The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-09-01
Lewis Pierce.
Edmund Dana.
Darius EEL. Ingraham.

Lewis Pierce.
Edmund Dana.
Darius Ell. Ingraham.
The Greenbackers added:
Thomas F. Sheehan, formerly Democrat.
Charles Dyer, formerly Democrat.
The Republican Greenbackers will thus see
that the Democrats have gained the point they
promised themselves early in the campaign,
that of having the majority of the Representa-
tiyes on the fusion ticket, and Furthermore
that they, the Republican Greenbackers, are
cody given the cold shoulder as far as the OIL
ces are concerned.
THE GREENBACK CONVENTION.
The Greenbackers met at the Merchants
Exchange Hotel, and waited to hear how the
Democrats would consent to divide up the
Offices The Greenback leaders wanted to
name three of the candidates in order to give
Fred Fox chance. The Democrats would
not hear to the nomination of Fox in any case
and shut off all possibility OF his nomination
by giving the Greenbackers the chance to
name the combination candidate in Wards =
and 3. The Democratic objection to Mr.. Fox
was that his political connection is very I'M
certain and that he is suspected of being too
muCn Oh hopuDllCdll W bC again
The trouble with Mr.. Fox seems to have heen
that under which Mr.. Frank labored, he is
too independent man or the combination to
support The friends OF Mr.. Fox did what
they could, but DR.. Dana, who had defeated
Mr.. Frank, and his fellow Democrats were IN
no mood to be tritled with, and the Greenback-
ers were notified that they must yield the
point or the combination, and there was no
leader like John NJ Todd to say 'stick, if the
combination does co. and the Greenback
element of the united parties gave up and al
lowed themselves to be again dictated to and
driven to accept offered terms by their lnso-
lent Democratic masters, not allies, and the
ex-Republicans who are now in the Greenback
ranks must feel proud of their present posi-
ton. marching in the rear of the Democratic
party, with the Democratic watchword. ANY
thing to beat the Republican party for bat
tie cry.
Once settled that Mr.. Fox could not be NOM
mated, and that the Democrats would not
yield an inch fronrthe position they had at
first assumed, the convention had only to Sc
lect its quota of the fusion ticket and Thomas
f. Sheehan of ward 2, and Charles A. Dyer OF
ward 3, both ex-Democrats, were nominated.
The Greenbackers are, however, far from
being satisfied with the result, and freely curse
the Democratic ring sefshness and love OF
power The Greenback party has been swal-
lowed by the Democrats and the absolute ring
influence was never more plainly manifested
than in the refusal to return to the house two
such men as Mr.. Fox and Mr.. Frank. OF
course there were other men who had friends
in the Greenback convention beside MI Fox,
hut there was no one whose nomination seemed
TO be so much an act of justice, or who had
more claims on the party gratitude 1t Is I'M
derstood that the nom nation OF Mr. Fox was
claimed and asked for on the ground that he
had manifested his fitness for the place, and
that he has showed that no man or ring can
control him, and his friends claim that the
Democratic leaders have been determined tc
crush him at the first opportunity ever since
that his name was used for Mayor, and few
votes were cast for him, last spring, by some OF
those who were opposed to the nomination OF
Mr.. Walker.
AS prominent GrcenbacBer said last even
ing, the ticket is not a strong one, and it may
be added, will not draw votes that would have
been given to it under other circumstances