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Tincher or Mitchell.

with q degree OF interest, the earnest ~eolicita-
ton OF those organs. in behalf Of Major Mitch
ell. Pardon these suggestions. Nov, the es-
sence Of all that is said for the present prose-
cutor is: First, that he has done efficient work
in his official capacity; and second, that he is an
old soldier. With regard to the frat, permit
me to ask of the Republican voters of this judi
cial district: Do Democrats ever support Repub-
licans who have proven themselves able and
efficient %oficersi and. granting that Major
Mitchell has done well. is that fact any evidence
that Harrison T. Tinchsr will prosecute poorly2
AS TO the second theme. this: Major Mitchell
was an old soldier; Harry Tincher was not, and
whyf We all know why. Not because he
favored secession as the snt implies;
because of his being but a child in war times.
Should the South secede to-day who would be in
front ranks to suppress it. Major Mitchell or
Harry Tincherf THIS thought is just as perth
nent as what We so frequently hear, viz: That
Major Mitchell was in the war and Harry
Tincher wasn't.
Every Republican should vote for Harry
Tincher and not be mislsd by such flimsy argu.
ment as his enemies herald against him.
BRIGHTwooD, Oct. %. A REPUBLICANS.
General Harrison and the Gresnbackers.
To the Editor OF the Indianapolis Journah
Ever since General Harrison's nomination tho
Sentinel, Dan Voorhees, and the assistant
Democrats among the Greenbackers have been
busy circulating the falsehood that General
Harrison 10 opposed to our national money,
commonly called ereenbacks, and have stuck to
il with the persistence of Gould and his gang
to the "dollar-a-day lies The facts are that in
a speech made in 1873, in which it is charged
he attacked the greenback, no such declaration
occurs; but what he did strike in his plain mat
ter-of-fsct way was the wild notions of so-callsd
-
practicable plan Of starting the government
printing presses and grinding out so-called
paper fat moeey in suficien t quantity
TO pay of SBhs national debt. 1t was
against this wild scheme, of wild ana impracti-
cable initiation. that General Harrison spoke Of
those ~favoring it as needing the care Of q bensv.
Client institution, which has b.en the unpardou-
able sin in the eyes of wild infiationists and the
howl of so-called Democratic friends of the
greenback ever since. The writer asserts, with
out fear Of contradiction, that no public or pri-
vate utterance of General Harrison can be pro-
duced in favor OF the destruction Of the green
back currency, and the writer is as strong a
Greenbscker as any Of the old guard, and be-
lieves . very great mistake and wrong was per-
petrated upon the people in the destruction Of q
single dollar of that currency at the
close Of the war-but does not be-
lieve the impracticable scheme Of ipfa.
ten proposed. of issuing several hundred mill
ion so-called pieces of paper stamped "this 10 q
dollar" was a sensible remedy for the evil COM
planned Of.
Among the real Greenbsckers Of Indiana,
all of them reading. intelligent mer, and some Of
them warm friends Of the writer. 1t is rather sur
prising to find them now training with Voorhees,,
aud others or his Xix, VINO but a few years since
had only denunciation and SANDER for them az
soldiers. and denounced their ereenbscks az
worthless rags, that would ne ser be worth the
paper printed on. The fstic plan of imitation
10 SO impracticable and illogical that it 10 Q
wonder sensible men yet advocate it. That the
greenback, or national currency, should DO
restored and take the place Of the ex-
pirine national bank currency, thousands
of Republicans will agree, and stand ready 10
favor by any reasonable, feasible plan. To the
writer's mind the time mas come to suggest q
plan that is feasible, and every soldier in the
land ought to favor IL, 1. e., pay the pension ap-
preparations annually while they exist with an
issue OF full legal-tender neutrality-suspicious.
TO pay dollars. Should every soldier in the gov
eminent be psnsioped for life at once and double
the present annual appropriation. it would not
produce undue imitation, but would be absorbed
by quarterly pay and thus meet the grow
ing demand for an increase of q circulating me-
dunn that will put new life into the business
of the country, make o demand for labor,
increase the consun ption OF its products and
bring happiness and prosperity to cur people.
By maintaing a wise protective policy that will
keep our gold aud silver at homo, we can safely
carry an issue Of legal tender treasury notes to
amount OF the pension liss so long as it lasts,
which will be readily absorbed without danger,
by the increasing population and business in
terssrs OF the country. The writer believes
If our Gresnback friends. especially those who
are comrades, had advocated some such plan as
the above, instead of wasting their energies for
years on an imprscticable plan, they would now
have a healthy public sentiment supporting the
above suggestion.
We repeat again that General Harrison has
never. ut any time or place, arrayed himself
against the greenback currency. and every old
soldier who proposes to support Grover Cleve-
land on such grounds, with his free-trade. anti
protective doctrines, knocks the foundation
from under himself and the true principles Of
American financial protection, and the protec-
ton of American homes aud labor. Woo.
TERRE HAUTE, Oct. IA