Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-10-02

EvEN'a. OCTOBER q, 1880.
The Greenbaekers.

SATURDAY EvEN'G. OCTOBER q, 1880.
The Greenbaekers.
The Greenback party is evidently to
be resolved into its original elements in
the hot fight waging between the two
great antagonistic parties. Without
particle of prospect Of success even in a
single state, the Greenback organization
can have no influence except as it may be
used for the benefit of one or the other
of the real parties in the contest. Nor
can it have any hope for greater strength
in the future by preserving its separate
organization and keeping in the field its
electoral ticket. There is nothing in the
signs of the times to promise it any con-
version OF voters. It has seen its best
days; and the monetary situation which
brought it into existence having left it
stranded high and dry, it's wrecked form
is certain to disappear very soon under
the shifting sands. 1t must cease to be
known of men after the election; and its
leaders, exercising ordinary sagacity
and a human impulse to abandon hope
less wreck, are now prompted to hand
over what fragment is left of their power
to one or the other of the parties which
may be capable of rewarding their ser.
vice.
Weaver, the candidate for president,
proposes to take his chances with the Re-
publicans, being himself an original Re-
publican, and the mass of those with
Republican sympathies among his fol-
lowers will follow his example. The
Democratic portion will return to their
first love; and in our own state Frank
Hughes plainly intimates that he does
not propose to let Weaver use the Green
back party as tail to the Republican
kite. The correspondence which has
just taken place between these two
Greenback leaders shows already how
their sympathies run and how they stand
as between Garfield and Hancock.
Weaver has shown by his interference
in Maine to prevent the fusion of the
Democratic and Greenback electoral
tickets, that he aims to help Garfield.
An independent electoral ticket there
would give the state to the Republicans,
and MIR. Hughes aptly says to him that
he does not desire to give him credit for
less intelligence than belongs to the ordi.
nary human being, who is supposed to
s,,kon1 xu,l,n{ l,ic oofiny, nloarlu lda nf n(l
to bring about. When separate electo.
tral ticket will give Maine to the Re.
publicans Weaver desires to help them
by advising that it he kept in the field.
AS the campaign progresses Mr.. Hughes
and his fellows of Democratic antece.
dents will be forced by the logic of the
situation to come out from the Green,
back party and give their votes to Han
cock; seeing that by remaining in il
they do not save their own ticket but
help the Republican, which they do moi
want to do. They cannot have theil
first love and would be foolish in the vain
strife for it to sacrifice their second choice
Every Greenbacker must choose between
the two principal parties if he would
make his vote count rs he wishes it tt
do. The rank and file may be sure that
their leaders will be sagaciOus enough tt
do this and that they will be left in the
cold if they desire to stick to their hopeles:
ticket. 1t is not even a forlorn hope thai
they would cling to. The least wise Of
them must see that in the present con-
dition of business, and in that which
will exist for a number of years, there i!
no possible chance for the popular Ell
dorsement of their theories. However
right they may think them, this is not
the era in which to seek their recOgni-
tion. They must postpone their efforts
to more convenient season, and mean
while take a half loaf as better than nc
bread, and choose between the is
sues and the men that are represented
by the two parties of which one is bount
to be successful, as they we'll know.
The World of to-day publishes an ad
dress of number of Southern Republi
cans which gives their reason, for sup
porting Hancock. The address should b'
read by every fair-minded man. In ad
ditlon to the information given b!
the World, we can state that Georg,
Williamson, one of the signers of it, is /:
native of South Carolina, and graduate
of the college of that state. He servet
in the war on the staff of General Polk
Soon after hostilities ended he Joined tn,
Republicans, because he believed it wa
r.