The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-03-18

cot smiled once more, and Pierre had
never occasion to 60 upon the highway
again with any foul intent. The old
soldier often refers to meeting with the
young robber of St. Gervais, and under
all the circumstances it rather pleases
him, and he thinks he can see in it the
proof of Pierre's courage, and also of
his true affection for his mother.
Disfraqchising Minnesota.
The anticipated action of the Com
mittee of Elections OF the House of Rep
resentatives which is TO put out General
Washburn, the Republican member of
Congress from Minnesota, and have the
House elect the notorious Donnelly in
his stead, who was spewed out by the
people of the district where he ran as q
candidate by more that three thousand
majority, would be an infamy of such
colossal proportions as to be without o
parallel in Congressional partisanship.
General Washburn was elected in 1873
by an absolute majority of three thou
sand and twelve votes over Donnelly,
the Fiat candidate adopted by the DEM
Jocrats. There never was fairer or
more honest election, and all pretenses
to the contrary thereto are false, and all
attempts to prove anything of the kind
have utterly failed. ,-sEs-z.
But the mpecunious Donnelly took it
into his head to get up bogus contest.
which would enable him to pass the
winter in Washington, and, possibly, to
procure the voting to him the usual sum
be asserted that he had no rational ex-
vocf f,Dv, 3 oo.k Co.
himself, for the reason that he had not
fully appreciated the utter desperation
Of those members Of the Sub Committee
II the whole Committee, and the House
the Sub Committee, electing Donnelly,
| it win be fatal stab to popular govern
ments and we undertake to say that no
man who Is a party to it will ever hear
the last of it during his political life.
Should the proposed iniquity be con-
summated, the most shameless and
hardened Democrat would hereafter be
compelled to hold his peace so far as
frauds in elections are concerned.
But the public must not be left in the
dark as to the object of this attack upon
the bulwark of popular government
and the honest suffrage of free peo-
pie. The alleged reason, as stated by
our contemporary of the Times yester-
day morning and by other papers, that
the Democratic party must steal the
Republican State of Minnesota in order
to give its vote to the Democratic can
didate for President in case there is no
choice by the people and the election
should go into the House of Represent
atiyes, is not the true reason in our
| judgment. The contest is so shaping
itself that every intelligent person
| must be aware that there will be but
two candidates who will get an Elector-
| al vote, and the vote of no State will
be wanted in the House of Represent
atives to secure a Democratic Presi-
dent. Neither can it be that the Dem
ocrats want the House to turn out q
Republican and elect a Democrat OF
GreenbacArsr in order to strengthen
their small majority" for that majori-
ty is now sufficiently large and inn
4 pregnable. Neither can it possibly be
that it has any interest in so thorough
ly disreputable q man as Donnelly, q
mere soldier of fortune, fighting un-
der every flag, and whose presence in
Washington on such an errand is an
ofense to public decency. Their sole
purpose is to familiarize the country
with their assaults upon the ballot and
popular rights in order to smooth then
way to steal the Government of the
country in the coming Presidential cleo
ton and convert it into q Confeder.
acy by means of other frauds as unex
ampled as they will be prodjgious
Everything is now done in Congress
with plan which has been well di
gested and fixed upon by the bodies
and most desperate men of the coun
try, in order to get possession of tn
J Government through fraud and con
spiracy, and trample under foot the mel
whose valor, and blood, and patriotism
|; saved the Union from their deadly as
saults.
The first object was to familiarize tn
people to attacks upon Republican Stat
Governments, and the State of Main
I was selected. In accordance with tn
, programme, the State was to be delhi
erately stolen in the interest of the De
mocracy, and the voice of the peopl
throttled. The next object was to shov
the unheard- of lengths to which it coul
, go in National matters, and in this cas-
it took the shape of stealing in mem
? ber of Congress and trampling under
, foot the viii of the people as expresse
by a majority of 5000 votes. Whe
|, they could show that they could throN
J out q member of Congress, elected b
! such a majority, and have the matte
acquiesced in, they would have no hes
, tation in throwing out State havin
81 10000 or $4,000 majority for q Republ
4 can President.
The case of General Washburn wa
taken as a sample of what they coul
I do simply because his seat was cor
|, tested. There is not a seat of singl
Republican member of the House whic
could not have been equally as We
4 contested as that of General Washburr
and the rsason why a score of othe
!. seats were not declared vacant b
: Springer's Subj Committee is, that tn
: candidates opposed to them did nc
I have :he impudence of DOnnelly
: make the contest.
The Republican members of Congress
have each a great and imperative dut
to perform in this matter. 1t is th
!; boldest onslaught of this character O
popular rights ever made in the halls
Congress, and it must be met at th
threshold and resisted at every steI
The voice of every Republican membt
!, should be raised in vindication of th
will Of the people as honestly expresse
. through the ballot, and the people mu
be made fully aware Of the danger in
pending over the country.-Chicas
Tribune.
The total crop of tobacco of Il
!. United States in 1879, is estimated
q 584, ,059, $50 pounds, according to Il
q Department of Agriculture; last year
8 was S92 SAG 700 pOunds