Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-06-16
There Has Been Tricking Enough.

The National View.
The split in the Republican party is
too decided to be bridged over by any
subsequent measures. If the Nation
al party wills. it can 50 urge itself for
ward as to take opportunity at the
flood.
There will be an effort to form one
wing of the dismembered Republican
party into what will be known as the
peoples wing taking up the fight
against m0nopolies on the surface, and
yet backing them by the very strong
est weapon of monopoly, hard money.
Let no National think that therein can
be any good TO the people. Roscoe
Conkling will never, to any party, con-
sent to be less than dictator, and the
tender mcrces of Blaine would be the
sort of fostering care which railroad
corporations have already given the
nation.
The opinion in New York, not as
represented by the press, but us eX-
pressed by the element which is sup
posed to know, is that COnkling will
not be returned to the senate In that
case there will be move made toward
him by the disaflected Democracy, who
are willing TO fight anywhere or with
any weapon except on the decided
ground and with the two edged weapon
of the National party. There is not
in this country tG day, an element more
hostile to us and our movements than
are the various factions which the
Democratic party has fallen into, the
anti-railroaders of ,Jcrc Blacks ilk and
the ant-monopoist leaguefs, who are
trying to steal fire from heaven.
There was never such an oppoltuni-
ty as at present for party having the
good of the people ut heart to make
effectual war in their interests.
With such an organization us may
be effected we can in the two coming
years completely change the face of
legislation. In congress we can have
in that body, instead of nine declared
Greenbackers, at least fifty, earnest,
fearless, Woodworking members. To
do this, there must be no loOscning of
boundaries, but an unalterable deter
minatiOn to keep Greenbackers pure
and simple, actively at work and in
nomination for Office, when the time
comes for placing them there. Moth
ing, that for any purpose hints at atlil-
iation, with the broken ranks of either
Republicans or Democrats can serve in
this fight; it is a compounding with
evil which the people will not accept,
and which they most wisely distrust.
And we repeat our opposition, our un.
alterable opposition, to any shade of
fusion because the effort to hush dis
cussion upon that point, "to leave out"
as uuimpol tant, proves that the danger
lies very close TO us. If fusion was so
dangerous last year, that it was made
the theme for inyectivc and animad-
version, from Maine to Alabama, why
is it SO unimpOrtant now, that its dis
cussiOn is to be left out us something
not gcrmain to party issues? Is it be-
cause the danger has crcpt near to the
hearts of those who now lean toward
fusion and ambition makes a wOOing
angel of what before times had been
seen u hideOus deceiyGr.
There is Il course marked out by the
hand of honesty, in politics for this
party, and that is the straightforward
course, under the banner of National
principle with every issue stamped in
unmistakablc character where every
man may read them.
There has been tlicking enough, we
have suffered enough by shams! The
man who wants Office badly enough to
clip one word from his expressed prin-
ciples or by any implication, accept one
line of our opponents false system for
it, is a man whom we do not want in
Office, and whom Nationals should see
to it, that he does not get there.