The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-12-27
An oil Issue Gone.
The leading Democratic paper of
Ohio. the Cine nnati EROairer, saws:

An VII Issue tone.
The leading Democratic paper of
Ohio, the Cincnna Enquirer, says:
The late election. among other things it has
done. his forever st He'd the bloOdy-shirt cry.
Nothing can avail that issue now. 1t is rs
dead as she men who persisted in using il long
after Il had ceased to interest the count y.
True, the old issue OF Solid South is
to all appearance dead, and. in truth be
il said, dead at the hands of the Repub-
lican parry. With the election of Gar
field it went down as we hope forever.
Violence gave way to fraud, and that in
turn is now making way for better
methods in the politics OF the South.
This is the result hoped for through so
manY years OF turmoil, but which every
Democrat swore to it never could be
reached SO long as Republican Presi-
dent sat in the White House. Is this
result then to be esteemed aDemocratic
victory? Was it obtained by the Demo
cratic policy of "wiping out the last
vest ges OF war legislation" or by de-
priving the ederal Government of the
rightful power to protect is citizens?
Was it ga ned by removing inspectors
from the polls, and turning the ballot
box over to the Tree carnival of fraud in
the great cities? Not one line of these
just and righteous laws was changed.
/ he combined power of the Republicans
of al shades of opinion shielded these
high and conse rated powers OF the
Federal Government against the de-
stroying hands of the Democracy. / he
Democratic cries of ''home rule, ''bayo-
net rule" and troops at the pollsh
were not silenced in victory but smoth-
cred in overwhelming defeat. What
Democrat is to-day demanding the re-
peal of the Election laws and declaring
that he who dallies is bastard and he
who doubts is damned? These section
al dogmas were buried in the defeat OF
the Democratic party, and Democrat
can eXult to-day over the disappearance
of the "bloody shirt issue just as he
can rejoice that his party was defeated
when it became the ally of slavery, the
enemy of the Union, the foe of equal
rights and the champion of "a white
mans Government. 1t takes but a
few years to ring the Democratic party
to the point OF rejoicing over lis own de
feats and treasuring as jewels the relics
of its own diShonor.
European philosophers declared that
our civil war would leave behind it
centuries of fierce remembrance" "
They counted too much on the Demo
cratic party in their prophecies of evil.
They did not know that its great stom-
ach for Office and power would swallow
up not only its alleged principles but
even its hatreds and thirst for revenge.
They could not realize that in the hope
of power and control the Democratic
party would cease "nursinI its wrath
to keep it warm and abandon even
so telovel an instrumentality as the
Sold South. The Solid South was
dear to the Democratic party in
its nature and in its works. 1t
was an unbridled. trampling power with
its ieet on hated doctf mes and q de-
spised race and its hands free to grasp
for power and strike with revenge. The
Democratic party gloated and swelled
in the power OF the Solid South. 1t was
an instrumentality which suited its
character, its revenges, and its homes.
| The Solid sou h was the embod ment o
! all there was o. State Rights" OF all
that was lei, of the - oSt Cause,n
all the hatred o. despised race, o. all
the reven9es against con uering princ-
Piles, and o. all the reactunary no, es
of the party.
The e ection OF Garfield ended the
Solid South. 1t was then establishei
bevond all doubt that the North would
never consent to turn This country over
% n South made solid ~ vo.enCe and
raul. Then the census ~ 40 came
IN to comp etc ;he worh, and. by giving
the North some thirty diional mem
bers OF Congress. il bro e the back o.
the South as n coniroliin power IN
National lolitics. OF what use was 4
Solid South any LONGER Instead o
. hn Of x-.r
tory it was a stand NJ policy and pledge
of de eat. The rant over ''local
self o, vernmeat and troops at the
| polls had served its day. The method
o; violence and Gaud returned to plague
4 their inventors the Elect on laws stood
unrepealed; no; n vest ce o. war legis.
/ lation was wiped away; the Republican
| party stood united and commanding in
| the confidence OF the North demandin4
! that every result OF the war should be
preserved. The Solid South was
abandoned simply Eecaused it proved 8
/ suicidal policy. The White League
| disbanded and the Ni1ht Riders dis.
! persed. But ii the Dem cratic party
had once succeeded in making the Solid
| South political orce in this country il
would have remained as constant tor
ment and supplied the materials for
| desperate, embroiled politics for genera
tions. That party would revive the
Solid South tomorrow in all its rigoI
and persecution if it thought the effort
would I'd toward Democratic ascen-
dency. 1t would abandon t the next
| day Tor the same reason. lncOnsisien
even in its hatreds and reyenges the
record of the party is harmonious in
the one principle that it is a WAYS ready
to sell its soul for power. So it is that
Democratic paper can rejoice with un-
abashed face over the disappearance
OF the bloody shirt ISSUE" although
that result was accomplished only after
the most desperate struggles of that
party to make sectionalism the corner
stone of its power. But all such re
joicings only serve to rccIll one of the
darkest chapters in the history of tho
unsavory concern known as the Demo.
| cratic party.-Iolca State Register.