The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-08-04
A Democratic View.

the Democratic party, recently. deliv-.
cred before O party OF Indiana editors,
has been crowded out of public atten-
ton. on account of Guiteau' 8 extraordE
nary performances. Mr.. Wattersonsays
good deal in praise of the Demooratie
party, and no doubt believes all he says
to be true, which we do not, and he
claims credit for il where we should cry
"shame. He says: Z.
The Democratic party survives. After lite
errors and follies Of the succeeding twenty,
years-errors and follies which all OF us can
ses NOV padn.S ~ enousnsnis party OF the Con
ultationi for there have been times when q
ever. Perhaps its very LONELINESS, the prin,.
ttiye and simple character OF It's construction
Some of this is historically true asfar
ssit goes. but it does not go far enough.
The Democratic party not only made
the "attempt to take its own life in
$780," but the Southern wing of it at
tempted to take the life of the Repub-
lie also, and in this fruitless effort il
was promptly seconded by large mass
of the party In the North. 1t was an
organized attempt in the South under
the name of the Confederacy, and an
unorganized attempt in the North by
the aid of "copperheadism," disloy-
atty, the Knights of the Golden Cir.
Gle, and other secret and UNANIMOUSLY
reasonable societies. This great overt
act of treason was followed, as Mr..
Watterson admits, .'by the errors and
follies of the succeeding twenty years."
which everybody sees now as plain as
pike-staff, and which the Republican
party saw just as plainly then and took
measures to guard the country against.
That we are the solid, prosperous,
united. progressive Nation we are to-
day, is all in spite of that great party
of the Constitution and the people" that
Mr.. Watterson rises to eulogize.
1t is terrific irony to call it the party
of the Constitution" 1t is, the party
that tried its best to destroy the Com
stitution. M TTai. 20 1a-
"I look at it with amazement,n ex-
claims Mr.. Watterson. So does every
body. He wonders that it is alive and
kicking to-day. after all its murderous
errors and follies Of the past twenty
years So do all beholders. But we
know how tenacious of life the spirit Of
evil is. . r, ,--
With that historical rhetoric foI
which the average Kentucky orator is
famous, Mr.. Watterson continues:
goes over the precipice, whilst the i1mberinse BERN
carry-an, careening from side to side and
oresking in every part, rishtens, and finally
this old wagon of ours pass the Republican
coach-and-four, and, recovering its lost
was never in better shape for or malins the
journey. II has unloaded slavery and seces-
Ssir of ana driver 10 30 og riSh,
it needs to be attached to moral forces and or
their leader in their good time, or order that
IL may resume Its place as the Representative
only come by change OF parties IN the Gener @
al Government -sis-ITE stg
Yes. Mr.. Wattersou, your party 50 un.
/. loaded slavery and secession when they
were whipped out of you after four ter.
rible years of hard fighting; otherwise
you would have clung to both to thii
day. We "unloaded slavery for you
at the point of the bayonet, but the
virus of secession still taints your blood
The Democratic party has been cured
of the leprosy Of chattel slavery by the
surgery of war, but it has not yet beer
entirely cured of secession. -.
DIR. Watterson, who is prescribing fol
the ills of Democracy, recommends 8
pair of thorough -breds and q acompeteni
driver to take the old coach to the tor
of the hill. That is perhaps just what
is lacking. Such thorough-breds q!
Samuel j. Tilden, Generals Mcclellan
and Hancock, Seymour. English anC
Hendricks have been tried without sue
cess. They are the sort of nags tha
do not win races. The party has alst
quit breeding good drivers if by ,tha
sort of horse talk Mr.. Watterson meanl
intelligent and successful leadership
| The party Just now, and for twenty-fiy,
years, has lacked efficient management
which is confessed and acknowledges
in this address, both in regard to it
| policy. the choice of candidates and il
| the mannero of conducting its campaigns
It has been ruined by protesting unpop
ular principles such as opposition Il
the resumption of specie payments
adhesion to the fiat-lunacy idea O
finance, etc. . e.
These are the vital errors in its cree,
that the people have repudiated owe
and over again, and will continue to d
| so for some time to come. =.
The orator next turns his attention :
the Republican party, and, as we oftel
learn valuable lessons of our enemie
who candidly tell us all our faults an
often exaggerate them so that we ca.
see them clearly, it is well to copy MI
Watterson's opinion ofus. he says:
The Republican party Is a party of emotion
Of Of fseedom @ On and and union they had their use
But emotions are evanescent and the emit
s Of pay
one excess 20 another through a period Z
SponShsit TO its present. state Of internal erin
| inatiou and recrtminatton; the whole Govern
| ment involved in . faction fight in New Yorl
S%obie 81 ea Clements M in Virginia and Mississipp
| The meaning OF all this Is that the Republics
Is ssd os aSS S.s to5Ge mas seft
/ double-dealing In all classes. 1t has educate
| the young manhood of the time to set shar
mnisated The doctrine that the end justi6s
the means: and has put the rule of success
/ advance of every other law.
OF course this Is q gross exagger,
ton, and this view of Republicanisl
who has been hating it ever since
had an existence. But IS every lie
said 10 contain some grain of truth, 8
the allegations of the above indictmeI
may be said to have a semblance of fac
and we could easily plead guilty to th
whole count, and then the Republics
party would stand before the countr
like a virgin clad in white beside tn:
other woman clad in scarlet-the reprr
sentatives of tbe two political organ
zations of the Union. s.-.
An emotional party, indedl There
very little ''emotion" in fighting dow
secession and rebellion, abolishir
slavery, providing for the payment ,
the National debt, building great raj
road across the Continent, giving to II
poor Homestead act, forcing Englan
to pay us S15,0O0, 900, establishing
National currency, resuming spec
payments, funding the great debt at
lower rate of interest, keeping peae
with all Nations for twenty years, ant
out of power!
1t is the kind of "emotion" tn
seems to be popular in majority OF Il
J States of this Union, though it new
has succeeded in Kentucky.-Chicas
Journal.