The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-10-26


To the Editor Of the RxrKRFRIsE-
And now that the campaign is over and
there is no danger of the truth leading any
voter to so far forget his party ties or his
masters crib as to vote for the greatly
needed temperance reform, you very gen.
erously open your columns for an explana-
ton as to the advantage gained by putting
third candidate in nomination, stating
that the Republican nominee Gor Gov
ernor1 is as staunch a temperance man,
and in favor of as stringent prohibitory
legislation, as the most earnest Prohibi-
ZIONIST in the State. Now, have too good
manners TO tell you what 1 think of that
statement but viii say that if l should so
far forget facts or late history as to make
such an assertion, should expect people
would suspect me for a politician of
the Republican type. You further say
no Abolitionist ever did so idiotic thing.
John Quincy Adams once said that vote
cast for principle, though alone, was
never lost The whiskey dealers and
brewers, in convention. assembled, de-
clared that they would vote for no man
who does not favor their interests, and at
the same time made declaration of their
confidence in Gov Foster. Now, if these
men can trust their interests in his hands
can we trust the interests of Temperance
Reform with him. Can we go up to the
polls with these brewers and liquor dealers
and say TO them, we will help you TO elect
the man with whom you say you can safely
trust the liquor interestsl God says,
''Come out from among them and be ye
separate" Governor Denison, one of the
abiest and purest we ever had, and Salmon
P. Chase, a man of renowned statesman
ship, both of them, in their several annual
messages, called the attention of the Legis-
/ lature to the imperativive necessity of
temperance legislation, and one of them
was Democrat. And what of Governor
Fosters Not word; but he unquestion-
ably used his influence against such legis-
Iation.
And now, if you mean personal adyan-
tage, answer most emphatically, none
for know that it is as much as a mans
social, moral, or even business standing is
worth in Wellington, or even in the State,
to be anything but Republican, remem-
bering what the leading Republican
Journals of the State said of the members
of the Loveland Convention, made up, as
it was, of as pure, high-minded men as
ever assembled in convention. Epithets
were applied to them that would disgrace
the columns of the Police Gazette. But
1 what have we gained? 1 answer, the aP-
proval of a good conscience; the casting OF
our votes with more than twenty thousand
others for the overthrow of the most q
gantic conspiracy ever formed to rob us Of
our money, our fathers, brothers, sons
homes. and all the social and religious
blessings we had hoped for our beloved
country. And further, twenty thousand
yotersAgood, true men-hold the balance
Of power. having dissolved partnership
with a party Government that receive:
more than sixty millions of money in reve
nue. for its share of the profits of the sale
of intoxicants that result in the death Of
| nearly hundred thousand persons annu
ally, and is the occasion of more crime
than all other causes; and this enormous
sum of money is taken from the husbands
of distracted wives, fathers of ragged