The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-09-22
Whose Hurrah Is ltf

way our Democratic ana Greenoack
neighbors are quarrelling about what
they at first supposed was a victory in
Maine. At one New York gathering
the meeting broke up in row because
each party claimed the victory as its
own. General Weaver tclegraphed to
Plaisted as follows:
congratulate you on the grand
fight YOU made in Maine for the Ma
tional Greenback Labor party. 1t
will inspire our friends with confidence
and strengthen them for the great
battles which remain to be fought. l
hope you are elected. 1t is most abb
surd to see the Democratic leader mas
uuerading behind the Greenback par
" and calling our victory Democratic
boom. They fail to tell the public
that you were nominated as a straight
Grcenbacker, and that the Democrats
could not have carried the State by
forty thousand. They fail also to
state that they gave you their endorse
ment, and that you peremptorily de-
clined that their state central commit
tee subsequently demanded pledges of
YOU and, upon your second refusal,
said committee requested you to with
draw as candidate, and you declined to
do that also. The Democrats of Maine
showed their good sense by voting the
Greenback ticket. Let us all rejoice.
This looks like happy family with
vengeance, and yet our Lamoile Co.
Greenbackers and Democrats, (some
of them), are billing and cooling like
turtle doves, each falling into the
arms of the other like lovers on the
eve before marriage. Well, gentle
men, 60 in, the more YOU fuse, the
less there there will be Of the princi-
piles upon which and which only your
parties can achieve lasting success.
Party plumber never did and never
will succeed in long holding together a
band of free, thinking men. 1t may
run well for a season, but it will GER
tainly prove rope of sand in the end.
1t may be fun for you in Maine, but
already the disastrous effects of Dem
ocratic support of and gloying over
Greenback successes in Maine, is be-
. ginning to tell upon the Democratic
party in New York, and if signs do
not fail, will disgust and turn to the
Republican ranks several thousand
independent men who have heretofore
acted with the Democrats, and who
would do so this year, did they not
feel that their party was ready to en-
ter into all manner Of negotiations
detrimental to the business interests
of the country, for the sake of party
success. Northern Greenbackers, too,
who act from principle and not for
spoils, will be slow to play second fiddle
to q. Solid South. They see in the bragg
ging of the Democracy over their vic
tory in Maine, that the democrats would
if they could monopolize all the honors
and ignore the Greenbackers, as Chair
man Cove said sat the winning post. "
Here is what the National Greenback
Committee send to the Democratic
Congressional Committee:
HEADQUARTERS OF THE NATIONAL
COMMITTEE OF THE NATL GREEN
BACK LABOR PARTY, WASHINGTON, T
Sept. 10.
To Hon. William 4. Wallace, Chair.
man Of the Democratic COMPRESSION,
al COmnoitee:
DEAR SIR In behalf of the Ma.
tional Greenback Labor party, permit
me to express my qualification al
the unsolicited and magnanimou.
act Of the Democracy of this city il
celebrating the victory which our part,
gained over the hard-money oligarchy
in the State of Maine, and to say tina
it shall ever remain engraven upon ou
memories as one of the most gracious
acts of the gallant but unfortunatel,
retiring Democratic party.
(Signed) LEE CRANpALL,
Secretary Of the Natl Committee
The Secretary then adds:
We were handicapped with tn
support of the Hancock men, as the
had no ticket. Even as some woull
steal the livery of heaven to serve tn
devil ia, SO would some of the Demo
Gratis of Maine. Their own part
having fallen to pieces, they lent GU
ticket support, in hopes to usurp cred
it of our victory. The Greenbacker
alone are entitled 10 the victory. LIE
us press the fight with new courage
Maine has demonstrated the strengt
OF our standard bearers, the comm
disintegration of Bourbon Democrat,
and their final surrender TO the dis
pissed "rag baby"
Behold how good and how pleasar
1t is for brethren to dwell together
unity"