The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-09-08
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If you ask an old Democrat why he is found
in company with Green5ackers, whose princi-
Piles are so widely at variance with Democratic
doctrines, he will say, "Oh, anything to beat
the Republicans" If you ask the Greenback-
er why he is supporting Democrats for office
whom he had heretofore bitterly denounced,
he will say, "Oh, anything to beat the Repub-
licans." This is the one point of agreement
between the Greenbackers and Democrats who
make up the nondescript party known in this
State as the Fusion party, and which is manip-
ulated by Gov. Plaisted and few Democrats
for their own purposes This is all there is to
it. The Democrats have nominated candi-
date for governor who had already been nomi-
natep by the Greenbackers, and who stood up-
on platform Numerically opposed to their
own on vital public questions. The two plat
forms are set forth to catch the two classes of
voters but the candidate is the same. and but
one of these policies can be carried out in the
event of success. THIS is shameless juggling,
which should deceive no one. The Fusionists
have, in reality, but one plank in their plat
form, aud that is, Anything to beat the Re-
publicans." anything to beat the party which
saved the Union; which struck the shackles
from five million men, and placed the ballot In
their hands; which maintained the credit OF
the nation, and brought its paper currency
from 80 cents dollar to par with gold;
which has paid off the public debt at rate OF
Y1O0, 0e0, 600 year; which has Gifted the bur-
oens of the people to an extent of over $780,
1000 year in internal revenue taxation and
on the tariff reduced an equal amoul t.; which
has brought unexampled prosperity TO every
trade and industry, and whose laws in the IN
terest of laboring men have attracted thither
from the Old World one million men every
year.
Anything to beat the Republicans" Any
thing to beat the party which demands now
and which may be relied upon to carry out the
principles laid down in its platform-a free bal
lot, fairly counted; free schools and universal
education; protection to domestic industry,
including shipbuilding; currency redeema-
BILE in gold and silver, and continuation of our
present safe banking system; the burden of
taxation upon luxuries, and not upon necessa-
ries; economy in public expenditures, but lib
erality to the deserving pensioners; an indie
pendent judiciary; opposition to polygamy and
adherence TO prohibition. All these things are
opposed by the party whose rallying cry is
Anything to beat the Republicans" 1t does
not want free ballot, fairly counted. In
practice it resorts to tissue ballots and stuffed
ballot boxes, and it has recently placed itself
on record in Congress in their defeucs. 1t
does not want universal education, for it APP
peals to the ignorant, and not to the intelli-
gent voter. 1t wants the tax taken off Whis-
key and tobacco leaving the deficit of revenue
to be made up on the necessaries of life It
wants free ships to destroy the shipbaildlng in
terests of this country, and free trade to de-
stroy American industries and place American
labor upon a level with the pauper labor of
Europe. 1t is hostile to the deser ing pension
ers 1t wants wildcat banks and an irredeem-
able currency. In.short, it is hostile to every
interest of our people. This is the attitude
and policy of the party which cries, Amy
thing to beat the Republicans"