The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-06-17

honor, have suffered the humiliation of see
ing the men they fought and yanquishod on
the field, elevated to the high places of tho
nation, and entrusted with the public well
fare This stigma must be wiped out, and
here the work must begin, to be completed
In 1888. The nation, born of the throes OF the
Revolution and redeemed by her loyal sons
from secession, must be rescued from the
domination of the Democratic party III this
shall be the outcome of our national chas-
tising, then shall this aiiliction, though griev-
Gus for the moment work out for us far
moro exceeding and eternal weight of ma
tional glory.
The responsible duty Of making out line
of policy, and of deciding upon men and
measures around which the Republicans
shall rally for victory, is the work of this
convention. And desire to suggest the fact
that the Democratic leaders and the present
Democratic administration are Ill content
with the meager triumph they won last fall;
and success is but half success, when con-
fined to the very narrow margin OF few
hundred votes In an aggregate OF over ten
millions. Their victory accomplished
no principle, is little more than barren
ideallty to them unless II can be supplement-
cd by conquests more decided, and won upon
bolder issues. They require victories In Ohio
and New York and Virginia this year TO re-
move the cloud and to ratlfy their doubtful
title to the Presidency. To this end every
nerve of the administration will be strained
Nobody will be long deceived by tho bogus
cry of reform. Whatever can be done to
continne the Democratic party In power will
be done, though every principle OF the Con-
stitution, and every law upon the statute
books should be trampled under foot. III you
doubt this, turn,to the history Of the Demo
cratic party. Its pathway In all the past has
been through spoils and blood ani treason.
Neither bench nor bar, church nor State,
men nor devils, have been able 10 stand in
the way of the ungodly ambition Of the lead
ers of the Dem cratic party.
have no criticisms TO make on President
Cleveland. i believe him to be infinitely
better than the party leaders who are behind
him. The most prominent feature of his ad-
ministratlon, however, is the embarrassment
under which he labors because of his obliga-
tons TO the civil service reforiners OF New
York and New England and the ex-Confed-
crates Of the South. The effort 10 harmonic
these conflicting elements will become more
and more hopeless and tmpossible; and the
hypocritical cant which now characterizes
the hollow protense of civil service reform,
will pass away with the summer showers.
The South always has and always will con-
troll the Democratic party, no matter whom
they place in the Presidential chair. Even
now, men who have been hid away In the
mountains of New England because the
taint of disloyalty was upon their gar
ments, men who struck hands with the
consplrators who met, in Canada during
structlon OF the Northern States, mon
who boast OF their treason and who
have disdainfully refused citizenship, men
VINO openly uNOW t0elr UeNOtlOn 10 Jeu
Davis and the cause In which he was en-
gagged, are appointed TO places OF the highest
trust, while men whose loyalty and ability
have never been questioned, men who fought
In the Union army from sumter 70 Appo-
mattox, are removed to make places for
boastful rebels. II is a scene TO make angels
weep and 10 sting every loyal man In this
land as with scorpions fang when, upon
the floor OF the American Congress there are
10 be found men to stand up, and with serene
satisfaction, parade before the country the
fact that they were In the confederate
Congress" that they were In the "Confeder-
clare Jefferson Davis" TO be a ''man of
honor and patriot" Ohio should be for
ever proud that she had one Senator who
dared TO rise In his place and declare that
JEFF Davis was a conspirator and a trait
or, in the war and before the war, and would
be so branded for thousand years to come.
But the eulogist OF the arch traitor, the man
who resigned his seat in the United States
Congress in 1880 TO take a seat in the seces-
sion convention of his State, and fight in the
rebel army, and who was the trusted ana
confidential agent OF the Confederacy
abroad, during the war. is to-day at the head
of the department which controls all the
pension interests of the Union soldiers and
Is honored with seat In the Presidents
| Cabinet.
Three months OF Clevelands adminlstra-
| ton have scarcely elapsed, and yet we have
| seen score OF unrepentant rebels placed In
| representative positions abroad. We have
| seen the stars and stripes Mt half-mast In
Washington in honor OF the man who plotted
TO burn Northern cities and lay waste North.
ern States. We have seen honors piled
mountain high on red-handed trnitors, while
| Union men and Union soldiers are directed
TO pass by on the other side" The war Is
over" cry these men, while they never omit
an opportunity TO fiaunt their treason in the
| faces OF the American people.
The time has come TO lay aside weak-kneed
sentimentalism. The South surrendered at
An hftf mi W have
| been surrendering ever since; and II Is now
| time that this mawkish imbecility should
stop. Let us no longer deceive ourselves.
We are on the eve of u great conflict. The
struggle has just begun, and II will be long
and bitter. The problem Is not whether civil
| service shall stay or go; not whether free
| trade or protection shall be our National
policy; not whether this party or that
or the civilization OF the South or that
OF the North shall rule this coun-
| try; whether the slavery OF the past
shall be the serfdom OF the future, whether
| colored race In the National Congress shall
be the vantage ground OF Southern suprem.
acy 10 crush and curse the downtrodden and
the lowly, North and South. These are the
issues that confront us; and IL is the
grand mission OF the Republican party
to stand again, as II stood before, for
the rescue OF the Nation and the preser-
walton of her liberties. The free people
of the United States can not and will
not live under Confederate rule. The blood
and brain that stirred this Nation In 1881, will
again hurl the shot and she'll OF their anathe.
mas against any party or power that SHAH
threaten the fair fame of the country orthe
honor OF the flag they love. Call this an idea
II you will II is such ideas as this that shake
the world, and for which mon have fought
and died on thousand battleaelds. The re-
suit OF this struggle will decide the question,
now trembling In the balance, whether our
patriot dead poured out their life blood In
vain; whether the experiment OF free gov
ernment II 20 be an established success or an
ignominlous failure; whether we are TO be
free and united people, knowing no section
alism, having no divided interests, or wheth.
or one portion OF our people are TO be under
the despotlc heel of the other.
The battle cry of the Democratic party for
the past decade, at least, has been "rurn the
Rascals out-Turn the hascals outI' Let us
see how this is. When Secretary Chase took
hold OF the books twentyfour years ago
after years OF Democratic rule, he found
deficit OF several million dollars, as well as
an empty treasury. When Secretary Man.
ming took charge after twenty-four years OF
Republican administration, he instituted
searching investigation, employing more
than score OF the best experts In the Ma.
ton, and after the most dIllgent search, and
after the most careful count, there was found
deficit OF two cents, and no more. And
while the newspaper reporters were pre-
pairing the dispatches which were to startle
the country, and while the mathematicians
were apportioning this monstrous deficiency
| TO the twenty.four years OF hepublcan rule,
10 determine the average amount per year
stolen from the National Treasury, lol In the
waste basket the two conts were found, and
the howls of fraud and peculatlon were
hushed into the silence OF death. And In.
stead OF an empty Treasury there was In II
tho wat sum of 1884 000000 IL was all there,