The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-05-19
WELLINGTON, o.. THURSDAY MAY 49, 1881.
The Pith Of the Matter.

The Pith Of the Matter.
There has been a great deal of talk
ng in the Senate, since the present ses-
ion began, that was "ful of sound
md fury, signifying nothing But the
peech of Senator Frye will not be
,laced in that class by friend or by foe.
t opened line of discussion which the |
should have opened much
,arlior. The session has not been
wasted, it is true. The speeches of
Hill and other Democrats have
lone the Republicans great service.
But they have not chosen, until now, to
meet in the strongest manner the issue
which their alliance with Senator Ma
hone brought into especial prominence.
That alliance it was q sheer waste Of
lime to Justify, if it meant only an
agreement as to the division of the Of
ices. But it meant more. It was q
revolt against the proscriptivc, dishon-
est and criminal methods to which the
Democratic party has resorted in order
10 keep the South solid. On that issue
the Republicans and the Senator from
Virginia were in real accord. He had
given proof of his sincerity by his acts.
No man could say that General Ms
homes effort to secure fair vote and
an honest count in Virginia had been
for the purpose of getting any partition
Of United States Offices, either in the
State or about the Senate Chamber.
On that question his acts showed hearty
accord with the settled convictions of
The alliance between him
and them needed no other justification
when it was once made clear that the
paramount object with both was to Sc
cure honest elections.
In earlier stages OF the discussion
Senators gave thought to
this subject, as illustrated by events
prior to the last Presidential election.
The Democratic rerly was that they
were treating of ancient history,
threshing old straw, and dragging up
incidents of a bygone state of society to
justify complaints against the South OF
to-day. The reply had some force.
But Mr.. Frye puts all ancient history
aside and comes down to the events of
the latest election. He arrays mass
of evidence which the Democrats of the
Senate will find it impossible to refute,
showing that the latest election at the
South was not more honest than those
of earlier date. His proofs are largely
oloWh 4AoLA o"Cldt ECpOEtSs 4h0y COu-
Germ the character of the elections, not
one State only. but throughout the
Solid South. They prove that pre-
cisely the same infamous, bloody and
was spotted all over with assassinations
Republican party was literally muir
dered in State after State, exists and
reigns to-day, defies all law, just as it
did then, resorts to murder whenever
fraud will not serve as well, and thus
will of majority of the people in sew
eral of the States and in many districts.
The Democrats may as well under
stand that this is the issue which they,
sooner or later, will be forced to meet.
No contemptible claptrap about any
pretended bargain, no hypocritical
cant about the impropriety of tearing
open old sores" will divert attention
Senator Frye has given a sample. If
the Democrats waste time in talking
upon trivial or fictitious issues they
will only leave the Republican charges
and proofs to make their way unan-
voters. If they can make any defense
it behooves them to make it at once,
before the terrible arraignment and the
powerful array of evidence have pro-
duced deep-rooted beliefs. The Repub-
lican party declares that self-govern-
ment does not exist at the South. 1t
drags to the bar the Bourbon Democ-
racy and charges it with keeping itself
alive by theft and murder in thousand
forms. 1t shows that, even with full
control of every Southern State, and
with not Federal soldier to interfere,
the Bourbon Democracy does not dare
to permit free and honest election to
be held in any Southern State. 1t
points out the cause of that malignant
hatred which the Democratic party,
even before the last election, had felt
and manifested toward General Ma
hone. 1t demands of the country why
that conspiracy of vote-stealers and
assassins, their hypocritical leaders.
tame supporters and blind defenders,
which is called the Democratic party
of the South. should not be declared
forever unfit for any part in the Gov
ernment of the Nation.
The only answer of the Democratic
rility, mendacity and cant. Talk OF
that sort will not break the force ol
solid facts and sound arguments. The
speech of Mr.. Frye, with its array oi
proofs, will be placed before millions OF
voters at the North. In reply Senator
Coke calls the speech remarkable fol-
the recklessness of its statements and
the falsity of its charges" The cOun.
try has listened to similar sweeping de-
malls for fifteen years. 1t hopefully and
and got cheated. "If these charges
are true" says Mr.. Coke, those who are
guilty of them "are not fit associates
for any civilized people," Thousands
of Northern men and foreigners who
have tried to live at the South have
arrived at that same conclusion, and
have fed from a land where the most
cruel and horrible crimes are openly
perpetrated by the recognized leaders
of public opinion, and calmly tolerated
by the whole people. 1t is high time
to teach the South that those who keeI
alive barbarism thereby make them.
selves barbarians, and that the people
who tolerate infamous crimes thereby
make themselves infamous criminals
in the sober judgment of the whole
civilized world. 1t is not bad that
harsh things should be said of the
South. If they were not true they
would do no harm. But it is unspeaka
bly, bad that the South has SO behaved
during fifteen years of peace. that the
worst things yet said of its conduct are
true.-M r. Tribune.
BRThe Deputy Recorder of Deeds
of the District of Columbia is person
of importance, and will do to run 9
hotel at Springfield, Ill. He is a vea
cradle party, of aristocratic lineage
and has recorded deeds and mortgage!
for many years. The proposition t.