The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-10-17
Locking to the Rear.

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The Democrats of Maryland who re-
Gently met in convention are typical of
the party to which they belong. They
made q platform of principles, and it
has as little connection with the things
of the present time as the wars of the
Midianltes and Amalekites which were
fought in the days when they ''lay along
the valley like grasshoppers. This
political structure is in three pretty
nearly equal sections. The first ex-
hausts itself on the Presidential elections
of 1876 and 1880-the frauds" and
"evl work. by which the Republic
an candidates became successful. The
second is like unto the first 1t starts
of with q quantity of billingsgate
about the general behavior of the Re-
publican party, and brings up again
with the '.frauds perpetrated in the
Presidential elections of 1876 and $780,"
The third is composed of declarations
about taxation, the National debt and
Shipping laws, with nothing except
feebleness of expression and vagueness
Of meaning to distinguish them from
what might as well be in Republican
platform as Democratic.
The gentlemen of the Democratic
party have been reminding us for a
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| over and that 'sthe issues of the war
| are settled" Will they ever find out
| that the result of the election of 1876
was determined in the early part of the
| following year by a tribunal to which
| they voluntarily submitted all questions
/ at issue, and that the validity of that
i settlement is no longer an open ques-
tionP They might as well pass resolu-
| tions against the United States Bank, OF
the Alien and Sedition laws, as against
! the legality of the Administration ol
President Hayes. When, and where
| and how, did they discover that Presi
dent Garfield was not duly elected in
1892 No sane man, Democrat or 9th
er, has ever raised an honest query OF
that point, and why should the frauC
lumber be used in party platforms re-
ferring to that electionp The Demo
Gratis themselves know 1t is all rubbish
of the most fiimsy kind; and yet the,
advertise their own stupidity by work
ing 1t in as proper material for decla
ration of political principles.
Is 1t to avoid facing their own recor'
that the Democrats occupy themselve
so industriously in throwing mud a
that of the Republicans The New JeI
sey Democrats did, indeed, .'point wit
pride" the other day to their manage
ment of the State Government, but
seems a long while since any Of tn
party have held up the finger to any
thing done by them in National affair
at later date than the Administratio
of Thomas Jefferson, though they al
! quite in the habit of emphasizing the
adhesion to his principles, without know
ing either what they were or wherei
they differ from the principles of Repul
, hcanism at the present time.
These Maryland Democrats had not
,, word to say upon any matter that ca
possibly cut q figure in the next Pres
, Dental campaign, and not a word abol
their own State politics. They locke
forward to nothing, and saw nothin
around them in the present; their ey'
were turned toward the retreating pa
which they peopled with hobgob1iI
! and then shuddered rs they gazed upc
their own terrible creations.
; The great and glorious Democrat
I party keeps its lookout on the ship
: State from the stern. Its hindsight
. powerful. 1t sees all the breakers TIL
have been left behind, and rolls up
eyes to behold how close to the rocl
: the Republicans have steered. 1t Sc,
: how the Nation was almost wrecked
the Electoral Commission in 1877, ar
by Dorsey in 1880. 1t discovers rec
OF fraud and shoals of corruption, b
they are all in the wake and have be-
safely passed. With hair erect, it tri
!, to throw over q sheet anchor to briI
!. the vessel to, without ever thinking
Z send a man aloft to look ahead and d
\ termine whittier it is best to sail in t
= future. f l
Cnch ara =, of raadad IT
J Republicans occupy the other end
: the boat, taking notes of wind and tic
and keeping the good ship on her cour.
When the Democrats get tired of thu
: watch they can go below.-Detroit p
!. | 0nd Tt,-,bs,,,p