The Portland daily press., 1879-09-11
How They Took It.

There is no longer such thing as Green
back party that is visible to the naked eye
here. The late Greenback headquarters are
to let, and the streets are no longer filled with
the mighty swarm of Western "honorables"
that a few weeks ago came down upon the
Greenbackers Of this state, as comes the grass
hopper upon the green fields Of the West, the
aforesaid fields being a good deal less green
than the above mentioned Greenbackers.
The various divisions and subdivisions of
the late combination took the defeat in var-
Gus ways. Colonel Montgomery, it is said
was so much overcome by the sudden and I'M
looked for excess of the vote of Davis over his
Herald estimate of 10000 that he was unable
to come down to breakfast the next morning
and it was sent up to him. Mr. King was not
wholly demoralized but sang, while the tears
gathered in his eyes.
"Stl let us be cheerful"
large order for notices was given one of
the picture dealers to bear the legend
''We once had party, but where is that party
now?"
the morning after the election.
In conversation the late unlucky "fusion"
received sound cursing from all parties. The
Democrats insisted that if they had never been
deceived into the combination they should
have stood show, while the Greenbackers say
that they have been sold out twice, first by
their leaders, and second by the Democrats,
and there is evidently no love lost between the
late allies
The Kew Era office yesterday was the most
peaceful place in the city. The paper predict
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would come as the natural result of "fusion''
while it was yet afar off, and when its predic-
lions had been verified to the letter, and the
wisdom of its course in opposing the combina-
ton had been demonstrated, there seemed to
be no reason why the paper should put on
such cloth, or why Surgeon General Daniel w.
Hull should sit in the ashes and beat his
breast and mourn and refuse to be comforted,
and SO nothing of the kind was done. Among
the rank and file of the late Greenback party,
the disposition to curse their late leaders was
freely INDUCED. in. Even Scion did not
escape, but it was freely said that the old man
is played ont, and 'them steers" will never
draw votes, though they may cord wood
again. So the glory of the Greenbacker has
passed away. Harper and the rest of his
crew have left for Massachusetts, to, in DR..
Watts words, "view the ground where they
will shortly lie,' and of the local Greenback-
ers those who had money, will mourn for it,
as for something that has vanished and the
Greenback party, like the boy kicked by the
mule, will know more next time, but alas, it
will never be as good looking as it was.
The straight Greenbackers and the Demo
Gratis who did not vote, feel well. The former
say that the Leader has led to ''fusion" and
defeat, and that it is time to give the possibly
respectable but certainly dull New Era a
chance. After all Mr.. John NJ. Todd has won
about all the Greenback honors Of the cam
paign He has kept clear Of ''rings,' opposed
''fuson and edited the financial department
of the Argus, dividing the time with Mr.. Tai
bot with remarkable ability. The Argus when
it was Mr.. Todd's day in the chair, was honest,
if not logical. And more than all Mr.. Todd
did very little talking, making but one speech.
MUSIC AND THE DRAMA.