Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1882-09-14

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with banks. Business, commerce,
must have banks. or both will die.
Experience demonstrates that above
all banks, the national ones, are the
safest, most convenient and availa-
BILE, beside they produce net reye-
nue. to the government. Hereto, the
people will stand by and support
what experience demonstrates to be
true and useful, and permit the
greenback politicians to hug and ex-
hibit false theories as they please.
But this claim of the greenbackers
and the Filley's big and little, that
the republican party shall disband
and unite with them to defeat the de-
mocracy is wholly false clamor. The
greenbackers are striving to build up
party and they know that the dis
banding of it, the failure to keep up
its organization would be death and
oblivion to it, as it would be to any
other party. They, the greerlbackers
are enemies to the republican party,
they want it out of the way, and
knowing that disorganization of a
party is its death they seek to per-
suade and seduce the republican par
ty to commit suicide-to tlisband and
vote their ticket, for they right well
know, if what they ask should be
granted, the republican party would
cease to exist.
Let us apply little common sense
to this matter. If organization and
ticket, county and state, are essen
tial to the existence and growth of
the greenback party, they are equal
ly SO to the republican party, and we
can well see from the conduct of the
greenbackers the absurdity and po-
litical wickedness of listening, even
to their seductive wiles, endorsed
though, they may be by men in the
republican party, but who are there
only to betray it. Then Republicans
of Audrain, ''refuse to hear the voice
of the charmers, charm they ever
so wisely All this anxiety to
beat democracy is pure nonsense.
The Greenback leaders do not want
to beat the democracy unless they
may succeed to the offices. The
greenback manipulators to-day, had
rather see the democratic nominees
succeed than any republican. They.
would much rather see the democratic
ticket succeed in this county this
year than any republican one, indeed,
if the republicans were in the majori-
ty in this county, they would be
around the democratic camp trying
to get the democratic party to dis
band, vote their ticket, just to beat
''those wicked republicans. just so
they are doing in Maine, Kansas and
Iowa to-day.
They claim that they desire their
so called lion and the republican
lamb should lie down together, but
the trouble is they want our lamb on
the inside of their lion! They want
to swallow up the republican party
to make $4,000 republican voters
in this state, and the / 800 voters in
this county to become the "hewers of
wood and drawers of water to them
in numbers less than one fifth, of
these they wish to dominate. There
is an absurdity in this which ap-
proaches the sublime, and a repubh-
can who would entertain such demand
for a moment, has either monument
al simplicity or well conceived through
i'll disguised treachery to his party.
The above article, froml THE Mexico
Republican, shows just how the re-
publicans view the greenbackers of
this county. We trust the demo-
cratic greenbackers of this county, if
there are any left, will read and ap-
preciate. The LEDGER, for years,
has insisted that they were tools of
the republicans and we trust they be-
gin to see that we are correct.