The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-07-25
Cyclonic Democracy.

wanderings, the needle'undoubtedly dips
and fiutters and capers in the most be-
wildering way. There are so many fell
lows with lightning rods up, and so
many others heavily ballasted with
Presidential lode-stone, that the best
regulated compass in the world would
be of little use in such an era of bother
alton and speculation. If the weather.
cocks of the party know anything about
the present conditions, the wind is blow
ing hot and cold from at least a dozen
different quarters at one and the same
time. With the wind in this incendiary
frame of mind and the needle of the
party compass as fidgety and as extern
poraneous in its movements as the tra-
ditional bed-bug, little wonder is it that
matter of head and legs.
Mr.. Dana has started an innocent lit
tie wind movement of his own in Ohio
He has discovered that Judge George
Hoadly is a rising man, and intimates
that he will, If elected Governor, be-
come as formidable a candidate for
President as Hays became in 1876. But
Mr. Dana twists the tail of his incipient
cyclone and shows its animus when he
says; ave confess that we cannot look.
without an impulse ofregret at the pros
pect of younger and. less substantial
man rising suddenly into position that
weshave often hoped might sooner or
later be allotted by the people of the
United States to that noble veteran of
public life and of Democracy, Allen G.
Thurman, of Columbusm
o, man of the crocodile tears with the
big bandanna waving in the back
| ground, there is not Democrat in Ohio
i IL i L Al
yer. If Hoadly can be put forward in
to the rear as Presidential aspirants. 1t
win be easier to kill Hoadly in the con-
vention of 1884 than Thurman, there
fore the Democrats who do not want an
Ohio candidate will cheer for Hoadly.
This is in brief the plan of Mr.. Dana for
settling the Ohio question.
The situation in Indiana is a little
more complicated. The aspirants in
direct line are Hendricks and McDon-
aid Both have been in training for
long time, and their respective adher-
ents are ready to fight at the drop of a
hat. The prescription for this trouble
forwarded from New York was to turn
the hose on the combatants. In other
words, the scheme was to throw cold
water on the Indiana movement by de-
claring that it was the will of the DEM
ocratic party that the old ticket of 1876
be renominated. This spectacular pro-
gramme did not find favor in Indiana,
not even with Mr.. Hendricks, and GER
tainly not with Mcdonald. If it did not
meet with approval in Indiana what
shall be said of the way it was spat upon
in some other Western States?
The New York World sheds little
light on the reasons for recent change
in ownership by taking hold of the
Hoadly boom with a firm grip. On
the World theory Hoadly is such q
favorite with the Germans and the anti
temperance people generally that he
will call out more than party vote.
Against this the Ohio friends of General
Ward and Judge Geddes emphatically
protest; but there is something in the
wind that Judge Hoadly's friends re-
gard with suspicion. While their noses
were high in air, waiting for develop
ments, Mr.. Henry Watterson let the
kitten out of the sachel, as it were, and
the cyclonic disturbance is like unto the
whirling recklessness of a dog trying to
catch his own tail.
Mr. Watterson was sent for and went
to Gramercy Park in sorrowful, SYM
pathetic state of mind. But he found
l.
cheeks, sinewy intellect, incisive wit,
and the endurance of soldier trained
J to march forty miles day. The able
bodied and sinewy- minded Tilden took
] Watterson in hand and took him up
stairs and down, and down stairs and
up, and over the hills and far away, un-
til Watterson cried .'enoughr' Then the
sinewy Tilden, who had just warmed
up enough to enjoy the playful
running up stairs and down, "smiled,
: and in his dry, half -pitying, half-sar-
J castle way replied: If you are tired we
: will 90 downstairs That settled 1t.
As Mr.. Tilden can outwalk Mr.. Waiter
son and fire him out climbing stairs,
and beat him at a game of tag, he is the
J only man that can be elected President
by the Democrats.
: The secret is out. The men who are
} pushing Hoadly to the front in Ohio,
and throwing cold water on the Kilken-
ny-cat business in Indiana, and warn
ing Cleveland and Butler off the track,
are working in the interest of the old
} ticket of 1876. The combination is evi-
IDENTIFY a strong one, but it isn't sailing
} with the wind, because the wind IS
blowing from all points of the compass.
: Hence the turmoil and confusion and
7 bewilderment- If the old ticket is to
be accepted by the Western Democrats
there will be high carnival of slate
breaking, with men like Ben Butler
playing the part of the bull in the china
Chicago Inter Ocean.
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Young man in Vermont whose brains
/ have dried up until they rattle like shot
, in gourd every time he shakes bis