The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1879-04-17

] DATES AXE ttkkEt L. Subscribers III irrtar
are requested to forward the sums due.
Danger Ahead.
The worst dpprehenSOnS, with regard
/ Congress At this time, are apparently
about TO be realized The efforts of the
more conservative members to restrict
/ legislation to the passage of the appro-
priatlon bills have been Of no avail. The
sott-money Democrats and Grcenback
clS, the tariff thinkers and legislative agi-
tators, succeeded in SO amending the rules
OF the House rs to open the floodgates for
/ general legislation: and they followed up
/ mis- victory by capturing the Democratic
| caucus and securing Mondays session
/ in which to present their ruinous schemes
i for initiating the currency and depicting
/ tile public treasury. they propose to
/ press legislation hostile to the National
/ banks. and will try to pass a law at the
/ earliest possible day retiring their notes
! and replacing them With greenbacks, and
MIL MAKE an effort to secure the free coin
age "i SILVER ami I" authorize the Issue
Of silver bullion certificates on the same
| basis rs IS no" provided for gold. The
I restoration "I the income tax, the REVISION
/ dhd educlion OF the tarlil, and the APP
( irnDI-iIfinu ,t millions of dollars for All
sorts ot internal Improvement projects,
complete the programme, in brief, of the
revolutionary majority now in control of
the House Of Representatives.
me hdId money Democrats are nat
uraliN tNaNperated and greatly down east
at the turn affairs have taken. They say
the party has sold ont to the Grcenback
ems III order, first. to accomplish local
4 trIUmphS III various parts ol the West TN
inns they did not succeedl and secondly.
~ ORDER 10 force Mesar9. Thurman q
\ HeAdurhs ami their SOFT money views up
ON the last amt to do this 10y commit
TINS Democratic Congress To western
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and men OF like views are reported to be
deeply concerned III regard TO the situa-
On the other hand the Greenbac kers are
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Iht overthrow 81 IIdtll ana bayafN ana
that matters are al last IN such a shape
thdt the last VIII nave To Yield To the
West. Considering that Ohio has Just
rendered verdict against Thurman ana
Ewing. even their own towns having been
carried ny the Republicans, and that their
lnaAcial doctrines have been repudlated
IN every election held TINS spring, they
are claiming little TOO much. The po-
ltical fortunes Of Tilden or Bayard are
not Of national Importance, but the imam
cial Views they represent are, and these
VIII triumph despite the advocates Of the
The result Of the capture OF the House Of
Representatives. by the Greenbaekers,
can only damage the Democratic party,
ana temporarily depreSS business. 1t can
not permanently disturb the finances or
lmpcrII resumption. twill hasten the day
for the complete eradication Of an agita-
ton as Io9IISh as 1t IS wicked, and in that
way t VIII be productive of good The