The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-01-12
THEY ARE INDIGNANT
AT. THE COURSE TAKEN BY
LEGISLATORS

Given Public Expression in n Mass Meet
ing Saturday Evening-Se of the
Republican Party Expressed by Promi-
nent Local POliticians-ResOlut are
Adopted.
Persuant to call signed by e. G.
Branson member for Wellington of
county republican executive commit
tee and by H. G. Harris township re-
publican Icommitteeman Wellington
township, the republicans of Yelling
ton and vicinty met in the opera house
on Saturday evening, January 8, 1893,
to express their Indignation at the eff
forts being made by certain so called
republicans conspiracy with democrats
to defeat the will Of the people at Col
umbus.
The meeting was called to order by
b. G. Branson, who briefly stated the
reason for the call of the meeting.
Hon. S. S. Warner was elected chair
man and j. T. Haskell Sec'y. Upon
taking the chair Mr.. Warner stated in
forcible language the condition of af-
fairs at Columbus and the serious nat
ure of the complications that would
occur if senator Hanna was defeated
and its effect upon the present repub-
lican administration.
Speeches were made by various gen.
tlemen present in the following order,
and letter was read from j. III. Wool
ley who was confined at his home by
illness in strong language condemming
the actions of the members of the as
sembly and Others whose actions are
against the expressed wish of the mem
bers of the republican party expressed
at the convention and at the polls
j. 7. Haskell, 7. K. Herrick, E. II.
Perkins, Il. II. Kinnison, w. h. Wean,
j. S. Mallory, e. West, 0. p Chapman,
E. +. Webster, e. G. Branson, S. S.
Warner and Senator Lanning of Nor
walk, O.
The following resolutions were un-
amiously adopted:
Whereas, Hon. Marcus A. Hanna, by
his services in the U. S. senate, has
demonstrated that he is eminently
qualified for the duties of that high pos
ition and entitled TO the loyal support
of there publicans of Ohio, and
Whereas, his candidacy for the U. s.
senate was unanimously endorsed by the
state republican convention at Toledo
and by nearly all county conventions
held in Ohio during the late campaign,
Now, therefore, be it resolved, by
the republicans of Wellington and vic
Unity in mass meeting assembled, that
Senator Hanna is entitled to and
should receive every republican vote
in the general assembly for both short
and long terms in the U. S. senate, and
Resolved, that the action of disaf-
tected republicans, who from motives
of personal revenge and regardless of
the welfare Of the republican party,
are combining with democrats to de-
feat the will of the republicans of Ohio
as expressed in conventions and rati-
fled at the polls in November, be here
by denounced, and
Resolved, that we condemn the ac-
tion of Gov. Bushnell, twice elevated to
the governors chair by the votes OF
republicans. for lending his influence
to assist democrats in defeating the
clearly expressed will of the republi-
cans of Ohio, and by such alliance
evincing desire to secure for himsel
the prize intended by his party for
Senator Hanna, and
Resolved, that we demand that our
honored Senator, j. B. Foraker in this
crisis in the history of the republican
party of the state, utter in tones tha'
cannot be misunderstood his condem.
nation of the p,otting of his supposed
friends at Columbus, and that he lend
his powerful influence to secure the
return of Hon. Marcu A. Hanna to the
U. s. Senate, and
Whereas, our local paper, The Enter
prise, is supposed to voice the senti-
ments of the republicans in this vicin-
ity, and
Whereas, in this weeks issue OF said
paper appears the following editorial,
so-wit;
THE SENATORIAL FIGHT.
1t is amusing to read what some OF the news
papers have to say in regard to the senatorial
squabble now going on at Columbus.
After reading some Of these editorials one
would think that the downfall Of the republic
was at hand in case Hanna is not elected; that
IT would be a thrust ut McKinleys admins
tration that any republican member Of the
legislature who failed to cast his vote for Han
ma was a traitor to his party; that Gov Bush
nell and Senator Foraker are likewise traitors,
and all such rot.