Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-08-21
The Present Leader Of the Green
back Party IN WfsconsIn-His
Record in the Past.
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(From the Milwaukee Wisconsin,
The Greenback vote in this stats
during the past two years has been
drawn about equally from both the
old parties. The Democratic party
has tried to retain Democratic Green
hackers by protesting their princi-
Piles, but many OF them have prefer.
red to act with the new organiza-
ton. The present year q strong
effort will be made to bring back
all the Democratic wanders into the
party fold, and to use the Green back
organization simply as q sort of
limbo for the soft. moneyed men of
Republican antecedents, who, as be-
tween The Republican and Demo
cratic parties. would vote with the
former.
To accomplish this purpose, the
services of Mr.. "Brick" Pomeroy
have been called into action. He
played the leading part at the
Watertown convention which placed
candidates for state officers in the
field. He drew the platform, and
controlled the whole action of the
convention. He was made chairman
If the Greenback state committee,
and has the management of the can
vass so far a. that party is concern
ed. The policy which he is trying
TO carry out Was clearly indicated
10 the selection of candidates. All
of the nominees are men of Rspubli.
can antecedents. With them i. is
hoped that the Republican Green
hackers may be held firm, while,
with e platform demanding the re.
peal of the national banking law,
the issue of all paper money by the
government, and the unlimited COIN
age Of silver, the Democrats hope to
secure the votes of all Democratic
Greenbackers. In order to promote
this scheme, Pomeroy, in his paper,
the La Crosse Democrat, pow and
then makes an unfavorable comment
en- the Democratic party just to sat,
isfy his readers who have been Re.
publicans that he is impartial. That
be 10 consciously and earnestly at
tempting to play into the hands of
the Democrats there can be no
doubt. The Democrat party is
good enough Greenback party for
him, but he thinks he can do more
to promoteits success by his present
course than by any other.
1t men of Republican antecedents
will remember what he has been in
the past, they will be best able to
judge what he is at present, and how
much he deserves their support and
confidence.
During the war be made an ex-
tended notoriety as Copperhead.
His paper did what it could to ex.
cite draft riots and to encourage the
rebels TO persevere. He assailed
with the coarsest abuse President
Lincoln, recommended his assassi-
nation, and exulted over the success
of Wilkes Booth. With all the re-
sources of bad grammar and horse
boy epithets, he asssiled the cause
OF the union and all men who
earnestly supported it. He then
denounced the green backs as worth.
less. and predicted the reputation
of the government bonds. He did
these things not for any real zeal of
conviction of any sort. but simply
because he loved notOriety and his
course made him notorious, and be
cause he loved money. and he found
that he could gain il 10 that manner.
Scattered over the north AMI
through the border states were q
class Of Democrats to whom the
seditious and reasonable articles
and the occasional obscene stories
which enlivened his paper supplied
the only form of literature that they
were capable of understanding and
enjoying They took bis paper, and
it obtained large circulation, aud
was profitable.
Probably few of our readers ever
saw it in those days, and such as
did would now be ashamed if they
were to look over it's files for 1864
and 1865, that such publication
could have heen issued in a loyal
state. To revive their recollect; ons,
and give them some notions of it's
quality, we have copied few tx
tracts from editorial ar icles in the
weekly La Crosse Democrat during
the year above mentioned.
The assassinati IN OF President
Lincoln is thu' advocated 10 a lead
ing editorial under date of August
20, 1864:
Lincoln is a traitor and murderer. y
Had any former Democratic president
warred upon the constitution or trihed with
the destinies of the nation as Lincoln has he
would have been hurled to perdition long
since. And il he is elected for another four
years, scs trust some bold hand ,cW pierce his
heart Nth dagger point for the public good
After Lincoln's assassination, I'M
der date of October 2, 1865, the
Democrat says:
The Sentinel says that last fall we made the
motion 10 kill Lincoln. Granted. And last
spring God seconded il and, through Booth put
The motion and carried ii.
The subject is again referred to,
October 9, 1865, as follows:
We deprecate assassination, yet we feel to
thank Cor for calling Lincoln home, scherever
nGt home may be. The will of God be always
done on earth as it is in Heaven. Not all
the cannon in the world ever sent All echo so
far into the future as did the report of a piss
tol that fatal night in Washington thealer,
where great men were players and nations the
spectators, 1t woke up the people of Ameri-
ca. |. woke the spell. 1t gave the country
statesman for a president. II flashed its
SIC senper tyrdnniS from Maine to the golden
strand of our western boundaries and halted
the march of usurpstion most cfiectually.
We would give no more of this
blasphemous ribaldry, but subioin a
specimen or two of articles designed
to encourage the rebels, dishearten
loyal men, and excite resistance to
recruiting and the draft. In the
number of October II, 1864, we find
the following
The south ran Hluer be s,J;u0df,9 The