River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-09-05

the Democratic State Conyen zion held
at Fond du Lac in 1877; this germ has
sprouted and promises healthy
growth which will not be nipped by
the early frosts of Democratic har-
mony in 1878. While there are per-
haps a majority of the members of the
Democratic party IF this State who
are ready to forsake principle for what
they mistakenly deem policy, very
strong sentiment perva0es the remain
der of the party favorable to u strict
adherence TO the time-honored prin-
ciples of their party on the side of Il
circulating medium founded upon a
coin basis us best calculated to pro-
mote the commercial and industrial
interests of the country, and those
representing the sentiment last sug-
gested are disconsolately asking, what
is to be gained by coalition with the
Greenbackers, anyway g They GER
tainly cannot hope to gain very much
as the Greenback people are indus
| triously prosecuting an aggressive
campaign, furnishing their own cam
didates without any advice from DEM
ocratic sources and in fact running
their own machine. The fact of the
| business is, the Greenbackers have
stolen march upon our Democratic
friends, gobbled up over half of their
party and now by their actions coolly
ask the remainder what they are go
ing to do about it. Such prominent
and staunch Democratic journals as
| the Milwaukee News, Madison Demo
crat and La Crosse Chronicle are dis
gusted with the 'policy' tactics adopt
ed by the bulk of their party, refuse
| to follow it and can see nothing in
store for that organization but igno-
minious defeat, superinduced. by this
desertion, and their disgust they make
no attempt to conceal. While many
Democratic papers favor support of
| the candidates of the Greenback party,
nearly an equal number and better
class of the organs of the party bold
| ly denounce all propositions for such
| a base surrender of their principles
| and insist upon straight nominations,
arguing that by aiding to place the
balance of power in the hands Of a
third party simply that that party may
| be thus enabled to barter and dictate
they-the Democrats-would be no
better off chan they now are, while
the country would fare much worse
than it now does under honest money
| Republican ascendency.
| The Democrats OF the First District,
| in spite of IL determined opposition
| within their own ranks. have endorsed
the nomination of Charles II. Parker
| by the Greenbackers. a prominent
Democrat of Racine introduced to the
convention preamble and resolution
which in substance sat down very
heavily upon Mr.. Parker and the prin-
ciples which he is supposed to repre-
sent, the adoption of which was de-
| feated by a majority Of only one, indi-
eating very animated contest. The
| defeat of this resolution caused q
''wailing and crashing of teeth
| among the faithful of that convention
and many of the prominent Demo-
| Gratis of that district openly announce
| their intention of voting for the Re-
publican candidate rather than Parker.
| The Madison Democrat speaks its piece
| upon the unwholy alliance embodying
the endorsement of Parker in man
| ner that viii cause its subjects in that
district to roll up the whites OF their
eyes and ask, one of another, ii he
| heard anything ''drap," incident
| ally suggesting that ''there isn't
single redeeming feature about this
| coalition In the Second District
| the home of the Madison Democrat
WATERFOWL Democrat, and such-we
are fully persuaded that there will be
| no luSlOH VI IIlJ DGllio1Iooo Nhb
| Greenbackers; a democratic candidate
will be nominated on the 18th of Sep
| TENDER who will be trotted out upon a
platform containing as sound a plank
| on the money question as Horace Ru-
blee or any other honest money Re-
publican is capable of writing. In
this paragraph we have shown the
relative positions occupied by the diff
ferent elements of opposition to the
Republican party in the First and Sec
ond Congressional Districts as an apt
| illustration of the feeling in the DEM
ocratic party throughout the State,
| which does not breathe sarit of sub
mission on the part of the minority,
but which rather portrays a DISPOSE
ton on its part to see the party teeto'
| tally smashed rather than for it to fol-
low the ill-advised counsels of DEM
ocratic manipulations and dead beats.
THE Greenbackers of the Democratic