The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-04-28


New Orleans. were laden with grain from
st. Louis for the return trip, and great
importance was attached to the fact, and
unfounded hopes built thereon.
THE Constitution has dug up the
hatchet, arrayed itself in war paint and
feathers. and begun its usual TRADE OF
misrepresentation and abuse Of the Re
publican party, this time because Of the
failure of the Legislature to pass local
option law. or to impose tax on the re-
tail whiskey business, and says that
"This shows that this Republican Legisla-
ture 10 hypocriticai on the whisksy question.
Nor arc these law makers alone In their
hypocrisy. The Republican press has very
generally remained silent all over the State
and treated the matter with freezing indiffer-
ence, and the political ringmasters OF that
whitewashed whiskey party have all oyer the
State, and particularly herein Lorain County,
catered to the rum interest which they 90
utterly pretend to abhor and despise. Yes,
right here in Lorain County, that party which
Ii foremost In Temperance reforms actually
elected 70 high oficial stations men who have
beea and are foremost in the grog trade"
II has never been claimed that the
Republican party in this State was
unanimously in favor of temperance
legislation, nor that its members were al
temperance men. Both Ct those claims
have, however, been made for . large
majority Of the party. and the record OF
the Legislature shows it to be true. II
We remember rightly, not over half
dozen Republicans opposed those meas
ures, while Of the Democrats not half
dozen favored them. Absolute purity 10
not claimed for the Republican party, but
it does appear to any one but the unpre.
judiceu, immaculate Constitution, that
the Democracy are In . very poor oondi-
tiou to throw stones, or to talk about the
hyposrisy Of the Republican party on
this question. Admitting the claim OF
the Consultation that 1t believes In tenn
persnce and 10 in favor Of Temperance
legislation, would It not have come with
. better grace from It to ind IL hurting
some Of its anathemas at the old. unter-
rined Democratic party. which has 81.
ways almost solidly opposed all classes
Of Temperance Legislation (as we'll when
they had majority as when they were
In . minority in the Legislasnre), for not
having sufficient virtue to furnish even
the six or eight votes needed to pass the
"local option bill +" or the fond liquor
tax bill. But the editor talks with ap.
parensly righteous indignation OF the
" freezing indifference Of the RePubli-
can press to these questions, and charges
that "the political ringmsstsrs Of that
whitswashed wAiskey party have all over
the State. and particularly here in Lorain
County, catered to the rum interest
which they 30 utterly pretend TO abhor
and despise," ss though he occupied an
exalted position of political virtue and
had been commissioned TO 60 out and
preach 70 the Republicans, who on this
question have been shown, by their votes.
70 stand twenty-five years In advance Of
that combination Of old fogyism and
political impurity and dishonesty with
which he has been walking ever since he
fall from political grace BY the tempta-
u,h OF Democratic spoils in this over
whelminRly Republican county. ut h
only fair to assume that the man who
advocates . higher political morality
Who dsnounces others for impurity. In.
Temperance. dishonesty and hypoorisy-
believes that he himself. or the party he
represents, 10 free from the sins and
crimes with which he charges them.
This assumption Of superior virtue for
the Democratic party on the subject OF
Temperance and Temperance legislation
reads like farce. and We are assured
that the Consultation would never have
uttered it but for the fact that . majority
Of its readers are not expected 70 see
coAsrsdiction. and are supposed to b
Just able 70 believe anything IL publishes,
without questioning It. When - large
. proportion of the Democratic membsra
Of the Legislature will vote for local
option law, or any other judicious meas
ure for the suppression Of intempsrsnce
= have already voted for them from
among the Republican members. the Con
stitution will be in - good condition "a
talk about "deep-dyed hypocrites on the
temperance question to its political 3D.
versaries - We are now, but no better
But perhaps It takes license on the
ground that the members Of the Demo
cratic party make NO pretensiops 70 tenn
persnce principles, and 90 are ~ good u
their professions. II 90. they may get q
much comfort ont Of that fact - they
can, bat they are hardly In condition
to lecture the Republican party on thii
Question. 30 long ~ . man champions
parsy that. - . party, for the last hall
dozen years has opposed every temper
.nce measure that hes been presented
he vents TO be little careful how n
charaes those with bypocrisy who' -
party, vote - they preach.