The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1880-07-08
THAT EXPLANATION

To ruE EDITOR OF THE NEW NORTHWEST;
After calmly considering your "ex-
PLANTATION" must say, with all defer
enee to your oandor, that, while do not
assail your sincerity or question your
devotion to the cause of equality and
human rights, do suspect the sound
ness Of the logic that jsopardizes great
aud permanent principle for doubtful
policy. It is admitted that J. B. Weaver
is worthy OF being the President Of this
Republic. aud is .le candidate and rep
reseutalre oi the ouly National party
that has the courage, the manhood and
the determination to break the fetters
that beset the political freedom OF wom-
an. Yet, il is said, by reason Of a belief
that lie cannot he elected, that we
should withhold our support from him,
and thereby condemn all our professions
Of equality aud exact justice to the
"better half' Of American citizens, and
elect q ield, who is the exponent of a
political party that ever has and, for
aught we can see, ever will resist the
political equality Of women to the bitter
end.
It is also declared that the Republican
party deserves defeat for its enmity to
woman's rights; but we must not defeat
the Republican party, it is argued, lest
we should in = doing elevate the Demo-
cratic party to power. The writer has
no preference between the Republican
and Democratic parties, as the success
of either party would be equally unfor-
tunate and detrimental 20 the interests
Of the working people and deadly blow
to the Woman Suflragists
As correspondents are properly ad-
mouished to be brief, I will iufiict no
further thought on "that explanation"
but will ask little further space to pay
my respects to a Portland correspondent
whom 1 uucousciously aroused with my
/ first communication. Said correspond
ent imputes to me unkind, untrue aud
improper motives by intimating that I
am an anti-suf1rGge Democrat working
in the interest Of that party. What is
already divulged is, trust, q sufficient
refutatiOn TO this unf0uuded insinuation.
He berates me vigorously for supporting
the National Greenback party, aud says
ait can only succeed la Plscirg the enc
mics of human liberty ia power If it sue
ceeds in anything" What is meant by
this expression, am unable to deter
mine. Who are the "enemies of human
liberty ?" It may be the Greenbackers,
it may be the Democrats, or it may be
the Republicans, for be says 'the Re-
publican party deserves an iguOminious
defeat at the hands of its friends" and
heartily concur. Please explain who
are the "enemies Of human liberty"
and why. He seems to outline the idea
that the National Greenback party is
unworthy Of support because his iguor-
auce allows him 90 know but little
about them; butS like a prudent, good
citizen, he iutimates desire to know
mo-e about them. I will not trespass
upon the spacs-of your columns to make
an exhibit Of the history, progress and
Dimensions Of the National Greenback
party, but will say, for the Information
OF all whom it may concern, that the
late National Greeuback Convention
held in Chicago was one of the largest
and grandest assemblages Of noble men
aud women ever seen in America.
Every State in the Union was fully rep-
resented except Oregon, Nevada and
South Carolina, representing every
grade Of the working and productive
classes Of the country; and there, in
their assembled wisdom and conscious
ness Of right, they proclaimed q solemn
protest against the masculine aristoc-
racy and moneyed monopoly that now
rules the country and robs and enslaves
the people, selecting J. B. Weaver as
their standard bearer.
IN. E. r." makes a further ATTEMPT
to belittle and disparage the National
Greeuback party by comparing it to a
boomerang hurled against one prominent
advocate Of Woman Suffrage that the
Republican party hopes to make the
head Of the Nation. I have nothing to
say against Mr.. Garfield as a Woman
Suhragist; but certainly the RepubIi-
can party that honors him with his
present position has no sympathy with
his Woman Suffrage sentiments; and
whenever we see man we have always
regarded as honest aud upright leading
a baud Of robbers, we can regard him in
no other light than a robber himself.
H. II. NJ
Harrisburg, July ., 1850.