Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-07-13
The Unien County Ticket.


on IT," And then he says in almost the
same breath-"The men themselves are
good enough"
Now we have here, from thi. leader Of
the Democratic party, and this expounder
and defender OF its principles, one very
opcn-face view Of the character, aims and |
unin,m Of this pro slavery and secession |
symputhznp pa-ty-this party in the cause |
Of Southern State Rights. Like it's South.
ern political friends, who never think of !
"gOod B,nn" for Office, and who have usu
ally been represented by bad men, he tells
MS, very gravely, a popular man NAV he a
bad man, and politically as fit for Office as
any other
Perhaps not ono honest man out of five
hundred can he found, ot any party, but
will at once SAVIOUR country has been ours.
ed by dishonest politicians-that a class OF
mere professional politicians, political gam
| blers and tricksters, office hunters, destitute
Of moral principle. or in other words, and
simplv--not 'good men. have been far many
years in the leading offices of the country
and that this lamen,abe state Of things had
much to do in p!ungng our country into
civil war. And yet this hanger on 70 the
old ways over which every 1ood man
mourns, tells us ''good men" are not pop
ular
No doubt our candidates, and all such
men, want one essential element of popu.
larity with him and his party That ele-
mont il this--pnity above principle and
right. Such element no good man Gao
have. Such element has, indeed for years
bygone. been too prominent in too many
men elevated to office during that period Of
the incubnting and cnncncfinr of the terri
bic troubles which culminated in a Southern
pro-slavery rebellion.
Time was in tha history of or country,
when In the nomination of candidates for
Office the leading elements Of popularity were
the honest the good, the intc ligent, the
; retired the unassuming, the nnambiteus-
the man, Tx Cncnnatns, taken from the
! plough, and cdlied out by the pcople--the
: man who never thought Of nomination
who never sought, and never sold or bought
himself into office--the man who never
studied as a trade the profession of party
politics Such elements, such characters,
. such men were once popular. That was
when few lawyers were in office, and those
; few were usually men of good moral char
'. acter That time We long ago--gene by
2 thirty years or more. For one generation
U we have pandcrcd too much to the ''popp
! ular element" and have had surfeit of it
n High time a change should come.
- Now we hail the dawn of better day
g when goodness of character will and mus
: be an element in political popularity. W.
u !. hail the day when any political party tina
e shall have the insulting impudencn to an
.. nounce that good man is no part of tn
;. ponular elemcnt--that party shall be abau
'p doned by all good men," shall stink an
e shall rot
u s The Union party, not without design
>, not without principle and not without mo
e tive, have nobly and boldly called ont fror
p among the people, plain, honest, relable
y qualified. "good men" We hail this as
re glorious example. We hail it as a step tC
u ward a glorious reforu We hail it as a
omen for good to our country every way
y We hail il as contamination for whic
it good men have loneed and looked An
a. let every good man say-Amen! Yes, le
n all the people say Amen
u Who are the nominees of the Union pa
- ty? That hey are all "good n,cn"-''goo
IL enough," the very Old gentleman himse
'e will hardly noao deny. So much is settleC
o' let us look AT few oftheso good men nov
u perhaps we may speak of the others her,
re after. IT, hevin at rhe head Of the list.
Dr. II. W.st, nominated for the Senat,
ai Who is he? What clement of populari'
u is in him? 1t occurs to us just here til;
j. popular political party once thought the,
10 were some ''0pmcnfs' in him--he was ono
al in the Ohio 'gislatnrr--waS he not? FL
N he lost his eicmcatsY Ole element he h;
indeed lost-ptl tical prn.slavery State so
D. rrcign'y party Democratic caste. A con
''n pound element truly and all lost So q
M lis popular elemrnts are gone? Poor Do
III tor = yon have lnst your ''aements"
u, Now, the antipodes of all the COMPOUND
90 in the lost element torm one material el
a. ! ment f,r popular Union candidate.
III is true to the hrg--trne to the Union--trl
IS. to ;he soldiers of the Union army--true
mt the cause for which Union soldiers volu
ed teered and fought--true to the support
Dr. the war for the Union and the suppressit
~ of the rebellion and its causes too
X Dr. West is an intelligent man. A mi
tee Of sound Judgment, A man acquaint,
ie, with the state of the country and its legisl
nd tive demands A man of some experien
OF in honest legislation And be:ter-he is
re- man fearing God lhating covetousness-he
mt a moral and consistently religious man; al
an of deservedly high standing in the Chur
ry. aud in his own religious denomination. A
nd the Gazette says he is good MAJ"
tut Of ''popuIdrelcment ?" o yes-he is moi
es, popular. ga hbling, unscrupulous, lying, :
- litica stumper. Not one who, by 0
ss stump speech, bawling niger equality-n
he ger hordes swarming over the 'land--cor
bic frighten five hundred of the ignoral
ma drunken rabble into voting with the ''di
eli ecratic party" In such popular polite
,n, party clap trap he is certainly detective.
ib- He has not the popular clement here.
ire But offset this palpable deficiency in t
IT element" the saving of much precious Ii
ith islativo time, so shamefully wasted by "a
bling fellows of the popular element par
az is presented by Union men as the true
nat nleat And then, too, the saving of tho
'es- and of dollars spent in speech-makiug
The mere party purposes We are paying
rat much tax just now for the support of t
oone popular element" More anon from Q
ing Of the people who demand for all Off
g "GooD MEN. u
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