Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-08-11
thorough Dissection Of the strad-
ding Party and d. I'll. Thing.
From Them Steers, Aug. 9.1

from i mem Steere, aug .
Hon. d. H. Thing is down east making
speeches, and 10 advertised on the bills as the
.sDemocrat and Greenback candidate for Con-
gress-" Why not say ''Greenback Demo
craft and Republican candidate for congress,
and take in the whole drive? If SIR. Thing
is the democrat and Greenback" candidate
for congress, he stands on two platforms that
are antagoni.tic to each other. Is Mr.. Thing
q greenbacker or democrat, or is he straddle
of the fence .-astride q barbed wire fence is
not q good easy seat. II there is man
on the .Greenback and Democratic
congressional ticket, who is not as sound as Sam
Cary, the Democrats will make sure he is not
elected. They made sure that Judge Gilbert
should not be elected because he was too
much Of Q greenbacker. Mr.. Thing is not
too much of a greenbacker. The democrats
have got their man sure in Mr.. Thing as
they have in Mr.. Ladd. Farmer Thing will
poll the solid democratic vote as much as
Lawyer Dane. the Lantern candidate, a
national banker who has been made rich BY
the robber laws of Congress. Republicans
and democratic have just voted TO extend this
robbery twenty years. If greenback-
ism means anything it means no nation
al banks nor national bonds. Mr..
Thing is associated on the congressional
ticket with one of the legalized national
bank monOpolists, who would vote on all
measures relating to national banks, the
same as ex-Gov. Dingley, the republican can
didate Both banker Dane and farmer Thing
have been nominated by democratic and
.'greenback" conventions. The Lantern
candidate declares himself square democrat,
and Mr. Thing declares himself to be the
'greenback and democratic candidate" How
much democracy Mr.. Thing has got and how
much greenbackism, the people will judge.
When YOU mix greenback lille" and bourbon
grease, the .'ile" most always turns to
grease.
Thousands of honest greenbackers who
thought il was unwi.e TO hold two greenback
State conventions cannot now fail TO see that
the convention that nominated Harris NJ
Plaisted for Governor was q democratic con-
ven,ion body and soul, and greenback only
in name How quick the ''greenback" can
,lidate for Governor was nominated by the
democratic convention, and how eager were
the men who figured in the "greenback
convention to nominate democrats for
Congress. Mr.. Dane is just as much
a greenbacker as Ex-Governor Dingley.
Both are respected citizens of the State but
neither has any sympathy with the idea that
gave the greenback party birth. The men
who acted rs delegates in the convention at
Bangor, June LIST, came home and Jined
drives with the democrats in the county con-
ventions-made mixed tickets of pretended
greenbackers and square democrats. What
else can honest men who call themselves
greenbackers do but to enter their protest
against such a sell out! Mr.. Thing no need
to have advertised himselfas the 'greenback
and democratic" candidate for Congress. for
every body knows he is the democratic candi-
date The fusion idea is, to be greenbacker is
to be a democrat, and to be democrat Is to
he a greenbacker. That is the logic of the
fusion State convention. and of all the fusion
county conventions, and of Mr. Things ad-
vertiseinent that he is the ''greenback and
democratic" candidate for Congress. There
isa greenback congressional ticket before
the people of Maine. The candidates owe
allegiance to no other party. They stand on
a platform that declares both old parties
alike our political foes. Where else cali
honest greenbackers stand?