The Portland daily press., 1878-09-13
The Massachusetts, Camnaipn.

The first convention of Greenbaekers since
the Maine election was held in Boston
wednesday. Intoxicated by the partial sue.
cess OF their brethren in this State the lead
ers gave Inbridled license to their tongues.
and their utterances were such as to alarm
all friends of social order and good govern
ment. The English vocabulary was ran
sacked for epithets by which to stigmatize
men whose only crime is that they have been
industrious and frugal and thus acquired cap-
ital. In State in which there are more
men, In proportion to the population, depend
ent upon thelabor which capital furnishes for
daily bread for themselves and their families
than in any other in the Union, and where
If the thousands and hundreds of thousands
OF spindles which capital keeps moving were
to suddenly stop, thousands of laboring men
and women would be thrown into abiect poy-
erty these blatant communists and dema-
gogues sought by wild harangues to array the
employed against the employer, and to instil
into the minds of the former the pestilent
ideas of the Socialists of the Old World. 1t
will be sad day for the old commonwealth
OF Massachusetts, if these notions find lodg-
ment in the minds of any great number OF
her people, and thereby the advocates of
them gain even temporary success-saddest
OF all for her laboring men and women-for
If it does nothing worse it will greatly
strengthen the movement which now exists
all over the land to give to the people dis
honest currency and thereby unsettle busi-
ness, cripple existing industries and pre-
vent the establishment of new ones.
Yet there is danger Of this very thing hap
pening. The demagogic leaders of the Dem
ocratic party are ready to strike hands with
any organization that promises temporary
success. The same thing that happened
in Maine is in danger of happening in Mas
sachusetts and that too under circumstances
vastly more dangerous than here. The COM
munlstic element in the Gree1back party is
much stronger than in Maine, Its members
are less intelligent und the masses of the
Democratic party are less intelligent also.
or course there are high minded and honor
able Democrats who will protest against such
an alliance. So there were in this State; nev-
ertheless the union was made and the Democ-
racy went bag and baggage into the Green.
back camp. At Lewiston the other day Mr..
John z. Tarbox, who has represented Mass
achusetts in Congress by the grace of Dem
ocratic suffrages, said that his party would
endorse Gen. Butler, who, he predicted,
WOud he the nayt Gouornor of Nossoohnrotta
Butler is the candidate of the Greenbackers,
the candidate of the Communists, the candi-
date OF all the men who applauded the utter
ances of Dennis Kearney and the candidate
OF the class that recruit the jails and poor
houses. He is travelling over the state now
preaching reform, but the men who pro-
pose to make him Governor are the avowed
enemies, though not in terms, of good govern
ment, of social order and the right of every
man to enjoy the fruits of his industry and
prudence. His candidacy in itself is stand.
ing menace to the peace and prosperity of
the old Commonwealth.
Against his designs and those of his turbu-
lent supporters is arrayed the Republican
party. As in Maine so in Massachusetts the
friends of honest government and honest
money can find no abiding place outside of
this organization. The Democrats are
honeycombed with the pestilential heresies of
the Nationals, and it will be but short time
before the majority of them will be arrayed
under the Greenback banner. And what has
happened in Maine and is happening in Mas
sachusetts is almost sure to happen all over
the North. The Republicans are closing up
their ranks for vigorous fight for honesty,
the Democrats abandoning all their traditions
are deserting by thousands and tens of thous-
ands and rallying to the support of stand
ard which has insc ibed upon it dishonest
money, reputation and communism. Hon.
est men need not be told where they belong.