The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1879-07-08
The National Situation lin Ohio.
New Haven Union.)


The Cleveland Advance invites US to
fall into line in support of General Piatt,
nominated by the Columbus Greenback
Convention for Governor of Ohio on a
reputation platform. This we can not
do. Our whole sympathy is with the
Toledo Convention, which adopted the
best platform of the year. The Colum-
bus platform could not command FIVE
hundred votes in Connecticut. Had the
Maine Greenbackers adopted such a plat
form the Republicans would this year
gain their old time ascendency, and the
first gun of the campaign would there
fore sound the death knell of the Green
back party, The Pomeroyi,es, who are
so indignant because their leadership is
not accepted in Ohio by men who were
fighting for the people when they were
the slaves of the old parties, are doing
all they can to breed discord in Maine,
where their ideas we're rejected over
whelmingly. s7' tie ~
1t is lamentable that in the face Of the
most serious and determined opposition
the followers of Pomeroy insist that the
wild views of :heir leader shall be ir-.
grated upon every State platform. IT
there was primary principle involved
there would be some excuse, but it is all
matter of personal vanity. The pay :
lnent of the bonds is matter of expo
diencv, to be settled by the Congress of
the United States. But the Pomeroy
faction insist that this question of acute
craftsmanship shall be declared in ad-
vance by their leader, and be made test
of fidelity to Greenback principles. And
when these promoters of discord are
warned that their .diction is obnoxious to
the pioneers in the Greenback movement
Ito the men who laid the foundation of
the present National Greenback party
and nursed it into a growth of, over a
million of yoters-the answer is: "Yonr
pioneer Greenbackers are not to be trust
ed; we are the genuine, simon-pure arti-
cle." Men like Cary, Sherwood, Peter
Cooper, Moses W. Field, Henry c. Baird,
Frank Hughes, James Buchanan, St :
phen John son and Solon Chase are plac-
ed inthe category of "traitors," because
they disagree with the Pomeroy wing re-
garding details.
1t is easy to see that il this "rule OF
ruin" element is tolerated 10 the exten,
cf giving it possession Of the party or
ganization in States like Ohio, that the
nexl National Convention of the Nationa
Greenback party will break up in disol.
der. Pnmeroy will attend with his for
ces, and if he is not allowed TO dictate
the platform and candidates he will bolt
He refuses now to call himself Nations
and maintains an organization of hi:
own. II he wants a party of his owl
let him have one but he has no right t
send his agents into the National .camF
10 create discord. Were he the paid
tool Of John Sherman and the Wal
street syndicate he could not pursue I
course more gratifying to the Money
Power. er-~T-- Fsxvf,.
The action taken by the true Nationals i,
Ohio at Toledo is eminently wise, and save
the organization there from going to wreck OIL
the irepudiation roclS It likewise saves tu
thousands of votes in Main and all the Eastern
States this fall, States blythe way which pol
heavier Greenback votes than any west of tn
Alleghanies. Unders the circumstances the
best thing the Ohio Nationals can do is to vote
for Ewing and Rice, filing out the rest of th'
ticket with Nationals. No man will be SILLY
enough to hold that Ewing's election will be al
| injury to the Greenback cause. However 10y
al he may be to his party, he is nevertheless al
earnest Greenback man and sincerely desires t.
swing the masses of his pa rty into line in opp
sition to the Money Power. He desires ,
Greenback success in Maine as ardently al
! does Solon Chase. His own defeat is prayed
for by the hard money element in his party. 1
he is elected the Tildens. Bayards. Eatons ant
Kernaps will lose control Of the Democratic
organization, Success for Greenback princi
Piles in the Presidential struggle will then de
pend upon the wisdom displayed by the genu
inc lenders of the currency reform movement
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