New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-09-18
TALK WITH Ex-sECRETARY FISH.

yAIuE OF THE VICTORY IN MalNE-GENERAL HAN
COCKS FINANCIAL RECoRD-ThE EFFECr OF
pLAUNTING REBEL FLAG.
81 see by the morning papers," said the Hon.
Hamilton Fish to TRIBUNE reporter yesterday,
that we have carried the Maine election after all,
though by a very narrow margin. vi course, every
preliminary contest has ITS effect upon the cam
paipn and upon the final result in November, ana
be,ieve this Maine election will have strong effect
then and also upon the Indiana election next
month. Some have said that defeat IN Maine
youId have so aroused energies as to have been
really better for lis than victory so small as THIS
Rut such talk is all nonsense. To have carried the
State bv one or two votes is better than TO have
lost it,"
"WilI the result in Maine d. the Democrats any
good1'
How can it 1t is not in any respect Demo-
cratic victory or a Democratic gain. 1 DON'T see
how they can get a crumb of even the coldest KIND
of comfort out of it. General Palsted never was a
Democrat. lie was always Republican untl he
,urned Greenbacker. And unquestonably an over
wheming majority of those who voted Tor nm were
Greenbackers who voted for Smith last fall. There
Is M room for the slightest self graduation on the
mart of the Democrats unless. indeed, they wish to
;daptifv themselves with the Grccnback party. If
they do let them"
"Have Won noticed what General Hancock Gays
about itP
"Oh YES. saw in THE TRIBUNE that he had
seut PIaisted a congratulatory dispatch Well, IT'S
n strange thing for u in bis position to do NO.,
NOT so strange. either For. here, your political
notes made little mistake this morning Ihey say !:
Hancock calls Greenback victory glorious.
That supplies his missing financial record Ihats
trife inaccurate. General Hancock has only re-
affirmed the political record he made twelve years
What was thatf' - a..
Why when lie indOrsed the platform OF the
GreeDback Convention OF 1865 oo,,
- Tie Greenback Convention or ISOer co.,
Certainly. That IS tosay, the Democratic n- Cpn-
vention which met in this city. DO you remember
it's njatform? Ii called for the taxation OF G0vern,
menf bonds payment of the debt IN deprecated
pauer currency and, in fact all the widest hereseS
of the Greenbackers. only snoothed on anu susaI
coated. It WIS practically Greenback CONVENTION
Well. General Hancock unqualifediy lndorsed IT'S
principles. and IN fact came near gss''s ts financial
record his own. and lac never has altered IL snce
His congratulations over the supposed ureenDack
victory Maine show him st 10 ps ha aUd nd
that ,0ft-money platform. so, repeat, III he ana
his party want 10 carry the campaign on tue soi'
money issue. let them-tbats all !"
What of the Southern question. Mr. flsI
In this mornings TRIBUNE see o reproduction
Of the heading of an Arkansas paper. bearing Cen
eral Hancock's name coupled Win reDoa na'; ~;
th,okino men throughout the North: don't say
that it reflects upon General hancocks pa,Iotsl
But IT shows who his followers his suppoi'e's als.
II shows upop what men he depends tOr eiecuon.
What wouid hls chances amount TO- were ne poi
certain of the vote Of that State IN whch tns 10 %
nag paper pubshed That Fse1Sis Fss pGn or COM
federatesf People thinking OF these tihes es; If
Have you paid much attention TO the dfii' oi
affairs in this Statep .,..,,o, 7
have cleaned from the newsrr"ers But 50 iar Ia a.
my knowledge and judgment 90. there are the pes,
OF reasons for expecting substant'ai hep"oN'""