Year: 1879

TnR talked Of fusion ticket in this State
next year between the Republicans and
Circonbackers isabout as unlikely an event
as anything OF a political kind that We can
think of. The Republican party processes
to have some distinct principles, and one
Of them involves belief that the tesump.
ton Of specie payments has taken place
that it has come TO stay; that we do not
need more paper money; that an ire.
deemable currency is curse and not a
blessing, and, finally, that the cry for the
substitution Of greenbacks for National
bank notes, and the turning Of the Gov
ernment into q huge bank OF issue, to, be
run by Congress, ,wsuldb be a dangerous ex-
pertinent, and one that the Republican
party is ever likely to countenahce. =


How then can the Republicans and
GEeenbackers fuse next year, any more
than this year? Democrats and Green.
hackers may naturally fuse, for the only
difference between them, according to
Senator Hereford, Is that one soils on the
inside Of the. tent and the other on the
outside, but both tap the same barrel.
Col. Ben Wilson claimed in the last can.
yass to be as good GreenbaCker as Col.
Bassell, and was voted for as such, and
Ben Martin competed strongly and sue.
cesstuly with Thompson for the Green
back vote in the Second district. In the
organization Of the Legislature last winter
the Greenbackers and Democrats came as
naturally together as milk and water. In
deed as IN organization it was very hard TO
tell them from the Democrats. "scratch
the back Of Cossack and you will find
Tartar" Scratch the back OF a Green
backer in West Virginia and you will gem
orally find Democrat Therefore, so far as
the finances. Of the country are concerned,
there is far more naturalness in fusion
between Greenbackers and Democrats
than between the former and the Repub.
liCans.


As to common opposition to the Dem
Ocratic party in the State, in the matter Of
State reforms, that is movement that
need not call for any sort OF an attempt at
trade or dicker. We trust that the Re-
publican party will nominate good
ticket and adopt a good platform; and II it
does it will be entitled 10 receive the pub
lie support. All needed reforms can be
provided for in such platform. and those
who really desire the success OF such re-
forms can and will vote for them in that
shape The Greenbackers as Greenback-
ers have nothing Of reiormatory char
ACter in State affairs to offer. Their or
ganizatiOn has reference to national poll
tic', and Is the very antipodes Of the Re-
publican party. II they keep up their or.
ganization next year twill be to defeat the
Republican party in the national contest.
Whatsortofac canvass would,it be to ignore
this fact in West Viginia2 A very un.
natural one, we should think. Our hope
is that the Republican party of West vir-
ginia will go into the canvass next year in
advocacy of the living issues Of the Re-!
publican party Of the United States, and
not iu any manner to compromise those is.
sues II We are successful in the Union
at large, the day will not be far off when
we will be successful in West Virginia.
We can afford to.wait for that success
rather than achieve something that, like
the apples of sOdom, may turn to ashes
in our hands when We pluck i: