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

Northern Industries in every department OF
productive enterprise. This Is question
that will stir the Nation in the near future.
The laboring classes Will want TO know
whether the comfortable homes Of the North
are TO be brought down TO the level of the
huts and novels of the South; whether Amer
ican labor at the North, with its thrift and
competence and honorable self-respect, Is TO
be debased and degraded 10 the level of the
ill.requited labor OF the South. In travelling
recently 1000 miles through the old slave
States / read In the squalid poverty and
cringing servility of tho laboring classes, the
danger that now threatens the worklngmen
OF the North. II must be averted.
In the tragic scenes OF the worlds history
there has never been anything so marvellous
as the late Ohio Democratic Legislature,
better known as the Allen o. Myers Legisla-
ture, and still better as the coal oil Legisla-
ture. When the Democratic party came into
power in January, 1884, the public institu-
tlons OF the State were in prosperous con-
dtion, and every department OF the State
showed careful and efficient management,
and there was In the Treasury surplus of
more than half million dollars. The Ohio
Penitentiary, under the careful business
management of the Republican party, had a
surplus of $4,000 over expenditures, but, in
eight months after tho Democratic party
came into power, the Penitentiary was in
debt $4,000, and two hundred of the convicts
were idle. The corruption and extravaganza
Of this Legislature have brought the State TO
the verge of bankruptcy, and increased
bonded Indebtedness in the State over Sl0,-
0OO,OOO lt increased taxation, and added 10
the burdens Of the people more than any
other Legislature In the history OF the state.
And while IL was too oowardly 10 keep
its promise TO repeal the Scott law, II sought
refuge in Democratic Supreme Court
which robbed the overtaxed people of the
State of more than s5,OOO,0O0. IL attempted
the reorganization of the cities OF Columbus,
Cleveland and Cincinnati in the interest OF
Democratic supremacy, by resortlng TO leg
islation so odous and infamous as TO dis
gust the better element of the Democratic
party In every part OF the State. II Is the au-
thor of the dlsgraceful gerrymander which
gave the Democratic party majority OF the
Republicans carried the State bya majority
of 10000 IL turned out crippled soldiers 10
make place for political bummers, and used
its influence against legislation In the inter
ests of Union soldiers. But the crowning In
fanny OF this Legislature Is found in the
written and nnwrltten history of the election
of United States Senator, and the coward
ly refusal 10 investigate charge SO hagrant
that the Nation stood aghast. E
The coming campaign viii. not only deter
mine the recuperative power OF the Repub-
the next United States Senator from Ohio
will be q Republican or q Democrat, ques-
ton OF great moment, not only TO the state,
but 70 the Nation. twill also determine
shall continue to disgrace the statutes Of the
Stnte, or whether the Congressional districts
made at the time and In the manner contem-
plated by the Constitution and laws Of the
country shall be restored. The present COM
paign will probably determine whether the
next House OF Representatives will be Demo-
cratic or Republican, upon which Will DO.
pend the restoration of the duty on wool, and
the revival OF an industry which, before the
reduction OF the duty, employed s5OO,D0Q0O
capital, 2,0OOO0 men, and added afnually
10 the wealth OF the country Sl50,0O0,.
900. Tho wool-growers who have lost, 40
the price of wool alone, $eOOOO,OOO since the
Ohio Democracy promised 70 restore this,
duty, have come 20 understand that II tho
law OF 1851 II ever restored, IL must be done
by the Republican party The refusal of the
late Democratic House OF Representatives
rsseSnse Teyss oaSSS q tSe GRAND
Army Of the Ropublic on behalf OF those
whose struggles and trials made freedom
free and gave the Nation nag without the
loss Of a single star, and the eager ambition
of the Democratic party TO restore again 70
power the old slave olgiirchy whose very
touch seems to recall all the perils and sac
rlfces Of the war, will give us In this cam
palgn the sympathy and support OF the
Union soldiers as we have not had since 1868.
The camp fires will be rekindled, the old nag
will be again unfurled, the old guard will be
again on duty, and tho men who have never
kept step TO any music but the music OF the
column. Tho party that led the army TO Vic,
tory at Gettysburg and at Vicksburg, and at
Antietam, can alone be depended upon 70
take care OF the country's defenders.
Conceding the impropriety Of q presiding
ofloer expressing any preference rs 70 cap
didates, OF attempting TO dictate any part OF
the platforn,I beg TO say that this conven.
ton will be expected 70 give 70 the Republic
an party OF Ohio, q ticket Without spot OF
blemibh, aud "a platform abreast with the
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