The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-08-05

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a fault of Republicans. De@ocrsts 50
far have proved themselves able TO beat
the world at false, registration. fraudu-
lent voting, sepeating ana bull-dozing.
and the assertion may be true without in
the least duplicating the Republican par.
ty. We may add that We have not the
slightest idea that the implied charge
that the Republicans registered fraudu-
lently in sufficient numbers to exceed
the voting population Of New York, is
true. The last inquiry with reference to
Hayes occupying his seat by fraud, is, in
its apparent innocence and confidence,
simply sublime. The check that enables
the Democratic party to speak Of fraud
in connection with the election and seat
ing Of Hayes, would be amazing, were it
not for the fact that the history of that
party for the last twenty years has
been such that the people have long
since ceased to be astonished at anything
they can do in the line of dishonesty and
trickery. The editor Of the Constitution
does not need to remember, he knows
that the states Of Alabama, Georgis,
North Carolina, South Cai olina, and Ten
nessee, wero as certainly Republican as
Iowa, yet by the shot gun they were
made to give Democratic majority.
The same is true Of Florida and Louisi-
ana, but because the Republicans Of
these two states had sufficient control to
enforce the laws enacted to prevent just
such frauds and SO barely saved the
state, the Democratic party have ever
since been in mortal agony. No doubt
it was felt BY them to be great calamity,
after the many murders and lesser
crimes they had committed with the ex-
pectation of getting control Of the gov
ernment they so recently tried to destroy.
We suppose it will require no great effort
of memory to recall the attempt to pur-
chase an electoral vote in Oregon, to
which no one could claim they had the
slightest moral or legal right; nor to the
equally unjust attempt to buy the elect
oral vote Of South Carolina, nor to the
various other schemes sought to be con-
summa.cd by means Of the barrels and
cipher dispatches, all of which were
traced directly home to the leaders of
the Democratic, party, and which their
press does not attempt to deny.
Then again the average Democrat
knows that the electoral commission
was devised by Democratic heads and
Instituted by Democratic woes. 1t was
a plan of arbitration to which they will
lingly assented. They agreed to abide
by the decision Of the court thus formed,
but since the verdict was not in their
favor they set up the cry of fraud. As
we'll might the defeated suitor at law
charge the jadge or jury with fraud. 1t
is quite possible that the majority of the
electoral commission was governed by as
pure motives and honest judgments as
the immaculate Democratic party whose
garments are even yet dyed with the
blood Of treason. Oh yes, the seven
who voted to allow the Democratic party
to reap the fruits of its atrocious crimes
were honest and upright, patriots like
those Of revolutionary fame, but the 9TH
er eight, though men of equally good
character aud judgment, men whose
private hves were without spot or
blemish, they voted to legalize
fraud. Woald our Democratic friends
consider it impairment if We should in
quire whether that fraud cry is not get
ting threadbare. Don't you feel little
ashamed of yourselveswhen you repeatiti
We might as well take the time to say
here that we have no faith in the homes
ty and truthfulness Of any Democratic
statesman or politician or even the editor
of country paper when they claim to
believe that they we're cheated of their
rights in the last presidential election.
They know it is not true. and we have
more confidence in their Intelligence, if
not in their candor, than to think they
expect any one to believe their asser-
lions except perhaps some of the rank
and file whose reading is confined to
their own party journals. 1t is only
means to keep the masses true to the
Democratic party, and had it not been
about their only stock in trade, would
have been abandoned long ago. &