The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1880-09-23
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not poll over $4,000 out of $4,000 votes
cast for Plaisted, the Fusion candidate
They had Internationally surrendered to the
Greenback party, and did not have a single
candidate of their own choosing in the
field. Notwithstanding this, Gen. Hancock
sent Plaisted the following telegram:
GOVERNORS ISLAND, N. Y.,l
September IA. 1880.
To the Hon. Harris NJ P1aisted, Bangor, Me. ::
Accept my congratulations on the glo-
rious result of your campaign. 1t will in
spire our friends with confidence and
strengthen them in the preliminary battles
which remain to be fought elsewhere, and
which need all of our forces.
W. 5. HANCOCK.
To show what it was Gen. Hancock was
endorsing in this telegram OF congratula-
ton, we give the issue in the Maine cam
vass as presented in the platform upon
which Mr.. Plaisted ran:
RESOLVED, That all currency whether metallic or
paper necessary for the use and convenience of the
people, should be issued and Its volume control led
by the Government and not by or through the bank
ing corporations Of the country and when 30 Issued
should be full legal tender in payment Of all debts,
public and private.
Resolved That that portion of the Understanding
debt of the United States which shall become re-
deemable in the 1881 prior thereto, being In
amount 1882 600 000 should not be refunded beyond
the Of the Government to call in said obliga
tons and pay them at any time, but should be paid
as rapidly as possible and according to contract TO
enable the Government these obligations the
mfnts of the United States should be operated to
their full capacity in the coinage OF the STANDARD
silver dollars and such other coinage as the
| business interests of the country may require.
After having committed himself to the
entire greenback theory, and hostility
| to National Banks, and expressing his
qualification at the supposed election of
the representative head Of the party, it is
refreshing to read the opinion of Mr..
Plaisted, as embraced in the following tel
egram:
ELIZABETH, N. j., Sept. IA, 1880.
Governor Plaasted, Bangor, Me-:
Accept congratulations of Weaver Club.
Are you not for Weaver and Chambers?
| B. W. TERLINDE, Sec'y Of Club.
| The following dispatch was received in
reply;
B. W. 1sr1inde, Secretary Weaoer Club. Easa-
beth, N. j.:
Thanks for your congratulations. Yours
for Weaver and Chambers.
HIM. PLA1sTED.
To make the attitude of Gen. Hancock
still more ridiculous the following telegram
is published from Lee Crandall, Secretary
of the National Greenback Committee,
which was sent to Senator Wallace, of
Pennsylvania, on the occasion of the Dem
ocratic cannon salute over the supposed re-
suit in Maine:
HEADQUARTERS NATIONAL Com. OFT
THE GREENBACK LABOR PARTY,
WASHINGTON, September Is. }
Hon. William A. Wallace Chairman Demo-
cratic Congressional Conanaattee
DEAR SIR In behalf OF the National
Greenback-Labor party. permit me to ex-
press my qualification at the unsolicited and
magnanimous act Of the Democrats of this
city in celebrating the victory which our
party gained over the hard money oligarchy
of the State of Maine, and to say that it
shall ever remain engraven upon our mem
cries as one of the most gratuitious acts of
the gallant but unfortunately retiring DEM
Ocratic party.
LEE CRANDALL, Sec'y Natl Com.
| Then comes Gen. Weaver. himself, the
Greenback candidate for President, in a
telegram to Ii. NJ. Plaisted, Bangor, Maine:
| which throws wet blanket on Democratic
enthusiasm over the assumed Fusion vic
tory:
congratulate you on the grand fight you
have made in Maine for the national green
| back-labor party. 1t will inspire our friends
with confidence and strengthen them for
the great battles which remain to be fought
hope you are elected. 1t is most amusing
| to see the Democratic leaders nasquerading
| behind the greenback party and calling our
| victory democratic boom. They fail to
tell the public that you were nominated as
straight greenbacker. and that a Demo-
crat could not have carried the State by
ZOO. They fail also to state that they re-
quested you to make pledges to them when
they gave you their Endorsement. and that
you peremptorily declined that their state
central committee subsequently demanded
pledges of you. and upon your second re-
fusal said committee requested you to with
draw as candidate, and that you declined
to do that also. The democrats in Maine
showed their good sense by voting the
greenback ticket. Let us all rejoice.
JAMES B. WEAVER.
This is the victory which the Hancock and
English Club of Stanton celebrated by the
booming of cannon on Wednesday night,
at the very time we had the news in this
office indicating that the Republicans had
carried the State.
No candidate for the Presidency in the
history OF politics in this country. has ever
been placed in more humiliating position
than that which Gen. Hancock now occu-
pies. Processing to believe in a sound
financial system, under childish impulse
at supposed verdict against the Republi-
can party, he proceeds to commit himself to
the greenback theory and policy, and con-
graduate the Greenback candidate on his
success. This, too, when Plaisted had never
voted Democratic ticket in his life. He
had voted twice for Lincoln, twice for
Grant, and once for Hayes, and but recently
espoused the Greenback cause, yet refusing
all utilization with or concessions to the Dem.
ocratic party,a indicated by Gen, Weaver's
statement Of the case.
The Maine election presents several in-
structive points. 1t warns the Republicans
against over.confidence, and the necessity
of vigilance in watching the methods and
manGuvering of the Democratic agents.
1t exposes the absence of principle with
Gen. Hancock and the entire Democratic
party, and establishes that they are willing
to adopt any policy, however detrimental
to the public good, to achieve success. In
their overweening mbition in this respect,
they have revolted the sober sense of the
commercial and manufacturing centres OF
the North, and have committed a blunder
that will cost them many votes. 1t is this
kind of craftsmanship that the country is
called upon to substitute for that of the Re-
publican party as reflected in the present
prosperous condition Of the country and the
safe and enduring financial system which
has. in the main, brought it about. 1t is
this kind of ''change" that the Democratic |
party are clamoring for and the American
people ARE asked to effect through the cleo
ton of Gen. Hancock. 1t is presuming a |
great deal to claim for a moment that |
the conservative influences which operate in |