The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-02-01
The Beekwaltsr Plan.

This the "old linersn do without ex-
ception. The. Young Democracy, on
the other hand. are pledged TO Bookwal-
ter because he Is a Young Democrat.
That is to say. he is young as . Demo
erat though by no means youthful in
years. His party juyeniity consists in
his having joined the Democrats about
one year ago. he is said to have voted
the Democratic ticketfor the first time in
bis life when he cast solid ballot for HIM
self last autumn. But the Ohio Demo
Gratis, young and. old, win never have
done talking about Bookwalter. his can
didacy, and his. methods. Just now
ebey are discussing Bookwalter's plan
for carrying the election, As the Dem
ocratic candidate went over to that party
from the Republican ranks Just before
he was nominated. we may be excused
II we have an inquisitiye interest in his
subsequent proceedings.
In the first place, Mr.. Bookwalter is
reported as having said that he desired
that no one should waste any time in
replying TO attacks that might be made
upon him, or in defending him against
ndicule that might be heaped upon his
devoted head. This was sound. A
political candidate cannot afford to
show that he Is sensitive to ridicule and
raillery Blue Jeans " Williams, of
Indiana, never took the slightest notice
Of the satire, more or less ill-natured,
with which he was constantly pursued.
He wore his home-spun garments
wherever he went with serenity and
even exultation. Nor can politician
spend his time in making explanations.
II he is vulnerable to attacks he may as
wen retire first as last. This would be
discreet in many instances. But the
man who explains is lost, The really
unique part of Mr. Bookwalter's scheme
of campaign, however, was Napoleonic.
1t would be unfair to his late political
associates to admit that he learned this
of the Republicans. The Republicans
are, undoubtedly, poor politicians. No
party of moral ideas can make much
pretention to political strategy. The
Republicans have all the morality, and
the Democrats have all the strategy.
And this statement explains q great
many things which seem to puzzle the
Democrats very much -t .W +
Briefly, Mr.. Bookwalter's plan was to
buy up Republican voters at $40 each.
There Is q law In Ohio which forbids the
Is law-abiding man. So he proposed
to hire at least two Republicans in each
precinct In the State to peddie Demo
cratic ballots. They were not to be hired
to vote the Democratic ticket, but to
persuade others to, and they must them
selves not only have intended to vote
the Republican ticket, but they must
subsequently cast q. Democratic vote.
The craftiness with which Mr.. Book
walter proposed to evade the law and
bribe voters must command the admi-
ration of the unprejudiced observer. 1t
was his theory that even If these hired
ticket peddlers did not influence Repub-
lican votes to any appreciable extent,
they would, of themselves, be sufficient
" numerous to turn the scale in favor
of Bookwalter by their individual votes,
which would be cheapat SO each. :
We are informed that the ssold liners,''
such as John G.. Thompson, probably.
scoffed at Mr.. Bookwalter's beautiful
plan as being .sQnixotic - When men
cannot comprehend fine theory,
scheme, or proposition in statesmansf1ip,
they call 1t "Quixoticr Nevertheless,
Mr.. Bookwalter faithfully paid out his
money (and he had great deal of it) to
his workers" who came in and report
ed that everything was moving along
splendidly, and that nothing more was
needed but just q little more cash.
These invaluable workers must have
put Mr.. Bookwalter's money into their
pockets and have gone about their law
-ful business with the placid conscience
of men devoid of of1ense and devoted to
home missions The returns Of the
election do not show that the Ingenious
Bookwalter theory prevailed to any
great extent. The purchased contingent
Al ls~.- -
pear anywhere. And as these mercen-
aries were not to be paid for /" working
the ticket" for Bookwalter unless they
voted for him, the inevitable conclusion
Is that they did not work for him or vote
for him. This explanation Of the fail
ures of the Bookwalter campaign, It
should be said, is taken from Democrat
ic sources of information. 1t discloses
the depth of depravity into which Re
publican may falh when he apostatizes
and goes over to; the Democracy. Mr..
Bookwalter's trouble lay in the fact that
he did not 60 into the campaign with
any principles worth mentioning His
error consisted in an attempt to substi-
tute dollars for principles.-M y
Times. u t-11 - - q ti-,e4
~ Tennessee is another Southern
State which is practically unsolicited.
Congressman Moore, speaking of the
Liberal movement there, says: ave
shall make considerable inroads into the
Democratic half of our delegation, If we
do not carry every district in the State
Is growing IN Tennessee, as In other
strength known. We have received
Ck.,<<,
Credit Democrats which we shall proba-
bly, accept. They offer to join Us TO
vote the Republican ticket. and do not
ask anything Of us except decent treat
ment. With their assistance think we
shall carry nearly every district in the
State. Tennessee is, as you know, nat
urally a Republican State. With the
recognition and support which I feel
sure this Administration viii give, the
Republican party win win every time.
That is what is wanted in every South
ern State-the assurance that the ADJ
ministration will encourage liberal
movement. The ten Republican MEM
bers from the South tell me that that is
exactly the position in which the Ad-
ministration Stands, and that, as soon as
the Liberal men of the South get to un-
derstand this, they will be able to join
in the Liberal movement The whole
South Is ripe for it to-day. In some
States, as in Alabama, the people are
waiting for leader; in others they are
waiting for a declsration from the Presi-
dent; in others. as in Tennessee, they
are organizing for victory" - -
~ We are edited to notice that the
inauguralc address of General Lowry,
who took possession of the Governors
chair in Mississippi on Monday,
"breathed q patriotic, liberal and pro-
gressive spirit, y and that he declared
that q the cardinal spirit of his 'adminis-
tration will be;to protect the rights and
foster the interests of all" Consider
ing that General Lowry is in an Office to
which he was never elected, these senti-
ments are very handsome. II he teaches
his party to practice them. he viii be the
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