New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-09-21
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The teIepram of General Weaver to General
Plaisted does not please the Democrats. AS
Senator Couking says, letter shows some
tb,ng of The character not only OF the man who
writes if, bat of the man 10 whom it Ia written,
and this telegram is really addressed to all sin
cere Gyeenback workers and voters. Doubtless
their candidate desires TO express their feelings,
and has done so so far as he can. IL he does not
wholly misunderstood their temper, they feel
insuted by TIE attempt of Democrats to appro-
pirate to themselves whatever strength was
shown by the supporters OF Plasted in Maine
The telegram of General HalfcOck, for instance,
offends not only those of his friends who did not
know that be could be induced to give his in
dorsement to Greenback doctrines for the sake OF
an office, bat also tho Greenback voters them
selves, who had no idea that in voting for
GrcenbaclS ticket they were preparing vic
tory for the candidate OF the Bourbon Democ
racy 1t seems to General Weaver most
"amusing to see the Democratic leaders mas
@querading behind the Greenback party and
scaling its victory Democratic BOOM" and
he thereupon discloses the refusal of General
Plaisted to make pledges demanded of him by
the Democrats.
diana, where the Democratic politicians have
cheated the Greenblck voters again in the pre-
liminary manipulations, and now hope to win
a victory OF their own by getting the Repubi-
can Greenbackers to stick soidly to their
ticket, while the Democratic Greenbackers
secretly desert it. Pledges TO Mr. DE La Matyr
and Others have been broken; the most oflens
i've candidate that could have been named, in
or out Of Indiana has been put up by the Demo
Gratis for Greenback voters TO elect indirectly
to the Vice-Presidency and now it is the hoe
OF the Democratic managers that enough OF the
Greenback Republicans will throw away their
votes to permit the Democrats 10 claim Indiana
rs their own. The difficulty is that the average
Greenback voter widely mistaken as he is in
regard to the measures Which are neeucd to
promote the industrial prosperity Of the coun-
try, is by no means such a Ounce that he can
he used as a tool by Bourbon managers. Mr..
English knows how to get rich. But he does
not know how to make Greenbackers elect him
by giving the Democratic party decisive adj
vantage in October.
A Democratic candidate for Congress, who
refuses to retire in order to make a place for
Mr.. De In Matyr, suggests sensbly that such
step would cost him and his party great many
votes. If the Democratic party deserves con-
iidence and support, then the Greenback cand
date should never have been nominated. If it
does not deserve confidence and support, then
the first duty of every intelligent and loyal
voter is to put 1t down-to stamp out COM
pletely that tyranny which has carried Alabama
by shameless fraud Whrn the votes of free
citizens re honestly counted at the South, then
it will be safer for free citizens at the North to
differ among themselves as to the policy to be
pursued in matters of finance. So long as the
South Is made solid by fraud. ii will not do to
have the MOI In divided by any Democratic de-
vices.