The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-10-17
Our Boston Letter.
The Faneuil Hail Democracy. - Why
Thompson Declined-The Revival OF
Business Encouraging Political Out
look.
BosToN, Oct. 10, 1879.

Boston, Oct. 10, 1879.
A more absurd document than the platform
of the Faneuil Democracy, adopted at Tues
days convention, is rarely seen. 1t is too late
to discuss it now, and 1 only refer to it with
view to rejecting general public opinion. AT
the time of its adoption happened to be in
the West and 1 found the people and press of
Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and other Western
States poking fun at the long, windy docu-
ment, irrespective of party Now, as the
readers of my letters must know by this time,
have great sympathy with and respect for
the anti-Butler Democrats The defeat OF
Butler depends OH them. If they make asses
of themselves and disgust the people, then
they help to elect Butler. They have done
just this. A man or set of men who at this
late day calls for the repeal of the resumption
act of 1875, is either knave, fool or Green
backer. The man or convention which says
resumption is failure is not honest
1 suppose you would like to know what
shall call my friends, the regular Demo-
Gratis. Well, 1 call the men who framed
that platform, knaves. They said what
they knew was not true, for the sole purpose
of saying something against the Republican
party 1 am surprised that such men as Charles
P, Thompson, Judge Abbott and Frank Bird
should not protest against such trash. True,
there were, in 1875 and 1876 grounds for saying
that the act was not the best thing for the
country, and man might then say it would be
a failure and resumption under it would not
be success, but to say that now nine months
after it has proved a success, is about as non
sensical a performance as the world often sees.
No, the financial plank in the regular Demo-
cratic platform as we'll as the other planks re-
ferring to kindred topics are disgrace to their
authors and an insult to the public. Talk a.
bout hard times and the ruin of business! 1
should like for these deluded mortals to pass
tw weeks in Chicago and the west Just now.
They should go out there and see the business
that is being done, see the immense crops being
garnered, until every centre OF population Is
full and every railway taxed to its utmost ca
pacity Neuer in the history OF the world was
so much business being transacted by a place
of its size as Just now in chicago. Money IS
plenty in city and country, crops are good and
are being rapidly turned at good prices. SO
sav for the Democrats of this State to utter the
nonsense contained in their long-winded plat
form is simply idotic.
1t is to be regretted that Mr.. Thompson did
not accept the nomination of this party, both
for his own sake, and that of the party and the
cause of anti-Butlerism. He would have polled
nearly double the votes Adams will. His re-
fuSal in the way it came about, many people
deem suspicious. OF course people cannot help
feeling that Thompson declined because ne
thought that if he did not he would be opposed
by the Butler faction of the Democratic
party when the two factions come togetn-
er again as it is expected they VIII;
The Butler end is the stronger ana Oh
course when union is brought about