Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1860-08-16
FROM SOMERSET TOWNSHIP.


msteao family reRaIes tne Teeoeb W we
Weakly Jimmycrstic paper with . rsh and
creamy repstt Of Somerset township politics.
Dbl happy townships. Somerset end Wsyss.
Blessed are 20 10 fair, opm.syes and impsr.
Lisi penny Q liners. T~o such In one family
d astounding --prodie Ioos. What hopss,
whst sss. Sirstltss sss tlsomiaG here. nsyI
Hssves svsss thea lsassh Of yssss, sssu
INTO ,ha fu.fillmsns VI their wildsst wishes;
yea. ws6fd ptit for sn increased lens'h
Of ssrs-but that's impossibIs, % the maxi.
mum 10 filed.
The .coafusIcu snd confederation" Of or
At the 4th Of July sominstion!! I!
Nov we did not think this he'd leaked oot.
How singular Il 10 that some men. like old
lsdies generally, must bisb everything they
say snd more TOO. But We hsd forgotten the
Ums,eads he'd such perceptives!
The .'ehost Of Washington" and ",hs pen
OF Homes" Whewi Will be plesse inform
the readers df the Jimmycrs,ic whether ip
his estimation Homer wac Dutehmsn or
maybe he wss . foreigner.
He spesks Of the Republicans "supporting
his ssts mic majesty" &c. Whether this 10
60 or not, they hsve been supporting sone
wolves in Sleeps clothing; or in othe: words
those who seem ready 20 urn and rend them
II IL were possible. The fact 10 the Repub
licans of Somerset township hase besx TOO
liberal. Look st our Township oficers.--
OF the three E,qsires, one 10 q l'ewocsat,
one an Americsn (Kiger) and one one Re.
publican. OF the two cons,sbles, both are
Democrats, and so on. Republicans Of Som.
erse,l this is the Mdsks yox get for III Let
Ne learn TO "eo and sin no more" These
stsssments are made In the face Of the fact
thst Somerset township 10 largely Rspubii.
can, and viii give this fall larger Repsbii.
cas msjorits than ever before. "Pus pin
down there" end make aots of."
The writer speshs Of hearing Repsbli.
can cay ing he would support KiRer and then
that most Of the voters talked the ssas
wsy. THE 10 . Vsvy silly aistsks. We do
not wish TO cail Il . wilfal msssspresssts.
tion, for We believe, - ives customary with
an old topper Of oar|sequsintance. he cen Say
'les ignorance be my excure."
Nov ss to Esqure Niger. he 10 very 6se
man; has the "open hand and ready :oot Of
charity about b i'm" Peshsps he 10 iesile,
just very Ieeths. too easily datiered--bu,
who OF Us 10 not sol He has come warm
frieLds. but the best Of them have told him
he ough, not to have accepted the no:nina-
tion. But then getting q man's name IN Ike
paper, even in the Jimmycraiic. blinds some
people. We believe him honest, ard fear
that he does not know that he 10 being used
by the "wounded calf" to crafty personal
spite. What his liberal nsiRhbors might 60
Tor him, II there was the least possibie chance
for hum, 10 q different question from the
present one, when every man and child not
a nstpral born know nothing, knows he
stands not ths shadow Of chance. II there
are those SO blinded BY vanity or partisan
spirit, lp, them look at figures:
In 1856 the vote stood: Fillmore 1883;
Fremont 1915. This was the FIRST trial oi
the Republican parry. and good men hon
estly believed Fillmore stood some chance
The election rent the vail. In 1857, Chase
l572; Van Trump $50. In 1859. tor Sup.
rene Judge. Whitmsn (DsmocraO adolf
Gholsoa Re puhlicso) ai21i Swan (Ameri-
can nom;nee) $780,! Are the numbers "not
growing small and beautifully ls'-l763-
950-629! sgsinst 255s Democratic and
2I27 Republiesn--the American vote being
not one.fourth the Democratic, and but little
over one. fourth the Republican; and yet the
Americans Of Somerset talk Of electing W..
r Kiger. Had we not better send for Bar.
20 farthrrl For these reasons the Repub-
licsns OF Somerset tow wnship will rot vote
for any body bu, Pat. Lochsry. You may
send this greeting to our brother Republi-
cans. They ,ciH not ,oasie ammunition use
iessiy, 10 the sacrifice OF their own party and
the elevation OF Dem ocra,s. Nor do we be-
lieve that w. r. Kiger can ask II; and ty q
charge made shoulder to sh houlder, every
bay one, fixed, every bulletsen, home, firmly
believe we will succeed. So every man to
his post! Let no Republican commit suicide
by wasting = single ball, snd The day 10 ours!
Roll on the Ball!
There 10 one pitt mi hesrt rendering par
aQrsph IN the Umstesd letter, that l think
even his friend (the Esqulre) viii be ASHAMED
OF. refer to the statement that there srs
those opposed to him now whom he Ohs
Esduire) hes helped TO elect IN bygone days
"Where's our pocket ksndkerchiefl" Whs
bsse iugrstiiude 10 here, nv couutrymesi--
Our friend, the blacksmith. N ust have see'
prompted to write this. Who prompted HIN
If he ever did help snybody. IL wss when 81
wers Old Line Whigs together, end part!
lines were no, drswa - they ere snw. Bs
". csa 6nd no one here that owns the corr
How this sympathetic appeal brings 10 ou
minds The sorrowful language Of the poet: :.
"A!as! how humsn hopes decay.
How loves repss,s grow colder,
We dine on strawberries to-day.
| To.morrov pet cold shoulder"