The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-10-26
The South Not Nearly 50 Solid as II
Was.

Bourbonism is evidently on the del
cline The South is not rs solid as ID
was. 1t will never again 7crst its entire
vote for the nominee of the Democratic
National Convention. 1t never did so
cast it but once, since the Bourbon
party was organized. Its people werd
never given TO one way of thinking on!
political questions, except upon the
subject OF slavcryyexen before the wart
and the last Presidential campaign that
the Democracy waged before its final
defeat by the Republicans with Mr.
Lincoln, in 1860, was fought out under
two candidates es--Breckenridge and
Douglas. In old Whig times many Of
the Southern States were reliably antif
Democratic, notwithstanding the prob
lection tendencies of the Wing partyS
and the popularity of free-trade in the
South.
Evidences of the wane of Bourbonisnh
in that section of the country are daily
multiplying. The young Democrats.
who have grown to manhood since the
war closed, and who are not tainted.
as their fathers were, with the secesr
sion virus, are seeking and findt
ing pretexts for opposing the olF
regime. In Virginia the question
of the State debt is the PLAUSIBLE
and ostensible issue, but that really
cuts very small figure in thb
controversy. Other rquestions are more
important and more prominent. The
Readjuster party offers chance for
progressive men to unite in opposition
to the old Bourbon organization that is
dying of the dry rot OF secession and
State rights. The true secret of the
prosperity of the Malone movement is
10 g., kIo IL L. i
sire to be rid of them. In other States
other issues are invented to serve as aln
excuse for refusing to support Demo9-
racy. The Democratic Legislature df
North Carolina recently submitted a
constitutional amendment to the people
which they trampled under their feet
by over 100, ,000 majority. No matter
how beneicent the amendment was, the
result showed that the people could act
independently and vote as they pleased.
Having voted as they pleased once,
they will be likely to do it again, when
more important questions are at stake.
In many of the other Southern States
the Greenback party furnishes q nu-
cleus Tor the opponents of Rourbonisn
to "rally round the flag" not that the
people care fig about the delusions of
the paper money fatists. but be-
cause it offers chance to deal a
blow at the head of the Demo.
cratic hydra. In Mississippi General
Chalmers, of ''the shoe string district
who has been sitting in another man s
seat in Congress for some years, and
who holds the certificate to seat in
the next Congress that ought to be
given to Mr.. Lynch, has declared him
self a Greenbacker, probably with an
eye to getting the support of the Green
hackers in the contest that is sure to
come. Democratic papers admit that
the coalition party in Mississippi is al.
most certain to succeed.
In some of the Northern States also
Bourbonism is acknowledged to be on
the wane. Congressman Bragg, oi
Wisconsin, advises that the party dis
band and a new one be organized, and
ex-Congressman Cate, of the same
State, in recent interview, said that
the nomination of a Democratic ticket
for State offices this fall would only
contribute to the perpetuation of 8
| party which had outlived its usefulness,
without the remotest possibility of car
rying the day." Judge Cate agrees
with General Bragg that it would be
better to bury the old Democratic car
cass ont of sight together with its dead
issues and fossilized leaders. The ad.
vice Is good and ought to be acted
upon by. the Democracy 'eyerywhere.N =
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