The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-09-10
Cleveland to Be Withdrawn, II Is
RumOred.

At the Republican headquarters it is
seriously feared that Cleveland may be
taken off the ticket and somebody else
substituted. Nothing has ever been
seen in Presidential campaign like the
breakdown in his four weeks of run
ming. AS gentleman there remarked,
there was but a single day when Blaine
seemed weak, and that was the day after
he was nominated. Ever since that
time the campaign has been coming for
ward like ship from distance, until
her bulwarks loom up prodigiously, but
Cleveland who was announced as the
pink of moral force and confidence, has
already retreated into the North Woods
with his boon carousers and hid himself
until such time as the clergy de-
termine whether his name can be men,
toned in the presence of ladies. The
Democrats feel that they have again
been entrapped into nominating man
with "short record" the shortness Of
which is long enough before he will get
another, as the man said about his coat
The short record candidate always re-
sembles one of tho Tichborne claimants
AS he stands in the public sight and the
evidence begins to be applied to him
the superb net work of his case fall oil
like q false cobweb from gooseberry
bush as the sun in the morning strikes
it. 1t was proposed in 1868 to withdraw
Mr.. Seymour and his friend Blair be-
cause they were manifestly beaten in
the summer months. There seems a
Nemesis in the fact that Cleveland is
tumbling to wreck under the very
light of the moral superiority he in
voked. But any one not ''reformer'
would have known that twenty-five
years in the public eve is a better test
of character than having been discov-
cred last week.
If Cleveland is withdrawn, and there
are signs of it all around, the question
is whether the Democratic National
Committee will take the responsibility
of making another nomination. or
whether the convention will be recalled.
OF course Bayard has hopes again, be-
cause Bayard is the perfection of moral
glory. No doubt by this time Bayard
has privately informed his friends that
he can not touch man Of Clevoland's
flavor. Bayard is a highly didactic
Democrat, and can not see shortcom-
ing anywhere but he rebukes 1t. In his
State there was an ancient Judge who
had been long on the bench, and was
his particular friend. This Judge, hav-
ing been widower, was minded to be
very attentive to lady. When a
vacancy on the bench ensued everybody
expected that Bayard would demand
his friend to be put at the head. He
passed him over, creating rupture,
with an excitement as big as Delaware
can hold, and he asked that an old
Wing of a virtuous family should re-
ceive the elevation. Bayard's enemies
thought this rupture would lose him one
of the counties in the State and break
him down, but il strengthened him.
Blessed are the pure in heart.
When they withdraw Cleveland,
Thurman may have another chance, or
Hoadly. Hoadly is something of a
man because he was Republican until
1872 and had all the benefits Of good
associations. There is no telling, how
ever, how soon n man is corrupted
when he gets over into that party which
consists Of nothing whatever except an
office-seeking band with few street
contractors thrown in. The Democratic
party for years in this country has been
nothing but party of expectants for
Office. Consequently in the Democratic
party there is no by-play, no ball
ground. Hundreds Of thousands OF
Republicans expect no Office and would
not take the best in this land, and there
fore Presidential campaign 10 them is
hilarity unbounded and enthusiasm Of q
disinterested sort, such as the specta-
tors indulge in when they see good
ball delivered or good batting. The
countenance Of Cleveland on the show
bills begins to look different from what
il did; you now perceive q man whom
the night hides, to whom night is con.
genial, who is coarse and has received
the little polish his surface is capable Of
from the occasional reflection OF Re.
publican votes when some other wing
Of She Democracy 10 which he has been
opposed has become unbearable. This
man with his alligator record, whose
head only has been hitherto visible,
crawling out Of the slime Of local poll,
tics, now begins to reveal his middle
and inferior parts, and we see the
dragon and insensibly look for st
George, and then we cast our eyes to
ward Maine. 1t will be the same old
story again; few renegades from ligh
and progress seeking TO galvanize tn,
old conspiracy against liberty and Just
ice into sufficient condition TO mak'
the first few steps of q Presidential
r RAGS, and then the old carcass weaken
and totters, and presently down goe
r the campaign and up the stars ant
stripes. - Younger, in " Y. Tribune.
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