The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-12-23
The Final Verdict.

One suggestion is certainly in order.
1t is meant only for those Democrats
who wish to be gentlemen, and who
have some sense of self-respect. 1t is
about time to quit insulting and befoul-
ing the American people. No Demo-
cratic politician or journal can make
anything in that business. But when
the Democratic politician or editor
says that President Hayes is a fraud,
or that General Garfield is perjurer or
bribe-taker, he no longer insults an in
dividual. He insults majority of the
people of this country, and very large
majority of the people of the Northern
States.
Much has been excused in respect to
President Hayes in consideration of the
honest dispute as to his election. We
can understand that the Democrat, who
could not see how Mr.. Hayes was legal
ly and honestly elected, may naturally
have felt very bitter about the final de-
cision. In that spirit of protest he
began to appeal to the country four
years ago, and has been appealing ever
since. The American people have
heard all that he has had to say. 1t is
an insult to them to say that they have
now sustained the Republican party,
believing that it captured the
Presidency by fraud four years
ago. A large majority of the
Northern people are declared by the
Democratic editor to be unmitigated
scoundrels, when he asserts that the
party which they have now sustained,
and continued in power, obtained the
Presidency in 1876 by fraud. The plain
truth is that the people have decided
against the Democratic claim. They
hold that the elections in certain South
ern States were vitiated by Democratic
violence and fraud; that the country
President chosen by shot-guns and
tissue-ballots, and a President chosen
by the operation of stringent and arbi-
trary laws enacted at the South for the
purpose of preventing such frauds; and
that the choice of President Hayes was
in accordance with the real will of the
the final verdict. After hearing all that
Democrats have said for four years, the
American people so decide. Common
decency and self-respect require Demo-
Gratis to submit to the decision.
As to General Garfield, the case is
still more simple. July, August, Sep
tember and October were crowded with
lies about him. Every Democratic
newspaper placed before the people all
the evidence it could get, true or false,
of weight or worthless, to show that
General Garfield had been guilty OF
.dishonorable conduct. The people
have heard the case and rendered a
verdict Rarely is any man compelled
in his own defense to re'uain before the
Jury four months, and to meet all the
evidence that one hundred thousand
hired attorneys can hunt up or manu-
facture during the time. But that is
the sort of trial General Garfield has
berne, and the verdict is in his favor.
The people have declared, by their votes,
that they are convinced there was NO
dishonor nor corruption in the matters
of which he was accused. The Demo
cratic politician or editor who still
asserts the contrary, after the final YER
dict of the people, does not befoul Gen.
eral Garfield; he only throws mud at
the people. They have heard the case,
calmly, dispassionately, and with a
high sense of honor. He has suppressed
evidence, published falsehoOds daily,
distorted facts, emptied his passions
and prejudices into his pretended judg.
ments, and read the returns with 8
sickening consciousness that no fat
office will reward the debasing and de.
graded work that he has done for party.
The verdict of the Democratic politi.
clan or editor dishonors no one but him.
self. The verdict of the American peo-
pie finishes the case forever; they de-
clare that James A. Garfield is worthy
of the highest honor they have power
to bestow.
Will it pay for Democrats to insult
the people any longerp They can as.
certain by trial, if they choose. 1t is q
patient and long suffering people, and
possibly it may like to have mud spat.
tered in its face by traitors, bulldozers,
liars, perjurers and forgers. 1t may
possibly conclude that men like Bar
mum and Randall represent integrity
and virtue, and that the millions who
voted for James A. Garfield are guilty
of sympathy with crime. If the Dem
ocrats think that the American people
will tolerate blackguardism of this sort
without resenting it, they are mistaken.
But no Democrat who has self-respect
will hereafter indulge in foul abuse ol
the man whom the people of this coun
try have adjudged worthy of the seat ol
Washington and Lincoln.-Me'o Horl
Tribune.
D@ Paul Strabach, Republican, had
1000 majority for Congress in Mont.
gomery County, Ala. which the Demo