Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-07-15
A Greenback Organ Acknowl-
edges It's Error in Supporting
the Greenback Party, and Re
turns to the support of the Re
publican Party.
From the .Aroostook Sunrise.


publican Party.
From the iroostook Sunrise.
A year of varied and not always pleasant
experiences has convinced the proprietor of
the Sunrise that his abandonment of the sup
port of the republican party and its principles,
and the making it the organ of class of
men calling themselves greenbackers, was
q mistake, not conducive to his own welfare,
to the good of the people of the county OF
Aroostook, of the state of Maine or of the
county at large. Our incXperience in poiti-
cal affairs, the clamor of class of men whom
we have become con, nccd sought their own
rather than their cOuntry's good must be olr
excuse. In confessing a mistake honestly
made, and sincerely carried out for some
months, we think We have the right u an
apology often claimed by older men than our
self that doing so only proves eve are wiser
to-day than We were yesterday"
A year has con, inced us that the loud com
plants of the last few years Of the misdoings
OF the republican party have no valid toun-
dation. That the statements made in the
canvass of last year, that the government ana
people were on the high read to bankruptcy
and ruin were false. The staten, nj by the
grccnback candidate for Congress last year in
this county, that tht talk about re-
sumption and return t. specie pay
ments in January 1879 was a prctcnse. a
fraud, cheat. swindlc upon the people has
been proved by actual and successful resmmp-
ton to be an error either of the cantlid1tc's
Judgment or sincerity; in ci.hcr ease uniting
him for the high station to which he aspirVd.
Events have proved the theory prominently
put forth by grcenback speakers and writers
last year that the government was carving
an immense debt which could never he paid
except by an almost unlimited issue of green
backs, practically irredermabie unless per
haps in the remote future, was the creation of
demagogism and Ignorance. The successful
return of the country to the currency of the
constitution and to commercial prosperity " it'll
out jar in the monetary affairs of the ma
ton, the refunding of large portion of the
national Indebtedness at an immense reduction
of interest, and the general revival of bust
ness in all the business centres of the Union.
the demand for labor everywhere at rcmuncr
alive prices, prove that the men who made all
the woeful predictions of last year were lack
ing in the essentials of a true manhood. We
have become satisfied that large portion of
the men who are the leaders in the green
back party are persons who were years ago
weighed in the balance by the people and
found wanting in the elements of character
which render them safe and reliable political
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. sagac-
itv or wisdom; and for the first time in the
history of Maine, we had legislature, emil
nent for nothing except turbulence and nsu
bordinations to the time honored rules Of de-
Lucrative bodies. Protesting to he reforhl-
ers and the representatives of ''reform
ers' they reformed nothing, nor left anything
better than they found it
Whilst reducing to some extent the sala
ries of officials. a measure demanded by all
parties to make them correspond to the
changed value of our currency by the resump-
ton of specie payment they refused to re-
duce their own pay, until compelled to do so
by Gov. Garcelon. Pretcndinga special hor-
ror at political cliques and "rings," no po-
litical party in the country was ever so COM
pletcly in the hands of leaders or do the bid
ding of few nell SO implicitly rs do the
grecnback party. So true, and obviously
true is this, that the State Convention of the
party is accused of being the servie 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 dissolve the connection of the Sunrise
with the grecnback party. Our candidate for
governor this year is Hon. Daniel +. Davis.
and our candidates for Senators, Representa-
tivcs and county officers will he the regular
NOMINEES OF the republican party. The sun
rise during the campaign will be edited by its
former editor and publisher, who will give to
its columns no uncertain sound in favor of
the republican measures and principles which
for near a quarter Of q century have guided
the destinies of this State and Nation.