The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-03-08
Mr.. English Explains Defeat.

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Mr.. w. H. English has been subject
ed to an interview by: reporter. of q
Democratic newspaper. To this SYM
pathizing soul the late candidate for
Vice-President confided his tale Of woe.
AT first Mr.; English, according to the
reporter, fought shy, ,-Sof the news
paper man, saying that his confidence
had been abused by the reporters. But
being assured that the individual before
him was really and truly q commission
er from the organ of the Ohio Democ-
racy he .relented, and ..his manner at
English dropped into that easy and
conversational manner which 80 admir-.
ably characterizes a public man who
writes his own interviews, asks his own
questions of himself and never lets the
report 60 out of his hands until il has
been filed and polished to his liking.
Mr.. English is by no means "a veteran
interviewer" but he goes through all
the PAGES of steed who has been accus-
toned to ''do the great interviewing
acth fol. many years. To the reporter,
whom he saw probably in his own
mirror, he said: sYou have happened
to visit me when am more inclined
than have been heretofore to talk
about the Indiana campaign Of 1897
This, doubtless, pleased the reporter
and Mr.. English very much. There Is
nothing like having ga good mixer
when one.s pail is ready for the COW.
Mr. English was ready to give down all
that was worth the. having.
1t is not necessary to follow the re-
porter and the late Democratic candi-
date through all of their fiorid and an
imated report of this interview. Pass
ing lightly over the well-turned periods
of Mr.. English we find, toward the last
of his story, summary of the causes
of the Democratic defeat in Indiana. It
should be said that Mr.. English does
not understand why the Democratic de-
feat in the United States should be
charged to the Democratic defeat in In
diana. He does not see, apparently,
why the candidate for Vice President
should be expected to carry his own
State. He forgets that he was nomi-
mated because Indiana was doubtful
State, and that he, with his ample
purse, was expected to carry it. At
this late day he complains that New
York was lost to the Democracy, and
that the loss of New York was Just as
great disaster to the party as the de-
feat in Indiana. But, coming down to
particulars, Mr.. English condensed his
admirable report into a brief statement.
In the first place, he said, 1.-The Demo-
Gratis did not have q majority in the
State when the canvass opened, and
they had not had a majority for many
years. This is sound. There was
once a French King, who. when arriv-
ing at a village, was angered because
, there had heen no salute fred in his
honor. Ordering before him the Mayor,
he demanded an explanation The
frightened official replied that he had
fourteen excellent reasons for his ap-
parent want of reverence for the King.
I'm the first place." he said, 1--WE have
no cannon. !" ssNever mind the other
thirteen reasons" said the placated
monarch. Mr.. English's first, reason
for the defeat in Indiana covers the
whole case. The Democrats did not
have votes enough. They never had
votes enough.
But, for the amusement of the re-
porter, and apparently TO free his own
mind, Mr.. English went on to say that
his party could not draw any efficient
aid from the party holding the balance
of power" That is to say, not having
votes enough of their own, they could
not borrow any from the Greenbackers.
The Mayor above mentioned probably
would have said, if permitted, that, not
having any cannon, his fellow-eitizens
could not borrow from their neighbors.
But, furthermore, the Democracy, ac-
cortiing to Mr.. English, was loaded down
with - the odium of an unfortunate de-
cision of the Supreme Court" 1t must
be admitted that a party that has not
enough votes, and can borrow none, and
, is loaded down, too boot, is in a sorry
plight. This is Mr.. English's view of
the case, although all knowing Demo-
cratic journals outside of Indiana con-
tend that the Republicans bought up
the Indiana Democrats "in droves,"
to use their own language. Upon this
branch of the subject Mr.. English also
touches; and he says that there was q an
enormous corruption fund.- and that
this was drawn from the great manu-
factories, banks, railroad corporations,
, and from the plumber of Treasury and
Star-route thieves.n And, worst of all,
, the State was flooded with /" able and
jealous Republican newspapers from
Chicago, Cincinnati, and elsewhere."
Now we have the true inwardness of the
defeat of the Democracy in Indiana
Mr.. English cannot add a word to his
admirable exposition, The affair, as
thus explained, was not political
phenomenon. 1t was simply the result
of mathematical proposition. If the
Democrats had had enough votes they
would have carried the State. But, not
having them, and never having had
them, and not being able to find any
more, theywere defeated. m 7. Times.