The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-10-14
POLITICAL BREVITIES.

~ Over-work is better than over
confidence.
1< If Hancock is elected. the South
will rule the country as it did before the
war.
B% Maine has taught the Democrats
as well as the Republicans that the best
time to crow is when you are out of the
woods.
D~ Hon. Joe Blackburn, of Ken
lucky, thanks God for solid South,
and says, .sshe was solid for JEFF. Davis
in 1880"
D~"You bring considerable weight
to the Democratic party" said Ben
Butler, as David Davis climbed down
from the fence. "Yes." said David,
"but come down square-not spoon
fashion,
B6TMule-buyer Barnum has disclosed
his plan of campaign a little too early
in the day. He ought to have kept it
quiet until the deciding election in No
vember and then brought it out as
final coup.
1%This is Ben Buffers biography:
1877. Republican.
1873, Labor Reformer.
1879, a Greenbacker.
1880, Democrat.
1881. political Renaissance.
D@ Hancock's mouth, like Wade
Hampton's, must be shingled over.
Then keep writing materials away from
him. There's no safety without it.
The job ought to have been attended to
the day before the Maine election
~Hampton and Beltzhoover take
their places side by side as shining
pair of campaign catastrophes. They
will serve as forcible examples OF the
already well-established fact that it is
wiser to keep silent under just accusa-
ton than to try to lie your way out
N. Y Tribune.
1@The Democratic newspapers are
not printing Hancock's glorious dis
patch so conspicuously as they might
If they continue to slight it in this way
the Republican journals will have to
take it up and display it as the merits
demand it should be. 1t is a boom all
by itself.
D%The Democratic Congress in
creased the public expenditures $41,-
900. 600 in five years. The World news
paper tries to get around this fact by
showing that on part OF the approprla..
tions there was saving. What of that?
OA~S
talk about. They show an increase OF
more than $41, ZOO, 900.
B~A Hancock and English paper in
Alabama is much disturbed by the
enormity of the frauds in that State,
believing that they will s'tell fearfully"
against the Democratic party in the
North. There was, in our opinion"
it says, "no necessity for SO gigantic a.
fraud for any party purpose. twenty
or twenty-five thousand majority would
have been enough to fully secure all
the Offices of the State"
~Thc ex-rebels are not ungrateful.
They support General Hancock with
enthusiasm, and propose to give him
the vote of the Solid South on account
of his celebrated Order No. 40. They
could not do less without showing
base ingratitude. Order No. 40 was a
complete surrender of the authority
of the United States to the local rebel
authorities of the South, and was made,
moreover, in open disregard of an act
of Congress. As Hancock showed his
extreme anxiety to serve the rebels,
it is no more than fair that they
should return the favor. One good
turn deserves another. Indianapolis
Journal
p@ When Mr.. Tilden came out on
the bale ony of his house at Gramercy
Park and screamed to a mob, as he
stood upon his toes, that "the Amerl-
can people will never condone it
never, never, neverr' he intended they
never should if his barrel could prevent
it. He has just given an illustration of
his purpose by attempting to defeat the
reelection of Congressman Reed in the
First Maine District. Mr.. Reeds part
in the investigation of the cipher dis
patches rendered him specially obnox-
ious to Mr.. Tilden. 1t must be a source
of bitter disappointment to the Sage OF
Ciphers to know that after spending
money lavishly he has completely
failed in his revenge. Mr.. Reeds s
triumph is particularly gratifying. as he
was elected two years ago by only a
plurality and had to overcome this
year an adverse majority of more than
1000. Mr.. Tilden seems doomed to
reap harvest of -disappointments.-M
Y. Tribune.