The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-10-29
Wanted-A Change.

wilderness Is the call OF IhomaS A.
Hendricks demanding "a change" II
is the burden of his song on the prairies
Of Indiana, and his plaintive refrain
among the hills and valleys of Ohio. He
has tuned his Tyre to that keynote and
set the pitch for the whole motley
crowd that follow him. 1t is a pleas
ing prospect that lifts into view through
the rosy glass of hope, and no wonder
the words that call up the vision are
rolled as sweet morsel under the
tongues OF those who, according to
George William Curtis, "are very
hungry and, you may well believe, very
thirsty. too" Without platform OF
living issues, they have fallen back on
this one plank that they believe may
yet carry them over the Slough Of
Despond into the Promised Land.
"Therefore, change is necessary" 1t
does not embody any great funda.
mental principles of government, but
with what sublime sentiment does it
inspire the starving Democrats who
hear 1t.
1t means q change, says Mr. Hen
bricks, in $4,000 offices from Republic
ans to Democrats $4,000 fat, suDstan-
tial rewards for Democratic faithfulness
"a change from tried and long-trusted
servants to the rag, tag and bobtail; a
change from attested performance 10
empty and risky promise. "The Re-
publican party has been keeping the
accounts long enough, and we want to
see the books" Therefore change
Is necessary" What does the Demo
cratic party know of the National az
counts, that il should demand to see
the books? Where is its record of faith
fulness on which TO base a claim TO in.
spect the balance sheetP IL had the
books in its Lands, and had charge of
the whole business, up to twenty-four
years ago, but 1t had to make an assign
ment that nearly drove tho country into
bankruptcy, while the assets were res
cued by fire and sword, and at the cost
OF great National debt, from its pal
sled and impotent hands. That is its
business record. IL has been out OF en-
ployment for long time, and its only
change has been from bad to worse.
Its purblind eyes have not noticed that
the world has moved in the last quarter
Of a century, vet its illimitable check lie
equal to demanding the reins and the
drivers seat on the car of American
progress.
Who besides Mr.. Hendricks wants o
change, after the Unsuitable horde who
believe the sole end of politics is olice,
and TO whom any change is fer the bet
ter? The free-trader. who thinks the
country has been rich long enough IN
der protectio ;, would Ike to experiment.
With ideas in direct opposition TO those
which gave us prosperity, "iust to see,
YOU know" and he wants change.
The English merchant and manuiact.
urer. the friends and eXemplars of the
free-trader, find they have exhausted
other markets aud want TO secure ours;
they seo formidable rivals growing up
under our Tariff laws, and prospective
and present profits trembc In the bal
ance, so they want u change. The
sthereally good, to whom the golden
harps of the New Jerusalem will
seem to need tuning, are dissat.
Is ed with the cut OF the Re
publican coat and insist on
change The Morm9n has been
trembling in his shoes because the Gov
ernment is bent on purging him of
wickedness, and can not rest easy IN.
ess there is change under which no
may live undisturbed. The solid South
mas waited long enough 10 give pensions
TO her brave boys who became traitors
when they thought they were heroes,
and she wants change that will per-
NIT this, while she has several other
little improvements projected thai can
not be carried out because Of the party
now in power The ring in New York,
that plumbers the city of more than
Tweed stole, and does II peacefully aud
quietly because under the forms Of law,
and ringsters everywhere, with one &C.
cord, are longing for change. The
coal oil gang, that bought Senator
ship IN Ohio rs butcher buys sheep
In the market, is working for change.
All these, and more, have hopes and
plans, unsavOry and undesirable, that
depend for fruition on the very change
MIR. Hendricks is vociferously demand.
ing.
Mr. Hendricks did not ask for
change in 1860, when the Democrats
had been in power for sixty years. But
he has wanted one every fourth year
since then. lie wanted II badly in 1876,
when II had personal meaning to him
as IL has now. Six times has he raised
the same old cry and six times has he
been disappointed. rhe people have
not needed his yearn!ng aud have
turned deaf ear to his lamentations,
because Il has not had the proof of sin
cerity. II he really means what no
says, Mr.. Hendricks would include in
his demand for change more than
the occupany Of the White House and
the 10000 Federal Offices. He would,
for instance, counsel Missouri to change
Democrats for Republicans; to succeed
Crittenden with Ford; . to supplant
James Boy partisans and policy by up
right men with liberal ideas, who will
give the State a new reputation, 80 that
the immigrant will not pass through 1t
with scorn 10 settle in less inviting
spot Such would be changes with
more reason for them than the one Mr..
Hendricks proposes, which he knows
and all the world knows means only
official loayes and fishea-St. Loud