Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-10-07
REvIEw
or the Candidates of the Two Parties


REVIEW
Ofthe Candidates OF the Two Parties.
At the commencement of this poiitlca
campaign we assured many Democrats
that we intended to fight the campaign
on the issues presented by the platforms
of the parties, and avoid sll personal at,
tacks uuIess a different course was for
ced upon us by the i-organ, F" candidates
or leaders of the Democratic Party. We
have adhered 10 this determination thus
far. both in our public speechesand in our
editorials in the CHRONICLE, notwith.
standing the constant and persistent
personal attacks made upon the candi-
dates of the Republican party in every
issue of the organ" since the campaign
commenced; and in this review of can
didates, which is made necessary by the
low. bIackguard attacks upon the Re
pubIican candidates in the last issue OF
the Gazette, we shall only deal with the
character of the Democratic candidate
so far as such character is matter o.
public interest.
FOR sEN.ToR.
DIR. HENRY WEST, the nominee of th'
Republican party, is the same man wh'
was proposed by J: H. Heaton, editor o
the St. Clairsville Gazette, in 1853, a.
the Democratic candidate for Lieuten-
ant Governor, because, among Other
reasons, he
"L a man of UNpoUBrED INrEGRITY-a bold
and fearless advocate Of right-oPEN, FRANK, AMI
GENTLEMANLY in his private and public iitercourst
"A MAN OF FINE INTELLECTUAL CAPACITY,
and that Intelligence based upon Lhe firm and solid
bass of GOOD HARD SENSE.
ave kno,u Of no Democrat in Eastern Ohio MoRf
COMPETENT FUR THE POSITION, or 1ho so deseru
edlv receives the ENTIRE CONFIDENCE AND RE
spFcr OF THE STATE. 8 Is k1l0fpn as a tTttc
Denaecrot AND A GENrLEMAN tliroughotathe Sdte
We therefore send greeting to the Democracy o.
Ohio, and commend TO the Democratic ness ana
The Democratic STATE Convention the name Of thi'
DISTINGUISHED AND DEsERvEDLY PoPULAE
Democrat as candidate for the Office Of Lieutenant
sGoueTnor.
we venture TO predict HE CAN BETTER UNITE
THE PARTY, BRING OUT MORE STRENGTH TO THE
TICKET, AND PERFORM THE DUTIES OF THE OF
FICE WITH AS MUCH CREDIT TO HIMSELF AMI
HONOR TO THE PARTY AS ANY MAN IN OHIO.
He is the same DR.. West who, because
of these sterling qualities, was elected
Mayor of St. Clairsvilie last spring by
Democratic votes, Notwithstanding the
fact that he was at the time an uncom-
promising Republican.
Four years ago DR.. West was elected
to the State Senate from this District,
and how far he faithfully discharged his
duties our readers have had an opportu-
niiy of determining from the high eulo-
gies passed upon him by his associates
in that Legislature, in the letters from
both Democrats and Republicans, pub
Iished heretofore in the CHRONICLE. II
DR.. West had done nothing more while
a member of that Senate than to defeat
the infamous scheme of certain leading
Democrats to rob the National ROAD
Fund of $4,000 to buy free bridge fol
the people of zanesville-a scheme that
was consumnlated by the subsequent
Legislature, of which the present Demo
cratic candidate acds q nlen6er-he, by
that act, did more for the people of Bel
mont County than was accomplished by
Mr.. Jamison in his whole term in the
Senate, and ought to be sustained by the
people of the County. DR.. West is al
elder in good standing in the Presiyte-
rian Church, and in morals and every
thing else that goes to make a good cit
izen, he is the peer of his opponent.
Against the moral or social character
of Alr. JamIson, the Democratic nomi
nee, we have nothing to say; we leave
the dirty work of maligning private
character to such men as the cone-top
trio who are managing the Gazette, and
who have in public print. on former oc
casions, charged each other with nearly
all the Infamous crimes Known to OuI
laws; and we will only refer to such acts
and facts as the public have right to
inquire into.
Mr. Jamison was member OF tnat
Legislature that devoted its entire frs:
session to passing laws of a partisan
character, and he voted with his party
in favor of all these partisan laws.
He voted for a law to prevent the Grip
pied soldiers at the Dayton Soldiers
Home from exercising the dearest right
of an American citizen-the right 10
vote.
He voted for the law to odisfranchise the
students at the coll s of the State.
HevJted to transfer money raised topay
the State debt to the general revenue
fund, to defray the extraordinary ex-
penses of the sessions of the Legislature
that cost the Taxpayers of the State
more money than any Legislature that
ever sat in the State.
He voted to spend nearly one-fourth
of the session of that Legislature in pass
ing "visible admixture laws" that were
decided unconstitutional before the ad-
iournment of the Legislature that pass
ed them, and that cost the taxpayers
of the State more than SIS 900, without
being of one particle Of benefit to the
State.
He was the author of an infamous
proposition to allow men to have
power and influence in the community
according to their aOeatth, and proposed
that the rich land owner should have
more influence than the poor land own
er in petitioning the Commissioners for
rnacadamized roads. He ought TO have
went step further and proposed, in the
interest of such rich landowners as he
is. that in the election of Representa-
tives, Sena.5rs, County Commissioners
&C., who have such unlimited powers
over the money of the people, the