Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-10-07

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society. and that capital should oCn its
osOss GahOr-shouId labor in the Sepate
If Ohio to limit the power of the poor
and increase the power of the rich.
Will the iaboring men of Belmont
County sustain man with such rec-
,rl 4?
EoR REPRESENTATIVE.
JAMES II. DRENNEN, our candidate
'or Representative, is an intelligent far
mer, well posted in the politics of The
country, and abundantly qualified to fill
the position with credit to himself and
TO the interest of the people of the Coun-
ty. During the war for the overthrow
the tic-Slaveholders' Rebellion
he did all in his power 10 sustain the
Government, and now stands squarely
upon the results Of that war, rejoicing
that slavery is abolished. secession dead
and that Liberty is the right of every
man within the limits of the Union.
DR.. John A. Weyer, the Democratic
candidate, is, perhaps, in point of intel
ligence and social character, the equal of
Mr.. Drennen; but in politics he was as
radically Rebel during the war as was
JEFF. Davis or John c. Breckinridge-
He proclaimed, during the war, that the
Rebels were right and were fighting for
their liberty-and the Union army was
wrong and fighting against the Consti
tuition. He averred that the soldiers of
the Union army who shot Rebels were
murderers, and Lincoln was a usurper
aud tyrant. He, to-day, believes in the
Calhoun theory of State Rights, and, if
ne had the power, would undo all that
has been accomplished by the war, even
20 the restoration of slavery and the re-
turn of jeff. Davis and Breckinrige to
the Senate of the United States. He is
II Bourbon Democrat, who neither for
gets, forgives, nor progresses, and would
DO more to secure triumph of slavery
aud aristocracy than any man we know
of. He is at least fifty years behind the
,ge in which lives, and could not, il
ne would, fairly represent the people of
to-day.
FOR PROBATE JUDGE,
The Republicans have nominated G.
". Carroll, who has made such an effi-
lent Judge during the past three years
hat the Gazette. even, says of him
I'VE have II a word TO say against
Judge Carroll as an officer" But that
,ilthy smut-machine, in the very same.
paragraph, inserts malicious lie about
Judge Carroll as an officer" aud gives
he swift witness, George Criswell. H.
authority: That Judge Carroll went to
Flushing, at some time or another, to
lvoid naturalizings some foreigners whom
Jriswell had brought up for that pur-
,ose. The only answer we have to make
To that proposition is that there is no
truth in it, and that no man ever applied
nimself more closely to the discharge OF
his duties than has Judge Carroll. Dur
ing the whole war Judge Carroll was a
soldier. entering the service as private
at its commencement and serving faith
fully until it was over. If he was law
yer without lease in Court" as the
Gazette falsely asserts, it was because he
went into the army to save the country
soon after he was admitted as an attor-
ney, instead of remaining at home, as
did the Democratic candidate, to get rich
during the high prices and increased
business that followed the breaking out
of the war.
We have nothing to say against the
character of Mr.. Anderson, the Demo-
cratic candidate. We believe him to be
gentleman of honor and integrity. AS
a Judge, he would be entirely without
experience, and could not fill the position
with the same ability and efficiency that
Judge Carroll can. Mr.. Anderson is
rich and he was forced upon the conven-
ton by the votes of this township,
against poor man living in the town.
ship, Who has better qualifications for
the position, but who did not represent
quite SO well the dristocraticf feeling that
of late years is getting the control of
that party.
FOR TREASURER.