The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1853-11-04


with the determination to get votes--honest-
Ily u they could, but to get votes. How they
have succeeded may be seen by the result Of
the last election. When the smoke OF battle
cleared away, the Temperance party, who
would scorn the usual mode of electiopeering
were seen broken and scattered in the rear
of the victorious party; beaten, it may be,
but far from being conquered. 1t is to be
hoped they are u little wiser than before and
that this defeat may learn them lesson.
In the Eastern states, in the ascendant
party, there is bitter strife. The Admin
iststion has tossed bone to the New York
Democracy, which has proved, literally,
"bone Of contention" The end of this
strife is not yet. a. .. -5.a1
The next six months will shadow forth the
policy of the Administration with regard to
Cuban Affairs. What it will be will be
snxiously looked for. 1t will also require
great skill and diplomacy on the part Of "the
powers that be" at Washington to preserve
themselves free from foreign alliances as a
nation in the coming strife. -i
(, The Pacific Rail Road will in an probabili-
/, ~ engage great deal of the attention of
Congress at its next session, and to this all
inhabitants of the Mississippi valley look as
to The measure that is to do more for the
Great West than any single measure ever
advanced.
4 In our State too, are important systems Of
policy to be matured, and on the other
hand important encroachments from the op-
position to be guarded against. The pro-
fessed policy Of the ascendant party is de-
cidedly anti-bank, and now when they have SO
large majority in both houses of our Legis-
lature will they 60 a step farther than they
did last year and crush Banks within our
State entirely7 1t is question Of vital i'm
portance! We think the more sensible men
of that party will hesitate long ere they thus
dash down our admirable system of Banking
+ and place US at the mercy OF foreign Institu-
tionsl which will soon food our State with their
currency. This, however, is their expressed
policy and if they carry it out such must in.
} evitably be the result. While we deeply de-
, plore this aspect of things we can Of course
only raise our voices in opposition. :,
We have great network OF rsil.rosds in
course of construction, and political weather
, prophets predict great depression in r. r.
bonds and stock on account of European
. news, this, then is also to be settled ere long.
We have here set forth tew of the ex-
traordnary causes that should induce d
liberal support Of the newspaper press, eth
er one Of which would be all-sufficient for
our exho.tation. Reflect on what we have
written, then look over our paper-glance at
its contents-see whether or not it is, as It
Purports to be shadowing of the transact
tions here and abroad, then if you can con-
scientously, come up and subscribe for it,
One dollar and Gfty cents per gear! A mere
triAe compared with the vast benefits arising
from the reading of newspaper in the
family circle. We ask this, not as mendi-
cant who with hat in hand bows and smiles q
fawning smile while he begs Of you "patron.
age" "Patronoge" is word we dislike in
business transactions. We ask q man for
money but we at the same time offer what
we consider an equivalent, and one from
which he will derive at least as much benefit
| ae the monev was worth to him