The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-04-19
Bourbon Spirit Aroused.

The South Carolina Bourbons are dis.
turbed in spirit. They always are when
the sacred right to keep the black man
down is assailed. And they have had
mustering-this too they always have
whenever q spirit of excessive folly takes
hold of them. This time it was the
Bourbon. Democratic Executive Com
mittee who met. And the occasion of
the meeting was letter from Attorney
General Brewster. Brewster believes
the right of fair count ought not to be
assailed. He believes that majorities
are something, and that fraud should
not prevail against them. Such, how
ever, is not the prevailing idea of Pal
mettodom. There fraud is everything;
majorities nothing. Brewster would
have this ended. He would have the
ballot-box purified and fraud punished.
Hitherto the crackers. and sand hillers,
the Instruments, have occasionally suf-
fered, and the prominent ones escaped.
Now the Attorney General insists that
the important persons concerned in
these frauds on liberty shall be vigor-
ously prosecuted. There is where the
shoe pinches. The South Carolina
Bourbons say '.that means all of us, ;"
which is another way of saying two
things: 1, that only. important per-
sons have anything to do with Bourbon
politics in South Carolina. The sand
hillers count for no more than they did
in the high iinks of the old planters:
and 2, all of these important ones are
more or less guilty of election frauds.
/ 1t is an " indictment'' of the DEM
ocratic. party. So say the Bourbon
Executive Committee. How is it in
dicted? Brewster said nothing about
Democrats. He referred only to cleo
ton frauds and the parties who are
guilty of the crime. Ali But that
means all of 'swe uns,n That is the
meaning of the Bourbon utterance.
They ought TO know themselves. And
if they say it means them the rest of the
country win be likely to accept them at
their word. Hitherto it has. been sup
posed they were not all guilty, but the
Bourbon Committee have brushed aside
that cherished delusion. 1t means all
of us-the whole Democratic party of
South Carolina. Unless they mean that,
their tribulatory exclamation, ''It is an
Indictment of the Democratic party
is senseless. Thus these Bourbons say
of themselves much. worse things than
any one else has said of them The
guilty cap was thrown at few-they
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So let them wear it, aGe E.-
T Frauds have been committed in South
Carolina No one denies that Mr..
Brewster says: f" Punish the guilty
ones" The Bourbon Committee an
swer that means (" to punish the whole
Democratic party of South Carolina"
/ Why? Because they are innocentp
! Certainly not. Mr.. Brewster only refers
/ to the guilty. The reason must there
fore be that all are guilty, and that the
Bourbon State Executive Committee ad-
init they are guilty. raa -iaa s1. sl
! If this is done, that is, if the guilty
are punished, it will make adherence
to the principles of the Democratic par
| ty impossible in the future" So say
! the Bourbon Committee. 1t has been
known that fraud was one of the Demo-
cratic cherished practices, but now the
Bourbons claim it as a principle. Mr..
Brewster says s'stop fraud - That is
all he requires to be stopped. Of course
If fraud is terminated it can no longer
be ..adhered' to. And they reason that
If they cannot adhere to fraud they will
be prevented from future practice of
one of the principles of the Democratic
party. --1-FCi4 oval s- .rc
And now these Bourbons in solemn
convention, with many twistings OF
mustaches and loud yociferations, insist
- that it is time. for the people to rise
in their might and protest against this
unwarrantable invasion of their rights.
Let us see again what it is that the At
torney-General directs-this, that par
ties guilty of election frauds shall be
vigorously prosecuted. Is fraud one of
the South Carolina rights? is it an in
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outcount the colored votes and commit di-
Yers and sundry perjuries to fortify their
fraudsP If these are rights and punish
ment is an invasion of them, they ought
TO be invaded. But their clamor means
this and nothing else. s--r rr1s
IL they fail now /" the foe and stranger
will againg rule in South Carolina
This also is part of the Bourbon COM
mittee's wall. By foe and stranger they
of course mean the colofed man and emil
grant. But these can not rule if the
elections are fair unless they, "the foe
and stranger" are the majority. viii
the Bourbons openly say that the
majority ought not to prevail? Perhaps
they may. Whether they do or not this
is clearly deduoiblef from their state
ment. If fraud is punished the Bour-
bons can not rule the State. In fact
that is precisely what they say" If
we fail now'-so they say. Fail in
whatP Why. in preventing the Courts
from punishing persons guilty of election
frauds--that is the only matter in issue
--and if they fail in preventing that
punishment-then the ''foe and
stranger win rule, because the foe and
stranger are the most numerous body
of voters, and because the foe and
stranger can only be defeated by fraud.
Mr.. Brewster indictment, as indictment
they call it, is very tame compared with
the indictment which the Bourbon
Committee make against themselves
and their party. Verify whenever these
Bourbons open their mouth they put
bothfeet in it--Detroit Post and Tribune.