The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-11-09
4 @ Nv ELLINGTON IoRA1N COUNTY, OHIO, NOVEMBER O. 1881
The Nebraska Democrats.

When one stops to think of it there |
really is nothing in the world quite so
ridiculous as the Democratic larty of
Nebraska. Whatever may be the rea-
sons for the existence of a Democratic
party anywhere, they certainly do not
apply to Nebraska. where the opposi-
ton is so great as 10 throw the Bour-
borns completely in the shade-a shade
which. it must be remembered, is abso-
lutely destructive to vitality and growth.
And vet, Notwithstanding the hope
lessness of the case, there are q few
sad Democratic souls, who go through
all the performances of politics, and,
so far as profession is concerned, con-
stitute as much of party as the Re-
publicans. There is Democratic State
Central Conmittee, with Chairman
attachment Previous to convention
time the Chairman, who is full of en-
ergy and gas, always calls meeting
display of pyrotechnical rhetoric that
hgh3 up the political horizon. Some
times two or three members of the
Committee answer the call and some
times none of them respond. II makes
little difference to the Chairman, who
personally and officially apportions the
delegates, and appoints the time
and place of the Convention. thus
giving himself opportunity for an
other exhibition of flaming senti-
ment through the two Democrat
ic papers of the State. When the
Convention meets about one-third OF
the delegates are present, some of them
having been elected, most of them be-
ing Democrats who have happened to
stray into town, or who while at home
in the interior of the State have taken
a notion to attend the Convention and
have held primary election of one and
have elected themselves and written
their own credentials, 1t generally
takes three trials to get Chairman OF
the State Convention, for the Nebraska
Democrat is from. long suffering mel
ancholy and humble man, and averse
to the exhibition of himself. The ulti-
mate selection of presiding officer is
the signal for a complication which ends
only with. the adjournment, for the
Chairman ignorance of parliamentary
law is equaled only by the ignorance Of
the Convention in the same direction,
and yet both the Chairman and the
Convention have that holy reverence
for the science of Cushing in the abb
stract which leads them to renounce
common sense and to attempt the Ito
them) absolutely impossible. When it
comes to the nominations there is al
ways a great struggle-to find some
body that will accept. Sometimes. in
desperate desire to find material, the
Convention lights upon something es-
pecially ludicrous. There is always q
wrangle over the platform, and occa-
sionally some demagogue attempts to
inject plank against railroads into
that peculiar political instrument, but
he is always incontinently stihed, and
the row goes on over tariff and curren-
CIV questions and 1.-THE fundamental prin-
ciples of the Democracv."
After the Nebraska Democratic Con-
vention has been held the troubles OF
the Democrats are but Just begun.
The candidates are put up only to jump
down. They are hardly nominated be-
fore they decline. Frequently they are
found ineligible, as was the case with
Livingston, who, being a man of SAN
culinary mind and blood-thirsty habit,
had once challenged a citizen of Ne
brasba to fight duel, and on that ac-
count could not run for Congress In
one way or another the ticket nomi.
nated in grievVus travail of spirit falls
to pieces. until. as 1t is finally made up
by such odds and ends of the State
together, it bears not the slightest re-
semblance to the original work of the
Convention. For this reason the Ne
braska Democratic vote is usually scat
tering, not more than one Democrat in
ten having aseertained on election day
the real Democratic candidate for any
particular office, .q s-. s..1r
And vet for all their numerical weak
ness, their spiritual impotency and
their political nonentity. the Democratic
party of Nebraska is divided. Small as
it is, there are two factions of il. There
is the faction that wants to '.sit down
on Doc. Miller" and there is the
faction that .'dosen't want Doc. Miller
to be sat down upon" So over the
oorporosity of Miller the great war
goes on, as intense and bitter and full
of peppersauce and vinegar as though
there were a thousand Nebraska
Democrats where there is one. What
possible result oan flow from this con-
tention nobody can compute, for
the reason that the war of molecules is
too fine a thing for ANALYSIS by the
naked eye. Why Miller sat upon would
be any better or any worse than Miller
sitting. or why anybody should want to
sit upon him, or how the party or the
world or anybody would be benefited
by any position that Miller or his
| enemies might take,-these are matters
that the common mind iinds incompre.
hensible. They go to add to the sum
total of the righteousness of the
Nebraska Democracy-and that is all.
-Omasa Republican.
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