Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-08-12
Don't You Forget 1t!

Don't You forget it, YOU who were re-
publican before you were a greenbacker.
that in the Presidential campaign, which
is to take place next year and be one of
history, there will then be but two
parties in the field-republican and dem
ocrats. The greenback party in that fight
will be nowhere. 1t will be unable to
keep up the appearance of an organza-
ton. Resumption of specie payments
will be so firmly established before the
national conventions meet that there will
be no opposition to it. The currency as
an issue will scarcely bcknown next year.
The platforms of the two great parties in
1876 agreed in regard to resumption cx-
cept that the democratic platform objected
to having day fixed by law in which re-
sumption should take place. They will
differ less even than this in 1880 in regard
to the currency.
Don't you forget it, now, republican
greenbacker, that if you vote at all next
year. you will vote with one or the other
of the two great parties in the struggle.
You will not east your vote away upon
any third party. No party distnctiycly
greenback will be known in the contest
to which you will give your vote. The
leaders of the democratic party and the
manipulators of the greenback party I'M
derstand this perfectly They are pulling
together in this campaign in Maine They
made the greenback and democratic plat
form SO near alike that the difference is
not perceptible. and when once they get a
republican greenbackcr to endorse the
Portland platform and agree to vote for
Joseph l.. Smith, they have got him upon
the bridge which leads over into the dem
ocratic party. and feel certain that they
have secured his vote in 1880 for the dem
ocratic candidate for President Don't
deceive yourself with the thought that you
belong toan Independent organization the
democrats are Turing you into their pow
er as the angler enticcs the unsuSpecting
fish TO his hook, and you will be their
prey so sure a you vote for Joseph l..
Smith and the combination senatorial and
repre,entivc tickets Look at the votes
Of Murch and Ladd in the late extra ses-
sion ii you want 10 see where your leaders
are going and where You will 90 il YOU
follow them-into the democratic party.
Don't you forget it, never let it escape
your memory, that the democratic party
is the party Of those who fought the gov
ernment four years in order to DESTROY il,
who cast upon the country the great
national debt, and who have scattered all
over the land from Florida to Maine and
from the Atlantic TO the Pacific, the graves
of those who fell in battle or by disease
contracted in the service. The democrat
ic party is the CONFEDERATE PARTY.
because it is controlled, manipulated. made
the servant and tool of the CONFEDER-
ATE BRIGADIERS in Congress- The
southern democrats can out-vote the north
FERN democrats in caucus at Washington.
and through the power they have in con
trolling the caucus they rule the democrat
ic party in the country.
u the democratic party in 1880 succeed
IN eiecting the President of the United
states, then the country will lee under the
government Of the Southern Canfederates.
Let no republican grecnbacker forget this
when he is urged to unite with the demo-
crats in the election next September, for
if he does he will be caught in the demo-
cratic net spread for him and become the
servant of the Confederate Brigadiers who
are going to put things back where they
were before the rebellion If they get the
power.