The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25
To What Base Uses May they
Come

Come
Some time since a Bucl1field correspon-
dent of the Argus made use of the follow
ing flattering language in regard to the
Greenbackers
The farmers in this county have for several
years been troubled with the potato bugs, but
have found good remedy IN the Judlcious use
of Paris Green. Also the Democrats of this
county believe they have found remedy for
the Republican grub that has fattened so long
at the public expense, in the judictous use Of
the Greenbdckers.
The Greenbackers may or may not feel
complimcnted at the comparison OF them to
Paris green. They certainly will not feel
complimented at the assertion that the DEM
the interests of the Democratic party and
help it into power. Yet the assertion is
true, and much evidence of it has appeared
since this correspondent wrote, and in other
counties than Oxford
The object of the Democrats is evident
They wish to defeat the Republican party in
this State, in order to help their party in the
Nation A Republican defeat here will be
construed elsewhere not as Greenback, but
as Democratic victory. Democratic papers
all over the land will proclaim it as such.
1t will be recognized everywhere as SUCH
Leading Democrats in Maine do not hesitate
to say in conversation that they do not be-
'ieve in the Greenback doctrine and do de-
test its followers; that they only use them to
strengthen themselves and break down the
SC
of no consequence since resumption has
been brought about, and that their national
platform next year will be sound on the
financial topic. Meanwhile they mean to
use the Greenbaclers this year and hope to
hold many of them next.
For this last hope there is some founda-
ton; for intriguers like Rust of the Pro-
gressire Age and brainless tools Ike Perry
of the Camden Herald have promised to
take their whole following into the Demo-
cratic camp next year, and support the Dem
ocratic nominee for President. That is the
game they are engaged in playing, and will
succeed in winning if the Greenbackers will
permit themselves to be made 'judicious
use'' of.
Itdepends upon you, Greenbackers, wheth-
er or not this scheme can be carried out.
With those of you who have gone into the
fusion movement for the spols of office there
is no question. With those of you who have
been so far perverted by your recent associa-
tions that you are ready to go into the DEM
ocrotic party and accept bull-dozing, ballot
box stuffing, and the extreme State Rights
doctrine as your creed-who are willing to
make your political bed with the mob of
New York and Cincinnati and the red
shirted gentry of the South, there is also no
question. But there is serious question
with you Greenbackers who are so from con-
viction, or who have been lead into the
fusion movement by the false cry about
State expenditures. Do you wish to be made
tools of by the Democratic party? Do you
wish to be "judciously used' to promote
the success Of that party? Do you wish to
aid in giving power to that party which
makes your votes as naught by repeating at
the polls in New York and Ohio and by
shooting your friends in Mississippi and
South Carolina?
Why, there is not one of your speakers in
this State to-day who could speak in Missis-
sippi to-day unless he fused with the shot
gun Democracy there as he does with the
Democracy here-there is not one of your
speakers whom the Democracy would not
follow with shot-guns and hunt with hounds
if he talked the Greenback doctrine there.
There is not man who can edit Green
back paper there without risking his life.
Your own speaker, Blanton Duncan, has
told you that the stories of Southern out
RACES are true. And yet you are asked to
unite with and to vote for men in this same
party of oppression, intolerant of free
speech, of free opinion, and only favoring
that freedom of voting that finds its illustra-
ton in the Tammany repeaters of New York
and the tissue-ballot throwers of South Car
olina. You are asked to take away the re-
naming safeguards of an honest election.
Will you do it?
If you want to be lead into these ways of
wckedness vote the fusion ticket. Remem-
Der, too, that your decision must be made
this year. Next year there will be no fusion
ticket,-only Republican and Democratic.
Your vote this Fall will be an encourage
ment to one or the other. 1t will be con-
strued all over the country either as an en-
dorsement of extreme State Rights and
Southern bull-dozing, or of National SUI
premacy and honest elections; as an encour-
agement to the murderers of Henry Dixon
or as rebuke to his assassins. Choose be-
tween these courses. There is no middle
way