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The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-13
JUDGE GEDDEs, SPEECH.

A full house was present at the Town
Hall last Wednesday evening, to listen
to Judge Geddes on the issues of the
campaign, from Democratic standpoint.
He is very pleasant speaker and, as in
all his speeches on the Reserve, was con-
ciliatory in tone, careful not to antaga-
nize any of the opinions or prejudices Of
this hot bed of Republican ideas. The
points of his address were of the most
general character, touching upon nation
al questions about which party lines are
but loosely drawn, If, indeed, they could
be considered party questions at sll, and
only by implication charging upon the
Republican party the responsibility of
the passage Of those measures of legis-
lation which have received the almost
universal condemnation of the press and
people of the country without respect to
party. In the opening sentences of his
address he very adroitly excused himself
from the consideration of any of the
issues that have divided the parties in the
past, on the ground that those questions
were dead issues, of as little conse-
quence to US In this campaign as those
that led to the Revolutionary war, the
war Of 1919 or the Mexican war, and
with wave of the hand brushed aside
all the history Of the last twenty years as
SO thoroughly settled as to make any
mention of them at the present time in
excusablY absurd. So the task he had
set for himself after this was a compare
lively easy one. As he was among stran-
gers who knew little or nothing of his
history, many of whom had been prepos-
essed in his favor by reports commenda-
tory of his private character, his audi
ence was poorly prepared for a critical
analysis of speech abounding in rhe-
torical art, conciliatory and compliment
tary to his hearers, and aside from brief
reference to national issues which do not
divide the parties, consisting mostly Of
defense of his political record from
1860 to the present time. He spoke of
inlernhl III improvements, VI IaliIOaus, Oh
banking and Of monopolies, all with such
fairness and candor and tolerance, so ex-
actly like the teaching of the best Repub-
lican statesmen, SO entirely unlike the
utterances of Democrat, that If one had
not known with what party he WAS iden-
titled, he might easily have mistaken him
for Republican. Aside from the fact
that in his condemnation of the abuses
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-13

THE Cleveland Leader in late issue
makes some very pointed inquiries. VIII
our voters read and considers Remember
that Democratic victory means free traffic
in drink and no Sunday:
"If the 1900 whisky dealers of Ohio
cause the most of the criminal expenses,
should they not at least be taxed sufficient
ly to make good the expenses they created
"Why Should the whisky dealers, as a
class, be more favored in the way of taxes
than the classes who pay ten or twenty
times more taxes in proportion to the bust
ness done?
"Why should the temperate law and or
der portion of the community be compelled
to pay the criminal expenses caused solely
by the saloonists making men drunkS
"By what course of reasoning can the
practice be justified of fayoring the liquor
interest over other interests merely because
of the supposed number of votes they con.
trols
"Are the keepers of saloon and grogger
les and dives to be considered as sort oi
a superior class, endowed with privileges
denied to other classes2
"Must the people of Ohio be governed
and controlled by the 1900 saloonists oi
the State, and by perhaps three or four
dozen brewerss
"Must $4,000 defeat the will of the ma
jority of the people of Ohio who favor re
stricting, regulating and taxing the sale Of
intoxicating liquorsF'
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-13

WHEN Vallandigham ran for Cover
nor he and Judge Geddes were adver-
tised on the same bill to be present and
speak at Democratic meeting in Mon
roe township, Riehland county, They
were both present, vallaudigham made
an address and Judge Geddcs presided
as chairman of the meeting. Those pos
sers are still in existence and are now
being made to do efficient service in the
Southern part of this Congressional Dis
trict. OF course there is nothing incon-
sisteut in this with his professions of
loyalty to the Government and love for
the soldier.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-13

BECAUSE Republicans have claimed that
theirs was, in comparison with the Demo-
cracy, the party of temperance as well as
of progress, the Constitution has often un-
bottled his wrath and poured hot indigna-
ton on our devoted heads, charged us with
sins numerous and weighty, not forgetting
the stock epithet of "hypocrite," /" for in his
pure eyes Republican is nothing if not a
dyed in the wool hYpocrite, claiming that
there was really no difference between the
parties on that question, and that all claims
to superior virtue on hat or any other
question were entirely gratuitous. 1t
would seem that in the present campaign,
in which the parties have openly taken
sides on this question, both in their plat
forms, in their party organs and in the
speeches of their representative men, it
would no longer be question for dispute
between them which was the champion of
the whisky interest, but in a notice of Gov
ernor Fosters speech, he comes at US
again as though whatsoever may have
been true in the past must still be true,
that, like the Democratic party, the Re
publican is Interchangeable. The Republi-
can party is party of progress and has
taken a position which, though less radi-
cal than we would prefer, is still an ad-
vance, and the logic of events will carry il
forward. Reforms never go backward,
and like the anti-slavery movement begun
to restrain that evil within its then present
limits, but went on to its entire abolish
ment, so this, beginning in taxation and
regulation, win never stop until its most
perfect solution is reached.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-13

The Republican party in Ohio has no longer a
single German newspaper in its support.-Elyria
Constitution.
The inference sought to be conveyed is
that the German press has deserted the
Republican party on account of its attitude
on the temperance question. If the state
ment is true, it would prove that the Ger
mans have no doubt about the position of
the Republican party being favorable to
the interests of temperance, and yet The
Constitution gets black in the face shout
ing its stereotyped iepithets "hypocrites, -
and Hypocrisy" and the Prohibitionists
join him, charging that the party is
"shuffiing, unreliable, and hypocritical," Z"
and so neither of them are happy. They
ought to be twin brothers, they so well
agree in their hatred of the Republican
party and in their policy of anything to
beat Grant"
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-13

EVERY man who heard Judge Geddes'
here on Wednesday evening Of last
week, must admit that he studiously en-
deavored to leave the impression upon
the minds of his hearers that during
the entire war he was uncompromise-
ingly in favor of vigorous prosecution
of it, and that he was an active, earnest,
thorough-goiug supporter of the admin
istration in all its attempts to suppress
the Rebellion. No candid man, how
ever, can visit Mansfield, the home of
Judge Geddes, and interview its leading
citizens, whether Democrats or Repub-
licans, professional or business men,
without becoming thoroughly con-
WINGED that Judge Geddes was in 1868,
prominent and aggressive Vallandig-
ham Democrat, that he never raised his
voice or lifted a finger to encourage en-
listments or to aid the government after
the Spring of 1868 until the final sue.
cess of the Union armies was assured
that during the darkest hours of our
country's peril, Geo. w. Geddes was
not "the friend of the soldier" but that
on the contrary, he was what the Union
men of those days denominated "cop-
perhead," and one of the rankest oi
the species.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-13
1t viii be Indorsed i'm Ohio.
STATE OF KANSAS, EXECUTIVE DEBT,
T0pEEh AuUuat 10 1880

STATE OF KANSAS, EXECUTIVE DEPT,
TOPEKA, August IL, 1882.
Isaac W. Tucker, Esq, Columbus, Ohio:
My DEAR Sir:-Your letter of the 9th
inst. has just been received. Owing to the
fact that we are just commencing the Re
publican campaign here in Kansas, it will
be impossible for me to come to the State
of Ohio during the present season, other
wise would gladly do so.
1t seems to me that there is no longer
any reason for the friends of temperance
in Ohio to withhold their earnest support
to the Republican party of that State. The
fact is rapidly developing that the Repub-
lican party of this country is to be the
great party of morality, sobriety, and good
government, against the Democratic party
that seems welded to the cause of free
whisky. Especially is this the case in the
Northern States. The Republican State
Convention of Kansas, on the 10th inst, by
almost unanimous vote strongly endorsed
the principle of Prohibition, as applied to
the manufacture and sale of intoxicating
liquors as beverage. The issue before
the people of this country today is simply
whether we shall protect the homes of the
people against the agressions of the whis-
ky ring, or, like towards, surrender the
Government to the control of the brewers,
distillers and saloon keepers. For my
part, am of the opinion that the time has
come when we should meet the question
boldly and fearlessly, and open battle of
ballots that shall not cease until the last
dram shop in the country shall be closed
forever. The Republicans of Ohio have
no reason to fear the result if they will on
ly make brave, honest, aggressive fight.
In your struggle you will have with you
every citizen who thinks more of home
than he does of the dram shop: in other
words you will have morality, sobriety,
law and order, and God Almighty on your
side against drunkenness, rowdyism, Sab
bath-breaking, profanity and the devil on
the other side. There can be no doubt OF
the result. Let the battle begin. Very
truly your friend, JOHN P. ST. JOHN
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-13

IL recent notice of Governor Fosters
speech the Elyria Constitution uses such
words as scheek, hypocrisy, hypocritical,
audacity,r all in one paragraph and in
another says Foster is transparent hypo-
critic who will resort to the most inconsist-
ent means to carry point BE lacks sin
cerity. honesty and true manhood" This
for professor and selfappointed
preacher of political honesty and morality
IS not only highly creditable to his intel
lectua1 ability and refinement, but pre-
cludes any suspicion Of dishonesty or ny
pocrisy or untruthfulness or rascaiity on
his part. In part we are persuaded to
believe that he has met with change OF
heart and has become fit company for the
apgsls since he left the society Of repubii-
cans = = the party of his first love, and went
= ,,.,, ,rsin IN the ranks of the unterrifed and
,,,snllied Democratic party of the immor'
tai Jackson
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-13


Mr. NEWMAN, Democratic candidate for
Secretary of State, voted as member of
the Ohio Legislature, against bill prohi-
biting the sale of intoxicating liquors to
minors and persons in the habit of becom-
ing intoxicated. he is therefore fitting
representative of the free whisky and no
Sunday party, and very properly heads
their ticket-Ohio State Journal.
OF course, Geddes and Newman alike
supported Clement N. Vallandigham in
1868, the latter on the stump and the former
in the public prints And now both have
the exceedingly refreshing audacity to ask
"a. Lincoln's dogsn and ''hirelings" to
help them into Office. Has this old world
ever witnessed the like neretofore.-Mans-
field Herald.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-13

THE Norwalk Reflector in discussing
the question of taxation of the liquor traf
fic, makes the following pointed remarks:
"The liquor traffic as now carried on, is a
monstrous and costly evil. Hardly any
one denies this proposition. If we cannot
abolish the traffic entirely, why otmake
an attempt to regulate iti If we cannot
get whole loaf why not take half loaf?
If we cannot shut up all the whisky sa-
looms, our prohibition friend, why not, if
we can, shut up half or a part of them, and
at the same time compel the balance of
them to pay at least portion of the ex-
pense to which the people are put in con-
sequence OF the traffic? Is there any harm
in thats All, but, you say, shat is licens-
ing the saloons, and we cannot agree to
that.' No, sir, it is not licensing saloons"
at all; it is simply putting a tax upon
them, by which portion Of them will be
driven out of existence, and those that re-
main will be compelled to bear part of
the burdens that now come upon the peo-
pie in consequence of them.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-13

GEDDEs long self-laudation on pension
matters, is made ridiculous when this fact
is borne in mind: The arrears of pension
bill which passed during the time the
Democrats had control of Congress. was
Republican measure. The bill was in
troduced by Mr.. Rice, restored to the roll
thousands ofnames that had been stricken
of on proof of disloyalty. The bill of Mr.
Cummings, Republican, of Iowa, rejected
these rebel pensioners, and was passed,
every Republican Representative and Sen
ator voting for it. and, now bear this in
mind, sixty-five Democrats voted against it
Which party is the friend of the soldier-
Elyria Republican.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-13

One of the most remarkable cases that
has ever been brought to the notice of
the public is that of Mr.. j. s. Beach, of
Stone Bridge, Ulster Co., N. Y. Mr..
Beach had suffered since october 18th,
1874, from the presence of Calculus or
Stone in the right Kidney. No less than
seven physicians were employed at diff
ferent times, to whom Mr.. Beach paid
hundreds of dollars for medical treat
ment, with only temporary relief from
his agony.
BY the urgent solicitations of his
friends he was induced to try DIR. David
Kennedy's 'sFavorite Remedy" -ex-
perienced marked improvement from
the first day he began to use the medi-
cine: on the 10th of September he void
ed a stone as large as could be passed
through the natural channel.
Mr.. Beach concludes long letter tC
DIR. Kennedy dy saying: "It will alway:
afford me. pleasure to reccomend the
''Favorite Remedy" to those who may
be suffering from difficulties of the Kid
neys and Bladder. or any disorders aris
ing from an impure state of.the blood
The '.Favorite Remedy" sold by al
druggists. The Doctors only address il
Rondout, New York.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-13

EVEN Judge Geddes friends would have
a little higher respect for him if he had
had the manliness and honesty to confess
the truth with regard to his vote for VAL
landigham, If Judge Geddes is ashamed
of his vote for Vallandigham, he dare
not admit it, for his Democratic friends in
Richland who voted with him are proud
of that fact and would spurn him with
contempt. On the other hand, il he is
proud of it he dare not avow that fact be
cause it would ruin his prospect of win
ming votes in the Republican counties at
the North end of his district. The Judge
is in tight place and has our sympathy.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-13

In his speech in Akron, recently, Gov.
Foster stated the following "frozen facts
which the Democrats and the liquor
dealers association can put in their pipes
and smoke, then resolve again that they
are opposed to all .sumptuary laws, and
subscribe another $4,000 10 the "Demo.
cratic" campaign fund.-"
ain Akron there are 100 saloons, which
pay tax of only $195.12. The same mum.
be of business houses pay tax amounting
to s7,000-The same number of laboring
men represented by the saloonists pay
$3,500 If the saloons were taxed only
about fifty would remain, and these would
pay tax of $12,500."
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-13

THE Star route trials are ended. Two
of the subordinate parties have been con-
victed while their principals, the two Dor
seys and Brady, go free by disagreement
of the jury. 1t is reported that part of
the jury have been bribed and trial will
be commenced Immediately to determine
that fact. 1t begins to look as though
money and position were superior to law,
and that the facilities foI and the frequen-
cy of the corruption of juries would soon
bring that time honored method of trial
into well deserved contempt
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-13

THERE is no disputing the fact: John
Brough was supported in 1858 as the repre-
sentative of the loyal, unionloving people
of Ohio G. L. Vallandigham was pitted
against him as the representative of the
rebels and copperheads, the Knights of the
Golden Circle and other disloyal men.
Geo. w. Geddes supported Vallandigham,
against Brough, and did all he could to
defeat the loyal party. MIR. Geddes has
never denied these facts, because they are
true in substance and in fact.-Elyria Re-
publican.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-13

TIE people of Richland county cannot
forget that for long series of years last
past they have been joined to counties that
buried them under an overwhelming Dem
ocratic majority, and thatto RoIlin A. Horr
they are indebted for the pleasure of now
being citizens of Congressional District
that viii elect Republican and Union
man to seat in the National law making
bodv.-Mansfield Herald.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-13

Foster drove several nails into the Republican
coffin At Klyriaiast Saturday. Consultation
THE Constitution does not say why, but
it must be because he favored restraining
the sale of liquors and taxing the dealers
things which, in Democratic eyes, are
ameng the unpardonable sins.
TIE political coat worn by Judge
Geddes in Lorain county, is entirely
differentin complexion from the ehe
wears in Richland county where he
has so long resided. A visit to Mans
field win satisfy the most incredulous
of the truth of this statement.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-13
Beware of Alcholic Bitters.

Thousands have been ruined for life
by drinking popular nostrums, the
principal ingedient of which was alchol.
Such ''bitters'' are deceptive in their
effects; they cause intoxication and
temporary relief, while they foster the
drunkard's appetite. DR.. Kennedy's
"Favorite Remedy" does not heat and
infiame the blood; it cools and purifies
it.. Better than this, even, it has cured
many q raving appetite Tor drink. 1t
will do you good, not evil, all the days
of your life. All Druggists sell it. DIR.
David Kennedy, Proprietor, Rondout,
n. Y. 52-4
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-13

II Judge Gcddes regarded the "River
and Harbor' bill as gigantic swindle,
why was he not in his seat to vote
against it on its passage over the Presi-
dents veto; two-thirds vote being re-
quired. his vote would have killed two
votes in It's favor. Judge Geddes con-
veniently forgot to inform his hearers
that he was in Mansfield when the final
vote was taken.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-13

The man who befouled his mouth, dis
honored his country, disgraced his loyal
kindred, by supporting the copperheads
and voting for Vallandigham in the dark
days of 1868, without long lingering in the
vale Of ofcontrition. forfeited all claim to the
confidence of the loyal people of the nation,
forever after, unless he can show that he
was insane, an idiot, or fool.-Elyria Re
publican.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-13

JuDeE GEDDEs has found record bad
thing to have His support of that arch
traitor, Vallandigham, is hard thing to
explain when he is attempting to show
clean record as a Union Democrat during
the war.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-13
80 cvnnvss Mansfield

JUDGE GEDDEs, Mansfield friends
think he should have frankly admitted
at Wellington, that he supported and
voted for vallandigham in 1868. The
friends Of the Judge, however, in criti-
cising him, overlook the fact that he
was posing here as s'friend of the sol
dier.u
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-13

MAINE redeemed. A sweeping Repub-
lican victory. There's music in the air.
Majority of 1900 to 5000. Gain Of two
Congressman made. Now look out for a
Republican victory in Ohio in October.
The ball is rolling.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-13

TIE soldiers who are going to vote for
Tallandingham's friend, Geddes, are like
the milk sickness-all of them in the next
county. And the next county" is in anoth-
er district.-Mansfeld Herald.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-13

IS 1868 Geddes presided at Butternut
meeting in Monroe township and remark
ed that yallandingham was as loyal as any
soldier in the Union army. So says the
Mansfield papers of that date Mansfield
Herald.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-13

WE hear that the ten-cent collection,
Geddes is charged with taking for Val
landingham was really taken by Mrs.
Geddes, but no one pretcnds to say that it
was not done with her husbands full
knowledge and approval.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-13

SUcH devotion to the interests of the
crippled soldier at time when an Office is
so much desired and when votes are so
badly needed, has just the slightest flavor
of suspicion
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-13

nJudge Geddes was an ardent friend
to the soldier in 1868, why did he pre-
side at a "butternut club" meeting in
Monroe township?
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-13

MAINE has had cyclone which swept
everything before it. We mean Democrats,
Greenbackers, Fusionists, etc.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-13

If the soldiers Of Richland county vote
as they shot they viii vote against the Val
landigham Democrat Geo. w. Geddes-
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-13

DD you hear it thunder away down East 8
1t was only a sweeping Republican victory
in Maine.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-13

WJob Printing OF every description,
executed neatly, cheaply and promptly,
at the ENTERPRISE Office.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-13
What Happened to
MR.. JOSEPH BEACH.

STONE IN THE KIDNEY ExPELLKD AFTER
USING DIR. DAVID KENNEDY'S "FAv-
oRITE REMEDY" ABOUT TWO WEEKS.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-13

NRQ business before the public You
* can make money faster at work
- for us than at anything else. Ca
pftal not needed. We will start
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business. You can live at home and do the work. No
other business will pay you nearly ELL No one
can fall 70 make enormous pay BY engsging at once
and 6onorablv. Address TRUE & Co.. Augusta. Maine.
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