The Portland daily press., 1880-09-04
SATURDAY MORNING, SEPT. 4.

every other State demand, is change of meas
ures and not change of political organiza-
tions merely. Will Maine Greenbackers at
low themselves to be rallied to the platform
which demands hard money, to be marshalled
under the flag which protects fraudulent bal
lots, and march to the music of men VINO
boast that success for them means dislntegra-
tion and the utter destruction of the Green
back party? Will the "Greenback fly permit
itself to be kicked from the Democratic horse
by its own voliton? Hear the contempt with
which this official organ speaks OF your hopes
and your candidates:
When men can be brought to believe that such a
blatherskite as Weaver is statesman, or that Mr..
De La Matyr's proposition to give away billion
so of greenbacks is an evidence of great financial
wisdom, 1t is not to be wondered at that they
should wait for the sky to fall in order to catch
larks.
Will you pool issues with the Democracy
which sees nothing but thing to mock in your
candidate, who defed their Congress and
forced them to vote; who have nothing but
scoru for the effort of good man to give
homes to his fellows?
Better far to be an active and solid minority
than swallowed up in the victory of false allies.
Every effort at fusion with opposing elements
weakens and destroys. There is no hope for
the third party anywhere save on the platform
they have chosen, and an uncompromising
fight for its principles The third party must
stand out, crystal, with no affiliations or ali-
ances. 1t is the old. and yet the new; the old,
old party born of God for the hope of men;
shaking off the gathered crusts of barbaric GEN.
turies. it is again the party of liberty equality
and fraternity in its everlasting newness.
The battle to be fought is one of principles
alone, and you cannot wage successful war
against your enemies by lying down in their
beds and sharing their viands. You have
nothing to do in the camps of either Demo-
Gratis or Republicans, neither with the party
which for fifty years oppressed free labor, and
whose representatives send the power of labor
to fill the NAV of rapacity; nor with the party
whose rule of twenty years has TRANSMITTED the
bones and sinews of men into food for capital,
and has piled upon the grave of industry a
mountain of debt.
Every success gained by concession 20 either
is success of wrong over right; every victori
the sweat and damp with the blood of men for
whose salvation we are sworn to fight Will
you help to new lease of power men who are
grown ferocious in their hunger of waiting for
dominion; men who will make haste to fetter
every opposing element, lest their grasp be
again loosened?
Will you stultify every principle of the party
for which you have so staunchly fought by CIV
ing aid and comfort to its most bitter oppo-
nents? Maine has been our rallying cry, and
her true men our boast. When doubts have
assailed US, the white submits of Maine lifted
their cool stability toward heaven, and her
pines. steady and straight, were a signal to
fainting hope; her men are the breed of free
men. Will you let the hope of a present, par
tial victory blind you to the purposes of allies
who long to be traitors, who would send you
and millions with you into new and most bit
ter bondage? Never! never! Your hearts are
too staunch, your heads too cool, and principle
too dear to let it be possible.