Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-10-08
Fusion and Confusion.

Fusion and Confusion.
The Democratic managers would do
well to come to some general under
standing as to the proper course of
treating the Greenback party Their
present practice of fraternizing with
the Greenbackers in the North and bull
dosing them in the South shows that
somebody lacks the proper cue. The
press and politicians of the South see
little cause for congratulation in the
partial defeat of the Republicans in
Maine, purchased by the almost COM
plete obliteration of the Democratic
party in that State. General Hancock,
on the contrary, does not view it in that
light, and on the first announcement of
the Fusion success sent his dispatch of
congratulation to General Plaisted, the
Greenback candidate for Governor.
After his nomination by the Greenback
State Convention, General Plaisted APP
peared before it and made a speech.
He addressed them as Fellow Green
hackers and said: L" accept this
nomination because l believe that |
stand in full accord with the Greenback
party" Yet it was on the supposed
success of this man, who never voted
Democratic ticket in his life, that Gen
eral Hancock found encouragement for
his own success and hastened TO send
congratulations.
In the South, on the other hand, the
supporters of General Hancock cannot
see that the Geenback party is entitled
to any more rights or any better con-
sideration than the Republicans. In
Alabama, during the recent Greenback
campaign in that State, Mr.. DE La
Matyr' appearance in behalf of his party
was the signal for Kisses from the assem-
! Indiana Buffalo" Mr.. Randall, of Iowa,
while endeavoring to present the claims
of the Greenback ticket in this same
| State of Alabama, the only Southern
State in which that party has yet made
a serious general contest, was advised
by his friends to stop, as his life was in
danger. General Weaver, the Green
back candidate for President has not
yet recovered from the indignation
which his Alabama experiences aroused
in him. While the Democrats were
last week rejoicing over the news of
Greenback success in Maine General
! Weaver announced to a Cooper Insti-
tute audience how his party and the
Republicans alike were treated in Ala
bama He said: "Whv, when man
votes down there the judges of cleo
tion, who sit behind a screen, so no
one can see them, look at his ballot,
and, if it suits them, they put it in the
box; but if it doesn't suit they tear it
up and put another that does suit them
in the box. Such is the condition OF
affairs in the South to-day" Mr..
Bragg, one of Alabamas Democratic
Electors-at-Large, finds Greenbackers
and Republicans equally obnoxious.
"Greenbackism is he says, "a North
ern ANIMAL" and every man who votes
against the Democratic party is, in hi,
opinion, an enemy to his country and
worse than negro.
Here is certainly what Mark Twain
would call discrepancy" The
Greenbackers find the Democratic par.
ty giving them blessings in the North
section they receive the gentlest and
most assuring pats upon the back; il
the other their chances are more favor
able for bullets in the back if they
presume to trespass upon Bourbon so
lidity. General Hancock congratulated
the Greenback candidate for Governor
of Maine on the same day that the
Greenback candidate for President de
nOunces the ruling body of Genera
Hancock's supporters in unmeasureC
terms. In the first flush of contidenc,
in the election of Greenhack Govern
or in Maine General Hancock terms il
"glorioUs result which would give
confidence and strength to ''our forces. ,
The Greenville Is. c. NeUS, on tn,
other hand, termed it a victory "dearl,
purchased by the loss of the individual
ity of the Democratic party"
The Republican party is irreconcila
bly, opposed to the doctrine and teuden
cies of both the Democratic and Green
back parties. For campaign purposes
however, it would be useful for it t.
know whether it has to contend witt
two parties or one. If two, why thi
Democratic hurrah about Maine whel
the first news proclaimed the success o
the Greenback candidates onlyp
they are acting together, why this hos
tility of the Southern Democrats Il
their Greenback associatesg IL woulC
be interesting to know which part,
has swallowed up the other. DE-
the Democrats re-echo the Green
back demand for the unlimited
issue of paper money or have tn
Greenbackers consented to the Demo
! cratic declaration in favor of a currenc
based upon coinp The wild iinancia
vagaries of the Greenback party fin,
ready acceptance among the Demo
!, Gratis. There is little, therefore, to pre-
vent their consolidation in the North
The Bourbons of the former slave States
confident and arrogant, invite no al
lance, and will tolerate no division Q
power Before the Greenbackers G
the North consent to further and NOR
intimate union with party whose en-
> ard aim is to hand over the Nations
> Government to the dictatiOn and dom
: ination of the Southern Democracy
we would recommend re-reading {
the testimony given by Weaver, {
4 Iowa, De La Matyr, of Indiana, Hal
! ! per- of Illinois, and Randall, of low,
the Greenbaek speakers who went dow
= to Alabama, relative to the late Greer
: back campaign in that solidly Bourbo
! and Southern State. PHILADELPHIA
u Press.
e Ia General Hancock has congratl
/ ations for the Greenbackers of Main
{ and none for the Democrats Of Arkansi
n and Alabama WHY does he sliUht N