The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-06-03
NUMBER 81.
ssAmen.'' %

A hearty " "Amenr' put in the right
place often encourages the exhorter.
Put in the wrong place, its effect may
be confusing if not disastrous.
Senator Hill, of Georgia, is a we'll.
known revivalist. He is revivalist of
old political questions. He believes
with the Democratic-Grant organ in
this city that, inasmuch as his party
was defeated in the controversy which
Immediately preceded the war, as it
was defeated in the controversy of the
war itself, as it was defeated in the re-
construction controversy, as it was de-
feated in the controversy growing out
of the extra session of Congress, as it
has been uniformly defeated whenever
and wherever historic subjects have,
been forced into the contest, therefore
proper thing for it to do is to relight
the dying fires again in 1880 and adj
vance amid the blaze once more to the
familiar catastrophe. The only theory
by which he can justify this extraordi-
nary proceeding is that his party has
become so accustomed to beating that
any other sensation would be strange
and disagreeable. ys..
Republicans find no fault with this
logic, but some Democrats who are
tired of the flaying process object to It,,
Senator Hills latest revival movement
has taken the form of an effort to de-
prive Senator Kellogg of Louisiana of
the seat which was awarded to him
long ago upon the understanding that a
seat should be at the same time award
ed to Senator Butler of South Carolina.
Most men would have shrunk from the
task of making a martyr of the materi-
al furnished, but Mr.. Hill addressed
himself to the work with boldness and
energy. Some Democrats discouraged
the undertaking, if not because they re-
garded the re-opening of an adjudicated
contest for seat as bad precedent, il
not from a conviction that the time to
reject the Kellogg Butler bargain was
when it was proposed and not after
they Lad secured their share of its ben
efits, at least because they saw that it
could only result in the fatuous revival
of old and to them fatal questions.
But Mr.. Hill persisted. After several
of his colleagues had recalled the Of
fensive history of Louisiana politics
and the disclosures made by investi-
eating committees on both sides, he
went over the ground again himself in
a two days speech, emitting nothing
that could re-animate the old sectional
controversy and array one part Of the
country solidly against the other part,
and forgetting not even the dull kel-
| logg cipher dispatches relating to ofii-
cia1 appointments, which, by their con-
trast with the far livelier cipher dis
patches considered by the Potter Com
mittee, freshened the popular recollec-
ton of those scandalous revelations.
Mr.. Hill finished with the fervcnt ex-
preston of hope that 1.-The people in
this auspicious year would rise up and
declare that party which WAS willing
to seize and hold the Government by
fraud against the popular will should
never afterward be trusted with power
by that popular will" This effective
peroration was greeted with loud and
hearty 50 Amen !"
Now if this sympathetic and appro-
batory ejaculation had been uttered by
one of the speakers Democratic col.
leagues, say Senator Bayard or Senator
Thurman. or by faithful Democrat in
the gallery, it would have given point
to the peroration, and the speak,
er would have acknowledged the
timely response with grateful Joy
But the fact that it was really
uttered by stout Republican, by none
| Quiet Iudu StHittOT Iuhuiuo, u vOt
mont, may well have startled MIR. Hill
with the suggestion of apopular appli'
cation very different from the one in.
tended. The report says that Mr.. Ed.
munds delivered the ''Amenr' IS with.
out taking his eyes off the manuscript
he had been studying for an hour
1t is not hard to imagine what MIR
Edmunds had been thinking of during
this studious hour. He had thought o
Mr.. Marbles adventures with the
gue-smitten Pariah' in Florida, o
Mr.. Smith Weed missionary activities
in South Carolina, of the Cronin nego
tiations in Oregon, of the sudden con
solidation of the South after it hat
pledged itself to equal rights upon th'
discontinuance of Federal interference
of the Mississippi shotgun plan, o
+ tissue ballot frauds in South Carolina
of the thieving conspiracy in Maine. 1
his thoughts wandered still further HI
probably recalled the history of Mr.
Hill and his party for the last quarter o
a century and marveled at the effront
cry of a lecture from such a source OIL
good political behavior. Y Evenin.
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