The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-11-14
A ForcIble Statement Of Facts.

There have been no valid elections in
North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida,
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas,
or Arkansas for years. The Democratic
rule in those States is an absolute des-
! potism, no more deriving its powers
from the consent of the governed than
does the Gar of Russia. Those States
have sixteen Senators and seventy Rep
resentatives in Congress aud eighty-six
votes in the Electoral College. If cleo
tions worthy the name were to be held
4 in them, none of their Senators or Presi-
DENTAL Electors would be Democrats,
nor would more than two-fifths OF their
Representatives chosen oy Congressional
districts, be of that order. Would it not
be disgrace to the American people IL
they should allow twenty-four years of
/ political progress to be repudiated and
spit upon in Presidential election by
the lawless brute force of a minority
party which has fought against that
progress inch by inch over the whole
roadp We do not ask any organ of that
minority party whether we speak truly
or not. The barbarous political history
of the States we have named is written
indelibly in letters of blood upon the
annals of the Nation. We shall not
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are we debating with the lawless as to
the measures by which their usurpa-
! tions shall be brought to an end. The
despOts of South Carolina. Alabama, and
Mississippi win be the despots of the
United States in less than seventeen
months ii they are not held in check by
the strong arm of the law. This is a
! pleasing prospect for them and for their
Northern Democratic friends. They do
not relish any effort by the Government
to Interfere in behalf of the majority of
the people in Southern States struggling
! for voice IN a President al election.
The wolf hunted to bis den is not tjercer
or more vicious toward the hunter than
are these Bourbon uSurpers toward
their native white opponents when the
touehstone of an hottest ballot is pro-
posed as test of Their right to rule.
The rage of the Bourbons against the
white Independents of the South is like
that of tiger or bloodhound threat
ened with the loss of his prey The
bloody Bourbon tyrant in all that per-
tains to the State is the Gar; in all that
pertains to the Nation, is Nihilist. He
is the embodiment of brute force, and
with but minority at his back, he
reigns through the terror he inspires,
and the coarse frauds he is enabled to
perpetrate on the ballot boxes
at the mock election farces which
are annually enacted. For our
own part, we can not see
any hope of the establishment of Re
publican Government in the eight
States in which it has been cruified, Un-
less the Election laws enacted by Con-
gress for the protection of the elective
franchise are enforced as rigidly, and
| then penalties inflicted as sternly, as in
the case of mail-robbers and counter
feiters. To do this no extreme methods
need be adopted. All that is needed is
that where there is known to be large
body OF native white voters willing and
anxious to aid the officers of the law in
| suppressing fraud and violencs in Ma
tional elections there shall be Marshal
to call in their aid, who will be wholly
on the side of the law, with no soft,
timid, conciliatory or compromising
side for the criminals inside of the
/ Bourbon party entrenchments. This is
the only course by which the President
can, on the 9TH of March, 1885, turn
the Government over TO a successor as
worthy of himself to sit where sat Lin
coin and Grant.
1t is useless to attempt the enforce
ment of ideas without votes. 1t is use
less to cast votes if they can not be
counted. 1t is pusillanimous for Re-
publicans to allow themselves to be led
away from the protection of the major
| ity of the voters in eight States by the
tricks of Democratic false pretenders to
reform. We do not say that the Re-
publican party is to stop at what is
above outlined, or that fair elections
should be the be all and the end all.
Other and mighty questions of home
and of international policy there are,
which long have slumbered, and which
should not be intrusted to the old Bour-
bon Democracy. But we warn all who
are of the Republican faith that the
Bourbon bloodhound is loose, and that
his bite is cruel. Time was when his
perfo mances at the South made the
North solid. 1t is no longer so. Dem
ocratic rule means Butler or the
BOURBON South. The Democ-
rscy can not hold TIE South solid if
our Government exhausts its rightful
powers for the maintenance of law and
the protection of the ballot Marshals
and District Attorneys who can not se-
cure q single Bourbon vote in the Senate
for their confirmation are the first pre-
requisite to rescuing the Nation from
the impending peril of Bourbon reac-
ton. We want no political partnerships
between the servants of the law and the
law breakers. 1t is easier now to pre-
vent the return of the Bourbon than it
will be to dislodge him when as in 1861,
entrenched everywhere in the Govern
ment, he shall refuse TO abide the result
OF a Presidential election. Ii is puerile
to be securing the pans in the kitchen
while the incendiary is firing the house
in front; it is madness TO be debating on
what course we shall steer the ship of
State while mutineers and pirates are
locking us up in the forecastle.-Na-
ttoI1dL Republican.
Alfred Nixon has made another
noteworthy ride on atricycle. Starting
from London at noon of the 18th of
September he reached John o. Groats,
the extreme north point of Scotland. a
d stance of seven hundred and fifty
miles, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon
of the 2lst, just eight days and twenty
three hours, averaging eighty four miles
for each day, and beating all the bicycle
records over this course.
Mrs. Nolittell has told the Nsrris-
town Herald that her bu hand must
haven very warm lrs ri, nd, for on
several occasions recently she has heard
hin, mn rr,ait, in his cl.aa, t,o ror,a ~