The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-06-28
A Shameful Boast.

when the Democratic party blunders,
which it does whenever Opportunity is
offered, 1T does itwith astupiditY which is
! truely marvellous. tplacesit itself in posi-
tims which are untenable, and radical
| " wrong, and appears to be SO entirely
blind to the fact that-it boasts of things
I which all the world else condemns.
When one person claims. that he has
been deprived of his seat in Congress by
another person, it is clearly his right to
ir;Iye his case considered by Congress,
and il is also clearly one OF the primary
duties of Congress TO consider it.
During allathe past, when partisan
! feeling ran highest, though there have
been occasions when strong efforts were
! made to delay the consideration of
cases of this nature. Eo party has had
| the elfrontery to boast that sueh,was its
purpose. They have always sheltered
Their purpose behind real or pretended
I desire for more light or time to examine
! the evidence. Now, for the first time
in the history Of the country, it falls to
! the Democratic party TO do and boast of
the shameful thing that hitherto all
honorable persons have serupulously
lisought to conceal. IL is notorious that
during Mackey's contest for the seat
whichthe now occupies, and to which he
was lawfully. elected by a majority ex-
| ceeding 5000 votes, the. Democrats fill
] ,bustered during nearly eight days. This
| of itself was sufficiently disgraceful. But
! their crowning disgrace was, to come,
and 1t was of their own doing. The
!. Democratic Congressmen met in caucus
I and PREPARED aprotest, which they signed
| and sought to put on. record. The pre-
amblc to their resolutions begins thus:
1 1l,s, ~ d nfG hox-a
ecssfailj TestStcf ne .gfoits OF the majority 70
c 1nstder the case of Mackey va. O'Connor, etc
1t must be remembered that this is
not what the Republicans say of the
Democrats, it is what the Democratic
Congressman say of themselves. as it is
found printed on page AZ of the Con-
gressional Record of May so, being the
| proceedings of the House for May %.
4 According to their own statement they
misused the rules of the House; not to
secure Justice; not to- prevent wrong;
not TO obtain more evidences; not to in
vestigate alleged forgeries; not for any
4 worthy purpose whatever, but solely for
this unlawful and revolutionary pur-
pose, to prevent the majority from in
vestigating the case; to prevent the ma
joIitv, from examining into the respect
/ i've rights of the claimant and contest
| ant, or as me democrats puIlJ 10 preNenI
the majority from considering the case.
Considering the make up Of the party
in Congress It is not remarkable that
they werei led by partisan spirit into
weary days of filibustering, but it al
most passes belief that any sane body
of men should hope to gain anything
from the intelligent voters of the coun-
try by thus putting themselves on record
in boast that they had sought to pre-
vent 1.-The consideration of a person S
right to seat in Congress. And that
they Should hope to make thing from
charging the Republicans Iwith defeat
ing the unlawful purpose of which they
i boast, isyct more Incredible. But this
Incredible thing they have done -.,s
r. The CongresSmen who made this ap-
peal, in which they boast of their shame,
will find that the honest members of
their party will read it with as much in
dignation as Republicans do, and unless
we are greatly mistaken in the temper of
the people. they VIII find it a mill stone
which they have hanged about their own
necks.-Detroa PoSi d,lds1'rs6U1se.