Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-10-15
tleneraI Understandlnr Desirable.

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
oongratulation 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: al accept this
nomination because l believe that L
stand in full accord with the Greenback
party" Yet it was on the supposed
success Of this man, who never voted a
Democratic ticket in his life, that Cen
eral Hancock found encouragement for
his own success and fastened 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
Alatyr' appearance in behalf of his party
was the signalfor Kisses from the assem-
bled Bourbons, who termed him "the
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
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: "Why, when q man
votes down there the judges of cleo
ton, 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 Alabama's Democratic
Electors-at-Large, finds Greenbackers
and Republicans equally obnoxious.
"Greenbackism is" he says, ga North
ern animal" and every man who votes
against the Democratic party is, in his
opinion, an enemy to his country and
worse than a negro.
Here is certainly what Mark Twain
would call a discrepancy" The
Greenbackers find the Democratic par
ty giving them blessings in the North
and curses in the South. In the one
section they receive the gentlest and
most assuring pats upon the back; in
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 General
HancOck's supporters in unmeasured
terms. In the first flush of confidence
in the election of Greenback Govern
or in Maine General Hancock terms it a
"glorious result" which would give
confidence and strength to "our forces"
The Greenville Is. C.) NeWS, on the
other hand, termed it victory "dearly
purchased by the loss of the Individual
ity of the Democratic party"
The Republican party is irreconcila-
bly, opposed to the doctrine and tenden-
cies of both the Democratic and Green
back parties. For campaign purposes,
however, it would be useful for it to
know whether it has to contend with
two parties or one. If two, why this
Democratic hurrah about Maine when
the first news proclaimed the success of
the Greenback candidates only? II
they are acting together, why this hos
tility of the Southern Democrats to
their Greenback associates? 1t would
be interesting to know which party
has swallowed up the other. Do
LHo DbulOCIdIS I6-6CnO Ln6 Gfeen-
back demand for the unlimited
issue of paper money or have the
Greenbackers consented to the Demo-
cratic declaration in favor of currency
based upon coinP The wild financial
yagarles of the Greenback party find
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 of
power. Before the Greenbackers of
the North consent to further and more
intimate union with party whose end
and aim is to hand over the National
Government to the dictation and dom
ination of the Southern Democracy,
we would recommend re-reading of
the testimony given by Weaver, of
Iowa, De La Mstyr, of Indiana, Har-
per, of Illinois, and Randall, of Iowa,
the Greenbaok speakers who went down
to Alabama, relative to the late Green
back campaign in that solidly Bourbon
and Southern State. PHILADELPHIA
Press.
An Un.DemOCratlc Democrat.