Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-09-29
War Against Fusion.


From the National View, Greenback Organ
at Washington
With thrill Of triumph we announce there
10 still greenbsck party in Naine-a green
back party which democracy cannot engulf.
which neither bride, force Eor cajolery can
swerre from the straight line of principle.
The echo Of the guns laundering for green
back victory does not rererberate over the
graves Of greenback party. Scion Chase
and the noble seventy-three co-workers with
him for the principles set forth in the peoples
platform have shown the country that neither
hope Of victory by falsehood nor fear Of de-
feat for their party can daun, men who have
set before themselves the grand claims of all
mankind az thing to work for and, if n
must be, to wait for.
There i not a man who loves his country
and who glories in the stuff of which her pa
triots are made, who does not feel kindred
glow in seeing that handful of brave
men renew their allegiance to the people
they serve. There is not q greenbacker
in the country who will not thrill with
the new vigor Of their bravery, and strike
ten blows where before one was posi-
ble The resolution which that little conven-
ton sends forth to their brethren, breathes
| the very soul of devotion to the principles
| which are the sole reasons why there should
be greenback party. II speaks the senti-
ments Of men who love their country and its
people, and who do not ''believe that the
democratic party is actuated by high and pa
.riOtic motives" because the votes Of that
party can give them seats in Congress or
gubernatorial victory. If the democratic
party be actuated by high and patriotic mo-
tives, if their policy and party acts are for
| the good of the country, if their success
can insure just laws and righteous admins
tration Of them. there i, no reason under
heaven why there should be a greenback
party If to elect Hancock be to pay the
bonds, to prevent refunding to insure the
issue Of all moneys by the Government, to
destroy the national banks, and eradicate the
rule Of monOpolies and railroad corporations;
if il be to secure fair count and free ballot,
then away with the greenback party-it was
a farce in its inception and lie in its life,
for these are the things for which the green
back party exists, which its platform calls
for, and which every man of them has sworn
can be hoped for from no other party.
II is lie: the democratic party is lost to
high and patriotic motives. and every Green
hacker who polls vote for Hancock and
English is a traitor TO his party. to mankind,
and to his God Shall men who in confer
ences and conventions have lifted up their
toil-hardened hands and called Heaven to
witness the wrongs Of their race and to give
Judgment against their oppressors, who have
called down anathemas on the heads of every
man who opposed every mans greed to mans
rights, shall one of them dare say IL will
vote with the Democracy and am still an
honest MANI" Not one dare say il. and not
n man, greenbacker, democrat or republican,
would believe him were he so foolhardy. The
man who casts his vote for Hancock and
English, who in any way aids their election, |
votes for perpetuity of class legislation and
for party which once made cotton king |
sacrificing the Union and five hundred thou
sand lives on its obscene altar; defeated in |
that they have resolved to make gold king. |
1t is party which demands dominance over
mankind, and its idols have ever been of the |
base material of matter, setting its heel up |
on the Independent spirit of men.
The greenback party is unalterably and
forever the foe never, no. never will it be |
the ally-of the democratic party. 1t stands |
by itself, and thronging foes may overwhelm, |
but they can neither kill or defeat it. 1t |
will live as the spirit of life in man lives, |
because it is vital, eternal, right. 1t lives |
to-day the hope of the American people, and |
America is the nucleus of the world
1t shines like the day star of mans hope |
through the fog of political scheming, in the |
action of Scion Chase and his brother patri-
OTIS in Maine.
All honor to the seventy-four unbought |
and unsold Maine grecnbackers who uttered |
it. and three times three for the men of Maine
who will stand by it