The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-10-04
A Revisw Of Judge Geddes.
To the Editor of the Herald:

To the Editor of the Herald:
NEW LONDON, o., Sept. 25.-SInce the
Herald's exposure of Geo. w. Geddes
has shown the hollowness of his claim
upon the soldier for his vote and in fact
of any loyal citizen of the Fourteenth
district, the atmosphere about this viii
lage has suddenly grown cold. Before
Geddes' record of those memorable days
of 1S60-65 was published to the world,
F. L. Ferris and Committeeman Bel
vile were seen to have a continual
smile upon their faces, but now it has
frozen. People here have become aware
that these two mems opposition against
Hon. r. A. Horr Is only mercenary.
There is not any duubt but that Horr
will poll about the full vote of his town.
ship; the opposition is growing less
every day and will so continue. A
prominent Democratic editor in this dis
trict told me the other day that F. l..
Ferris had sent him a communication
for publication that was so bitter against
Horr and his friends that if he had pub
llshed it it would have made Horr votes
all over the district and would have
been used as q campaign document by
the Republicans. Why he said that the
charges were more ridiculous than those
published in the Herald a few days
since which were signed "One of Horr's
Enemies" "I want to see Judge Geddes
elected, but these fellows over at New
London have overdone the thing, and i
do not look for Judge Geddes to run
over ten or fifteen ahead of his ticket
there. But to hear Ferris and Belleyille
talk you would think that they cast the
entire Republican vote of their town
ships" Now let me ask my comrades
in arms a candid question. The war
was sinaugurated audfour years OF bloody
war followed. You remember our trials,
our struggles and our sacrifice; you re-
member there came an hour when North
ern faith grew cold and Northern cour-
age dull there came an hour when old
men and old women were asking for
the boy at the front; when the wife
grew weary, when the child cried for the
parent. Now in that hour where was
Goe. w. Geddes-a supporter of that
arch-traitor, G. L. Vallandigham
While the guns of Gettysburg were
sounding and we lay weltering in our
own blood, this same Geddes was in
sympathy with his New York sympath-
izers who were resisting the draft, braiu-
little children and burning orphan asy-
for him now? Later, this same Geddes
declared that the war for the preserva-
ton of the Union was failure, and de-
manded compromise with rebellion and
treason. Is it Tor that we should vote for
him now we met the issue. Prayer went
up from the aged loving and loyal mes
sages went up from the wife aud child !;
all through the great North men prayed
and voted. and the Nation stood by Lin
coin, and the guns of victory echoed
their ballots, and the Union was saved.
What share had Geo. w. Geddes in that
None. We made great struggle, and
our faith in the schoolhouse, our faith
in the press, our faith in the open church
our faith in the manhood of this people
was grandly answered. And so it will
be the second Tuesday in October by
electing Hon. Rollin A. Horr to repre-
sent the loyal Fourteenth district in
Congress.
ONE OF THE BOYS IN BLUE.