The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-10-06
WE ADMIRE Pluck.

ticket nailed, as it were. This ticket is for
state officers, nominees of the greenback
party, IL reads; For secretary of state,
Epcnetus Howe, (of Tompkins), for con-
troller, John Hooper, (of New York;; for
attorney-general, Dennis c. Frceey, (of
Steubcn); for surveyor-general, John H.
Gould, (of Cattaraugus); for Judge of the
court Ofappeals, Lawrence j. McFarlin, of
Niagara. Now we think the nomination of
this ticket, coupled with the swinging
around of the circle with various speech-
markings of General Weaver and Mr.. De
LaMatyr, eyinces wonderful pluck, and if
there is anything we do especially admire il
is backbone and grit, There is no possible
chance for the success of this ticket. no
hope or showing for success of greenback
doctrines in the next presidential
contest, or in any contest
save here and there, where democratic
chickering's, as in Hon, Wash Jones' district
in this state, or republican confessions, AS in
some other districts in the country, may let
III grecnbacker to congress We have
nothing harsh to say of the greonhack party,
no words ofridiculc to utter as 50 many other
papers, democratic and republican, do, for
we believe that the rank and file of that
party are deeply in earnest, believing they
are right, and instigated by the purest and
most patriotic motives are striving
IN behalf of cause they will believe
will rebound to the good Of the
pcoplc, just like the democrats
and the republicans instigated by their po-
litical faiths are doing, but wo cannot say
SO much for some of the leaders ofthe par
ty. That the doctrines and principles of
the grecnbach party are q dclusion and n
snare, II mere shadow without the scmblancc
OF substance, there can be no question and
we say it in all respect to the grecnbackcrs.
1t is u mystery to us how men, with reason,
men who think, who understand anything
about the theory of government, who know
anything about money and finance and the
relations between finance and commerce of
the world can be so misled. SO blinded, so
utterly COMPOUNDED aS to believe for "a mo-
ment that this government or any other
governmental can simply issue fiat saying a
piece paper is dollar, or five dollars, or
ten dollars or any other amount that may
be imprinted upon the face of the piece of
paper. We do not intend to enter into any
discussion of grecnback theories at all, for
we only On this article, intend to indulge in
few casual and Cursory remarks on the
subject. We said we had respect for the
rank and file of the party, and we have,
for We can respect the political opinions of
any man or s0t of men when they are in
earnest and are conscientious, however
falacious we may conceive such opinions to
be. We cannot, however, say so much for
some of the leaders Of the party General
Weaver, the acknowledged head and front
of the party, its candidate for president at
one of the bittercst of the bittor, Il Ia lw
fthe stalwarts. The evidence brought out
during the last presidential campaign was
plain and convincing enough, it seems
to us, to have convinced anybody not utterly
blind, that he played into tho hands of the
republican party all the time, that he only
used the grcenhack party as a catspaw with
which to rake from hot fire, republican
chestnuts. 1t is possible, even probable
that Mr.. Scion Chase is in earnest, He has
a brain organization, dolightingin tangcnts,
that is liable to make him es-
pouse with all the zeal of his soul any
sort OF new tangled idea. This country,
aye, the world, is full Of men with alb
normal intelloctualitics, who are always on
tho qui vive for something startling, or
novel, or ont of the usual run of things,
like various German philosophers, So
called, English Quid nuncs and French
mercurialS, and Mr., Scion Chase Is one of
them. They are all theory without any
solidity or practicahility and while they are,
con amore chasing one iguis atuus this
year, they are just rs apt TO be after
another next year Brick Pomrroy shortly
ago apostle aud IN authority in the green.
back councils, 1t muSt he apparent to every
one, is but II journalistic mountebank, lie
starts newspapers here, there, anywhere,
aud 10 makcitpay he cspouscs almost any
cause and runs it vigorously as long as il
pays, We don't hear of him now. Green
hackism has ceased to he paying card and
he has rcshulllcd the deck and is scckinga
new hand. 1t is probable that in the
economy Of things the grcenback party
was n necessity in this country. It may bo
that it has served rs q balance wheel, rs it
were, to keep the extremists, the one way
and the other, ON the financial question in
check, and if this BIO so, the party has done
some good At any rate, We can respect
the votarics of the grecnback cause who
believe they are right, for no mat.
ter how much in error man may be when
he is in earnest, and follow the dictates Of
his conscience and his best Judgment, he is
entitled to do so in our free land, and no is
worthy of respect for doing 50 in all tho face
of the world to the contrary. But as u party
1t is ono of the abnormal anomalies of the
day.
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