The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-03-15
REPUBLICAN TREMOR6.


The Ottawa Rpahicaa, the little Times, and
other organs and leaders Of the stalwayts here
abouts. are manifesting Il decided nervousness
over the rumor that the democrats and nation
ais are about to unite on Il candidate tor re.
cordcr, After all the patting on the back the
nationals have received from the republican,,
for the effective service done them by the MT
tonuls at the elections last fall, il looks little
like ingratitudc if not dcScr,iOn now 10 20
back on the Stalwarl, II il >nCrrcd at rs u
case oii political misccgcnation, - the nationals
are accused Of abandoning principle for the
sake OF office, &c, &c Whether the nationals
are children to he scared by writings of that
sort, remains to be- seen There are undoubtcd.
~ among the nationals number of former re.
pubicans, and many Of these joined them more
to aid the republican party than the nationals.
That wing of the nationals, we have no doubt,
will be very noisy in their demands that the
party shall stand firm to their name and prin
ciplcs" Bul with others Of the party, who see
well enough that to stand firm only means to
insure republican success, common SENSE may
dictate Il course somewhat different.
We assume that the body Of the national
grccnback party is madcup Of honest men and
that most Of them have common sense. The
republican party is conicSscdly a hard money
party, committed in favor Of John Shermans
system OF finance and upholdlng the present
national banking system, with ITS present three
hundred millions of paper circulation to be III
timatcly increased so as TO take the place ofal
the grccnbacks The dcmocrats--at least of
this national bank circulation and filling ITS
place with grrenbacks, and The issue Of rs
many more grecnbacks as can be kept at par.
with gold and silver The democrats of the
west are also fully committed against the is.
sue of any more national bonds There are
some Grccnbackcrs, we know, who 90 further
than this IN favor of what is called soft money,
but they arc not agreed among themselves and
the mass OF them 90 no further than Ewing,
Thurman, and the western democracy gcncr.I
ally.
The simple consideration TO be- addressed To
nationals OF common sense, then, j. this: III
they will cordially unite with the western de.
at the elections next fall and dem
onstratc that the united democrats and nation
ais can carry Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan
and the Pacific states, they can control the ma.
tional democratic convention and secure the
OF Il candidate of their own choice,
and with the aid of the south elect him II, on
the other hand, the wranglc between the soft
money democrats and soft money nationals of
the west is kept UP, and the eastern democracy
see that the whole west is hopclessly given ov.
CT to the republicans, they will insist on hard
money candidate that can carry New York,
New Jersey and Connecticut and the nationals
as well as democrats Of the west will be hope.
lessy left out IN the cold The democrats, it
is true, may save their credit with the incoming
democratic administration, should the nomi.
nee succeed, by supporting HIM; but the
greenbackers would of course be wholly scoA
ed as enemies. But should the stubbornness
of the nationals result, as it most probably
would, in the election of republican pres-
dent they would equally with the democrats
be hopelcssly cast off, left out in the cold, and
be without influence in the government, insig
nilicant and helpless Now in this common
sense view of the case, what course ought the
nationals, if they are honest, as we suppose
them to be, and have a thimblc.ful of brains.
naturally topursucy