The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-09-03

The Greenbaek party, according TO Its
champions, was born about thirteen
years ago. They must admit that its
growth has not been rapid. They have
hardly dozen members of the lower
house of Congress; and not one mem
Der of the Senate. In three-fourths OF
the States, they have no semblance ofan
organization. They have not control OF
single Legislature nor the Executive
Department of even one of the States.
When they expect to obtain strength to
get control of the government in order
to correct its financial disorders, we are
at loss to imagine. At its present
rate of growth, it would require at
least century; and long before that
time, the temporary causes which its
authors allege has created a necessity
for it, will have passed away and
disappeared forever. A contemporary
says that the indications are, that it Is
already approaching its end In Indiana
last year it brought to the polls thirty
or forty thousand voters. 1t is not be-
lieved that they could command half
that number at the present time. In
Ohio, at the last election, thirty-eight
thousand Greenback votes were cast.
The very strong probability is that less
than twenty thousand will be counted
this year. More than half the party
will vote for Gen. Ewing, the Demo
cratic nominee for Governor. Maine is
the only State in which it exhibited any
sign of life, and there it receives its
greatest strength from Republicans, who
are disguised with their party and are
not quite ready to join the Democracy.
In New York, here is what the Albany
Argus say upon the subject: "The
Republicans are finding it a difficult
matter to revive the Greenback organi-
zation in this State. Democrats who
were unwittingly led into the scheme
last year found it to be only machine
to promote Republican success, and
they are not again to be caught in that
manner. The evidence at Washington
and also in Albany that the Greenback
newspapers were paid for, edited and
circulated by Republicans has counter
acted their influence. Last year, in the
midst Of hard times, and with a Con
gressional election involving national
issues on hand, the Greenbackers sue
ceeded in casting $4,000 votes in this
State. The result was a Republican
Judge by plurality of $4,000, nearly
100 Republican members of the Assem-
bly, and three Greenback Assemblymen.
These Greenback Representatives were,
so far as influence in the House goes,
regarded by the Republicans as nonenti-
ties, and were powerless to secure either
position of legislation. The three
Representatives were all the Green
hackers secured for their Is, 900 votes,
and all of these had formerly been
Two have already gone
back to their former allegiance. These
facts have satisfied Democrats that the
only effect of voting the Greenback
ticket in this State is to aid in Republi-
can victories. In a few counties the
managers are now endeavOr-
ing, by the promise of free passage and
pay for time, to secure persons to appear
at the Greenback State Convention as
delegates but they will be delegations
without constituencies. The result of
the town and municipal elections last
spring showed that the organization was
dead, and its voters num-
bered less than ten per cent. of the
number it had last fall"