Year: 1879

To-day we place at the head of the Journal,
as its candidate for Governor, the name of
the republican nominee, Daniel F. Davis.
Ever since the present managers of the dem
ocratic party abandoned its sound position on
the currency question: and made shameless
and corrupt bargain for spoils with advocates
of the greenback folly we have felt that we
could have no sympathy with their purposes.
The breach has since grown deeper and wild
cr, until we feel that the time for complete
sundcring of the bond has come.


Four wears ago, the democratic party Of
and wholesome theory of a currency based
upon specie redemption The dark days of
doubt and despair were passed. Under the
mastery policy of the republican party, di-
rected by the clcarest and soundest minds of
the country--by men who thoroughly un-
derstood its great resources, and who knew
how to so gather up and apply its abundant
streams Of revenue" as to give assurance to
the country and the financial future-it has
emerged from the dark cloud into the clear
sunlight of assured prosperity. That which
seemed ossible--and which in common
with those with whom we wears ago acted, we
believed impossibe-is now an indisputable
fact. 1t is to-day 4 reality.


1t has chanced that number of times in
its recent history the democratic party has
been mistaken-grievously and radically mis-
taken. The belief that the rebellion could
not be conquered; that slavery could not be
abolished by force of arms that the State
! I,ray conlI ha rpp stotp ni,
universal suffrage, within a restored union;
and that peace, plenty and security would
fail to go hand in hand with our progress
have each in turn beep happily disappointed.
The conductor of this paper has no desire to
conceal the fact that he had Il part in this un-
belief. lie was aforetme of those who per
secuted the believers. lie has lived to see
the day in which those contemncd by the dem
ocratc party and by himself must be ac-
knowledged to have had higher courage, Il
more abiding faith and a deeper
conviction in respect to the coun-
trv's future than those whom the an
aual democratic resolutions have querulously
assailed. We say that the men who have led
in this contest for the restoration of national
prosperty--who have dragged the country
from the slough of despond, and with it the
fortunes of those who fought against their
own savation--are entitled to the gratitude of
every citizen in the broad land. Party rancor
assails them now-but justification and the
need of praise awaits them in the near future.


1--WE need an issue with the republican par
ty," has been the cry that has led the demo
cratic party in this dance of folly and njus-
tice. As though men could not disagree and
parties divide upon questions of public poll
cy, without assailing the pillars that support
the national faith and sustain its prosperity.


II is true that the democratic party in the
past has invited contest upon many fields in
which it had the choice of position. and has
suffered defeat in all. But there was some
thing like reason that went to its support In
its positions upon the slavery question: in
respect to the war, even; upon reconstruc-
, ton: down through the Andy johnson alli-
ance, and the wretched Greeley folly-there
was something that served to break the igno-
minv of defeat.


But it has been reserved for the democratic
party Of Maine, in all the light of this year
of grace, to seek to win its way to power by
adopting and adv coating the exploded and al
most forgotten humbug of paper money
gambling, John Law and his Mississippi
scheme, and delusions akin to the South Sea
Bubble. The ''fiat money" notion, which
lies at the foundation of the scheme by which
the demOcratic-greenback alliance seeks to
capture deiuded voters, is n device so wretch
ed and stale, and so at war with reason and
common sense, as to be worthy of nothing
but contempt. And yet intelligent men are
sought 30 be lured into this snare by the use
Of the word democratic. There have been