Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-09-01
One Week More.

OnC week NoTt.
There is only another week before the
election In Maine takes place. Whatever,
therefore. remains to be done, must be
attended too promptly and with despatch.
We are going to carry the State for Davis
there is no mistake about that-but we
must not be content to barely give Davis Il
majority; we must make that majority a
rouser, one that will ring all over the land
as the death-knell of Notwithstanding
most dangerous party that has arisen in
this country since the government was first
established.
We mean precisely what we say when
we assert that greenbackism is a most dan
gerous party, or would be if its doctrines
could be carried ont. 1t makes war upon
property--stirs up strife between the poor
and the rich-promises the lazy, the Grim
inal and the vagabond TO divide with them
the earnings and accumulations of the in
dustrious AMI prudent-heeces and dupes
the laborer while pretending to be his best
friend-strives to ruin the credit and good
name of the best government on the face
of the earth-advocates financial system
that would bury the country under an ava
lanche of debt-has for its leading spirits
communists and free lovers. who would
not only destroy the rights of property but
overturn the marriage institution--a par
ty which all good men without distinction
of party should band together to resist
with all the power they can command.
We are happy to announce that the
prospect of overthrowing the fusion ring
and combination with Garcelon and Smith
at the head grows brighter and brighter
as the day of election draws near. Re-
ports of the canvass steadily increase the
republican strength, and as steadily d.
minish that of the opposition. Honest
money democrats are joining us more
openly than at first, and greenback repub-
licans. realizing that they are being en-
trapped to support Eben F. Pillsbury for
the Senate and increase the power of the
Solid South in Congress are disentangIing
themselves from the combination and re.
joining the republican party. The fusion
lists brag, but their Boosting does not con-
ceal the fact that they are bad, fright
ened. We can give the names of men in
every town who have abandoned them.
They will be beaten in every city. and in
the country their ranks are being reduced
in an extraordinary manner.
Now in this the last week of the cam
paign let the best work of the whole be
done. Look to your representative nom-
nations and see that they are such as will
strengthen the whole ticket If possible.
Canvass your neighborhoods thoroughly.
Employ all the legitimate arguments to
win over the undecided and doubtful if
such can be found. Circulate the RIGHT
kind Of documents. Talk and work bold.
ly. Swell the republican vote to the high
est figure. Have your voters all at home
in season. In fine do whatever your hands
can find to do.
All along the hills and valleys of the
State the republican camp fires are blazing
brightly. Never were the republicans
more active, never a promise of more
decisive and splendid victory than awaits
them next Monday, if they but keep to
the work with the same ardor and perse
verance which they have thus far mani
tested.