The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-09-30

General Garneld's votes have huctuated
from year to year. His highest vote in ~ the
gss Isao His highest vote in the second series
3OOl2 in 1876; his lowest Is Il SOL in 1874. But
the total vote OF tae STATE af n the rt period
varies from $4,000 in 1852 to 5ls. Iss in le6S In
the second period the variation IS from 4is;sis
difference between the district and the state
fluctuations. At the same time it Is weI
in favor e Of one party, like the Nineteenth,
generally varies much moro than one that Ii
nearly equally divided. ..n,..
the Years 1873 and 1874 Garneld had Y. lss in
II viii be observed that this falling OF was
Sos S6es.ssa cand,dste Governor Noyes had forty
six fewer votes in 1873 than General Garneld
had in 1871 The falling on In the neP9ohShais fhia
district. There was similar falling on ALT
the State and Nation.
party reached SO low q point as In 1S14 In
Ohio the Republicans lost the First. Second.
came near losing the Eighth, Tenth and Sew
enteenth. The total vote of the State was vas
less than D ss 4 was And m So Il Was ali over
the Nation. In the Forty-thiro Congress,
elected in 1871 the Republicans had a major
fty over the Democrats in the House OF Rep-
resentatives of lO3. In the Forty-fourth Con-
gress, elected in 1874, the Democrats had ma
5ority Of sixty in the House over the hepuoii-
This change of 1853 in the relative standing
Of the two parties IN the hational oticai al
change that took place all over the country
in the years 1873 and 1874. We do not here
di.cuss the causes of this change. whatever
they were they explain the falling OF In the
Republican vote In this Congressional district
- stiii prominence may be given to the Greeley
movement in Is72 As editor OF the III 1rt2Hmf, Wasf,
Mr. Greeley had Large int%snSa on eaSdidate sae
| he drew OF a large vote from the Republtcan
party. These Greeley Republicans formed
class of fiuctuating voters for several years
nv 1878 most of them had returned to the
| Republican party. In the same period Green
party. Accordingly, for the most part, the
defections Of 1872, ls13 1874, were not the resut
Of dissatisfaction with General ga neia: .ney
| were rather due to the general causes named;
including the commercial crisis and the hard
| times which followedit,
cover the lost ground in the Nation, in Ohio.
| and in this district. The next year Garnelds
with single exception, the vote of 1858.
That the fluctuations in General Garheid,s
vote are due Ss to m % In that year he re-
| ceived only 1850, only LOCO more than IN
| 1874 No doubt that vote would De referred 70
not Come two years before the public had
heard of the Credit Mobilier Company.
was in is General Gareds Votes
due to general causes, we do not hesitate 70
state that for time, 1ne eSarse upea the Re
Publicans of this district It Is aseSsitive s ano
Jealous constituency; General Garneids reia- ia-
tions to Credit Mobilier, the increase OF sala.
ries, and the De Golyer case were not a. ss nrsi
properly understood by the people. Enorts
ton and drive him from Congress. Any man
who remembers the state of the public mino
those years and Who tSai
has been represented by one man fos twelve
years, win readily sppreoaatss, e., the innuenoes
A history Of these efforts is here in place
March ss, is73, Trumbull County RepublicaI
eSate to the State Constitutional Convention
This Convention passed resolution & deno9pc n 9
saag fS1 Ssss him
resign. Is is now falsely asserted that tnis
Convensor of ane Moe
reference whatever to General Garfield o
p.ss passase O. Of the "saiary BILL. General Gar
keld's relations to that bill were theI
snSsTsfSea s1s1ig SeiieveS tSas he had drawn %
back paw and 1t was this belief that led tn
tsa. sS pess Gsfeid had
!. drawn It, but had ordered 1t covered into IN,
:, Treasury March 2, four days before ,t; IN,
been known at the time the resolution woui.
never have been adopted: When the TACT
, Generally regretted their hasty action. The!
. are now earnest supporters OF General Gar
| q
bers of the committee that drafted the resoiu
tious are supporting him warmly and tn
Presidential preference Of the other IS un
l Known. So much for the history OF tni
Trumbull County Convention.
\ AT no time did q Nineteenth District Con
: | ventfon pass other resolutions concern1nl
General Garfield than resolutions or approve
? | and Endorsement Still, an attempt was mao
| to defeat his denomination in 1874. After tn
| oppositiou had done its utmost General Gaf
| 6efd was nominated in a full delegate COZ
| yention by 100 votes to "A blanks HIS vote 9
n | the ensuing election was fOrty-six greate
| than that which Governor Noyes received I
: the same counties the year before. AFTER ri
: | nomination an Independent candidate wa
. | nominated. In the election the Independen
| candidate received a427 votes, the Democrati
candidate 6,2i5, Garfield II, sol.
. | The votes cast for the Independent cano
date can be divided into three Glasses:
: Votes of anti-Garfeld Republicans; votes G
8 dissatisfied Republicans. most OF whom ma
been Greeley men i'm 1879; votes OF Democrat
That the independent candidate receive
!, many Democratic votes Is shown by the Iaf
< that the Democratic candidate for Congres
feil considerably behind the Democratic car
y didate for Secretary Of State. In some tow
g ships the entire opposition vote was cast f6
the Independent candidate.
Two years later a few interested men agai
attempted to organize an oppositlon 70 nis = =
!, | nomination. How signally this attempt iaie
!, | IL shown by the facts that no name put 1a
q feld's was mentioned in the Convention, az
that he was nominated by acclamatlon-