Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-09-04
A Word to Republican Green
bachers.

The platform OF the greCnback par
ty, upon which its entire ticket stands,
was drafted by a man who in time past
was democrat of the hard money
type, but possessing none of the hon
esty which characterized the bullion
lists of the time of Benton, Jackson
and Wright. With all his duplicity
and utter disregard for truth, never
possessing i'll the least degree political
virtue, he was the ready tool Of the
slave oligarchy in its palniest days
" hen The civil war broke out and the
wires flashed the terrible tidings Of
SumpteY S bombardment, this man.
with his reasonable bellowings, stood
shoulder to- shoulder with the traitors
OF the south, in every effort made by
them to destroy the government from
the incipiency of the rebellion to its
final death throe. His hands are viz
tuallv dyed in the blood of the sons
and fathers of the patriot North. He
is virtually the slayer of President
Lincoln. He exulted in his death.
and his infamous sheet blasphemed
the name Of the noblcst martyr who
ever died Cor the life Of a nation, or
the liberties of its people. To day he
is the head and front Of the party that
declares resumption a failure aud that
the Fdt of the government is omnipO-
tent to create wealth out of nonenti-
ties, thereby giving the lie to all his
| former utteranceS and expressed opin-
ions upon questions of finance. lie is
at heart hypocrite, dissembler and
traitor, whose only aim is TO LIT him
sctf into prominence and line his peck
cts with the hard earnings of his de-
luded followers Who is this man
l. is MARK N PoMERoY. As we
speak directly to republican green
hackers, we ask their attention to the
following gems taken from the La
! Crosse Democrat in 1915.
August 20, 1865, this man PoME-
ROY, in advocating the assassination
of Lincoln, said :
Lincoln is traitor and a murder
er. Had any former Dem
ocratic president warred upon the CON
stitution or trihed with the deStines of
the nation as Lincoln has he would
have ceen hurled to perdition long
since. And if he is elected for anoth-
err four years zee trust S1me bold hand
'oitt pierce has heart tcith dagger point
for The public good
Oct. ID, 1865, after the assassina
ton, this man PoMERoY said:
The Sentinel says that last fall we
made the motion to kill Lincoln.
Granted. And last spring God sec
onded at, ard, through Booth, put the
motion and Carried 1t.
Oct. 9th. 1865. this man PoMERoY,
in his traitorous sheet, again said:
We deprecate assassination. yet zoe
feel to hank Ged for calling Lincoln
home. irhtreUer that home mag be
The will Of God be always done on
earth as ii is in Heaven. Not all the
cannon in the world ever sent an echo
so far into the future as did the report
of a pistol that fatal night in a Wash
ington theater, where great men were
players and nations the spectators. 1t
woke up the people of America. It
broke the spell. 1t gave the country
a statesman for president. 1t fash
ed its sic senaper tyrannis from Maine
to the golden strand of our western
boundaries, and halted the march of
usurpation most effectually.
Columns of similar devilish enuncia-
tons can be given, but We leave these