Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-11-11

K. The great Moses Kline case, about which
~ much fuss has been made, was dismissed
the Mayor falling TO make his appearance. The
election is over, and the public can now under
sand why all this hum buggery 10 catch votes,
at the expense of the pockets of the people,
We charged at the time there was nothing in
the case and the conduct of thu Mayor now
proves it.-Gazette. 500 .--r--
There are men so constituted that they
cannot tell the truth upon any subject
where there interest or their prejudice
is involved. This seems to be the unfor-
tunate condition of the editor of the GA
zette in all cases or on all questions with
which our worthy Mayor is in any way
connected. That the Gazette should be
specially interested in screening its
beautiful protege and special agent,
Nose, we do not think strange at all,
because on the support of such men it
aud its party live. But why the editor
should persistently misrepresent every
body else interested or connected with
any transaction in which his whisky
pedtling agent becomes involved, is a
matter of surprise. Andrew Alexander,
for many years Democratic Justice OF
the Peace in this Township, after full
hearing of the above case recognized
Nose to appear and answer in the Pro-
bate Court. Mr.. Shannon, the "effi-
cientn Democratic Prosecuting Attor-
ney, kept the case in Court and prosecu-
ted it at the last term. Your charge
that "there was nothing in the case" |"
is a charge that these men are either
grossly ignorant or maliciously corrupt;
for they had the power to dispose of the
case, and they alone are responsible 70.
putting it.into the Probate Court and
keeping 1t there. The editor of the Ga
zette and those who think as he does
upon this question, must be very igno-
rant indeed ifthey do not know that the
very moment Nose was recognized to
appear in Court the matter was entirely
out of the control of DIR. West, and he
could not even testify in the case unless
called by the Prosecuting Attorney. III
the Prosecuting Attorney wanted the
he had only to order a sub
pena and he could have secured. That
Nose Kline delivered whisky to men in
st. Clairsville who were in the habit of
getting drunk, has never been denied.
That he knew they were in the habit of
getting drunk, there is not man in the
town who is net perfectly satisfied. The
whole difficulty in this case is in proUi,ag
that he k1aew it. In any case it is very
difficult thing to prove that a man
knows any particular thing-in fact, it
is only possible when the party has been
heard making declarations of knowl-
edge,-butin Moses case the difficulty
is increased because it is violent pre-
to infer that he knows any
thing; and here is where this case failed.
We, perhaps, go too far when we con-
vey the impression that Nose does not
know anything-he knows enough to
lie and deceive as to the price and quail
ity of articles he deals Uneven the
whisky delivered in violation of law
He bought the whisky at the Hendrys-
burg distillery at 81 g per gallon and
sold it.teYhis customers for S, 100, and
when arrested for selling liquor in viola
lion of law he vent upon the witness
,tapd and s,Oore that he paid three dol
ars gallon for it and deli. creed it
Without profit. This he did to evade
Inc. What would he not do? We likel
n sea fba Gazette defending its own-