Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-08-25

is possibility that their votes may prevent
republican triumph by the popular vote.
and thus give intense satisfaction and great
practical aid to the worst class Of demo-
Gratis elsewhere. Is it not their duty to
consider this immediate and certain result
of the votes which some of them now
mean to cast? Why is it that the demo-
Gratis are furnishing money to carry on the
greenback campaign in Maine. if they
have no partisan advantage to gain there
bvp WHY i it that all the old Copper
head organs. whether inclined to soft
money or to hard money. are now partic-
ularly anxious tn help greenback men to
beat the republicans? "A wayfaring
man, though fool, can see the reason.
The democrats are hoping for party adj
vantage, and are trying 10 use the green
back men as tools.
Let there be no misunderstanding. The
Tribune does not counsel any man who
wishes Reputation, or inil9ticn. ar the
issue of fiat money! or the repeal of
the resumption act, to vote with the repub-
lican party in the hope that at its hands
he will get his wish. We believe and
hope that he will not. If any man really
means TO attack the public credit, to break
down the policy which has already brought
such revival of business to nearly all the
States. and to subordinate all other CON
victions, principles and considerations to
that one aim, he ought to vote the bour-
bon democratic ticket, for that is the only
party which has any powerto promote his
desires. The greenback party is rs emp
ty as last years birds nest. 1t had
force and pith. when resumption was still
in the future. and men could say with a
straight face that resumption would bring
ruin But the day has gone. and with it
the party which sprang from the fears of
men. To-day any man knows that he lies
who asserts that specie resumption has not
already brought marked revival of bust
ness in almost every branch. greater en-
plovment and better wages to labor, and
a stronger feeling of hopefulnesS and con-
fidence than the country has seen until this
wear at any time since the panic. With
the fears and dstresses. the party of fear
and distress has vanished. The @reenback
party in Ohio, in Indiana, in Michigan.
in Pennsylvania or in New York is an ex-
ploded fire-cracker: all the strength is
out of it, and nothing is left but some
ashes and shreds. and a bad smell. The
possibility of that party's attaining any
share of power in the future, every intel
ligent man knows. vanished with the sue
cess of resumption and the revival of bus
mess.
Maine has not felt, as vet. the full force
of the Improvement which crowds the
shops and the markets of other states.
But the people of Maine did not teel the
effects of the panic until 1873 had passed.
Their industries are solid, enduring, slow
to Weld to disaster, and slow to improve
with reviving prosperity: and yet the re-
covery has begun in that State also. If it
had not, should Maine lack the patience.
integrity and firmness that Ohio and Illi-
nois have shown? Those states suffered
first. and were first to meet the assault of
the repudiating spirit which disaster en-
gender. Their honesty has triumphed,
and the recovery of prosperity is all the
sweeter because men feel that it has been
well earned by fidelity. Does Maine wish
no share in that triumph? We do not be-
leve that the republicans of Maine can
be defeated by the combination formed
against them; but if the issue rested with
the impatient, disappointed. and disheart-
ened geeenback men themselves. might
they not be expected to remember that n
man of Maine should have as much pa
thence, intelligence, endurance and homes
ty as the men of any other State?