to the country from its inception
the party of the Union. of Liberty and
Equal Rights-the party that has record
OF which any of its members may be
proud-has come out OF the recent con-
test with honor unsullied, with principles
uncompromised, and never stood forth in
better fighting trim than at the present.
A slight shading and tOning down oil It's
position on the financial question, might
have saved t. it the thousands who went
from its ranks into the greenback craze,
and ensured it temporary victory; but
victory, under such circumstances, would
have been more disastrous than defeat. 1t
stands to-day proudly and squarely on the
platform OF Honest Money, and on
that platform it will fight the battles OF
the future until the greenbsck party shall
dissolve, AS the democratic party has
already done. That was the one issue OF
the campaign just closed; every other
question and difference of opinion was Laid
aside, and the battle was fought squarely
on the issue of Honest Money. The wild
arguments" OF the greenbackers. based
on the most untruthiul statements, pre-
senting false figures, made Roadway in
the rural districts and among the ignorant.
Greenb ackism hourishes in the darkness;
DAYLIGHT is its worst enemy. In the larger
places. where public meetings were held
and the subject thoroughly ventilated,
converts were made by scores and hun
dreds. But in the country where the peo-
pie were uniformed upon the subject
where they had drank in the poison from
papers scattered AS thickly and almost AS
cheapIy as autumn leaves-ln these OBJ
scure places, the fallacy had its strong
hold
But what shall be said of the democratic
party, that has come out OF this contest
beaten, humiated and disgraced! They
have Rugged the viper to their breasts,
and il has taken their lite blood. The
position OF the old historic party is one to
excite pity, if it did not arouse the feeling
of disgust. Pooling issues with an in
cendiary party, whose concealed object
is to disrupt the foundations of society.
repudiate the national debt. and disorder
and disturb the finances generally,
they stand to-day in an attitude beneath
the contempt OF even the most deluded
greenbacker.
The ardent greenbackers, surprised at
their own strength, drunken and reeing
with visions Of imitation and piles of green
backs, must not imagine that their party
has about 1t any OF the elements OF per-
manency. A house without foundations
cannot long remain suspended in the air
II is in a verse condition than the house
built upon the shifting sands, and must
fall. The greenback disease is spasmod-
ic; it will rage this year, like the measles
or yellow fever &; but after the run" it
will die out. to be reckoned among the
strange and foolish political movements
Represented by the Know Nothing party
and p. L. LIS. 1t is a transitory, effer-
vescent thing, and men who are throwing
up their hats to-day, and shouting them
selves hoarse because OF the surprisingly
large vote thrown by the greeubackers,
will less than Year hence be heartily
ashamed OF their present position.
Ia the meantime the republican party.
standing on the broad platform of Nation
al Honor and Integrity, of Equal Rights
and Justice. will move forward to vic
tories that do not come from unholy COM
binations, or from an abandonment OF
principle. Thus standing, The party will
draw TO it the good men of every class,
who admire its present heroic and com
pact position and arrayed against it will
be found the remnants of the democratic
party, the sore-heads, the malcontents, the
communists. To triumph over these is
but question of time. That time is next
year. The beginning OF that conflict.
n0U.
Resumption Next Monday.