The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-04-10
DEMOCRATS AND GREENBACK
ERS.
What q Union Would Bring About

What q Union Would Bring About.
Since the elections last fall, at which
time it was definitely settled that the
Greenback party, as separate organiza-
ton, would never amount to much; and
since the virtual abandonment of their or
ganization by the National Greenback
committee at Washington, when they
decided not to call anymore conventions,
and since the ablest greenback congress |
men have gone into the democratic caucus
at Washington, since these events, which
mark the end of the Greenback party as
an organization independent of other per-
ties, there has been considerable specula-
ton as to the result in several of the
heithertofore republican states of union
of the Democratic and Greenback vote. A
Washington correspondent of the New
York Herald has fguerd out the result of
these speculations at the national capital
which we copy below. His figures for
Illinois are incorrect, in that the combined
vote Of all the opponents of the republi"
party in this state would defeat the re-
publicans by nearly 10000, as has been
heretofore shown by The ARGUS. The
Heralds correspondent says:
The democratic aud greenback national
conventions in Ohio have been appointed
to meet at the same place (Columbus) on
the same day 10 June. 1t is understood mere
that this arrangement was made at the
desire OF Senator Thurman, and that it
signifies an attemt to bring the two conven-
tions to the nomination of the same man
for Governor and, on an identical platform,
to a substantial and open coalition between
the democrats and the greenbackers, In
which the latter would gain the advantage
of the democratic organization, name and
machinery to concentrate their vote on.
Senator Thurman does not, 1t is under
stood, mean to be the candidate and Mr.,
Ewing is the man most prominently men,
toned here for the place. Ohio is very
uncertain State. In 1872 it gave a repub-
lican majority Of $1,000; in 1874 it went
democratic by 1900; in 1851 went re-
publican by 1000; in 1878 the republican
State ticket was carried in by little over
5000 majority over the democrats, but il
the prohibition vote were counted with the
republican, the greenback vote added tC
the democratic ticket, the latter would
show majority of about "a, 900. Without
the greenback vote, 10 a bad year for the
democrats as this is. they do not hope t
carry the State. Hence these plans toI
the consolidation of the two organizations
1t is believed here that the two organi
cations, democratic and greenback, can bt
united on the basis of unlimited coinage o
silver, the destruction of the nationa
banks and continued issue of legal tende
greenbacks, the amount to be fixed by Con
gress. Some Of the Greenbackers woult
like, in addition, a clause demanding tn
repeal OF the Resumption act, but other
think this of no consequence. Mr.. Ewin
is spoken of as candidate for GovernC
under this combination, but it is not certai
that he would accept. 1t is urged b
those who favor such consolidation {
the Western democratic and greenbac
parties that the two believe in pretty niue
the same things, and might as well jOi
hands and that coalition would carr
some States now republican. For lnstant
it is said, that in Michigan the republ
cans had last year on election for
Governor As per cent of the 70
cast, the democrats 20 pc
cent. and the greenback nationals
per cent. and that the two united cOul
thus hope to defeat the republican
Again. that in Illinois the republicans Ia
in 1876 500 per cent. of the total vote, Il
democrats 454 per cent. and the nationa
the rest, giving the republicans a vel
small majority over oil, but that the gree
back-national vote in the State increase
from II ,233 in 1876 to So, 125 last year, al
to combine it now with the democrat
vote would enable the coalition TO car
the State in 1880 Again, that in IS
the republicans in Iowa had 582 per Ger
of the vote and the democrats only 49, p
cent, and the rest being scattering, b
that last year the republicans had but
per cent of the vote and the demOcra
and fusionist together the rest aud tn
a complete coalition, with hard work, oou
carry the State. In Indiana, in 1878, Il
democrats aud greenbackers together hi
500 per cent. of the vote. In Maine,
1878, the republicans had 45 per cent
the total vote, the democrats % per ce
and the nationals 80 per cent, giving COT
ition 55 per cent of the total. In NJ
Hampshire, in 1878, the republicans HI
only $50 per cent of the vote, the dem
Gratis Ill per cent and the nationals
In Colorado last year the republicans b
but trifing majority over all, the dem
Gratis having 404 per cent and the nations
nearly 81 per CT In Connecticut last ye
on the State ticket the republicans h
not a majority over all the democrats al
greenbackers added together having 5
per cent of the total vote, while for Go
gressmen, where extra efforts were mac
the republicans had only l56 majority
the State over all. These figures,
which your correspondent does not assuu
the responsibility, though they are
lieved to be correct, are cited by those vi
urge coalition to show that IN maj
States it would turn uncertainty into su
cess, and it is the belief of some OF the lea
ers in this movement that if the two co
veutiOns which have been appointed
meet at Columbus on the same day
June should unite upon a single patfor
aud ticket, this would have decided i
huencc upon the two parties in other Yves
ern States, and would unite them upon
common platform of unlimited silver, Il
extinction of national bank and the ISIS,
OF legal tender notes, in amounts to be
clded at every session OF Congress.
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