New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-21
IIFSSON FROM MAINE.

| The Democratic ana GrceHDach iusion :"
Maine will fail to carry that State, but 1t Will
| not fail to teach honest and conservative men
| in every other State how little sincerity there
is in Democratic professions, and how false
are Democratic pledges That lesson, taught
SO often by the faithlessness of Democratic
managers, the property-owning, conservative
and decent men of this country will have to
keep on learning until they make 1t their first
duty to blot the Democratic party out OF ex-
istence wholly.
| The fusion will not win in Maine. The trick
| is shallow, offensive to every sincere voter
of either party, and too much OF piece win
the attempt to steal the State last year. In
deed, the infamy of that attempt, If there were
nothing else, ought to make Republican VIC
tory easy. In September, 1876, when the total
vote was 136,796, the Republicans polled
1862 votes, and had ID, $50 majority last
year. with total vote of 1873, $50, the Repub-
licans polled only 68,766 votes, while the
| combined Greenback and Democratic vote
was 69,258. These figures show that over
| 1000 former Republicans acted with the
Greenback party last year, when the issues
between the two national parties were not di-
rectly involved as they are in Presidential
part of these voters should not return this
wear. disguised with the fraud of 1879 and
the fusion of 1880, to the Republican ranks.
The Republicans of Maine know that State,
and they can be trusted not to miss the fruits
of the rascality and laundering OF their Oppo-
nents.
| But the Democratic party has had the aid,
at several recent elections, Of many cOnserva-
| tive and honest men in New-York, New
Jersey, Connecticut, Ohio and Indiana. 1t
would be strange indeed If the open fusion
of Democrats and Greenback-men, in Maine
| and some other States, should not have an
effect. Mr.. Tilden led thousands OF these
voters into Democratic alliance. He was
Reformer, they said, and q man of large ex-
perience in business affairs, and hard-mOney
man. With such q man as its candidate they
thought the Democratic party might be
trusted to do no great harm. How many OF
these reforming and conservative voters will
stay with q fusion of revOlutiOnists and re-
pudiatOrs
These voters, we do them the justice to be-
( lieve followed Mr.. Tiden into the Demo
cratic camp with upright and patriotic
motives. Here and there, in company with
them, and aEing their sincerity, were worn
out Office hunters and exposed political dead
beats, for whom the Republican party had
no hope of spols. Such men went where
they belonged, and can be trusted to stay
| with the Fusion or any other faction. To
them principles are nothing, ideas have no
force, and it would be ridiculous to fancy
that pledges are binding or infamous frauds
| repulsive. But the main body of conservative
voters. who went out with Mr.. Tiden seek
| ing for Reform, were not of that stripe. We
! must presume that they were honest and sin
cere uptl they prove the contrary. But what
business have they in this motley crowd
of rebels and regulators. vOte-steaers
| and communists How many of them
can be expected to vote in sweet accord with
MahOne of Virginia, and his readjusters,"
with Chase and Ladd, of Maine, and their
communstic followers, with Garcelon and bis
band OF thieves, and with Landers and his re-
pudiators That is question which concerns
their lf-respect, and the respect of their
neighbors hereafter. The man vino went out
of the Republican ranks professedy to follow
Reform and hard money, and who stays out
to follow unlimited Greenbackers and unmti-
gated political thieves, advertises his peculiar
sort of integrity so that there need be no fu-
ture dispute about it,
The temper of the majority of Democrats in
Congress has been displayed with startling
distlnctness. During the past three years, by
votes on many revolutionary measures, and
by votes Oh wild schemes of finance, the
party has shown how little it could have been
trusted, even with Mr.. Tlden to drive it.
But what is General Hancock As everybody
knows, political lump of putty, to be
| l. l., a al b.,L o,
any political ideas, save sympathy with GER
tain schemes of revolution or INSTRUMENTATION,
| he has never had enough of them to leak over
| into any outward expression. He was moulded
easily in Louisiana, and that is all that his
own party knows or cares to know about
him. Hancock is n blank sheet of paper for
the Democratic party to write upon what
ever it peases-except that the word Louisi
lana has been written already in letters of
blood.
With such candidate the Democratic party
goes into open alliance with the most reckless
financial destructives and yet begs the con
servative men of the country to aid 1T still.
With such revolutionary tendencies which
| General Hancock has shown himself the very
man not to restrain the party puts itself In
line with Landers and Murch and Malone,
| and begs property owners, respectable and
debt-payng men not to be afraid of it. The
dose is too strong already The fusion adj
vertlses shameless insincerity, to the disgust
| of honest Greenbackers; reckless dishonesty,
to the disgust of men who look for CONNER
cial and financial stability and revolutionary
rascality, TO the dread of decent citizens who
want to have the laws obeyed and the will
| Of the neonle resDected The uniOu will cost
more votes than it can gain. We shall see
that it will repel. especially, that very class
of respectable, property owning. law-abiding