The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-01-02
The Coming Campaign.

Referring to the coming Presidential
campaign, the oberlin News says: at
is difficult at this time, to see what the
dividing line will be between the two
great parties. Neither party is unani-
nous upon any phase Of the tariff, civil
service reform, OF any other question of
general nature" The editor predicts
that the campaign will be largely pei
sonal one, the result depending upon
the popularity Of the candidates. Not
so does the situation appear TO us. 1t is
true that the members Of neither party
are unanimous on the tariff question,
yet the Democracy, In keeping with its
past history, is in favor of free trade,
while the Republicans, with few excep-
tions, are In favor of moderate and
judicious tariff for protection, as well as
revenue. Our manufacturing industries
have not all yet reached such conditions
as to enable them to compete success
fully with foreign, and a sweeping
abolition Of duties, such as.is indicated
by the composition OF Carlisle's COM
mittee, and the general spirit of the
Democratic Congress, could only result
in financial distress and ruin to large
interests that have grown up under the
system Of protection which has pre-
vailed for many years. The effort to
pass such law, cannot fail TO unite the
manufacturing interests in opposition to
the Democratic party, and indeed the
temper they have already exhibited, can
not fail to make this very definite and
vital issue In the next campaign.
But the mission Of the Republican
party is not ended, so long as freedom
Of opinion and the ballot is denied any
citizen, white or black. The bull.doz.
ing, 'terrorizlng, shot gun policy, made
use Of at the South, on the approach OF
every national election, to make that
section solid, has already been revived,
and the deeds Of the palmiest days of
the Ku Klux, are recalled with startling
dlstinctness. The protest Of tho free.
men Of all sections, cannot be silenced
by the cry of "bloody shirt" so long as
the Bourbons Of tho South continue 10
furnish the blood with which TO saturate
that much abused garment.
So long as human life is wantonly sac.
rihced, whenever 1t is thought necessary
to convert Republican into Demo
cratic majority, SO long will 1t be neces-
sary to continue the worS begun first by
the Abolition, then the Free Soil, and
then the Republican party, when they
championed the cause OF the down.
trodden and oppressed. Slavery has
been abolished by fire and sword, but
the miserable spirit of caste and tyr.
ranny, still lives, by which the millions
Of emancipated blacks are as effectually
shut out from all participation in the
government, as IL they were still in the
slavery OF twenty-five years ago. Be
assured, these accounts Of their crimes
are not manufactured for campaign
purposes. The deeds of violence and
blood that are daily finding their way
into the columns Of the press, are true,
awfully true, and the Republican party
must again take up the fight and con-
tinue 1t until lasting victory is
achieved.
The Solid South has already the con.
troll Of the Democratic party. They
have the Speaker of Congress, and the
chairmen and members Of committees
are all arranged in their interests; they
have the bulk OF the Democratic
Electoral vote, since by their familiar
tactics, they are able to defraud at least
five Southern Republican States Of their
vote and peryert it to their own base
purposes.
30 far from denying their crimes,
many openly boast Of them, others
admit and excuse them, saying that this
Is white mans government, aud they
have to resort to extreme measures to
keep the blacks in their places, that is
In subsection. and that they will not be
ruled by niggers, while a few admit and