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the citizens OF Michigan. IL is dis
appointment-mn soft purring aud
concealment OF claws. IL reminds me
that the men who stone Stephen aud
tetray Christ exist in politics as well
as out OF il. IL is an invitation 10 a
crime without apology, except its hope
OF success. This hope you seem to
have, for you say: "The ticket pre-
sented by the Democrats and Nationals
will be elected il the members Of these
parties give il their support" Why
not say plainly, il all Democrats can be
made To believe that hatred OF Repub-
licans is and ought TO be superior Ia
their convictions, 10 their traditional
faith and to every other duty OF the
citizen, and il the Republican Nation
ais can be made TO forget their natural
distrust Of Democratic leadership, then
you may succeed. That is what you
mean. But you will find yourself mis-.
taken in both. All Democrats will not
believe the one, nor will all the Ma
tionals forget the other. The mass OF
the people are not cringing, consci-
enceless politicians, praying .or loayes
and fishes TO come ready baked from an
election oven. Why should honest
money Democrats follow you or sup
port this ticket you present TO them
What reasons do you offer them
find not one that appeals to the con-
science or convictions OF the American
voter. IL is not Democratic ticket.
The head OF il is National GreenLack-
er. They were not nominated on a
Democratic platform. Your platform
was the work Of the Nationals. IL was
formed 10y them. II is not the senti-
ment of any Democrat who fayors a
currency redeemable in coin. Those
Democrats can not and will not sup
port you, your ticket, or your platform.
To do 40 would be TO hurl us back in
the midst OF the financial disasters
which resumption has put away from
us, IL is to be hoped forever and IL
will be forever, unless now or at some
other times the revolutionary and re-
pudiating scheme of you and your fell
low conspirators succeed. You have no
claim upon "honest money Demo
Gratis. You have no right 10 ask their
assistance. Last fall you were nOmi-
mated for governor on a platform de-
claring for a currency redeemable IN
coin. Your friends, the men who con-
tTolled your recent convention. tried 10
incorporate in that platform plank de-
claring against resumption. They were
defeated. Failing To capture the con-
yention, they captured the candidate
yourself. The whole State remembers
your ignominous surrender. Honest
money Democrats remembered il at the
polls. The result OF these tactics OF
duplicity was that you lost to your par
ty 63, ,2i9 votes in two years, and that
you received fewer votes than were Civ
en- To any other Democratic candidate
for Governor Of Michigan since 1866.
You repudiated sound financial plat
form, and honest money Democrats re-
pudiated you. And these Democrats
believe now. as they believed then. that
il is Of vital importance 20 every man
now succeeding. or who hopes for fu-
ture success, that our currency should
be established on n basis of certainty
Then your friends told us that we could
conscientiously support you, even il
you were wrong. because the platform
was right. This argument seduced
many honest money Democrats to your
support. But now what appeal can you
make 10 any Democratic friend OF sound
finances? What excuse can any honest
money Democrat give TO his conscience
il he supports your platform or your
ticket? The platform was created by
inflationists and anti-resumptionists
who favor an irredeemable currency.
The platform means imitation and an
irredeemsble currency. and nothing
else. Aud the candidates you present
To MS are every one OF them in favor OF
imitation, opposed to resumption, and
committed against a currency redeem
able IN coin. Such candidates, on such
a platform, cannot be supported by
honest money Democrats, and YOU will
find that thousands Of them who sup
ported you last fall, because the plat
form on which you was nominated was
financially right. will repudiate both
the platform and ticket If this spring,
because both are financially wrong.
There can be no mistsking the pur-
pose Of this conspiracy. III your tick
ct succeeds, you will say 10 the Demo
Gratis of the country: In 1878 We de-
clared for currency redeenable in coin
and against initiation and we were de-
feated in 1879 we declared for an ir-
redeemable currency and IN favor OF
initiation and we succeeded. Repudia-
tors will use the argument in the Ma
tional Democratic Convention in 1880,
aud il will need but that straw TO influ-
ence that powerful party, and 10 cast il
into the arms and under the control Of
the masterful faction within IL who now
openly favor imitation, reputation. and
an irredeemable currency. Every vote
given your ticket will arm them for
that purpose. Every honest money
Democrat who votes for IL will strength
en- this conspiracy aud increase the
prospect OF handing over the next Ma
tional Democratic Convention to the
aud 10 certain defeat.
You and the men who controlled the
recent convention predicted the failure
of resumption. 1t has not been fail
ure-though il you aud they had sue
ceeded last fall your success might have
made il SO. You and they predicted
widespread disaster as tho result OF re-
sumption. With you the wish might
have been father 10 the thought, but
you are neither a prophet nor the son
Of a prophet. Resumption has come,
the pllghted faith Of the nation il re-
deemed, aud the result is commercial
fewer failures. and brighter
business prospects than we have had
for years. IL needs but the disastrous
rout OF such conspiracies a. your Goa
lition 90 make resumption permanent,
and 90 open To the country career Of
such wide and sure prosperity as we
never before enjoyed. THIS is the be-
lief OF every honest money DenfOcrat
IN the State aud, believing so, they
have but one duty from now until elec-
tion day-that IL To give their cordial
support and votes To the Republican
ticket as the only means 10 prevent a
success which would strengthen the
and anti-resumptionists Of
the entire country.
Why should honest money Democrats
hesitate ~ do this? The Republican
are as capable as yours !:
many say more 80. The Republican
platform meets, ia many points. the
hearty approval 81 every honest money
Democrat. Yours only meets aud mer-
It's their contempt. The reasons that
you offer Why they should support Your
on platform which they
despise are but a rehash Of the utter
auccs ~ every srraht demsgogue Who
bas' ever wagged bis tongue oi pen
against sound and stable financial
t,oltcN Won aav stfle industrial classes