The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-09-30
CONKLING's GREAT SPEECH.
The New York Senator'S Masterly PreseI
tation OF tho Questions at Issue in tn
Pending Canvass.

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tation OF the Questions at Issue in the
Pending Canvass.
The following Is Q summary of the address
recently delivered by Senator Conkling at
the New York Academy Of Music, to an au-
pie of the metropolis. The great building
was packed with eager listeners, and thou
sands of people were turned away unable to
gain entrance.
After q few words of eneralintroduction
Mr.. Conkling said:
Two parties exist; parties should always
exist IN government of maaoifties, and to
nearly holds his views Is among the most
laudable, meritorious acts of an American
in nIH anc s.s9is s1s wnesner ne be In oioi OF
the management of National affairs. One or
the other Of these two contestants is sure to
manage the Nations concerns for some time
to come. The question is, Which of the two
ts it safer and wiser to trust? 1t is not a ques-
ton of candidates. candidate, If he be an
honest, genuine man, will not seek and &C,
cept Q party nomination to the Presidency,
slecsed or and after he is
things are more despicable than first to secure
sh stsyssion e. the hands Of party and then in
nssnly 70 imply that those whose support
some other title to respect. fhe higher obii-
ing and signed and seaied-they reside in
honor and good faith. The fidelity of a NOM
e se
and action is to settle principles, policies and
Affecting nifty million people that it decides
for an occasion the aspirations of Individual
cratic candids.e and ann P against n sHs the TICKET ticket
and all It's works.
In twelve States of the Union the approach
ing election Is to be no more than farce, un-
less, as has sometimes happened. II be turned
into a tragedy. There is 70 be no free debate.
no equal rights, no true expression in these
States; and In several States the clear majority
ts to have no deciding power-not even a
were cast and the booty divided the other day
between Tammany Hall and the Upper AR
Hampton largely promises 10000 Democratic
majority I'm South Carolina, where the actual
majority Is 10000 the other way. In several
Southern States there Is q large, well known,
often -ascertained Republican majority, but
all Southern states alike, without exception
ocratic side and to score lss electoral votes
lacking but Il of a majority of ALL
GENERAL GRANTS LETTER.
You have listened to a letter from one to
and and pr.mscy This n, letter; instinct with com.
| er generally does hit nails, rebelions and
pretenders on the head. He says:
the importance Of lU Seepns Control OF
ernment in the hands of the Republican party
until we can have two National parties, every
ossrscism. and have il honestly nom Counted par.
are Nation. but a. 70 the policy to secure the
greatest good to the greatest number of its
cratic party, As now constituted and CONTROL
| ed, Is not q ft party to trust with the contro
Of the General Government, 1 believe it is ts
the best interest of all sectious, South as wei
Is North. that the Republican party should
| succeed in November.
| "fours verv truly, U. 8. GRANT"
| Lord Chesterfield said that a letter shows
ia written by" The letter bears Lord Ches
and it reveals the confidence and esteem in
| which the writer holds him. Informed by
GaSs FneW 0 and feit ss s InaW and feel
20 one Of the mos. genuine, patriotic and hon
furnishes a text for many sermons.
l"THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AS NOW coNsTI
| TUTED AND CONTROLLED"
There is a vast f humber Of upright. % patrsoti
men In 1t; vast number OF men who gave al
and did an they should have given and don
the supreme and dire hour of trial-a vas
number who imperiled their lives as othe
country. Many Northern Democrats who cas-
all their weight and sympathy on the Nation
former parsy oVe Many others neWe @
did 80 return. Were such Democrats to guild
and influence q Democratic Congress and
| Democratic administration, their party wOul
not be constituted and controlled" as IL Il
Because such men and their views and inter
of Democratic success, much grave per-
arises. As the Democratic party Is constitut
ed. not the men of the North, not the me
but the men of the South who were agains
the Union and the Constitution, men who's
Country, are bound and predestined to con
troll Democratic Administration and a Dem
ocratic Congress. iApplause.l In the senat
THE SOUTH HAS An OVERWHELMING MAJoRrT
of the Democratic members. and most
them are men who led in the Rebellion: E,
Southern members hold absolute sway. !
purse. and of the power to Confirm or rejes
| treaties and appointments, the South Is ais
to furnish ali the votes to elect the Demo
; which must be rafiied, or Counted, or eertifie,
or produced from the Northern states, pa
ELECTION be I close, there Is % no Knowing % but Il Il
two Democratic Houses may find ground @
Electors. with much unemployed leisure Q
their hands, with the danger which the Ele'
toral Commission of 1S77 alone overpassed fS
these Democratic Houses have adopted I
| measure to insure order and right in asce
| tanning the result of the Presidential electio
should controversy arise and the election
/ thrown into the House, there, the vote beir
taken by states, the South would cast near
all the Democratic votes, and in the Sena
the vote for Vice President would come fro
the same source. In every event OF Dem
cratic party must be to the Northern end
the locomotive is to the tender, as the her
Is to the cart. This Is as plain as any truth
gravttation or arithmetic.
SWELLING THE SOUTHERN VOTE.
Perhaps this point will seem to you to chs
lenge some attention. For the population
census of 1870. That-c count of the people "
made by enumerators not selected by Sout
o mon partisans" and professional reformel
Il was made by the regular Marshals al
their deputies. and the comPensation .,sa was a,,o
sea seTasion sne Of snn Of
as a plot to fabricate a monstrous increase
population in one section i'm order to baf
. another plot to change the balance of po
= e- and population in order to aggrandaize a o
section y sy sSd thus roSbi le
other sections of their share in governing
country. in levying taxes, and appropriate
money-had not at that time occurred to
conservative foes of radicalism. That pi
ticular spoke in the wheel of deviltry had \
n SUCH Up schemes 20 nns seem to Ma9 apace % %
read of producing false heirs to thrones a
estates: % Spn nersonate 70 them on scale so sra
v as seems now in process would stupefy !
= shsen a1sS encsnt n Observation-Disclosures. non parts,
conservative disciple Of the Democratic p
suasion, wanting nothing for himself, I
ready TO do and suffer for o white mans gc
) ernment, with "reform" and a "chang
[Applause.I The suggestion now Is that
census takers of 1870 undercounted tn
neighbors-
PAID BIT THE HEAD AND BIZ THE NILE, NOT
- THE DAY,
It is now alleged they robbed themselv
They neither travelled nor counted,
bagEers," too many of them, in the Sou
& Their States were Republican; they had th
u ambitions and motives for increased pohti
motest danger of any direct tax, and yet W
nothing to gain and everything to lose, Il
wronged and swindled themselves for
sake of being dishonest. This all may be.
is the only way of accounting for the av
ward wonders of the census now progressi
Ii cannot be called ingenious, because II
lie plainly the only possible explanation, ane
limps badly. Ecumenical councils may sit
these recent fabulous census revelations,