The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-03-29
pisntegrating BourbeuIsm.


Bourbon disintegration continues in
the South, and in one State after an
other the people are rising in revolt
against the Bourbon Democratic autpc-
racy. Commencing in Virginia, it Aas-
spread into Texas, Kentucky, Georgia,>
Mississippi and Tennessee with deter
mination and enthusiasm which will
either compel the Bourbon Deknocraey
to adopt more liberal platforms or kurn
these States over, for a the nt leaA, to
the Republican party. Ne Washing~
ton correspondent of the New York
Tribune furnishes that paper with
mass of interesting Information showing
that the leaven is also working in North
Carolina, and much more rapidly and
encouragingly for Republicanism, than
in the other States named above, and
he bases a prediction upon converse
tions with men from all parts of the
South that in the Presidential contest of
1884 at least four Southern States will
be debatable ground, and in more than
one of them the chances of success
would seem to lie with the Republican
party.
s In North Carolina there is already an
Independent Democratic organization in
every county which stands ready to CO.
operate with the Republicans. This has
been brought about by the dissatisfac-
ton of the rank and file with the ring
rule of the Bourbons, which has COM
pletely excluded the younger men from
Office and from all political honors; also
by the discomfort of that class of voters
which has grown up since the war
with the obstacles placed in the way
of the material growth and interests
Of their State by the Bourbon
ism of the s.Solid South" The
prohibition movement of last year gave
this element an opportunity to show
itself. The Bourbons championed the
bill, and ;Hti-prohibition organizations
were formed in every county, which
these young and progressive Democrats
joined, and with the Republicans they
voted prohibition down by lis, 900 ma
jority. These organizations still exist
and are ready to combine again against
the Bourbons, and plan has already
been matured, which the Tribst1e's cor
respondent gives substantially as follows:
North Carolina elects next November four
superior Court Judges and one Supreme Court
Judge on q State ticket a Legislature, mem
bers Of Congress, of course, and such local ON
pie the power to elect 1t is the Judgment of
such Republican leaders as Congressman
with the independent Democrats, and that in
every Congressional district except the Sec
Republicans should support the Independent
Democratic candidate for Congress. It is un-
every Democratic district It in the State e'1 The he
Democrats who took part in the antiprohibi-
ton n-evement and are ready to oppose the
with those Democrats who did not take part in
that movement, but are tired of Bourbonism
name % under I WHICH they can rail- rally T all the @ ele
ments OF disaffection. The name of Liber-
ais " Is the one they are thought most likely to
adopt. -. -.
. The prospects of success are very fiat
tering should such combination be
formed, for it only requires q compare
lively small diversion from the Bourbon
Democracy to revolutionize the State.
The State is naturally Republican, not
alone among the blacks, but also among
the whites, whose Union sentiment is
very strong. In 1876 Tilden's majority
over Hayes was IL, 10S, but in 1880 Han
cocks majority over the Republican and
"a small Greenback vote combined was
only 7,20S. The majority of the present
Governor was only 6,237. As to the
Congressional vote the I,i6une's CORE
spondent says:
, 1t is expected that the whole Bourbon dele
mated, and that % every one Of them W viii be op-
posed by a Liberal Democrat supported by the
Republicans OF the seven Democratic mem
bers from North Carolina. only two had a ma
jority of more than 2,0oO votes, and in one of
these cases there were two other candidates,
but no Republican. in the field. The majori-
ford, 159; Cox. ,3l6: Scales, 1884: Dowd. 4.0s5;
6aeRee and LAM an ependent nS ssis % ehsnse
OF 1000 votes properly d,stributed would have
Carolina gains a member under the new appor-
tionment, and the Democratic Legislature will,
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