The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-06-14
Dissension Among the Green
hackers.
Chase's Chronicle Denounces the
Portland Platform

ALSO A BREAK AT THE OTHER END OF
THE LINE.
The Hard Money Democrats Repudiate
the Intrigue.
The leading Greenback paper of the State,
Chase's Chronicle, publishes condemnatory
report, over three columns in length of the
Greenback State Convention, accompanying
the report with an editorial article, in which it
says:
After mature elaboration we repudiate and
denounce the proceedings in relation to the
| platform. We know it is for the best interests
| OF the Greenback party to do So We have
| been threatened with party ostracsm in every
| possible form Persons have declared that
they would withdraw their support from the
Chronicle. The ring say they will "squelch"
| us. Office holders threaten to read us out of
| the party. Those who hold office rave Those
| who want it, storm.
In the report it denounces the Convention as
| controlled by ring under the mastership of
! William A. Rust, c. p Brown, c. A. White.
| e. ii. Cove and Others who sought to give
| over the party to the control of the Democracy,
and accuse it of selling out principles in order
| to achieve success. The Chronicle has got its
| blood up, and its description of "the great
| assemblage" is as picturesque as it is true.
| One cannot but regret that ''reform conven-
ton" SHOULD fall under the control of ringsters
| and tricksters, of office-holders and office
seekers, and yield itself so easy prey to an
| intrigue conducted on the one hand by Mr..
Eben f. Pillsbury, the hero of Kingfeld, and
fl,a o+l, ~
hero Of nothing at all. But such seems
the fact. The Greenbackers are convicted out
| OF their own mouths From the Chronicle re-
| port, which is too long to reprint in full, the
following choice excerpts are taken. Read in
| connection with the declarations of the Bel
| last journal, which represents the genuine
hard-money Democrats of Maine, the infer
ence is irresistible that the disgraceful intrigue
| by which men holding directly opposed view
| in regard to the currency are to be cajoled in
| to the support of common candidates in order
to ,cure the spells of office, has completely
| failed. These are some of the things the
| Chronicle has to say:
In rather retired part of the Falmouth
| House, and near to each other were the rooms
| OF the Democratic and Greenback State COM
| mittees. For what purpose was this arranged?
| and why the frequent communications be-
| tween the two? And why was Eben
| +. Pillsbury everywhere present to button-hole
| arriving members and advise the suspected
ones to keep calm and accept what might be
| offered without remonstrance' if programme
| had not been agreed upon between the two
state commlttees-a programme that it was
| determined by some means to force the con-
vention to carry out.
| 1t was ON such an assemblage on such men,
such patriots, that the ring tricksters-that c.
| A. White, E. HI. Cove, G. p Brown, w, M
strikers.were to play the plot that had been
Matched in their fertile brains, to be through
the convention z spawned upon the State
| Business went on until it was in order to Sc
lect committee on resolutions and a State
| committee. Scion Chase stepped to the front
| and was received with the widest enthusiasm;
| indeed, this was the only demonstration of the
day that seemed to come with hearty good
| will from the hearts of the entire convention
| The ring didn't want the convention to have
| time to call its work in question. 1t was known
that many Eastern delegations wanted to leave
| on the four o'clock train and that rather than
| be detained in the city overnight, they would
| adopt the platform presented by the committee
| without discussion and hurriedly and that any
| attempt to proong its consideration would be
frowned upon by them. The ring knew that
this would favor their purpose to choke off dis
|
distributed in the body of the convention, it
| would be able to carry the plot In the COM
mittee the ring first revealed its designs on the
| freedom of the convention. Its tools promptly
| voted down every proposition that was not in
| keeping with the plot to sell out the party.
| Visiting Greenback speakers from other
| states We're eonfounded by the high-handed
proceedings, but protested in vain. A propo-
| sltlon to protest against resumption made by
| Scion Chase, received the same quietus 1t
| would not do to attack resumption. That
| would antagonize specie-resumption Demo-
| Gratis. The platform must be what the Demo-
| Gratis would accept. The candidate who should
| be nominated on such platform would not be
| Objectionable. Consequently the platform
| came from the committee room over which G.
| z. Brown presided, who has recently declared
| that he never was and never expected to be a
| Greenbacker, just as the ring had calculated
| The Chronicle goes on to describe the stormy
scene that followed the discussion of the plat
form and the attempt by Mr.. Tullis to strike
| out the plank condemning Communism, and
that in regard to coin, and proceeds:
IGNORING THE MOTION.
MIR. Tullis's motion repeated by Mr.. F.,
| which he had previously been on the point of
| putting, Twas ignored, and the chairman
| put the last motion and without call
| ing for the negative declared it carried Re-
| monstrances and points of order were alike ig-
| nored. After numerous fruitless attempts to
secure hearing, the opposition was stamped
| out; the ring succeeded; the gag had been sue
| cessfully applied the convention had not been
| allowed to examine the ring platform-it was
| adopted just as it came from the committee
save the transposition of the head and tail
| Liberty received another thrust from the knife
and the rights of Anne rican citizens were
| trampled in the ring mud.
| The Chronicle after declaring that it still
intends to support Smith, goes on to these
truculent utterances:
| THE PLATFORM.
The Chronicle however, not only objects to
| the method by which the platform was adopted
but it declares the platform itself to be miser-
| able subterfuge, under which to sell out the
| Greenback party in Maine; that it is CONTRA
| dlctory mass of irreconcilable statements, a
| denial of the fundamental principles of Green
| backiSm; an Acknowledgement of the prin-
| cipal doctrines of the Democratic party on
| finance; indeed, it is a virtual acceptance of
| the propositions made by Democratic authori-
| ties as basis upon which to swallow the
| Greenback party. The Chronicle declares its
| belief that if the Greenback party accents
| these propositions; if it plants itself plat
| form making greenbdckS supplemental to coin
as currency, there will be no Greenback party
| left.
| THE DEMOCRATIC PROGRAMME.
This is the intention of the Democrats. In
| Maine where the Greenbackers predominant,
|
that, next year, Democrats will accept in Ma
| tional Convention.
| In this situation the Chronicle asks Green
| hackers whether they will nibble at the bait
| offered them by the Democrats only to be
hooked bodily into their ranks next year? Do
| they want to be sold for price and delivered?
| to be stolen and gobbled by the Democracy?
This is the question that the ring that run the
convention forced home to every Greenbacker
in the state; question that must be answer
| ed.
| The Chronicle can only speak in its own be-
half. And it will speak in no uncertain tone.
| 1t will repudiate first, last and all the time,
any and all movements that look in any such
direction. 1t will stand by the genuine Green
| back colors to the last. 1t never had drop of
Democratic blood in its composition, and will
never be gobbled or guzzled through any sub
terfuge offered either by Democrats themselves
or by professed Greenbackers, traders in the
| interest OF Democratic Observation-Disclosures
who are so from policy rather than from prin-
ciple Qike c. P. Brown of Bangor) and who
are ready to sell out to anybody or anything