The Portland daily press., 1879-08-13
[Kennebec Journal.l
Don't You Forget 1t.

Don't you forget it, you who were Repub-
hcan before you were a Greenbacker, that in
the next Presidential campaign, which is to
take place next year, and be one of the great
est political campaigns in our history, there
will then be but two parties in the feld-Re-
publicans and Democrats The Greenback
party in that fight will be nowhere. 1t will be
unable to keep up the appearance Of an organ
ization. Resumption of specie payments will
be so firmly established before the national
conventions meet that there will be no oppo-
stion to it. The currency as an issue will
will scarcely be known next year. The plat
forms of the two great parties in 1876 agreed in
regard to resumption, except that the Demo-
cratic platform objected to having day fixed
by law in which resumption should take place.
They will differ less even than this In 1880 in
regard to the currency.
Don't you forget it, now, Republican Green
hacker, that if you vote at all next year, you
will vote with one or the other of the two great
parties in the struggle. You will not cast your
vote away upon any third party, NO party
distinctively greenback will be known in the
contest to which you will give your vote. The
leaders of the Democratic party and the man
ipulators of the Greenback party understand
this perfectly. They are pulling together in
this campaign in Maine. They made the
Greenback and the Democratic platform so
near alike that the difference is not percepti-
BILE, and when once they get Republican
Greenbacker to endorse the Portland platform
and agree to vote for Joseph l.. Smith, they get
him upon the bridge which leads over into the
Democratic party, and feel certain that they
have secured his vote in 1880 for the Demo-
cratic candidate for President. Don't deceive
yourself with the thought that you belong to
an independent organization; the Democrats
are Turing you into their power as the angler
entices the unsuspecting fish to his hook, and
you will be their prey so sure as you vote for
Joseph L. Smith and the combination senate
rial and representative tickets. Look at the
votes OF Murch and Ladd in the late extra
session If you want to see where your lead
ers are going and where you will go II you
follow them.
Don't you forget it, never let it escape your
memory, that the Democratic party is the par
ty of those who fought the Government four
years in order to destroy it, who cast upon the
country the great national debt, and who have
scattered all over the land from Florida to
Maine and from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
the graves of those who fell in battle or by dis
ease contracted in the service. The Democrat
ic party is the Confederate party, because 1t is
controlled, manipulated, made the servant
and tool of the Confederate brigadiers in Con-
gress. The Southern Democrats can out-vote
the Northern Democrats in caucus at wash
ington, and through the power they have In
controlling the caucus, they rule the Demo-
cratic party in the country.
If the Democratic party in 1850 succeed In
electing the President Of the United States
then the country will be under the Govern
ment of the Southern Confederates. Let no
Republican Greenbacker forget this when he
is urged to unite with the Democrats in the
election next September, for if he does he will
be caught in the Democratic net spread for
him and become the servant of the Confeder-
ate Brigadisrs who are going to put things
back where they were before the rebellion If
they get the power.