The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-12-05
The Democratic shibboIeth.

Our morning contemporary assures us
hat 1.-THE popular current is setting
toward o revolution" that 'the feeling
of the country is becoming ripper every
day for change" and that the cry of
'''turn the rascals OUT 10 to be ''the
shibboleth and inspiration of the peo-
ple."
Well. what changer What portion of
the Republican party's work of twenty
four years would the Democratic party
dare TO undo If they were to succeed in
1882 What candidate can they name
who would court destruction and defeat
by daring to say he would "change"
anything. that has been done by the
party which the people have clothed
with their power in six Presidential cleo
tionsp What leader would this party,
so clamorous for change, dare to follow
II lie should fail to swear that his cleo
tion really meant no changer What
platform maker could get hearing in
Democratic National Convention
who would neglect to assert
Democratic acquiescence in and hearty
approval of each successive measure
carried through by the Republican
squalling of the Nations most perverse
nha oAoOOCoAChb bhO COAhOOAooAS
partyP Even now the Democratic tun-
ing fork is sounding the key which shall
be in unison with the Republican party
on every question, not excepting the
tariff.
The Democratic party demands pow
er on the ground that it has been wrong
at every step for a quarter of century,
and it demands the expulsion of the Re
publicans for having been the origin
ators of all that has been good during
that time. Its position is that the
craftsmanship of the country is all with
the Republicans, but the honesty all
with the Democrats. 1.-THE rascals"
who have been right are to be "turned
OUT to make way for the virtuous who
have been wrong. The good Demo
Gratis promise to sustain all that the bad
Republicans have accomplished, and, in
addition to that, we are to have the
benefit of their moral example! Notice
is served on the Republican party that
its works are irreproachable, but its
personnel Objectionable. The campaign
is to be q Democratic assertion of a
am better than thou" The stews and
slums of the cities and the returning
streams from Blackwell's island and the
various State penitentiaries are to be
drawn on to replenish and purify the
sources from which have been flowing
the streams of law and justice since
James Buchanan turned over to Abra-
ham Lincoln what was left of the Gov
ernment in 1861. Bourbon savagery
and intolerance at the South, which
SCOTS at majorities and kills whom it
can not subdue, is to inaugurate its mild
reign by the grace of such elements
as now make the name of Democracy 3
terror in New York, Chicago, st. Louis
and other great cities. A comparison is
to be made between the average per-
soual character of Democrats and
Republicans. The associates and back
ers of Tweed are to challenge compar-
ison with their political opponents as
to their relative trustworthiness in the
administration of affairs. The Amer
ican people are to be dragged through a
year of calumny and vituperation in an
effort of the rotten and discarded Dem
ocracy to howl down its opponents
and to thrust itself again, unrepentant
and unclean, into the public employ
ment from which it was discharged
after being scourged for corruption and
servility to slavery twenty-three years
ago. If it could persuade the people to
trust it again. they would deserve to be
ruled by it. II its ISLANDERS or its pledges
could gain a lodgment in the pablo
mind the best discipline such dullness
could have would be a few years of its
administration. But wise housewife
would as soon leave a cat in charge of
her cream as the American people
would intrust so old an offender IS the
Democratic party with the custody of
its treasure-box or the preservation of
the public peace. Changes are desirable
in many respects, but not such changes
as the Democratic party would bring.
Those who sell the Republican lions
skin while yet he is alive may be killed
in hunting him--Ndtional Republican.