Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1879-09-02

Portland Press.
TO WHAT BASE USES MAY THEY
COME

COME
Some time since a Buckhcd correspond
ent Of the ATgus made use Of the following
hattering language to the Greenbackers
The farmers i'm this county have for sew
eral years been troubled with the potato
bugs. but have found good remedy in the
malicious use Of Paris Green. Also the
Democrats of this county believe they
have found remedy for the Republican
grub that has fattcned so long at the pub
lie expense, in the judici0uS use ~ me
GrccHLGckerS.
The Grecnbackers may or may not feel
complimcnted at the comparison Of them
to Paris green. They certainly will not
feel complmented ut the assertion that the
Democrats are making use Of them to
further the interests Of the Democratic
party and help II into power. Yet the as
scrtion 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
I'm this State in order TO help their party
i'm the Nation. 4 Republican defeat here
will be- construed elsewhere not as Green
back. but as a Democratic victory. Dem
ocratic papers all over the land will pro-
claim II aS such. IL will be recognized
everywhere as such. Leading Democrats
in Maine do not hesitate 10 say in CONVEX
sation that they DO not believe in the
I,s l. a 4. H. f.,f
lower, thatthcy only them 70 strength
en- themselves and break down the Rcpub-
licans; that the currency question is ~ 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 20
use the Grccnbackcrs this year and hope
70 hold many of them next. 3
For thi, lat hope there is some founP,
ton: for intrgucrS like Rust of the Pr,-
yre,,irs .lge and brainle>> tools like Perry
of the Camden H.raH have promised 20
take their whole following into the Dem
ocratic camp next year. and support the
Democratic nominee for President. That
is the game they are engaged in playing,
and will succeed in winning If the Green
hacker, will permit themselves 10 be made
{ "iudiciouS use" Of
II depends upon YOU, GrecnbackerS.
whether or not this scheme can De carried
out. With those Of you who have gone
! into the fusion movement for the -poil> Of
Office there is no question. With those OF
YOU who have been 80 far perverted by
your recent associations that You are
ready to 20 into the Democratic party and
accept bull doing. ballot-bsN >tufing, and
the extreme State Right, doctrine rs your
crccd-who are willing 10 make yourpolit-
e. cal bed with the mob of New York and
% Cincinnati and the rcd->hirted gentry OF
. the south. there j. also uo question. But
there Is q serious question withyou Green
q, hacker, who are so from conviction.
or who have been led into the fusion
movement by the false cry about State
expenditures. Do you wish 10 De made
tool, of by the Democratic partly
> DO YOU wish % bee 'judciiou>ly used
topromote the success, Of that party Do
You wish TO aid in giving power 10 that
party which makes your vote, as nought
I 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
i'm thi, State today who could speak in
mississippi to-day unless ne fused with
the shotgun Democracy there rs he does
; with the Democracy hcre-thcrc /, not
one of your speakers whom the Democra-
cy would not follow with shotgun, and
hunt with hound, il bee talked the Green
back doctrine there. There is not a man
who can edit GrecnbIck paper there
without ri>king hi, lie. Your own speak
J or. Bautou Duncan, has told YOU that the
,toric, of ;Southcrn outra.cs are true.
And vet YOU are asked to unite with AMI
20 vote for men in thu, same party ~ OPP
preston. mtolcrant Ca free speech, of free
opinion. and only iavorng that freedom
Of yo,ing that find, IL, illustration in the
a Tammany rcpeatcrs of New York and the
tiS>uc-ballot thrower of South Carolina.
You are asked to take away the remaining
safeguards of an honest election. VIII
, you do it;
II you want 10 Dee led into these ways NJ
. wickedncss vote the fusion ticket. Re-
member, too. that your decision must be
made this year. Next year there Will be
: no fusion tcket,-only Republican and
I Democratic Your vote this Fall will be
an encouragement to one or the other. II
will be- construed all over the country eth
t cr a, IN endorsement OF extreme State
Rights and Southern bull-doling or Of
National Supremacy and honest elections;
a, au encouragement 10 the murdcrcrN OF
r. Henry Dixon or a> q rcbukc % his a>>a>-
. sins. Choose between these courses.
- There is no middle way.
, Value Of paper dollar in 1861,
3s.7; value, Jan. I, 1879. 4 90.