The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-04-04

faith receive no encouragement from
the recent decisions of the S pre- Q
Court that q dishonest State may take
advanlag of its honest debtoTs.-Iri.
diaaapolis .JozrnaL.
The South In Presidential Elections.
Let us see about this assumed invin-
cibility OF the Democracy in the South
ern States. by which is meant all of the
ex-slIve States.
In 1860 the slave States were, of
course. and very naturally, sold against
q party which held their institution to
be wrong, and declared against allow
ing il to exist anywhere except in the
then existing slave States. And so
while Lincoln received every Northern
Electoral vote except three of New
Jerseys seven, which went to ! ouglas,
he had not one in the South. But the
Southern States gave but az Of their 1Z0
Electoral votes to Breckenridge. the
Secession candidate the other 4S going
for the Union candidates-39 to Bell
and 9 to Eouglas- Virgin a, Kentucky,
Tennessee and Missouri cast these AZ
Union votes in protest against the South
the solidity of Democratic power at the
Southp
In 1884 eleven Southern States were in
rebellion. Lincoln received every
Northern Electoral vote except the seven
of New Jersey. OF the five slave States
not in rebellion. including the new State
of West ' irgin'a, Lincoln received the
25 Electoral votes of Maryland, Mis-
souri, and West Virginia. while Nc
Clellan received the IA votes of Della
ware and Kentucky.
In 1868, with Virginia, Mississippi
and Texas not voting. Grant carried all
the Nor except New York, New DER
sey and Oregon, and all the South ex-
ce Delaware. Maryland, Kentucky
and Lcuisiana- The South gave him 81
electoral votes. and only % to his Dem
ocratic com petitor. Horatio Seymour.
In 1872 Irant carried every Electoral
vote in the North, and in the South he
re eived SO to Greeley's 60. No solid
South then.
Personal politics in 1872 led some en-
inent and ambitious Republican DO It'll
clans to attempt the formation of
great political power OF which they
should be the center. The disastro 8
result of that expe iment set its lea ers
TO wo;k endeavoring to vindicate the
action by showing the deprayity of the
Republican party, wh. le with n the par
ty were found many anx Gus to dispute
the existing leadership, and willing to
swell the chorus o. the malcontents in
order to secure their support The to
tai innocence OF the Democratic party
in the South OF any of the outrages
which it had notoripusly encoura ed
and permitted was one OF the chief ar
ticles OF laith of the new faction thus
formed. The Wind cation of the
Democracy was accompanied by
a series of Indictments against
ne ins% nss VIII iGl eh 'he e is.d Sad
neither part nor OF. AS the result the
people n 1874 elected q Democratic
Hou of Representatives. This reac-
ton encouraged the enemv and corre-
spondingly dish .artened the epubic-
ans. These ca lses, and these alone.
led to the re 'orrpat on of the old Bour-
bon solidi.y at the South. For this real
SON only are they mentioned. The men
who were concerned in them are or the
most part forgotten. l
I In 81. the new solid South made its
appearance, and carried all before il
except the IL Electoral votes of Florida.
South Carolina and louisiana. As the
South united the North divided, and
the 65 Electoral votes of New York.
New Tersey. aConnectic It and Indiana
came within single oneoi rending the
po i,ical work of the preceding sixteen
years.
In 1880 the South was solid for the
first time in twenty years. South Car
Gina and Louisiana were made sy
captures for the Bou bons through
agencies which can not now be profita-
bly, discussed. m
The year 1884 is ON its way. We
have passed the halfway house be-
tween II and the last Pre- .idential strug-
lie. We shall in less than q year see
the Nstional Convention called for the
purpose of nomina ing candidates. Al
ready we ha seen the great contend-
| ing forces maneuvering for position.
Next ecember com nences what used
to be called the president making
Congress- A year from the az
preaching summer will be fought
the great quadrenu al battle. The South
Is mo longer solid The close vote of
West Virginia last fall and the splendid
Republican gains in Maryland give large
ground for hope that those States will
in 1884 break away from the enemy.
The rotten counting ma hine Y in Bal
timore has been broken mp by DBmo-
Gratis who refused longer to be a party
to its crimes. and if need be the friends
OF an honest ballot in that State may be
found acting together to prevent its re-
instatement. In Virginia the Bourbon
part has cen thrice whipped. and the
last time it went down under the leader
ship Of a masked renegade. whose fel-
lowship it disdained to acknowle lge
and dared not deny. The T. ectoral
vote of Virginia win never aga'n be cast
for the Bourbon candidate for the Pres
idency. " ith Governor, two Sena-
tors. Congressman at large and his
five colleagues fir m districts the Gid
] ON nion eddS, a o. old, instead of
following. Sou'h Carolina as she d in
lS l.. With her will come North aro-
lima with three congressman to speak
| for her, and with ma or ty of only 343
last all to overcome. This was the work
OF an honest and earnest coalition which
| Will in 1884 nina d the votes of
several thousands of Repu Leans. some
OF whom were doubt nj of the first ex-
pertinent. while others were unable to
Immediately dismiss old an agonisms.
The South is doing very well Amid
all the crash of last fall, not only were
gains made as above descrih ed, but
TIE asliberals gnined many thousands on
the Gubernatorial race under the brave
and true leadership OF Jones. and from
ia weston Ochiltree, Rep ,blican,
comes to Congress by the I'D of Demo
crate independents. In NJ ssissip j
Chalmers, accepted by the independents
and by the negroes, is elected to
leadership from VIII ch further results
are to come Finally, everywhere is
the rumblin OF the po itical earth uake
in the South. The Bourbon solid South is
ashell. and none have less aith in en-
durance through the next campaign
than the Bourbons themsel. es--Na-