Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-10-01
Sa,um aud County gsms.

THE Democratic meeting at the Court
House on Thursday evening was respee-
table in size. deeorum and .'loDg suffer-
ing" MIR. Estep discoursed for two
hours i'm one of the most Unfair, pettliog-
ging and contradictory harrangues.everI
inflicted upon our patient people. Ihe
first hour and a quarter were devoted TO-
the .sNIgger'' aud several little Mig
gers" were sprinkled in until the close.
He talked about wool and Bin9hdna
about nigger and Bingham. about YAM
KEGS and Bingham, about everything
and Bingham alternately. No doubt
realizing that on the 18th of October he
will be the worst Bingham struck man
ever set up as Democratic ticket. he
saws that under Democratic rule you
will get double the present price for your
auook and be able to buy your clothing
much cheaper Why, Mr.. Josiah M. dol
Won think we are all fools in Belmont
County, and will you please tell us how
it can happen that you will double the
nrice of wool and reduce the price of
wooden goods at the same time? Who do
Won want to deceive; the wool grower or
the wool wearer? Don't you know that
neither will believe you? II it is the
wool grower you want to deceive, please
let this fact get through your wool, that
there are many people in this County,
who are not wool growers. If it Is the
wool wearers you want TO deceive please
remember that the poor men Of this
county are not fools if they do not wear
starchy clothes like Mr.. Estep,a bought by
the interest on his Sc, 600 of Bonds and
the fire dollars he charged the soldiers
for writing passes to go out OF Camp,
when they were entitled to 90 out NTH
out q pass.
Mr.. Estep's anecdotes amuse him, one
would suppose, from the way he stops
and shows his teeth. to say, as it were,
shereis where the laugh comes in but
his audience were slow to ''see it,
Barring his butchery of the English by
;hisssweVl show 'emr and radical eN-
a,arriment" de-, and he's cracking his
fists and throwing his arms aud fearfully
pounding the furniture and all be said;
his effort was innocent: and wien he
turned around to Chambers and pltied
the man who hadn't a wife and 1our
children" land laughed) and said he
had four himself eand lsughedl and said
"mebby it won't do to have 'eL- SO fast
these hard timesn land laughedl it was
powerfully and excrutiatingly amusing.
Goodbye Josiah!
seYou's been long time wandering
But now you's gwine hum" TO stay.
Mr.. Estep's effort was succeeded by
painful lull and faint call for lodging
on Chambers, whereupon the ponderous
and .pennous Robert a-r-o-s-e land
looked to de East" and looked to de
West to see, we suppose, whether there
was any one present who remembered
that he voted against The taW duoicaeg
.s Lincoln Aire1ingsn aud soldiers to Uote)
and "went for" some preacher" (Rev.
]. B. Johnson) who in -this room Z
wears ago made a p-o-l-l-t-l-c-a-l
-q,-e-,-c-hr w-h-i-c-h a-s-s-t-0-lt-n-d-
- me-" four readers will recognize
th.< !, is was in 1861 when all good men
who lifte,s their voice in favor of tie war
were abuse.., as they are today, and
nroceeled thus,Iy for three-quarters of
an hour in measur ed step and ponderoas
cadence. from all of which we gathered
in substance
aOur old COW, she crosse,a the ROAD
BECAUSE she crossed the ROAD SIR,
The reason why she crossed the ROAD >,
Was because she crossed the ROAD slr.
He then attempted to insult some Oh
his Republican auditors by asserting
what he must know is untrue that he
publican speakers, some of whom / see
nresent, are going about the county On
the stump resorting to low, vile person
alities, calling people peaked tops" &c,
and was proceeding porpoisely to lash
himself into fury when the numerous
ont nouriug admonished him to say Il
thank YOU for your kind attention." The
only comment we heard was: do won
der what Chambers was driving at, he
certainly did not reach the point he was
trying to make.n Farewell Bobbie.
..opce one is two. Once one Is two;
II see said the little man, see clearly.