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

TIE Constitution has "blood in its
eye,n and under the head of "Party
Hypocrites" goes for the Republican
press because some of them have pub
lished the fact, given them by the old
stand-bys of the Democracy, that Book
walter bought his nomination with
money. The editor has been preaching
from that text about three weeks cut of
four for the last two years, but is utterly
unconscious of the fact that he has worn
the subject thread-bare and has used all
the fierce adjectives in his vocabulary
in the vain attemptto express the depths
of his indignation aud wrath. he sails
in with all the enthusiasm of boy max
ing his maiden lyceum speech, and lit
orally blisters them ell over. If one did
not know him better he might suppose
him sincere, but when we remember that
this doughty champion" is only doing
professional work, like a lawyer who
gives his services for consideration to
Whatsoever side engages him, and that
he was doubtless just as thorough and
conscientious when he was recently
working for the Republican party as he
now is in dealing such vigorous blows
for the Democracy; that, like the tabled
animal who arrayed himself in the skin
of the king of beasts, he is only lion
outwardly, and that inwardly he is very
harmless,-when we remember all this
we know how to appreciate him for the
very amiable man that he is. But just
notice how he slings the adjectives:
aof all the low, sneaking defamers Of hu-
man reputation the hypocritical slanderer is
the meanest. A man is doubly hypocrite
who pretends that his own party leaders are
pure and altogether free from the sin he
imputes to the opposition, when the very
evil he charges against his opponent is q
fostering sore in his own party. Such
xneaking hypocrisy the Foster organs of Ohio
are now practicing. Never in the political
history of the State was money 30 extensively
used to corrupt the voter as under Fosters
campaigning two years ago. In work shops.
in beer gardens, in saloons, and in the very
sanctuaries, Sunday schools, and even with
the clergy, money was deposited and patron
age promised to influence votes"
And tSen, after calling to mind the
disgraceful conduct of the Stalwarts at
Albany and of others not Stalwarts, the
Star Route infamy, none of which any
respectable Republican has ever ap-
proved, but which has been unsparingly
condemned and every effort made to bring
the guilty to justice, he closes with the
following impassionate language:
4.And vet in the face of all these facts, these
corrupt party journals arrogate unto them
selves the leadership in morals, religion and
intelligence o Lord, deliver this nation
from such pharisaical hypocrisy
Now. he has, to our certain knowledge,
been praying that prayer for great
msny months, and still his agony does
not seem to diminish. The trouble Ii
that he has his eye on the wrong fellow
He has discovered mote in the eye OF
OF his brother, but is utterly obhvious to
the beam that is in his own eye. "Thou
-, cast out first the beam that is IN
thine own eye, and then shalt thou see
clearly to pull out the mote that is in
thy brothers eye.'" No personal appli-
cation intended, but we win warrant that
If he will put up hearty petition on hi
own account his eyes will be opened tt
such depths of - as will leave hin
little appetite for ringing changes on hi'
stock subject-''hypocrisy." But ht
evidently appreciates the folly OF pre-
tending that his own party leaders are
pure and altogether free from the sin ne
imputes to the opposition, when the ver1
sin he charges against his opponents is
fostering sore in his own party" Bu
when he says that Sin work shops II
beer gardens, in saloons, in the ver1
sanctuaries, Sunday schools, and ever