The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-09-10

following rattling speech. 1t is good
reading:
GENTLEMEN OF THE CoNvENTToN:' Out of
the abundance OF my heart j thank you for
tho honor which your favor has conferred
upon me- II builds up mans political con-
stitution to take front view Of the. lighting
strength of the Republican party OF Iowa. II
any OF you have friends that nro bothered
with political dyspepsia; who find trouble in
selecting from the printed bill OF fare of Re
publicans, politics, ! advise you to bring them
hore and let them look in the face Of this mag
nificent assembly. Before me and around me
see many of the leaders of all the great Iowa
campaigns. Some of them enjoyed their first
hand 10 hand contest with the Denecratic
party before the youngest of us were Oorn.
salute the veterans OF the Republican party
OF Iowa. We who are younger in the service
bow in humble gratitude before the leaders
OF politics In State that for twenty-five
years has not needed change bad enough to
ask for iJ. The Democrats Of Iowa are the
fartherest removed from Office Of any part OF
the human race except our Greenback breth-
ren. In this fortunate State, the Republican
party, never without able leaders, has never
suffered from any monarchy, regency oIeoth-
er despotism whatsoever. Your conventions
have always been deliberative, your nomina-
tions representative your campaigns popu-
lar and your baotboxes too full for utter
ance of straight Republican tickets. Conse-
quently, Democrat has not been seen on
the streets OF an Iowa city after
"
quarter Of a century. The music Of the tele.
graph Office has been their annual elegy of
grief. They look upon bulletin-board as an
enemy of free government, and accept the
first half of Franklin's maxim: early to bed,"
when the returns are coming in 1t is under
stood that the purpose this year Is TO combine
the capital OF the Democratic party with what
stock In trade remains unsold OF General
Weavers political business. The plan has no
terors for the Republicans OF Iowa. The
time has passed in this State when self-con-
stltuted little board of political trade-a mere
buckotshop-can get together In the sixth
District and cast lots for the peoples Offices
like courthouse ring stealing land at tar
sale. The Republican party enters this cam.
paign against the field with the most confident
assurance OF success. The first act of the
Democratic party is to file q schedule In
bankruptcy. Already their property is out
of their own name. Their National standard
Is In the hands OF man whose name is not
disclosed by the Democratic National record.
Four years ago his name could have prudent
ly been usedas an alias under which to travel
incognito all over the known world outside OF
Buffalo To elect him President would be
like lending money to stranger on the train.
II takes the check OF the Democratic man
ayers to play the whole American people for
suckers. l thank God that we belong TO d
party that saves the crowns OF its public
honor for the brow OF Its actual leadership.
With the Democratic party nominations
are made not 80 much to represent
the party as TO disguise II. IL its long strug
gle for existence the men who have made the
history of the party go to the wall. II
is the only party that ever existed whose can.
didates and platform never throw any light
whatever either on Its management or its
faith. In fact modern Democrats, Of the
practical school, have no creed except the
oath of Office. All the important Democratic
principles are unit forclse. They have been
left out in the field just where they we're used
last, with not even a bunch of swamp grass
thrown over them-in sun and rain, until rot
and Just have done their fatal work. 1t is
true they talk piously OF the need OF reform,
and with an inexcusable libel accuse the in
tegrity of the Republican civil service. They
work their favorite classical allusion 20 the
Augean stable for all there is In II. These,
they assert, must be cleaned out Yet from
the general appearance Of tho crowd that Ia
| on hand TO do the business, the average cit.
izen is likely 10 conclude that their intention
| is TO steal the fork rather than clean out the
barn. Olt is true, they preempt all sides OF the
tariff question. They profess TO settle that is-
sue by jargon Of words without precedent In
| the annals of nonsense and confusion. You
| might as well try TO at the bundred-headed
dog of the ancient fable with a straw hat as 70
place candid and Ineligible tariff platform
under the feet OF the Democratic party. They
approach that question, and nearly every
other, like man emptying hard coal ashes In
backs 10 the subject. What must be tho
| thoughts of a man like Mr. Thomas A.
| Hendrlcks as he sits In his law office and
looks at the top shelf OF his library and counts
| the long row of dusty Congressional Globe,
from 1850 TO 1880 from the Fugitive Slave law
| to the resumption OF specie payments. Dean
| Swift used TO say, that censure is a tax O man
pays TO the public for being eminent. 1t is
| not the fault OF Mr.. Hendricks that the Con.
OressiOndl - ccOrd connects him with all the
blunders and treasOns of recent politics. IL is
| the tax man pays 20 his generation for the
| luxury OF having been an eminent Democrat.
| Victor Hugo, somewhere IN the masterpiece
| Of IN n
Jean Val jean, in which the unfortunate man
Is carried pack In his vision TO tho streets OF
| his native village and there In the midst OF
| the gloom and ashes and dust OF things 10 In.
teryiewed by gentleman who solomnly asks
| him: "Where are you going? Do you moi
know you have been dead long timer j
| have sometimes thought that II Mr.. Hen
bricks could once get himself eniightened by
| an appropriate vision and wander back In his
dreams TO the familiar scenes Of his public
career, he would need no assistance 10 enable
him 10 hear more than one voice soemniy
| asking the same questions: where are you
| golng2 DO you not know you have been dead
| long timer" Mr.. Hendricks Is placed upon
| the Democratic ticket-not TO recall the hlsto
| ry OF the Democratic party. No thoughtful
| Democrat wants that remembered. He Is on
| the ticket for the avowed purpose OF revivine
the superstition that surrounds the electoral
| count OF 1877. With cha acterlstc stupidity
the Democratic managers still think that tht
American people have never slept
/
mathematics was up for settlement. They
seem to be afflicted with sort OF
| intellectual shiftlessness, that keeps them
| from the understanding that the fraud issue
| died ut Cincinnati IN 1880 by the hand OF
Thomas A. Hendricks The Indictment Of an
alleged momentous outrage can not be dis
| missed for want OF prosecution and the pa
| pers In the case left under tho dust of eight
| years without losing Interest 10 the travelling
| public With all due respect TO Colonel Villas,
OF Wisconsin. say the statute OF Limitations
| does run. The descendants OF Cleopatra
might as well bring suit against the estate OF
Mark Antony, as for the Democratic man
| ayers TO parade the venerable gentlemen vino
were caught between the wheels OF the elec.
tornl commiss on In truth. tho American
people remember the long years of political
rapine that have given the South 10 the Dem.
ocratlc party, AMI finding In Mr.. Tllden ana
| Mr.. Hendricks the immediate and responsible
beneHclarles OF those years Of felony against
the ballot box In tho South, have never, 10
any visible degree. bewailed their memorable
failure to catch the rail OF tbs hind car In
1877. For one thank the Democratic party
for the fraud issue: miserable and useless In
Itself, IL affords tho country proper occasion
to recall that strange decade from 1886 10 1870
during VIII ch the Democratic party, upon the
run of the Rebellion. contrived their In.
famous conspiracy against tho civil rights Of
the people, that IN ten States has
left the ballot box fraud and the
election day u farce. La Boulaye, the
great French. Llbem, now dead, Just after
| the civil war In tho United States, took Occa.
sion to say that the Republican party OF
America holds in its hands the future OF civ
ilizatlon." That was true then. lt is true
now IL is more certain that the Republican
party shall have future than that IL has had O
history. Now and hen you find Republican
belongs TO the kicker and the scratcher. The
shortest road TO celebrity now-a-days Is TO ad