The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-10-23
The Lesson Of Yesterday.

The long contest is ended. The
thought which lay beneath the nomina-
ton of General Ewing-that that dis.
tinguished champion of the rag baby
could hold the rank and file of the De-
mocracy while winning over the sup
port of the National Labor Greenback
party-has proved utterly fallacious.
There were too many Democrats who
still hold the views illuminated by the
headlights of the party for fifty years,
and who would not rally to the support
of man whose financial vagaries are
bitterly at variance with what were so
long the accepted dogma of Democracy.
Resumption and the returning tide OF
prosperity which came with it, threw
the National party upon its back; but,
PROSTATE and powerless, it still had no
confidence in Ewing. The Democracy
have a fondness for looking to the past.
They love to look where the sun went
down, to see it rise again, and its
brightness is upon and over them ere
they see their mistake. They live in
the past, and seek only to apply to the
present the rules and methods appli-
cable to conditions which the country
and the people have outgrown.
Ewing has suffered from this Rip Van
Winkle tendency on both hands. Good
old hard money conservatism secuted
his new tangled teachings in finance. 1t
believes that man should pay his debts
honestly when he can, and that the Ma
ton should be no less honest than the
individual citizen. Ewing's only chance
to win acceptance for his views lay in
the continuance of hard times, making
men willing to try anything for a
change. 1t was essential to his success
that there should be basis for grum-
bling, a plea of distress to catch the
votes of the discontented. But we have
immense harvests for which the whole
world presents good markets; factories
IN full activity; the land illuminated
every night with the bright fires of
thousands of furnaces, foundries and
iron mills; work everywhere in plenty
and wages advancing. The prophet of
evil has found no standing place amidst
this flood of returning prosperity.
On the other hand, the people have
learned some things about States
Rights, the resolution of 1898, nullifica-
ton and secession, which the Demo
cratic party have totally failed to COM
prehend. They see that party still
anchoring itself by the resolutions of
'98, and the doctrine of States rights.
They remember that these doctrines
were invented in the interest of slavery,
and followed to their logical results in
secession and war. They recognize
the same consequences as likely to
again result from the renewed alle-
glance of the Democracy to these per-
nicious doctrines, and find q foretaste of
them in the efforts to wipe out the legis-
lation which embodies the results OF
the war, and in the attempts at nulli6-
cation and new rebellion. They be-
lieve it was against these principles
that Ewing and Rice fought, and though
they have mounted the platform of
Democracy, the people have Joined
with the former companions in arms OF
these soldiers in refusing to be led
across the old dividing line into the
Confederate camp.
The triumph Of yesterday is not less
significant than complete. Ohio once
more puts the seal of condemnation
upon disunion and secession, State su-
premacy and nulliication. She de-
clares again for sound money and the
honest payment of debts; for the main
tenance of the National honor and good
faith; and for the steadfast upholding
of the principles which triumphed in
the war, and the legislation in which
they are embodied. Cleveland Leader,
18th inst