The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-07-21

JlCheG ny u lew JnOusdnu votes. 1t looks
a little piggish, but then it's Joe's way
and we all have to submit
Last on the ticket comes George Paul,
onr present efficient member of the Board
of Public Works-a practical civil en-
glneer-yery competent to perform the du-
ties of his office in an intelligent manner
the right man for the place.
With this kind of a ticket, what think
you of the prospects?
Let me say to you this is not Demo-
cratic year. The Democratic party always
thrlves best when the people are in trouble.
1t has long looked for disasters to build
its hopes upon. Its greatest stock in trade
is croaking and growing about hard
times, present and to come. This year
their occupation is gone. Cast your ewes
over our beautiful State. The farmers have
already "tickled the earth with a hoe, and
1t is laughing with harvest" Our cit
liens who are engaged in agriculture are
contented and happy; good crops and good
prices await them, as a compensation for
their toll. Our manufacturing industries
are prosperous. Fostered, as they have
been, by protective tariff, they are able
10 supply our needs at home, and are now
competing in the markets of the old coun-
tries with the other nations of the earth
Go where you will, you hear the hammer
OF the mechanic. He finds ready work and
good pay for the skilled labor of his hands
The great mineral resources of our State
are being rapidly developed. Our nights
are made light by the fires of our furnaces
and our days are darkened by their smoke
Ihe daily products of our coal mines eX-
ceed IN value the treasures gathered in a
year from all the diamond fields of the
world. So, not only in our workshops
and in our fields, but deep down in the
bowels of the earth, you will find pros
porous and happy people, able to provide
good homes for their wives and little ones.
Railways traverse our State carrying our
own surplus productions to good markets
and transporting through our borders the
merchandise of continent. Encouraged
by all this prosperity, new railways are
springing into life in every direction, thus
insuring cheap transportation, that can
better be permanently secured through
competing lines than by any legislation
that can possibly be devised.
The people will read the platform re-
Gently adopted at Columbus, between the
lines, and will interpret it in the light of
the record made by the Democratic party
in reference to the questions covered by its
resolutions. They declare in favor of the
equality of all men before the law, vet they
plunged the nation into civil war for the
perpetuation of human slavery. They
very appropriately, and trust honestly,
express sympathy with the assassinated
President. Yet in the Presidential cam
paign, in which the proprieties of his can
didacy forbade reply, their speeches and
newspapers were filled with SANDER and
calumnies, rejecting in the highest degree
upon the personal and official character
of General Garfield. mol Guiteau was
not the first to shoot him in the back
Cowards have but one mode of attack.
The assassin and slanderer, alike, have
never dared to meet General Garfield face
to face. As 1 read their platform and
thought of the history of the party for
these many years, l wished that Chang
Wing, Chinaman l had heard of, could
pass his judgement upon it. In a certain
city there lived Chinaman who had fol-
lowed his vocation of washing clothes so
long that he could tell at glance whether
a fabric was fast colors or not. No matter
how well or in what way the manufacturer
had tried to initiate the genuine, as soon
as Chang Wing put his eyes upon it he
knew by intuition the false from the true
He became so expert that people were in
the habit oftaking samples of goods, before
purchasing, to get his judgment as to the
durability of cOlors. Many tried to fool
Chang Wing, but to no purpose. He knew
but little English, but show him piece of
goods that had been honestly made and
honestly colored, and in an instant he
would say, "Washee, washee.''
But, put into his hands a piece of go DDS
made to deceive, no matter. how well the de-
ception had been covered up, he would say
at once, mo washee, no washee." IL you
will read the resolves put forth at
Columbus, and then reflect upon the record
Of the Democrrtic party, you will say with
Chang Wing, "No washee, no washee." It's
the proper answer to any claims they may
make to the support Of the voters Of Ohio in
the coming campaign.
In conclusion let me say, we will have to
send a message in October to our stricken
President, who lies to-day on bed of anguish
and pain, sent there by the hand of bastard
ly assassin. AS he lies there, battling with
death, displaying that rare pluck and heroism
that we of Ohio knew he possessed, shall we
the party has succeeded, that spent the last
campaign in villifying, traducing and malign-
ing his personal and political character; that
the party has succeeded, that, to compass its
ends aud his defeat, resorted to all modes of
political warfare, both fair and unfair, and
| that tried to rob him of that which is dearer
than life itself-hls honorg
Shall we, by our laziness aud inactivity,
allow the democracy to succeed, and thus be
obliged to tell him that his administration
has been rebuked at the first important elec-
| ton after his Inauguration? I say NO"
TEN THOUSAND TIMES mo"
Let us send this message to our stricken
President, II, in the Providence of God he
shall still be alive To James A. Garfield
President of the United States, Greeting:-
The State of Ohio where you were born; the
State where you struggled, when Q boy, with
poverty and deprivations; the State where
you succeeded, by pluck and perseverance,
| in laying the foundation of your education;
the State where you married the wife of your
choice; the State that sent you to its General
Assembly in your early manhood; the State
from which you went forth to fight the bat
ties of the Union; the State that sent you TO
Congress SO many years, and was so proud of
your achievements there; the State that
elected you to q seat in the United States
Senate; the State whose people, above all
others, rejoiced when you were nominated at
Chicago; the State that, after your nomina-
ton, hearing you DETAINED and maligned and
traduced by yonr political enemies, rose up
in its might and threw back the lies and Sian.
ders into the teeth of the Democratic party
that had invented and circulated them; the
State that said, by a majority of over thirty
four thousand, that notwithstanding all these
Misrepresentation, 1t still believed you
worthy to be the President of the United
States and TO I'LL the chair once occupied by
Washington and Lincoln;-that State now
stands by your trusted friend, yonF wise
counsellor, and ELECTS the gallant ana patrio-
typ
Such q message would carry Joy and
encouragement to our wounded Presi-
dent, and would help, somewhat, to hasten
his complete recovery-a contamination for
which the civilized world now waits and
prays. II, in reply, we should receive this
short messages ITO the People of my native
Statei-I thank you" What Republican is
there in all the length and breadth of this
for any sacrifice necessary to bring about
this results