The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-04-16

THE correspondent of the Elyria Consti-
tuition from this place, who signs him.
self "Xr, has very iull account or what
purporis 10 be a history of events previous
10 our late municipal election. He makes
ont a very bad state of affairs, shocking
duplicity, on the part OF the Republicans
and tries to solidify the ranks of the unterri-
fed, and sore heads by a revelation of
deep and dark plot of the "ring" to get
control Of "and rule, at least our precinct"
The ability of this modern Xerxes 1--WE
suppose that is the name and character he
aspires to) is something wonderful lie
saws. $50 in the Wellington caucus con-
sumated scheme TO befog and mislead the
people as TO their real intentions, was the
tactics adopted 10 nominate this municipal
ity." 1t certainly was a naughty thing Tor
the Republicans to attempt to nominate
this municipality, and we trust they will
make haste to repent speedily, and heartily
of such high-handed injustice. Then
Finius; excuse us, we mean "Xerxes"
tries to be "phunny." If he is half as
sharp as he thinks he is, we expect he
will be travelling and giving entertain
ments as the "Phunny Man of Wellington"
and Robert. Burdette, DR.. Villiers and
others, will have TO look TO their laurels.
We presume p. or X. meant TO be truth
full" Those who have done the literary
work for the faction he represents, and
have been the authors Of the only scurril-
GUS articles, which in the last four or five
years have disgraced our fair fame, have
generally been "truthful," but in this case
we presume he was mislead by his inior.
mer The great lights Of the Democracy
enjoy the well earned reputation of being
"slightually" given to romancing in all
matters relating TO politics, and Finius
in his surprising innocence does not seem
vet TO have taken in that fact. We shall
be excused therefore If we allude 10 few
inaccuracies in his very brilliant" letter
He says, "the call for union came from the
leading Republicans" This is true; that
"the people were greatly pleased &c"
That is true partly, aud partly not true.
The faction headed by Democratic
leaders who had already made up ticket
were not pleased and had no intention Of
going into any arrangement that would
prevent their supporting their own ticket.
He says "it was an attempt TO obtain
power by political duplicity and caucus
examining" That Is false and without a
shadow of excuse for writing. He writes
that "many Republicans shake their heads
and hint at Democracy as good location
for permanent.political home" That is
good; 1t is very rich; almost equal TO
attempting to nominate this municipali.
ty." II only some Of our pretended Re.
publicans who affiliate with Democrats,
and help them in their political scheming
and trickery, and furnish the brains for
their scurrillous articles and aid them In
whatever Is thought necessary to defeat
the Republican party, would only act on
that hint, and make Democracy the loca-
tion for their permanent political home"
Finius would not have lived, and labored
in vain II would take out Of our local
politics an element that has been as tickle
and uncertain as the Frenchman's flea and
whose course has been moro deletcrious to