The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-08-27
POLITICAL PARAGRAPHS.

R6s- The Democratic ticket is all tail
et present, but Blaine will put head
on it Peoria Transcript
D4-The Independents did not want
to 90 into defensive campaign" with
Blaine, and, therefore, they picked op
Cleveland as their candidate.
B@- "Is there any good reason why
Hendricks should be selected from
forty-fve millions of people to he the
possible head of Government which
he did his best to destroyP"-Georgs
W. Curtis IN 1876.
B2~"Is Carl Schurz sincerep" asks
an esteemed contemporary of the doubt
ing Thomas order. Good heavens, man,
do you imagine Mr.. Schurz is doing
this for the fun of the thingp You
don't know his figure. Philadelphia
Press.
B9~The boiling Republicans Of
Massachusetts base their claims of sue
cess upon the assertion that the men
employed at their headquarters "have
more to do every day than they had the
day before" This they call "snulling
VICTORY III Jne ait
BS5- 81 have burned my bridges be-
hind me-" excla ms Colonel L. Vent
worth Higginson, the royal grand Of
the Boston mugwumps. Well, many a
man has done that before, and howled
after Il mud scow to cross back again
after the skirmish was over. PaiIdoeL
rhiG Press.
RsYnIf the Democrats. can actually
find comfort IN wild dreams of carrying
Kansas and Iowa this fall, they are
more given to self-delusion than any.
body has been unkind enough to charge
The Republicans might as we'll count
Georgia and Texas for Blaine. CIeUe-
iGBG LcGGcr.
1ay~ have carefully observed the at
titude and movements of the Demo.
cratic party for twenty years. In my
Judgment it has learned nothing and
forgotten nothing. So far as l can per
ceve, it is not only swayed by the same
principles. but, to large extent, guided
by the same men. President Cape9, OF
IaJpS COiie9e, Mass.
BS~ II killed Print Matthews.
told him not TO vote, and he voted and
| killed him. 1t was not me that killed
hint was the party. If l had not
Leen Democrat l would not have
killed him. 1t was not me, but the
Democratic party; and now if the party
is a mind to throw me off, curse such q
party."-E. u. Wheeler, Of HdzlehurSt,
Mss, afterwards elected Marshal bV The
Democratic party.
gay~We are confronted with the Dem
ocratic party, very hungry, and, as you
may well believe, very thirsty; a party
without q single definite principle; a
party without any distinct National
policy which it dares present TO the
country; party which fell from power
as conspiracy against human rights,
and now attempts to sneak back to
power as conspiracy for plunder and
spoils.-Geo. Van. Curtis, June ., 1854.
RsyaThe Washington Post Dem.) is
evidently in a very unenviable frame of
mind. and publishes "black list Of
Democratic Congressman, who must be
read out Of the party. The list contains
forty-tNo o names, including those of men
like Eaton. of Connections; finerty, oI
Illinois; Wise, OF Virginia; Nichols, oil
Georgia; Converse, of Ohio; Storm, OF
Pennsylvania, and Snyder, of West ir.
ginia. Conyers5 has already been dis
posed OF, his party having failed to re-
nominate him, and the Others will prob
ably have to go.-ndiandpois Journal.
E13' In the address TO the Independ-
ents George William Curtis says: He
GGovernor Cleveland is Democrat
happily free from all association with
the fierce party differences of the
slavery contest, and whose financial
views are in harmony with those oi the
best men in both parties" What an
:nvitationl Here is a man fifty Years Of
age, who was "happily free from all
association" with the great events OF
American history which were transpir-
ing about him when he was between
twenty-five and thirty years of age.
We apprehend there are but few polit-
ical eunuchs in the country who care to
vote for any man who was "happily
free from such association"