The Russellville Democrat., 1879-09-18

democrats make great confessions of devotion to greenback ideas and doctrines, they have never done anything in congress to carry them into etiecs, but have let congress after congress pass by without even attempting to pass any measures of relief Assuming this to be true, they say to such democrats: "See, yoar party has never done anything in the way of financial reform, come and join our party, and when we get in power we vii. do all we promise. ' Many unwary democrats, misled by this specious appeal. forsake their party, where they might accom- plish some good, and wander of into the greenback fold, where for all prsctical purposes, they mlght as well be in the moon.
 The argument is not true, and tue appeal is based on & total perversion of the facts of the case. Although the democratic party has never had control of the government since the war, they have nevertheless done much tc arrest the ruinousr and de ssructiye policy of contraction and extravagance of the republican par ity. Nay, they hase done a great deal more than merely aTresting the rninous policy of the republican ad- ministration; they have actually sue ceeded in having many measures of the most vital importance in relation to the finances passed by congress, prominent among which are, first, the act making greenbacks receiya- ble ID payment of custom dues, which at once pnt them on par with gold; second the act remonetlzing silver and providing for its continued coin age, which took all the sting out of the resumption act, and prevented it from running the country, as it oth- erwise would have done; and last, though not least that great and glorious measure of repeating that clause of the resumption act which provided for the calling in and re- iirement of the greenbacks, which alone saved the very foundation of the greenback policy from utter de stTnctioa.
 To these three great measures which the democrats by the per-a sistent, untiring and devoted efforts succeeded in having passed through congress against the earnest opposl- ton of majority of the republican party, gre directly due all the pros perity we now enjoy and the saliva tion of the country from the ruin that would have inevitably followed the contraction resulting from the retirement of the greenbacks and :he characterization of silver.
 Is it possible that, in the face of these great facts, which are known of all men who are eonversant with the political events Of the past few years, greenbackers will still persist in misleading the minds Of unin- formed democrats, by telling them that their party has done, and at- tempted to do. nothing in the way of congressional legislation for the relief Of the people: We say to our friends that those three acts of the democratic party and especially the two remonetixing silver and pre- venting the retirement of the green backs, have done more substantial good to the people of this country than it is possible for the greenbsck party to accomplish n thousand years.
 We shall take occasion hereafter and as opportunity may offer, to show more specifically, and in detail, how and wherein these great meas ures have benefited the people and saved the country.