The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-10-29
Mr.. Blaine at Fort Wayne.

tent bowling, prevented his speaking.
The Republicans then withdrew to
another part of the city where Mr.. Blaine
made one of the most spirited addresses
of the campaign About $4,000 Republi-
cans were in attendance. We give the
larger portion of it below and commend
it to the careful attention Of our readers
CITIZENS OF INDIANA: The October cleo
tions in Ohio and West Virginia have put a
new phase on the National contest or rather
they have reproduced an old phase. The
Democratic party, as OF old, consider now
that they have Solid South again. They
believe that they will surely get 1853 electoral
votes from sixteen Southern States, and
then they expect, or they hope or they
dream, that they may secure New York and
Indiana, and that with New York and
Indiana added to the Solid South they will
seize the Government of the Nation. They
can't do It. do not believe that farmers,
business men, manufacturers, merchants,
mechanics and, last OF all and most OF all,
don't believe that the soldiers Of Indiana
can be put to that use. do not believe
that the men who added lusture and renown
to the name OF your State through four
years OF bloody war can be used TO call into
the administration OF the Government men
who organized the great Rebellion. In the
Senate OF the United States the Democratic
party have thirty-seven members, of which
number thirty-two come from the South.
or their strength in the House Of Represen
tatives the majority comes from the South,
and now the Intention Is, with an absolutely
solidlfed electoral vote from the South,
added 10 the votes OF the two States have
named, to seize the Government Of the
Union.
WHAT A DEMOCRATIC VICTORY MEANS.
That means a great deal; II means that as
the South furnishes three-iourths OF the
Democratic strength, 1t will be given the
lead and control OF the Nation in the event
OF Democratic triumph; II means that the
great financial and industrial systems OF the |
country shall be placed under the direction
Of the South; that our currency, our banks,
our tariffs our Internal Revenue laws, In |
short, that our whole system upon which the '
business Of our country depends shall be |
placed under the control Of that section; |
1t means that the Constitutional amend |
mcnta, 10 which they are so bitterly opposed,
shall be enforced only so far as they believe
In them; that the National credit, as guar
anlccd in the XlVth Amendment, and the !
payment Of pensions to soldiers OF the
Union, as guaranteed in the same amend
ments, shall be under their control; and
what that control might mean can be meas
ured by the bitterness with which those
amendments were resisted by the Democrats
OF the South.
There is not one measure OF banking, Of
tariff, OF finance, of public credit, Of pen
sions, not one line OF the administration
upon which the Government is conducted
to-day, 10 which the Democrats Of the South
are not recorded as hostile, and 10 give them
control would mean a change the like Of
which has not been known in modern tlmes.
1t would be as II the dead stuarts were
recalled to the throne OF England; as II the
BourbOns should be invited TO administer the
government 10 the French Republic; as
though the Florentlne Dukes should be
called back and empowered to govern the
great Kingdom Of Italy. Such triumph
would be a fearful misfortune TO the South
itself. That section under the wise admins.
tratlon Of the Government by the Republican
party has been steadily and rapidly gaining
for the past ten years in all he elements Of
material prosperity. II has ADDED enor-
mously 10 It's wealth since the close OF the
war and has shared fully In the general
advance Of the country. To call that section
to the rulership OF the Nation would disturb
It's own social and political economy, would
reklndle smouldering passions, and under
the peculiar leadership to which It would be
subjected II would organize an admlnistra-
ton Of resentment, Of reprisal, Of revenge
GREAT MISFORTUNE TO THE NATION.
No greater misfortune than that could
come to the Nation OF the South. It would
come as a reaction against the progress OF
liberal principles In that section, progress
so rapid that the Republicans are waging
earnest contests In these States, whose inter.
ests are most demonstrably identified with
the policy Of protection. Against the babe-
full spectacle OF a Solid South | am sure
that Indiana will protest and on the whole,
will conclude to stand where she has stood
In the past ! believe that you will stand
where you stood In the war, that you will
stand for principles and politics which haye
made your State bloom and blossom as a
rose, and which have made the American
Republic In manufactures and In agricul-
ture the leading Nation Of the world.
(Cheers) The leading Nation OF the world
not merely In a material sense, but In a
moral and philanthropic sense; country In
which every man has as good a chance as
every other man, and which, among other
great gifts bestows absolutely free suffrage
You enjoy that suffrage, and on the fourth
day OF November next you are to say for
which party, for which policy you will cast
your votes.
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THE Commercial Gazette punctures the
stupid talk of the Democrats about the