Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1878-09-19
THURSDAY, sIl1YxBII -. IS7l.

w hen men Ike Zen. Butter, bflcE
Pomeroy, Dennis Kesrpey, Marcellus
Emery. Leo Miller, and that ilk, can &C.
care the following OF the Democratic
party, il is time for the honest men in
that party to stop and consider how far
they are willing to follow. Whom the
gods would destroy, they first make
mad" and it is precisely this condition
that the Democratic party has taken on.
Ii has delivered itself completely over
to the greenback craze, and has been
swallowed up by that party. It has
turned its back on every principle that
il has protested in the past, aud has
struck hands with the widest and most
visionary theorists that the country has
produced. 1t has deliberately declared
itself, in the last election, in favor Of
vice and ignorance, the degradation of
the national honor, and the debasement
Of the national credit. 1t has even given
up its name, In this State, and to-day,
the few who remain true to the old par
ty are not sufficient to form even . re-
spectacle minority. A desperate effort
win be made to bring the Greenback
party into the Democratic fold, bu, this
eau only be accomplished by conceding
10 the soft money element all tina. they
demand in exchange for the Democratic
name aud We shall then have the spec
tscls Of the Democratic party fslly COM
mitted to the soft money theory. Al
ready, Mr.. Rast has Outlined the terms
on which the union can be made. In
his last issue Of the Progressive Age. he
says:
Those Who have come nom the Democratic
party will not return - IL - IL hes been or is
The party, II they Get with II. hereafter. nosi
shows that . political party has little IL say
power 10 reform stssn, corrupt or wrong, or
TO eh snge IL eeaersl bias The power 70 do
this must come rom vitnout- A il the re-
construction Of "a old bu ildins, b either
wholly takea down and it, nater.sls worked
INFO the new, or else 1t 10 stripped and ehaased
so n hardly 70 become recognizable. So with
old parties: the old nateriAl must be adjusted
10 the new and BOT the new 70 the old. II The
new party should ever become idestAed With
either Of the Old ones Il viii b the new and
not the CID which will give character TO the re-
o0OtTasssa poAiiaA saiAcs.-
When tAis 10 6one, what win be its
eject On uAose who still retain The pris.
sipies Of the sI1 Deuoosatis party1 Ev-
identity they mast yield to party pres
sure, or they must ally themselves with
The party that advocates the sound cur.
rency principles in which they believe.
As in the late rebellion, thoss Democrats
who believed in the preservation of the
Union, acted in hearty accord with the
party struggling to preserve it, so In
this fight for sn honest currency, those
Democrats who still retain the old party
principle of bard money, must set In
accordance with the party struggling
for that principle. There can be no
middle ground. The issue is clearly es-
tablished. tbs for, or against an hon
est currency, and on this question the
voters Of this country will be called up
on to declare themselves. All the old
issues are either settled, or held in abey.
sncs until this great question, fraught
with such vital importance to the pros,
perity Of the country, is definitely SET
tied. In this connection, the Belfast
Republican Journal closes . ringing ed.
itorial, Is follow:
I'm conclusion let US say thai the friends OF
sound currency will bide their time. They can
well afford 70. Right is not the less right be-
cause II 10 for time overborue. Even in Sol
onions day there were those, each wiser iu
bis own copceit than seven men that can rem
der . reason Retribution will surely come
when through ignorance or folly the eternal
laws which govern finance are violated
Though 6on6res blaze. and brass bands
cfash, and excited crowds shout, the rejecting
man knows that there will follow. fast and
sure, that which will be neither glsdness nor
rejoicing