The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-02-01
POLITICAL PARAGRApHs.

Z ~ The misfortune of the Democratic
party is that its affairs are badly mixed.
Things don't work right with it at all.
Here, for example. is John Kelly, solid
as q rock all the time, while the South
Is constantly splitting In pieces. If,
now, the South would remain solid, and
John Kelly would split, how lovely the
situation would bel ~
n@ Hendricks has been formally rec
ognized as by1gone in Indiana. He
has been retired by the Democracy and
ex-senator Mcdonald has been ad-
yanced to the front as the Indiana can
didate for the Democratic nomination
for the Presidency. Mcdonald is the
man recently described by an admirer
as the "peer of anyone. who does not
have to get on to stool to look at any
public man in the country Hendricks
has been famous for his attempts to
stand on two stools, and he seems now
to have fallen between them only to be
lifted and deposited in a snug place on
the shelf
p%A way has been suggested for
thinning out the crowded ranks of DEM
ocratic Presidential candidates in Ohio.
z A Democratic editor proposes that they
all go into training at once for the par
ty' nomination for Governor In 1888,
with the agreement that the. one who
secures the nomination and makes q
gallant fight for Governor. whether
elected or not, shall be the States cam
didate for President In 1884, and shall
receive the solid support of the States
delegation. 1t is doubtful II this plan
viii be accepted. Bookwalter might 90
In and buy the nomination for Governor
as he did before, and then the party
would be in a pretty pickle. :
SGrNone of the Northern Democrat
ic newspapers seem eager to comment
on the negro exodus from South Caro-
lima. and their backwardness Is easily
explained. Hitherto they have charged
that Northern Republicans have in
stigated all the movements Of this char
acter among the negroes, but they cam
not charge that now. because the Bour-
bon journals of the South admit that the
cause is political oppression. This bars
out the Northern Democratic editor.
He has not for twenty-five years ad-
mitted that the Southern Bourbons can
o.wrong, and he is not going to admit
it now; hence keeps silent
s6c Mr.. lTilden has pitched the
Democratic keynote for 1884. He says:
.. 1t is what climatologists call the up
ward curve in the hourly and daily tides
of heat which makes our 450, 900, 600
bushels of wheat sure crop, which
ripens our 1, ,750, 600, ! 900 bushels of corn,
and which enables us to grow 5000, 900
bale of the best and cheapest cotton.o
Enter q boom for the upward curve'i
Let Mr.. Tilden claim it as an outgrowth
of "My Reform and 90 before the
country on is. 1t is revolutionary, but
It's safe. We congratulate the Democ-
racy on the possession Of an issue. 'Rah
for the ! "upwarda curve"l-N 2.
r B~ The stupidity of the South Caro-
lima Bourbons is illustrated again. They
lift a wall in their principal organ be-
cause the negroes are leaving the State.
= Entire plantations have been left with
out laborers, they exclain, % and it Is
impracticable to tell what is the extent
of the movement. Tho 'colored people
are the foundation of the whole agricul-
tural system of the State. Without their
labor q large part Of the State would re-
main uncuitivated until white emigrants
could be obtained to fill the gap. White
laborers would not be satisfied with the
wages and rations which content the
colored people" Yet the Bourbons are
merely reaping what they have sown.
They have denied the colored men all
their rights as citizens, and by their rifle
clubs and red shirt brigades have made
life terror for them. Had they been
less stupid, they would have foreseen
long ago that the present exodus was
Inevitable unless they altered their
methods of conducting the politics of
the State.-M r Tribune.