The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-02-22
THE GREENBACK MOVEMENT An
MISSISSIPPI.

We said last week that the Greenpack
movement in Mississippi was an OH -snoo' oi
the defunct Republican party OF the STATE
And we stick to that proposition and are
abundantly able to establish it.
"Azariah,' a gentleman of Republican
nlocliyities, has submitted final article
to-day which he apparently considers suffi-
GENTLY conclusive and unanswerable to
rest his case upon. HIS undertakes to show
the absurdity of our assertion by alleging
that there were no Republicans in the polit-
ical campaign of this State last year, and
all candidates were Democrats, although
some were Greenback Democrats.
The fact is that the so-called Greenback
Democrats who became candidates were
disorganzers and enemies to the unity of
the Democratic party. They opposed the
Democratic nominees, and for all practical
purposes might as well have been Rapubli-
cans. And they drew nearly all their hopes
of success from Republican votes Their
nourishmont came almost entirely from the
Republican soup bowl. You may call them
Democrats or Republicans, the practical re-
suit is the same. They were the men the
Republicans and soreheads and disorgan-
izers rallied to, and had to be beaten ''all the
samee' as if they had called themselves
Republican.
Azariah cites the Dent canvass, and he
knows Dent was nominated on Republic
can platform and voted for rs Republic
can. There were no Democrats running
then, but does be not know and will he
not admit that Democrats voted for Dent
with the hope of disorganizing tho regular
Republican party and of paving the way
for Democratic ascendancy But the
Democrats failed in this maneuver. And
again the Alcorn VS.. Ames strategy failed
Why? Both were Democratic tricks, and
the simon pure old RAIDS were sharp enough
to see it, The Greenback move IN this
State last year was exactly on par with
these Democratic fascos 1t was trick of
the defeated party to divide our ranks and
conquer. The love for the Greenback
principle was a pretense aud al insincerity
on the part of nearly all of them. The
whole essence of the movement in this State
was to divert Democrats and disorgnnize
the Democratic party.
We said, furthermore that Col Musgrove
was the chief mogul of the G, eenback pm ty
in Mississippi. This is true. Ii can be
established if necessary that he hold the au-
thority from the grand United States head
center OF the Greenback party to organize
Greenback leagues in Mississippi. With
this view he was in correspondence with
various men III the State, and at one time
was quite sanguine OF Greenback triumph,
and talked about furnishing means for a
Greenback organ i'll Jackson. Col. Mus
grove may have been "Honest Mus in his
Greenback professions, but the wish nearest |
his heart WAS the destruction of the IemO-
cratic party. He had fed upon the public
crib and liked it. Any party in the wide
world that led back to it was the party for
him. From the Democratic party he had
no hope. He was morally certain that that
party would never take him up Hence
the necessity, from his standpoint OF de-
stroying it, The Republican party was dead.
Perhaps the Greenback pre'e Use would win.
That's all there is of it, and that's the inspi-
ration of the Greenback movement in Mis-
sissippi.
II is very true that the most persistent foe
to Greenback principles in the North is
found i'll the Republican party. 1t is
equally true that the Democratic party of
the West and South were friendly to these
principles. These facts only tend to make
the pretense of Republican love for Green
backs in Mississippi, all the more glaring
But why discuss Il question which has
passed off the calendar of politics. The
Greenback movement. whatever its merits,
was killed in the last election throughout
the Union, as dead as the Radical party has
been killed in Mississippi. While there was
vitality in it there was some senes
n talking about 1t, but now that it is dead {
everywhere it is an idle waste of words. {
We would have as much respect for the Y
common sense of the man who would BOW /
Jet himself up for Known othing candi- r
late as for the one who claimed to be a
ireenbAck candidate Tho "movemen"
Was a failure "a fiat failure that's the t
end of it. Brother Gardner, President of
lhe Lime-Kilu Climb, of Detroit. WIS lately
called upon to state the position of the ,
Club on the wedding between the Democrat
ic and Greenback parties Of Miehil an and
be stated it thus: ode Democratic pa, ty
I'M heah, but whar am dc bride? Resump-
lion has resumed, an whar am de Green.
back party"