Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1879-08-19
STATE POLITICS.

Republican clubs in Maine, and they vii
knock the Stutlmg out of the duplex com
bination that is opposed TO them
Still they come. In q village near thi:
city, in one shop, are seven men who votet
the Greenback ticket last year but VINO vii
vote for Davis this.-PreSS.
CONGRESSMAN De La Matyr is giving
the people of Maine allopathlc doses of un
adulterated Greenback lunacy. He wants
n billion of grcenbacks issued at once tc
give business start
We learn of number of hitherto
staunch Democrats in Washington County
who say they cannot swallow the Green
back dose that their leaders have prepared
for them.-EaStpOrt Sentinel.
The National Fie,o heads letter from
Bangor, THE Maine Boom" The Maine
boom will be likely to knock overheard this
year good many of the passengers on the
Greenback crat.-SimpS0R.
The MachlaS Union says its receipts
for the last three months haven't reached
its expenditures by $40. The only business
that isn't improving seems to be that OF
publishing a Democratic or mongrel news
paper.-PresS.
The Belfast Journal fears that the
Democrats who are Incorporating as Green
hackers are so unlike the Jacksonian Dem
ocrats that they are in danger OF being
called ''mule Democrats, since they have
no pride of ancestry and no hope OF pos
terity.
Terrible howl from the Dcmnitionals
when a Republican otiice-holder takes the
stump, but not word except in praise
when Cove, White, Lancaster and that
crowd neglect the business OF the State in
order 10 make Greenback speeches. Why
this distinction?
The Ellsworth american has reports
from several towns in Hancock County,
showing that Greenbackers aud Democrats
alike are Disguised with the course taken
BY their leaders, and will either cast no
vote at all or will vote for Corporal Davis
at the coming election 1t says eve be-
lcve in this county TIE fusion will give
several hundred votes To the Republicans.
A subscriber wishes Us 10 keep 1t be
fore the people, that the greenback dollar
Of today is equal in value 10 the gold dol
lar, simply and solely because the Repuhli-
can party made it so in spite OF the Demo
Gratis and assistant Democrats both, and
that the earnings Of days labor OF any
working man will buy more goods today
than at any time since the beginning OF the
war.
The PenobScot County Greenback Con-
vcntiOn administered "A rebuke TO Congress
men Ladd and Murch by adopting n reSo-
luton embracing the proposition that any
profit a,cruing from the coinage Of silver
must iuure 10 the Government. 1t will be
remembered these statesmen under the
direction of the Democracy voted that
bullion owners should have the fifteen per
cent. profit.
Why don't Major Smith take the stump
aud let his Grecnhack friends know the
color of his talk: lie could not compete
with Uncle Scion in giving the Shrinkagc
on "them steers" or quoting the price of
hogs and butter, but he knows much more
about making money by running State
bank in times past and has had more OK
pcrience in cutting coupons later.-Npmer-
set Reporter.
The grccnback boom is evidently
hasgin- in one part OF Cape Elizabeth at
least. \ greeuback meeting was adver-
tiSed 10 De held st Turner Island. Tuesday
night, posters were got out and Mr.. $
Of Illinois. was announced rs speaker.
The time having arrived for which the
meeting was announced, the orator found
himself with an audience OF four men and
their wives. II Is hardly necessary to say
that the meeting was defcrred.-POrndHd
.idrcriiScr.
A characteristic miSstatement by the
Maine Standard in regard % the Customs
Districts OF Maine has just been exposed
by Gen James \. Hall The Standard
said the collections At Waldoboro last year
were S9OO.lO, whereas they were S5,Sj3.33
The De TOcgatic sheet was guilty Of mis-
stating the amount S49j3.23 in order
TO make political point These fellows
play strange pranks with dgures. The
Standard has probably hidden the e. ,953.2 %
away somewhere with the intention AT the
first convenient opportunity of adding the
amount To state Expenditures under Rad
ical rule Portland Press.
The PROGRESSIVE Age says the volume of
currency in 1865 'of all sorts, State bank
circulation, national bank circulation, de-
mand notes, legal-tender notes, etc, was
1888, SIS, 6S5. The Leader gives il rs 81
lll.67S, $50. Which OF these papers is ~
ing; The Ne'c Era used 10 give it a. over
81 Gao. DOC, 900, but now Is s940, 979 ,975.
Which of the statements made by ii Is a
lie: What trust can be put in the state
mentS Of papers that can make mistake
OF over billion OF dollars in the amount
ofcurrency stick 10 the blunder for months,
and swear il j. not a blunder, but the
truth?-PreSS.
We now know how many new green
backs we want issued Immediately ito start
the wheels of business" according To the
greenbaCk idea. Hon. Mr.. De LaMatyr,
the Grecnback Congressman from Indiana
stated in his address in Lewiston, that
! 81 900, 600, 900 ofncw grcenbaCks are needed
To start with and the greenbackers pres
ent expressed their approval with great
applause. That would give Us 81, go, 900,
| 900 of paper money-S37 per inhabitant-
10 start with; of course 10 keep the wheels
going much more should be added. Con
| Siderng that we had only s. of paper
money per inhabitant in this country be
fore the war ISIS now, and happy France
| has only ST.. we should certainly find our
| self On the high road to-the supreme bleS
scdncSs of Hayti, with so much cheaI
paper money that it can be bought for Set:
/ on the dollar.
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