The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-10-30
NUMBER 6.

Ohio carried the Democratic party of
Mississippi on their shoulders al!
through the campaign. The blood of
Dixon and of the Chisholm family was
upon their garments! How is it that
nearly half the citizens of Ohio voted
for Ewing, and hence for the murder
Gus Mississippi plan, which neither he
nor one of his champions dare de-
nounce on the stumpP ---.
Not once during the canvass of Ohio
did the Democratic party deny its close
alliance with the Southern Democratic
party of ex-Confederate Brigadiers
which carries elections by terrorism,
fraud, and the shotgun. And yet near
ly half the voters Of Ohio voted to sus-
tain the Democratic party of the Ma
ton, which bases its sole hope of sue
cess in 1880 upon carrying five Repub-
lican States of the South by assasina-
ton and fraud!
Gov. Dennison showed the people of
Ohio that, from 1866 to 1879, the South
ern Brigadiers and the English Con-
federate bonholders have never relin-
quished the hope of collecting their
claims from the United States Govern
ment. He showed them also that that
hope rests solely in the ascendency OF
the Democratic party. But, notwith-
standing this threat TO double National
taxation by paying the cost of an at
tempt to disrupt the Union, nearly half
the legal voters of Ohio voted to lift
the Democratic party one step towards
the accomplishment of its malign pur-
pose. ef-.,., = ..--t.
The people of Ohio were shown dur
ing the late canvass that from the time
of the advent of the Democratic party
to power in Congress Southern claims
commenced to pour in, and that in two
years these claims, public and private,
for losses suffered during the war and
for improvements of rivers and harbors
exclusively in the Southern States, ag-
gregated the enormous sum of tsOeLUe
hundred and fifty million dollars! But,
in the face of this threat to bankrupt
the Treasury of the Nation and hope
lessly bury the people of the country
under an insupportable load of taxa
ton, nearly one-half the citizens of the
State voted to reinstate the party OF
spoliation in power! The Democrats Of
Ohio were shown that In q single can
vass in Louisiana 1868), I" seuea hun
dred and eiohty- four Republicans scere
killed, eighty tfue receiUed gM,sshot
soounds, and three hundred and sizty-fve
s0ere othersoise nsdltre0ted," solely to
crush out freedom of political opinton
and action. But the Democrats of Ohio
as body voted solidly for Ewing,
thereby indorsing the party of brute
force and assassination!
In the light of these facts the incom-
prehensible feature of the result in Ohio
is the smallness of the Republican ma
jority. It leads to the query whether
there are. any respectable. honest citi-
zens in the Democratic ranks. We are
not about to contend that the Demo
cratic party is composed entirely of
reckless, abandoned aud hopelessly ig-
norant men. But there is something
almost marvellous in the party discipline
which can hold the allegiance of so
many upright citizens to . political or
ganization from whose record, policy
and practices the last vestige of public
virtue and moral rectitude seems long
ago 70 have utterly vanished. The
spectacle of solid Democratic South
has enticed the Democratic party of the
North to its ruin. Northern Democratic
by which the South was made solid
would become Northern as well as
Southern Democratic heritage, badge
of shame. They failed to realize that
they could not remain silent on the SUBJ
ject of murder without being branded
with the guilt of murder. The prospectof
entering upon Presidential campaign
with the certainty of solid Democratic
South, without regard to men or prin-
ciples. was very alluring to Northern
Democratic leaders. and they lulled the
rank and file to sleep with the cry of
assured victory. In the light of the
late elections in Maine, California and
Ohio, they begin to discern the danger
of South solid for the Democratic
party, for robbery and for murder. A
few respectable Democrats wakened in
Maine and California; more have wax
ened in Ohio, and more still will waken
in New York. There are q good many
repeaters and ballot-box suffers in the
Democratic party North, but there are
not many assassins. Decent Democrats
North are becoming ashamed of their
murderous party associates Of the
South. Thus solid South, made
solid by crimes which shock mankind.
slowly reacts upon the North, and at
last makes it solid for justice, right and
the Union one and inseparable.-Csi-
caso Tribune. .. .s3.s s-s