Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-02-27
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Augusta, Thursday korng, Feb. 81, 1879.
From the New York Tribune.
Drawing the Lines.


burn" even the present House may be
brought back to something like honesty.
Fifteen months ago. November ?, 1877,
the House voted, 40 nays against l07 yeas
not to lay on the table the bill for the re-
peal of the Resumption Act. Afterwards,
June 10, 1873, il voted on the bill with
notifications proposed by the Senate
yeas, l40; nays, los but a two-thirds ma
jority being requisite. the bill went to
sleep for the season. On Saturday, Feb
ruary ~. 1879. Mr.. Ewing managed to get
IL up again, with sundry knavish amend
ments reported by his committee, and
made = speech about it, The vote was
taken on Mr.. Garfield's motion to lay the
bill on the table, and resulted-yeas, l41 /;
nays, 40. The supporters of resumption
have just one more vote than the opponents
could muster in November. 1877, or in
June last Thirty-three members have
been walked up to sense of their former
folly, and thirty of them are republicans.
Only four so-called republicans voted with
the democratic regulators, namely, kel-
Icy, Of Pennsylvania; Phillips, of Kansas !;
Oliver, Of Iowa. and Fort, of Illinois
Two of these have already been shelved
BY their constituents, and Mr.. Kelley,
whose fidelity to the promise he made to
act loyalty with the republican party may
be questioned, and Mr.. Fort, who slipped
into the next Congress by minority vote,
will do wisely if they withdraw wholly
from the alliance with repndiators before
the people have another shot at
them. Mr.. Butler, who heard from the
people of Massachusetts last fall. was also
on the wrong side, and l05 democrats. OF
the votes to lay the bill on the table, "a
were cast by democrats little over one
Anh Of thesmembers of that party voting.
The republicans voting stood ia for
public honesty and common sense, and
against both. The two parties were fairly
represented; "a out of 2S republicans are
for public honor out of 5 democrats are
ION fePudlauon.
The change in the position of men,
bers il very encouraging. When this dis
honest bill was first brought into the House,
In October, 1877, the repudiators mustered
1S8 votes on the first test of strength for
The naked bill without disguise or pretext.
There was some change in the number of
it, supporter, from November I'd to June,
but . gradual improvement in opinion was
shown in the notifications made in the bill
itself. So to speak. the bill was veneered
and vanished a great deal, and made less
indecent and offensive. though scarcely
less mischievous. But now large major
ity Of the House has voted to kill the bill
altogether with or without veneering. Two
important events have enlightened men,
hers. Resumption has been accomplished,
and the people have voted again. The cleo
tons have proved that the republican par
ty grows stronger in proportion as it man
fully defends the nations honor, and that
TIE party b moving steadily toward abso-
lute unity and eompactness in support Of
resumption, and every other other meas
ure that is requisite to the maintenance of
public faith. They have also taught some
democrats that apy encouragement of re-
pudia1ing schemes or soft-money heresies
tends surely to divide, defeat and destroy
the democratic party.
,Itis pmlbctly safe to conclude that DIR.
Hussey i governed by conscientious mo-
lives in cutting loose from the democratic
greenback alliance. A little better than
. year ago he was a republican and in the
direct hne Of political promotion He had
been city Marshal under republican rule,
and higher positions awaited him had he
remained with his party. But he differed
from it on the financial question. He hon.
estly held to certain convictions that could
not be made to tally with the republican
platform and so he allied himself with the
greenback movement in this city. This
he did because he thought himself right
and his former political associates wrong.
But the party in which he expected to
find . sovereign balm for all financial ills
have ALLEN from grace, strayed away from
their original purposes, linked hands with
The democracy, and the Doctor will have
no more to do with them. He sees that
- the Union and Journal long since said
they would do the democracy have swal.
lowed up the greenbackers. and called by
what ever name it pleases men, 1t is all
democratic and no greenback party about
it. Seeing this DR.. Hussey leaves the
Combination" in disgust. Bidtteforo
Union and Journal.
A Washington correspondent of The
Herald has made an elaborate canvass of
the New York delegation in Congress for
the purpose Of obtaining the views of the
members concerning candidates in the
next State and national campaigns. The
result Is not especially lucid or conclusive
The most striking point seems to be tina
the reuublican members are nrettv IMAM;