The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-07-15
MENDING IT'S WAYS.
A Greenback Paper Comes Over to the
Republicans.


[Arooetook Valley Sunrise
A year of varied and not always pleasant ex-
periences has convinced the proprietor of the
Sunrise that his abandonment of the support of
the Republican party and its principles, and
the making it the organ OF class OF men cal
ling themselves greenbackers, was mistake,
not conductive to his own welfare, to the good
of the people of the County of Aroostook, of
the State of Maine, OF of the country at large.
Our inexperience in political affairs, the cla-
NOR of class of men whom we have become
convinced sought their own rather than their
country's good must be our excuse. In con-
Tossing mistake honestly made, and sincerely
carried out for some months, we have the right
to an apology often claimed by older men than
ourself, that doing SO only proves 1--WE are
wiser today than we were yesterday"
A year has convinced us that the loud COM
plants of the last few years of the miSdolngS
of the Republican party have no valid founda-
ton. That the statements made in the canvass
of last year, that the government and people
were on the high road to bankruptcy and ruin
were false. The statement by the Greenhack
candidate for Congress last year in his canvass
in this county, that the talk about resumption
and return to specie payments in january,
1879, was pretense, a fraud, a cheat. a swim
die upon the people has been proved by actual
and successful resumption to be an error either
of the candidates Judgment or sincerity; in
either case uniting him for the high station
to which he aspired. Events have proven the
theory prominently put forth by greenback
speakers and writer's last year that the govern
ment was carrying an immense debt which
could never be paid except by an almost UNI
limited issue of greenbacks, practically IT.
redeemable, unless perhaps in the remote tu-
ture, was the creation of demagoguism and ig
The SuoonSSful return of the cOuntrV
to the currency of the constitution and to COM
mercial prosperity without a jar in the none
tary affairs of the nation, the refunding of
large portion of the national indebtedness at an
immense reduction of interest, and the general
revival of business in all the business centres
of the Union, the demand for labor everywhere
at remunerative prices prove that the men
who made all the woeful predictions OF last
year were lacking in the essentials of a true
manhood. We have become satisfied that a
large portion of the men who are the leaders in
the Greenback party are persons who were
years ago weighed in the balance by the people
and found wanting in the elements OF charac-
ter which render them safe and reliable politi-
cal leaders. We have become convinced that
the Greenback movement of last year filled up
the legislative halls at Augusta largely with
men without political experience, sagacity or
wisdom; and for the first time in the history of
Maine we had legislature, eminent for moth
ing except turbulence and INSTRUMENTATION to
the time honored rules of deliberative bodies.
Processing to be reformers and the representa-
tves of "reformers' they reformed nothing,
nor left anything better than they found it!
While reducing to some extent the salaries
of officials, a measure demanded by all parties
to make them correspond to the changed value
of our currency by the resumption of specie
payment, they refused to reduce their own pay
until compelled to do so by Gov. Garcelon.
Pretending a special horror at political cliques
and rings" no political party in the country
was ever SO completely in the hands Of leaders
or do the bidding of few men SO implicitly as
do the Greenback party. So true, and OBJ
viously true, is this that the state convention
of the party is accused of being the servile
slaves of ring" by many of its own mem
bers, and that too before the party is one year
old In view of these facts and many others
which may be named, we have decided to dis
solve the connection of the Sunrise with the
Greenback party. Our candidate for Cover
nor this year is Hon. Daniel f. Davis, and our
candidates for Senators, Representatives and
county officers will be the regular nominees of
the Republican party. The Sunrise during
the campaign will be edited by its former edi-
tor and publisher, who will give to its columns
no uncertain sound in favor of the Republican
measures and principles which for near
quarter of a century have guided the destines
of this state and nation.