National Republican., 1882-09-11

to the study of the currency quos-
tionP Horace Greeley was Fourier
ite and communist, but his
Tribune lost no caste with those men
who with him crooked the cradle of the
Republican party" The union of Re-
publicans with all other anti-Bourbon
Southerners, including the Greenbackers,
will not endanger the stability of the
currency. If "Wash Jones" can be
made governor of Texas, and we think
he can, he will make as good one as
she ever had, and under his influence
and inspiration Honesty, Freedom, Edu-
cation, and Patriotism will raise that Com
monwealth to the first rank. But if an
alliance with Greenbackers is so horrible
in the eyes of Northern Democrats, what
have they to say of their own party in
Maine, Michigan, and elsewhere? Arc
the greenbacks, which Jones, of Texas,
favors as the only national currency, diff
ferent from those advocated by Plaisted
in Maine2 The question not only an
swers itself, but shows how bold and un-
blushing an insult to common sense are
all the Democratic criticisms upon Re-
publican coalitions.
Last but not least, these Democratic
champions of Republican integrity in
weigh against the support Of General
Chalmers, of Mississippi, for Congress
by Republicans, because he was not a
Union man during the war, and because
he has been Democrat since its close.
And this is from men who in 1872 sup
ported the abolitionist, Horace Greeley,
and who have among their leaders such
old offenders against their principles"
as George w. Julian, Lyman Trumbull,
James r. Doolittle, Andrew G. Curtin,
and scores of other old underground
railroad" sympathizers. General Chal-
mers is supported by the Republicans on
the ground that they prefer q man who
has in good faith ceased to struggle for
Bourbon supremacy over man who
has not.
To sum up: The Republicans are not
weak enough to allow their enemies to
shape their campaigns. They are not
fools enough to be destroyed by an enemy
when there are honorable allies in whose
company they can destroy that enemy
They prefer the triumph of their princi.
| pies even to the preservation of their
name. They would rather have anti
| Bourbons of all classes to ignore minol
differences and combine for the triumph
of a free ballot, free schools, and free
States of a free Nation, than to allow
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a party name in order to drive away from
their support honest men who agree with
them as to present and future, but who
| do not now choose to call themselves
| by name which, in the past
and under different conditions, was borne
by men who hated them and were hated
by them. The Republicans who have
convictions will not surrender them in
order to preserve name in any locality
where the name is weaker than the cause.
Malone, Jones, and Chalmers-for
what does the. Republican party contend
to which they are opposed? What wrong
does Bourbon Democracy seek to per
petuate against which they are moi
bravely contending? Republicans o
sense know that without recruits il
the South Bourbonism will take
the White House in 1854 In 1862
in the heat and blaze of civi
war, the Southern-sympathizing Democ
racy came within bakers dozer
of controlling the United States House o
Representatives, although the clever
Southern States then in rebellion were
unrepresented. The vote of Genera
Malone has for nearly two years alone
prevented Bourbon control of the United
States Senate. Republicans must have
the aid of Liberals and Coalitionists in
the next House or they cannot prevail
over the enemy. What geese, then, the
Democratic editors must believe those
Republicans to be to whom they address
such stuff as that to which we have re
ferred. Or perhaps they formulate theil
exhortations for those treacherous Re
publicans who hate the cause they pre-
tend to uphold and desire its defeat, O
who have hired themselves out to tn
enemy. Such traitors always stab caus
for its own sake, and when they mos
feed their malice they most pretend t.
the greatest virtue. However this ma,
be, true friends of Republican principle
cannot safely follow Bourbon advice an,
need not fear those allies who incur Bour
bon enmity.