The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-07-09
Burnt Campaign Powder.


If party organs and campaigners
could be brought to consider how much
of the campaign powder now in. DEM
ocratic store to be fired against Blaine
and Logan had been burnt before, they
might save themselves from much
nleanness and foolish waste of news
paper space and lungs.
The Mulligan letters, the. railway
bonds, the guano legislation and that
sort of political rubbish are all burnt
powder as elements of power in, the
contest. They have all been burnt over
and oyer again, not only in story and
in song, but in political cartoons, and
they wont change a dozen votes he
tween this and November. They have
done their worst already. They have
made, or helped to make, some prom
inent Republicans array themselves
against Blaine, but burning that pow
der over again on every hustings and in
every organ will intensity his friends
without multiplying his foes. 1t isonlY
burnt powder. ll Us 3f.u l5ags.5
All the, varied stories about Blainc's
religious birth and education are only
burnt powder. There is not the SEM.
blance of o religious ripple in the con-
test, and any attempt to make one will
be the .sickliest sort of a burnt-powder
flash. Blaines mother was q Catholics
he has always been o Protestant, and
there the story ends, The past burning
of campaign powder over. the religious
phase of Blaine's candidacy has left a.
Shallow impress here and, there, that
makes an enthusiastic Ifishman now
and then thoughtlessly yshoutfor Blaine
and an equally enthusiastic Orangeman
give hasty yell against him; but it is
all only burnt powder. The Democrat
ic Irishmen will vote practically solid
against Blaine in November if the Dem
ocrats have q hopeful candidate, and
| the Republican Orangemen will vote
practically solid for him, both regardless
of early indiscretions in the contest.
! There nothing in it; nothing to be
made out of it. 1t is only burnt powder.
There will be an inclination to fire off
an awful quantity of burnt powder
against Jack Logan, but it won't SINCE
hair of his luxuriant raven locks. 1t
will be told how, when Democratic
Legislator from Egypt, he proposed
:. and passed the infamous black laws of
Illinois, making it penal offense for a
negro to remain ten days in the State,
and there will be flash after flash on
the stump and in the organs, with
| deadly intent against Logan, but they
will be only burnt powder. He has
outlived his Democratic preiudices Of
thirty years ago, and the black man he
,seourged from Illinois in 1858 will vote
4 for him with yell in 1884. g
4 ,. 1t will be amusing to hear the orators
and organs ridicule Jack Logan's
! original English, and his sworn con-
tempt for the commonly-accepted rules
| of grammar; but what has that to dc
with the essential qualifications OF 8
I Vice-President Many of George
Washington's sentences defied the laws
of grammar, and President johnson
never concealed his contempt fol
scholarships; but both got along toler
ably we'll as Chief Magistrates. Logar
4, will continue to murder the Kings En-
glish, but he will say strong things, anG
things that will be remembered, and i
will be only firing burnt powder to as
sail him. Both Blaine and Logan ART
representative men of the Republican
ism of to-day, and assailing their in
tirmities by the repetition Of threadbar
scandals or criticisms is only flashin!
burnt campaign powder in their faces
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