Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1880-05-20

II - queer DcmoCrscy for the doctrines
Of Jackson To b. ignored and those oi SCION
Chase followed hy hat calls iise!f a Demo
cratic party IL - queer Democracy h.Ch
iudarsss such proceedings those Of !a.t
ialls attempt 70 count oui the elected officers
IN Maine II j. queer Democracy which
~iliuliy, continuously and With ma.icr
aforrthough; ignore, IT, bcs;. ablc.; and
mos; respected men aud trusts 1t. cause to
the inexperienced ami untrscd. For exam
pie. here arr the MAINE Democrats The,
have just taken one more step. and a very
decided one II i, toward the full aeknowl-
cdgcmeni with ihrm. principle j. nothing
aud success ali. When their ueW icadcr,
Messrs. Torrry and Jennings and the ret,
agrred with the Greeuhacker. tina; the two
parties should hold their conventions on the
same day. and that whoever the latter part,
chose 10 nominate should bc endorsed by
the Democracy As soon as his name could
be transmitted by telegraph from Bangor to
Portland. II ould seem As II they had done
all that could reasonably be expected Of an
old and dignihed party. which FOR long Years
absolutely controlled the pololics Of Msine
but II seems this vas not enough. Now
the State committee has announced that is
convention will not be held in Portland. but
IN Bangor, on the same day Is the Green
back convention. and no farther from il than
from Faneuil Hall 10 our Suffolk county
court house. This facilitates negotiations
This makes il easier for man who controls
few votes 10 put them where they well do
the mos, good-to him. at any rate. But
il is not going to make the Democratic par
~ in Maine any more respected.
Not al all. That party has shown that
il is willing to swallow It's record, no mat
ter how unsoyory it may be to 60 back upon
all it, Jack and Jeffersonian pro:es-
sions and to work and vote for any candi-
date that the soft money men choose 10
name. II is not a pleasant position 10 see
great party in. but Mr.. Torrey and his
allies have put this one there. Anything is
10 be sacrificed this year If success can be OBJ
tanned, and If this year, of course every year.
OF the organs of the party one has already
gone away over 10 the Greenback side-a
daily paper, too. Another has no preference
between gold and sawdust or any other
cheap money. And the rest only want TO
do what they can toward beating the Re
publicans. They follow their blind guides.
Now what is 10 become of such party ?
Here are hard-money Democrats, who for
forty years, have been swearing by Jackson
and Benton, turning round and expressing a
willingness TO vote for any candidate that
Ben Buffers friends choose TO pick out.
Here are the men who have been denounc-
ing fraud a, Washington coming up 10 the
support of Frank Fogg and Capt Chase and
the rest Of the men who did the counting
out. and who glory in it. Here is the sue
cessor of Marcellus Emery. who for twenty
wears fought on the unpopular side, who
fought there until he died, and would have
kept on fighting there for hundred wears
if he had lived, talking in way TO ooncili-
ate the Greenbackers, in whom he does not
believe, for the sake of getting their votes.
Emery was an honest man. He was an old
school Democrat-not one of the Torrey
style. who believe in anything to beat"
When the Democrats of Maine show not
| only willingness but an ecstatic desire to
support any man the Greenbackers may
name for Governor, and TO vote for Frank
Fogg and T. II. Murch for Congress, and to
do whatever else their last years allies may
requis Of them, To do their share towards
whitewashing the men of counting out fame
and toward sleyating into power any dis
contented Republican who has gone into the
Greenbaek ranks, the question arises in the
observers mind: Is not this queer Democ-
racy?