The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-11-01
Forgery and Forgery.

Forgery and Forgery.
If the Republicans of New York could
disengage the politics of that State
from National politics; if the effect of a
Republican defeat there would not over
lap the borders and have disheartening
effect upon the Republicans of other
States throughout the country, they
might indulge in any spiteful work of re-
venge, or could seek to redress any
fancied wrongs by holding aloof on
election day, and few could find fault.
But the Republicans of New York are
not left to themselves. They cannot
openly stab their ticket, nor covertly
assassinate it by failing to vote, without
inliicting great injury to the party s
prospect everywhere. This no one will
dispute, and being recognized and real
lied in all its bearings, the individual
members OF the party in that State
should hesitate long before giving aid
and comfort to the common enemy. They
have but one grievance, and one for
which no one seeks or desires to apolog-
ize. The forged telegram by which
Stephen B. French acted as delegate
in the nominating convention, was a
piece of rascality condemned by every
honest man. Its author, whoever he
may be, deserves not only the contempt
of every honest man, but should be
made to suffer the penalty of his treach-
cry. Everybody comedies this. While
his act was contemplate, it does not
follow that the punishment he deserves
should fall on the heads of other Repub-
licans, who would scorn to do
such an act, and upon the Republican
party, which will not countenance
such tricks. 1t were direst folly to
turn over the State to the hands of the
Democratic party on such an account,
and the blunder would be little if any
less excusable than the forgery itself.
What is tho Democratic party that is to
profit by any dissensions in the Repub-
lican ranks? What but the father OF
the Infamous forgery known as the
Morey letter, which came near chang
ing the politics of the Nation? The
party that chartered special trains to
carry fac simile of that forgery to the
Pacific States, which the letter was
meant to capture. What is the Demo-
cratic party but the party whose leader,
Samuel j. Tilden, was the author of the
cipher dispatches, through which the
most infamous schemes to cheat the
people were concocted? Shall New
York Republicans, because some self
constituted ward politician took it upon
himself to cheat and defraud, go back
on the hundreds of thousands of hon.
est Republicans who had no part in OF
sympathy with it?' jumping out OF
the frying-pan into the fire - would be
verified in a startling manner, for the
unfavorable influence would extend to
the furthest bounds. What is Grover
Cleveland-what the remainder of the
Democratic ticket-but the exponent
of the Democratic party? Their
election cannot be ASSOCIATED from
triumph for that party, with
all that that would imply. Ii
would mean that Democratic ideas oi
finance, whatever they may be, should
prevail over the established views taught
and fostered by the Republican party.
If followed to its legitimate conclusion,
it would mean that the Government
should be placed in the hands of that
party, which after more than Rip Van
Winkle fast. is voracious in its hunger
for the spoils of office. 1t would mean
that the South would again come into
tyrannical control of the capital, and
that its long denied requests would find
1aNOraDle COnSlueraIlOQ. 1t would
mean all this, and much more. Its en-
tire significance can only be guessed
at, but enough is known to warrant the
gravest apprehension of such an event.
The Democratic party out of power has
made every possible effort to get back.
No scheme was too disreputable, no
outrage too audacious, no compact too
infamous, no forgery too bold to be
undertaken to that end. From the Mo-
rey letter in the North, and the red
shirt and tissue ballots in the South, to
cipher kilograms everywhere, it has
proven itself rotten and treacherous in
every fiber. From these it may easily
be surmised what might be essayed were
that party to regain control of public
affairs. The Republicans of no State
can afford to countenance such posi-
bility.
In Secretary Folger the New York
Republicans have candidate far above
all suspicion. Even his political
enemies confess this. He is the peer of
any man in the Nation. To defeat him
and his associates for the misdeeds of
another would be a criminal political
blunder, disaster from which the Re-
publican party would recover only by
most strenuous eXertions, and il is con-
tidently hoped that the sober Judgment
of New York Republicans will prevent
such calamity. Indianapolis Journal.