The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-09-28
The New York Democrats.

Republican Central Committee did not
pass a set OF resolutions concerning the
attack on the President Happily in
the discussion of the omission there can
be no revival of factionism, for the Com
mittee was composed of men OF both
factions, and the Administration follow
ers were certainly as much to blame h
any blame there be) as the Stalwarts
for failing to introduce the resolutions.
However. as it is not to be supposed,
even by the most hypercritical, that,
because the resolutions were not passed,
therefore the Republicans of New York
do not sympathize with the President
and heartily condemn the assassin, or
that the adoption of set of resolutions
by the New York Republican Central
Committee would in any way assist the
President in his struggle for recovery,
we cannot see that any particular harm
has been done. A recognition of the
matter might have been a graceful
thing, but the absence of recognition is
not necessarily fault.
Whatever may be said of the Repub-
lican Central Committee of New York,
no blame for omission can be attached
to the Democratic Committee of that
State, which met and expressed itself
in red-tape as absolutely sorry that the
Il
Committee thought it saw breach
created by the Republican Committee,
and proposed to take advantage Of it
The Democratic idea may have been
that the people, noticing the conspic-
uous lack of resolution in the proceed
ings of the Republicans and the con-
spicuous existence of it in the proceed
ings of the Democrats, would say to
themselves: "Lo, and beholdl The Re-
publicans of New York are glad that
the President was shot, whereas the
Democrats are crying their very eyes
out over it. We are in the heartiest
| sympathy with the President there
fore we will vote the Democratic tick
et" A scheme of this nature is one
that would occur to the average DEM
ocrat as being peculiarly astute.
1t is not for US to deny the Democrats
of New York or any other State the
right to sympathize with the President;
indeed, Democratic sympathy for Gar
field expressed by resolution or other
wise, ifhonest and manly, is a matter
for no little congratulation to the par
ty that elected him. But the method
by which the Democratic Central Com
mittee of New York expresses its sor-
| row removes all the balm of sincerity
from the Gilead of its commiseration.
By the side of our hero who is fighting
the great battle with death, the New
| York Democratic Committee lays the
fraudulent mummy of Grammercy.
These are the two later martyrs
James A. Garfield and Samuel j.
Tilden. The one, the true pattern OF
reform, was cheated out of the Presi-
dency by fraud and force the other,
alluded to as ..the distinguished suf-
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bullet of the assassin. Between them
ticular difference. Both are martyrs.
Both have been patient sufferers
under great wrongs. 1.-The right
Republic is the fundamental
principle of self-government. Wheth-
er this right be imperiled, as in 1876, by
conspiracy of force and fraud among Of
fce-holders of the party in power, aim
ing to nullify the peoples verdict, or,
as now, by the bullet of the assassin,
that peril should awaken in every pat
riotic heart, etc., ETC." In short, the
corpse of 1876 is stuffed and placed be-
fore the people as the companion in an
guish and misfortune of the greatest
and most terribly stricken President
this Nation has ever had.
By grace of that monumental rascal,
VIM. NJ. Tweed, Samuel j. Tilden was
once elected Governor of New York.
His election to that Office was the sig
nal for his desertion of his rascally
friends, whom he virulently attacked
and assisted in driving from place and
power. With this record for ingratitude
he naturally became the Democratic
candidate for President in 1876. From
the time of his nomination for the Pres
idency Samuel j. Tilden began Q
systematic series of efforts TO buy
his election. He furnished newspa-
pers and politicians with money, and
did more to corrupt the ballot-boS
and vitiate the fountains of pub
lie sentiment than any other man
who ever lived. By consistent use
of fraud, murder and outrage in
the South, the Democratic party Sc.
cured for him prirnG fdcte majority
in several States where the honest vote
was largely Republican. The prinlo
fdcie majority was resisted by the
Southern Republicans, who proved it:
invalidity, notwithstanding that money
was sent from the residence of Samue
j. Tilden to buy their support, or al
least their silence. Convicted of q mos
fragrant attempt at bribery, and after
ward convicted before the world ol
perjury. Mr.. Tilden is fine specimen
of the martyr. The New York Demo
cratic Central Committee, mentioning
him and the wounded President in the
same breath, commits q burlesque Sc
fragrant as to be absolutely repulsive.
The Democratic Central Committet
of New York has settled two things
first, that its expressions of sympathy
with the President are demagogy, an6
second, that Samuel j. Tilden's chronic
: desire to become President retains
its usual hold on him.-Ornaha Re
publican.