The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-06-12
The Greenbach Idea.

'&rcenback Convention. s8:Thc old say
ing that We have to sgoFdrom home to
get the news is verified in ths in
stance. We had never before dreamed
that the Grccnbnck party sis bound
90 sweep the South in 1880" for the
party made 4 very bad START in that
direction in its mass snc."!ing at
Winnshoro OH May salcs-,lay. We
are gricvcd to learn that the policy OF
the Grcenbacliors is to ''rciilSc to enter
into a coalition with either Of the old
parties in any quartcr,' and that "in
the South the Grccnbackcrs have
"othing dnt Democrats To Eghf, and
hence the folly oftornling II coalition
with their only cncmy.'
With bitter Radicals filing all the
Federal offices in South Carolina ;
with Radical courts dragging Demo
Gratis by the hundreds before packed
partisan jurics; with Radical sheriff
backed bytwclvc or fifteen thousand
voters IN tho largest and wcalthicst
county Of the State; with y. $. WAL
lace writing cXultantly to the North
crn papers that the Radical party in
South Carolina was never before SO
y firmly united as now; with threat
cncd horde ofdrputy marshaIs, backed
by Federal bavoncts, to put ca pet
baggcrs, scalaways and ignorant,
vicious negroes into Office again; with
tho loud boast Of bloody y-shir!cr3 th II
South Carolina will cast her vote for
the Radical candidate for President in
1880, ,--can il be urged by amy sane man
fiat "Grccnhackcrs have nothing bat
Democrats 10 fight? Or can il be,
" which we cannot believe, that South
4, crn ftrrcnbackcrs are not fighting
!" Southern Radicals, but, that, seeing
IN army just now wi'hou; leaders,
. they wish TO put themselves at thc
head OF it 20 thrash the Democratic
party az il thrashch the Radicals in
1876 and restored civilization end
property and life t0 South Carolina? ?
The whites Of South Carolina havc
been Democrats for generations, and
the vast majority Of thom will con
timc truc "a, thcir uriucin,rs huv
J. third party can win only by Radical
votes, aud it is bound to fake lis color
inc from thc rank and file.
The most dangerous enemy is one
in dispuise. and ii. is well for the
Democrats Of South Carolina to know
tant thc (:rcc6bnckcrs consitlcr thot
thcy have only thc Democrats tn tiwht
Instead of WORKING within tbc Demo-.
cratic unrLy. whcrc ,hcv h,v, so,,c
chance of sccin~ their ideas nrcvoi]
they prefer to burn their sbips and
> nm a srpnrotc ti~hl, when tho bIiudc,t
can Sec That they are p,oyinr into thc
hands OF the Radical, party, lust rs
Dennis Kcarnov is doing nColifornio,
Tie Ohio Democrats offered cycry-
thing that u sensible GrccnbocLcr
couId want. Yct missionary ~ocs
from the South to- preach thc yosncI of
no coalition. Is il not us plain as thc
nose on ones face that Grant and
Sherman and Blaine and llnvcs. and
n even Tiklcn an,t the hard money
Democrats, wish forno NOR, m,<pci-
.ous event than the separate Green
back canvass in Ohio? The Radicals
would win inevitably against Il divided
enemy, and their victory means death
to- cvcry Grccnback hone and nsrira-
ton. On thc other hand. a soft money
victory in Ohio would almost jncyi,a-
&, bly, force soft rnuncy candidate and
platform on the Democrats in 1880,
which with combined Democratic and
IniC1rcSnback votes would sweep the
# held; The Grecnbatkcr who is not
- satisfied with Ewing's grocnbacl;s and
O Warmers silver bill. mustbc q iastidi-
Gus Grccnbackcr indeed, or one bad
ly infected with desire for office.
Yct some Grccnbackcrs say thcy will
rcarry Ohio. AS an answer, to this.
Z look at the tickets. Foster and Ewing
arc men of national celebrity, Gael,
p 'distfns,,i>ltc,} III his linc. ond rocb y