The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-06-07
The First Gun.

We have been waiting patiently for
some indication of the plan of campaign
which the Democrats have marked out
for next fall, and at last are gratified
with the sound of the first gun that
clearly reveals it. The mode of attack
is thorough and comprehensive, and the
indianapolis Sentinel opens the assault
on the Republican lines. 1t recites the
fact that delicate little internal ma
chimes have been sent through the mails
to kill Vanderbilt and others. 1t AYERS
that there is in jail s'howling Repub-
lican assassin named Guiteau; 1" in the
White House bullet-made President,"
s in the courts such star-route thieves
as Brady and Dorsey" etc. In these
things ''thoughtful people will discover
that fell spirit is abroad in the land
bent on mischief; that deadly virus is
in the blood of the Nation; that the devil
is massing his forces for death and des-
olation." The handwriting is on the
wall, and the Sentinel, as the represent
ative of the Democratic press, is its
Daniel.
"Such incidents are well calculated
to make men reflect" says this prophet.
"For twenty years the Republican
party has held sway. 1t has debauched
things once of good report. Nothing
has escaped its communicating touch"
There is a depth of completeness in
this way of attacking an adversary that
commands respect 1t admits of no
palliating circumstances to relieve the
utter devilishness of Republicanism. If
it errs at all it is in not going across the
water and attributing the Irish assasina-
tions to the same '.fen spirit" But per-
haps it is all summed up in the following:
'.Here we have the outcome of Repub-
/ canism-infernal machines, assassina-
ton and universal debauchery." And
this is not the worst Oft. MATTERS are
going from bad to worse. Certainly it
IS about time to retire the Republican
party" We should say so. The
shrewdness of the Democratic policy
will appear when tie difficulty of meet
ing these charges is appreciated. The
Republican party has been in power
twenty years. There is no doubt about
that. And there is considerable sin in
the world. There is no doubt about
that. The connection between the two
is obvious. 1t is true that the Repub-
lican party did not have, strictly speak
ing, a fair chance when Wilkes Booth,
who was Democrat. we believe, put
in Andy johnson for four years as
President, but probably if this had not
happened things would have been
worse. 1t was while the Republican
party was in power at Washington that
the Tweed Ring came very near stealing
all there was in New York, too. And
the Gar was assassinated besides.
How the mass of evidence accumulates
when we come to think it over.
This horrible career of wickedness
will cease if the Democrats win this fall.
1t would have been better to save tine
argument for the next Presidential cleo
ton; for if the Democrats capture Con-
gress and a Republican President re-
mains in power and the wickedness still
continues, the situation will be mixed,
and the plea will lose its effectiveness
two years hence. 1t had much better be
reserved till then, when, with Tilden
for a reform candidate with his cipher
arrangements and Barnum's mules, it
would be liable to sweep things, es-
pecially if care were taken to get up
another Morey letter at the right mo-
ment. Mr.. Vanderbilt would prefer to
have somebody else open his mail for
two years so as to have sure thing
slenceforth against internal machines
rather than to complicate matters by
dividing the responsibility at this junct-
ure. Perhaps President Arthur had
better resign and give the Democracy
and purity chance now. Cyclones are
getting rather too numerous to be COM
Portable nowadays, and it is more than
probable that they are of Republican
origin. Louis Giobe-DemOcrdt.