The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-10-25
ISLANDER REBUKED.n
That Democratic Confession.

conuuct OI lnlS campaign, we can naruly
do them a greater service than to give
voice to the intense loathing and disgust
with which they regard themselves, now
that the campaign is over, and which pre-
vents anything like serene and joyful
contemplation of a victory obtained by
such doubtful, not to say dishonorable
methods. In order to make this confession
Ineligible, it should be explained that
Immediately on the receipt of telegram
announcing the bare fact that MIR. Horr
was nominated a candidate for Congress
from this District, his brother, r. G. Horr,
wrote him congratulatory letter, in which
surprise was expressed at the sudden turn
affairs had taken in the Convention, some
surmises as to the cause were given, some
inquiries made, and some advice and en-
couragement rendered in language, itmust
be confessed, that some brothers would
not have used, but in no way compromis-
ing the character of r. A. Horr, nor in fact
any one, except as it might reflect upon
the coed taste of the writer.
Our Democratic friends, we don't know
who or how many, 0hough one could not
go far astray in guessing) ever on the
watch for anything to beat Grant'-hon-
orable or otherwise, reached for Mr.. Horr's
overcoat containing this and other private
letters, and at the opportune moment they
communed together with a disgruntled
Republican, whom they seemed to think
had more brains than themselves, and pub
lished garbied extracts from them, distort-
ing and falsifying their statements until
the rank and file of the great. unwashed
thought they had unearthed bonanza of
campaign material.
For instance, they found in the letter
first written by r. G. Horr the following:
"Was not the possibility of a compromise
on you freely discussed among the Lorain
delegates early on Friday morning? 1t
seems impossible to me that the whole
forty-three could have been taken over at
standing" This, the reader will see, was
a question from a man who was unac-
quaiuted with any of the facts and was
speculating as to the wherefore of thenom-
ination. But this Democratic coterie go
on and say in the next paragraph: I" For
mer understanding What We the peo-
pie of Lorain thought that the Hon. S. s.
Warner was the only Lorain man to whom
we had pledged our fidelity, and now we
are told by Rolls Congressional twin that
former understanding existed to use
Mr.. Warner as mock candidate and then
at the proper moment with consumate
skill throw him overheard and take the
whole forty-three delegates of Lorain, ac-
cording to a former understanding over to
r. A Horr." The untruth attempted to
be conveyed by this latter paragraph was
too transparent to deceive anybody but
those who preferred to believe lie, and
we only mention it as specimen of the
peculiar methods in use. This statement,
with others, was published in the Penny
Press, the only paper low enough and mean
enough, and sufficiently irresponsible TO
give currency to that kind of garbage, and
it was followed by several others which
were a rehash of this one, in which charg
es were rung on the same quotations, and
they were distributed by the hundred and
five hundred by this Immaculate party that
wanted ISLANDER rebuked," or rather, we
should say, slander rewarded.
Well, now that the campaign is over, the
Democracy, Chose of them who were con-
cerned in this affair." ought, and we pre-
sumo do, feel very much ashamed of it,
and their consciences, supposing they have
any, have stung and goaded them till they
are of all men most miserable. They are
ashamed and sorry they acted the role of
common thieves, they are sorry they stole
the oyercoat, they are sorry they stole pri-
vate letters with which they had no more
right than with another's purse, they are
sorry they used private information which
no honest man would have dreamed of us
ing sooner than he would anothers money,
for however they came into possession of
the coat or letters, they knew very well to
whom they belonged, and the law makes
it a larceny to appropriate to ones own
use the goods of another, even when they
are picked up in the street. How, then,
shall it be considered when it is taken
from hook in a room where it has been
hung for temporary purposes, by men who
know to whom it belongs, the pockets
robbed of their contents and garbled ex-
tracts, from letters falsified as to their
meaning, published because it was sup
posed it would injure Mr.. Horr's reputa-
ton and diminish his chances of election.
1t would be charitable to suppose that the
1oI,a <,f 4I,- I,a IN,
advance occurred to them, and that now
since the exurberance Of their joy has in
measure spent itself, they have come to
regard their conduct as dishonorable and
contemplate, as it is. We presume they
would be glad to confess, we know they
ought to confess and ask forgivness, but it
is contrary to the instincts and traditions
of some Democrats to confess anything,
and they can't bring themselves to it.
When the consciences of the mana
gers of q party, and We know not
now many of the rank and file became &C
cessory after the fact, become so debased
in their moral perceptions as to unblush-
ingly resort to the methods described in
this and a previous issue, there is obvious
ly need Of repentance and confession, and
when they fail to show disposition to do
the honorable themselves, some one must
do it for them. And now that we are in
the way of "rebuking slander" and con-
Tossing Democratic sins, we are disposed
to give them a benefit and clear up the
calender, and if we have omitted anything
as we doubtless have, We will endeavor
to give il suitable mention hereafter, if our
attention is called to it, to the end that it
may not in future be necessary or possible