Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1880 — Can Greenback-Nationals Reasonably Coalesce with the Democracy? [ARTICLE]

Can Greenback-Nationals Reasonably Coalesce with the Democracy?

In 1882 and 1863 the Democratic party was the uncomprumising foe of national legal tender ourrency. In 1872 they declared for immediate resumption of specie payments. In 1876 they favored the repeal of the resumption act as a hindranoe to resumption of specie payment. In 1880 they declares for home rule and gold, silver and paper convertible nto coin on demand. The doctrines and traditions of the Democratic party as.expressed in juidical opinions and legislative enactments all favor tree state bank currency. The highest Democratic legal authority sa}B of the legal tender decision reported in 12 Wallace,. 457. “ The opinion went forth without authority and will go without respect.” The Democratic charter is opposed to the very name ot National. The pledge of an in. 'dividual candidate on the Democratic ticket that be will favor “all paper money being issued directly by the nation with full legal tender quality” is on its face a sham and unworthy of true statesmanship*

Jn a coalition of the advocates of “wild cat state paper” and the friends of “National legal tender paper” it seems to us somebody will surely be sold out. The old' champions of slavery and wild cat money may be as “wise as serpenta but not harmless as doves.” The old ’bourbon party thirst for power and it is not in the dove business at present. I> is using the Nationals to help it to borne rule and state currency. Honest voters who want the National legal tender currency to be sustained and perpetuated should look for its champions as tar from the State supremacy Demo cracy as possible. The success ol the Democratic party will be the death knell of all National paper money. National Greenbackers cannot reaaonably 'coalesce with a party whose principles are so diametrically oppoeed’to their own as are the principles of the Democratic party.