The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-02-11
oEMocRAcYs BALANCE.
What the Ante Election Hue and Cry Has
Amounted To.

Amounted To.
Year after year the ears Of the people
in general, and the Republicans In par
ticular, have been saluted with the cry:
"Turn the rascals out!" The Demo-
Gratis have howled "reform" until the
word has lost all Of its original meaning
as given by Webster; indeed the source
from whence sprang the cry was enough
to rob 1t OF its value But 1t was kept
up, nevertheless, and made an argu-
ment against the continued existence Of
the Republican party In power. The
claim was made and constantly reitera-
ted that the entrance of the Democratic
party into power would witness the be-
ginning OF radical reformation of all
the evils, real and even imaginary, that
had found their way into the Govern
ment since 1860. This, too, in the face
of tho fact that, although Democratic
House of Representatives had had
voice in the control of the Government
for eight out of ten years, during which
Term the blundcrs and omissions made
by It ought to have relegated the party
to deserved oblivion.
Well, the change has been made. To
be sure the Democratic President-elec
has not assumed his duties. The "ras-
cals" have not yet been turned out
But sufficient time has elapsed for the
Democratic party to outline and declare
its policy and give the country an idea
OF what the practical workings OF its
administration will be. The outlook is
not an encouraging one. ITO the vic
tors belong the spoils'' has become the
inspiration of Democracy. Take the
Cabinet. The country does not know
the intentions of the President-elect,
but if the able statesmen who head the
party could have their way, fitness for
the position would enter into the quail
fications of not more than one or two
of the coming Cabinet. Thcre is Payne.
He wants Cabinet officer made out of
Whitney, his son-in-law, because the
Payne family contributed one hundred
and seventy thousand dollars to the
Democratic campaign fund! A valu-
able qualification surely; and so one
might 60 through the whole list OF
moss-backs, eX-Confederates, money
bags, and aspiring young politicians
without finding anything that looks,
smells or acts like "reform."
With ofllce-sceking in general the
situation is even worse. What howl
arose from the famine e-shapened and
voracous oilicc-seckers of the Demo-
cratic party when Cleveland's Civil
Service letter was construed to mean
that Civil-Service reform would with
him be reality, aud not name, an
empty sound! The Democrats were
frightened at their own shadows for
time, and have constructed hog Latin
dialect Of their own by which the letter
is construed 10 "the Queens taste"
Tho cry of Turn the rascals outr' has
even q sweeter sound than Of yore, for
it means something, but reform" has
a hollow, mocking sound, for it means
nothing. The two expressions are
estranged now.
Tho Democrats were loud In their
protest ationS that the election of Clcye-
land aud Hendricks had healed over all
the wounds. that had fesiercd since tho
civil wsr. that Democratic Admistra-
ton would restore perfect fellowship
and good will between the North and
the South; that all the ties that had
bound tho two sections together were
again united and indissoluable. The
Republicans who had protested against
Southern outrages, porpetrated for the
sake Of prrpe etuating Democratic evils,
were called fault-finders, agitators and
even worse. The Nation was asked to
clcsa its eyes to the facts and dream of
peace and patriotism. But the awaken
ing has been rather rude. 1t is eYi-
dent that perfect harmony can never
prevail until The name OF. JEFF Davis is
lauded ss that OF II patriot and future
saint. The South again feels that she
is the mistress, and that tho Demo-
cratic party is but servant nay, a
slave. NJ
This IS the future that lies before the
eyes Of the people Of this country upon
the evo OF the entrance Of the Demo-
cratic party into power. It Is not
1at.erlng picture, but it is hardly over
drawn. If this is the promise, what
shall be the exccutionp-B Darlington
HaUkeUc.