Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1863-11-05
Lying for the Party.

some editors cOndu0 thelr papers ~ II
they regarded IL as necessary, ia ovdsv to
subserve the interests Of their party, that
they should violate or disregard every prin-
ciple Of moral honesty, and devote them
selves soul and body, without regard to
personal results, to the accomplishment of
the end 10 view, the triumph of their party.
In the past political contest ia Ohio, the
butternut papers have been particularly
virulent and abusive, using every means In
their powor. foul and fair, to mislead the
people as to the true issue Of the campaign,
and deceive them as TO the principles and
purposes of the Government or Union par
ty Failing, however, to deceive the people,
who und@sood full we'll the character of
their candidates and the purposes Of their
party. they seek now, in order TO appease
the wrath Of their disappointed followers,
and further nti,me their passions aud pre-.
iudices against tho people who have 20 ter
ribly rebu'sed them 10 assign false reasons
for their defeat, and get up all kinds of
falsehoods about frauds and outragas per-
peiIated by the successful party.
After spending weeks prior to the election
in colonizing the State with Indiana aud u
linois voters to elect their ticket, they de.
nounce the Government for sending home
soldiers from the army Of the Potomac to
carry the Ohio and Pennsylvania elections,
and thereby weakening Meade's Army so
that it was compelled to fall back before the
advance Of Lee, when they know that not a
single man was sent from Il at army to vote
in Ohio or Pennsylvania, that Meade's army
was weakened by sending three corps to re.
iniorce Rosecrans' army after il had been
driven back on Chattanooga by coHsbina-
tion Of the rebel armies, made svowedly to
defeat Rosecrans' army. in ''order fovorably
to effect the Ohio sleetisu" in favor o. Val.
lsndigham'
They tax about fraudulent voting, whom
every man of observation in the State knows
that the fraudulent votes we're oil cast for
the Valandigham ticket; asd when they
attempt, as Nc hope they will. to contest
the election Of Mr.. Cochran as Prosecutins
Attorney, on the unconstitutionaity Of the
soldiers vote, they will find, by the contest,
that there wore more than eighteen fraud
ulcBt votes polled in the county for the But
ternut candidate. laj H ...
But the most contemplate lying we have
seen resorted to by any paper is contained
in the last Gazette, under the head of I'm
faTous prescription of laboring men,"
where the editor says
The Steubenville (O.) Union relates the
following incident phiich ,oas but one, WE
HAVE NO DOUBT, Of many Monsands, thaf
occurred IN tbs State on elecfion d,,y.
4 AT our election in this CITY on tho 18th,
MIR. James Hunter, lately living at La
grange, in this county, was ordered by par
ties at the polls to show his ticket. This
MIR. Hunter refused TO do. He ,cas dis
discharged before sunaioioa."
We will not say that the editor Of that
paper knew it was false whom he published
II, but we do say that any man Of common
sense and ordinary judgment might have
known it was a stupid, silly lie.
The Steubenvills Herald, speaking Of
the above, says: I..a..
II
We think another version Of the forcgo-
Ing may be given without doing violence to
truth. As we understand MIR. Hunters
case It appears he had given those who
worked in the same department of the JEFF
ierson Iron Mill, to understand that he was
TOR the Union unconditionally-would vote
,ha ve,;o, on,Jn ,,n ,ncket nc was upon this con-
and when the % b"ur arrival 4 d T".saas vo'efs' y,
looking up delinquents, a carriage was des
patched for Mr.. Hunter, who, on bcing
prought u;ngu 70 ,he poIs, instead OF voting the
The dscsntion % 40 ia"e,ss% @ ehs1, ,hs ..n,, ,ene,
who conveyed him from the mill to The nlacs
OF voting. that he refused to haul him back.
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