The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-03-07
Still Blundering.

We never had any doubt that our
Democratic friends would blunder away
the fruits of their late victory and the
prestige which their success in the No
vember elections gave them That of
course was the expectation of eveSY in
tell gent citizen who had watched the
course of the party and known its his
tory for the past twenty years. 1t ha'
so often upset its own dish so soon as it
was fairly filled that we have come to
look for nothing else. In the very hour
of its victory pubic opinion discounts
its defeat in the Immediately succeed
ing contest. 1t was in consequence Of
tb feeling OF the comfortable and con.
tident assurance that however nois ly
they came in last > ovember, they had
not come to stay, that the great good
natured public took it so philosophical
ly as it did. enjoying it all as a huge
joke instead of lamenting- over it as a
a calamity. Everybody understood that
the first. purpose being answered, OF
bringing the Republican party back to
its senses, the second was to give. the
democratic party rope enough to hang
itself. a-t
But no one supposed the leaders in
the present Congr5ss IS were g ing to be-
gin the laundering so soon. 1t was
thought they m ght possess their souls
in patience. anu not begin ad usting the
moose around the pasty's ne k until the
torth-seventh Congress should have a
chance at it. There was a period OF q few
weeks. as all remember, Immediately
follow ng the elections. when the party
seemei gu te sobered by the respon /
bilities it was about to assume. Some
o. its news aper organs discoursed very
sensibly upon the sub est They seemed
aware that the place OF greatest peril
for the party was just on the edge of
power that it had been so long its habit
as to have become almost its second
nature TO 90 wild with excesses on the
heels of temporary success, and so
throw away the urther fruits of victory;
and they set them selves ut WORK to
counsel reason and counteract the ruin
Gus tendency. They seemed so con
scicus of the real state of affairs and dis
cussed it with so much reason and COM
mon sense, and the whole party had
such an appearance of beng i'm
pressed with the necessity. of behaving
itself decorously and properly, that we
really had no idea that they would COM
NIT any serious blunders dur ng the
short session of the pre-ent Congress
We counted too much on the discre-
ton and good sense. The Democrats of
the rorty-seventh Congress could not
wait for their successors to begin the
blunler ng. They want to make the
people sorry for having given them a
majority in the next congress before
that ody meets. They ha entered
upon that enterprise with every pros
pect of su cess. They are proposing to
saddle themselves with the responsib IL
ty of defeating every attempt to pass q
Tariff bill during the session. The re-
suit of such policy will be that in the
first place. they will make themselves
odious 10 the manufacturers and busi-
ness men o. the country by the per-
sistent and fact Gus opposition to the
passage o any law adjusting exist no
inequalities in the traffic. second, they
will take the tariff fquestion-upon which
they have never been able to agree, and
with which they had most melancholy
experience in the last Presidential cam
paign-over into the next Congress,
where they will be very likely to quarrel
over and perhaps split upon it. Third,
the chances are that they will have no