The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-12-10
What the Democratic Victory Fore.
shadows.

for doubt, 'hope sprang immortal in
the breasts of Mr.. Blaine's friends.
But they knew that the chances were
heavily against them, and they probably
would have been more surprised and
startled than the Democrats II the result
had been different. We now have to
face the fact that Hon. s. Grover Clev,.
land Is President-elect of the United
States, and to look forward to such an
Administration as such a man is likely
to give us.
Speaking first of al as Americans,
and with reference to the honor, the
dignity and the welfare of ouI
common country, we must express oui
sorrow that Democratic victory
has brought us nothing better than
this. There are statesmen, men OF
character and honor, men of long and
in some respects serviceable records in
the leadership of that party All these
the Democracy passed by to elect a
cipher, as regards both craftsmanship
and personal worth, to the Chief Mag
istracy of the greatest of nations. As
posterity -cans the list Of our Presidents
it will meet more than one name whose
presence there is q puzzle. II will find
in the accident Of death the explanation
of TYLER and johnson. 1t will pause
in wonder at those of Polk and Pierce.
But it will be the most puzzled to know
why party led by such men as MIR.
Thurman, Mr.. Mcdonald and Mr..
Bayard, passed all these by to find the
man of its choice in Mr.. Cleveland.
1t is a just answer that Mr.. Cleveland
was taken, not because his party want
ed him, but because his selection was
urged by the boiling Republicans.
There was that known against him
which otherwise would have made his
nomination impossible. But the Inde-
pendents had fallen in love with this
accidental Governor, and he was taken
''because of the friends he had made.
On the Independents, then, rests the
onus of this selection. We wish them
Joy of it! We have very poor opin-
ion of the understanding and common
sense of any such Independent as does
not look forward with nearly unalloyed
anxiety to the next four years of our
National history. We are aware that
with most of them the danger of rev.
olution in our fiscal policy carries with
it no cause for fear. They generally
are Free Traders, and have as
a solid ground of satisfaction that
Mr.. Cleveland and the bulk of
his party agree with them. But
every other consideration must be q
cause Of anxiety to them, They have
robbed the emancipated slave of his
last stay aud support against the op-
preston which has not stopped at fraud
and terrorism, but has gone on to mur-
der. They have transferred the civil
service to the control of party which
has the doctrine of "the spoils to the
victors" ensrained into its very consti-
tuition. They have removed n chief
constitutional safeguard against wild
experiments with our monetary and
banking systems, such as the Demo-
crats always have been eager to under
take. They have put back the shadow
on the dial Of our history by transferring
the National Executive to party which
does not believe that the United States
is Nation and which will lose no OPP
portunity of undoing what has been
done to nationalize the country during
and since the war.
II the Democratic hold on power, as
we certainly hope, should last but four
years, the worst consequences Of the
present calamity may be averted. That
the Senate and the Supreme Court will
be Republican through the whole OF
Mr.. Cleveland's Presidency must be a
comforting consideration to many who
have helped to make him President.
But Democrats always have been fam
ous for their mastery of the arts by
which power once acquired is held in
spite Of the popular resistance. Copiah
County will continue to hold the
Solid South in the Democratic
line. giving their candidate, in 1888,
but forty.eight Northern votes 10
secure an election. With the whole
National machinery as well ~ the local
ultCuiueIl VI clcNtlOus III hlHii h1huS,
there will be but little difficulty in APP
plying similar principles mt the North.
One thing only Is against the contin-
uance of the Democracy in power. 1t
is their capacity for plundering and
blundering. II is not unreasonable to
expect within the next four years they
will have made such record for them
selves as will enable the people to
wrest from them the control of the Ma
tional Government. There may be such
an uprising in 1888 as will put II out OF
the question for them to claim the coun-
try either by Copiah County or by AL
bany methods. But there lies the only
hope. A bare majority, honestly ascer-
tanned and honestly counted, has trans.
ferred the Presidency in 1884. 1t will
not suffice to do so four years hence,
unless the Democratic party shall belle
its whole record.
For the Republican party we still can
claim that II Is the party Of tho Ameri.
can people. To it belongs the moral
victory OF the year. In the States in
which every citizen Is free to vote and
every vote Is honestly counted 1t has IN
immense popular and electoral major.
ity. 1t submits TO resign the insignia
Of power, because il has no Constitu
tional and peaceful redress against no.
torious wrong-the using of fraud and
| violence in National elections II has