Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-07-12
Democrats Against Greenback.
era.
4 GREESSAcK LEADER IN SoUTH CARoLISA
MURDERED FOR OPINIONS SAKE
Washington Correspondence of Bangor
Whig.)

Washington Correspondence of Bangor
Whig.)
WASHINGTON. ID. c., June IL.
In the cold blooded murder of one of their
ablest leaders in South Carolina, by Bour-
bon leader, the greeLbackers of Maine NAV
have another opportunity Of contemplating
the kind Of vipers they nurse when they fuse
with the bourbon-democrats at the polls. As
IL it were not enough that the Bourbons of
Alabama should have bulldoaed and cheated
the greenbackers Of that State out of their
fairly elected members of Congress, and that
she bourbons of Texas and Missouri should
have 50 rcdistricted their States as to defraud
the greenbackers Of half dozen members
OF Congress, they supplemented this work
with the assassination of one of the green
back leaders in South Carolina, who was liza
BILE to become uncomfortable strong rs
candidate for Congress. and rs lead
er of the independent host. Major l.
w. II. Blair was an able. honest and
aggressive politician. and the democrats
were afraid Of him II was easier to shoot
than to vote him down. The democratic tel
egraph operators (for none others are toll
Grated in South Carolina) are instructed to
report that Major Blair was the aggressor in
this case; but have eonversed with men
from South Carolina. who do not sympathize
politically, with Major Blair, and all agree
that II was a put up job" that he was pro
voked to give the lie, for the purpose of ex-
cusing murder, and after the murder the dem
ocratic assassin was. without delay, let out
on bail. And this is the kind Of civilization
the Maine greenbackers are invited to uphold
by their fusion with the Maine democrats.
What was MAJOR Bairs offence: The
democratic legislature. elected largely by
fraud in districts which are republican or
greeuback in their political sympathies.
have been engaged in the more outrageous
legislation to still further disfrsnchise re-
publicans and greenhackers. They have
enacted registry Law which provides that
all who are qualified must register this
year o. ne~er. all future registration being
confined to those who come Of age or come
from other States. Next, they have arranged
the places for registration the most incon-
venient for the poor men, who are largely
republicans and creenbackers. This was of
course intended to discourage poor men from
registering, and thus to diminish the green
hack as well rs the republican vote. Next,
they have provided that each Office to be
voted for shall have a separate ballot.box,
and that u shall te a penal offence for any
one 70 fSf q tofef WHtcn ooI 70 pUI dtS ouUof
IN. Again, they have redistricted the State
so that no greenbacker has the ghost Of a
chance to be elected to Congress, and have
combined all the strong republican counties
In one district, having a population Of nearly
1000, so that the bourbons can. BY the
aid Of force and fraud, secure all the rest.
Il IL necessary only to relate these
facts TO describe the enormity Of democratic
methods, in the way of which no ereenbacker
il allowed to stand. any more than IL he were
black republican. Now, Maj. Blair did try
70 stand in the way of this legislation, and he
denounced il severely. Being greenbacker
he denounced il as fraud upon grcenback-
ers. And this free speech was the offence
for which he was murdered by q bourbon
democrat.
How do the sincere greenbackers Of Maine
like TO, contemplate the picture Of fusion With
monsters Who perpetrate such deeds - this?
Verify, there 10 reason for the belief which is
prevalent everywhere that such an unnatural
coalition In the State of Maine never can
again send men to Congress who outrage by
their legislative acts and associations every
sentiment Of political and moral deeency.