Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-03-17

TaE CakoSIcLg, after publish ing an item
which appeared in this paper, stating that
Brown. the Coshocton Treasury tn ief had been
sentenced 10 i've years in the peni teniiary and
the payment of $40 900, and which closed with
this sadmonition-"Let his fate be warning 10
all the Radical thieves in The cou ntry, thus
replies:
Gazette knew that Coshocton was democratic
county: that Brown was a lemocraiie Treas
ury thief" &C.
Yesr the Editor of the Gazette knows thai
Coshocton is a Democratic county He also
Knows that Brown was not the Treasurer OF
that county, but Radical banker, who after
,appine and tying the Democratic Treasurer
thai county. robbed the Treasury OF $4,000, wa
tried and convicted and is now in the peniten-
tiary. where thousands upon thousands OF Rad
fcals ought to be If they had their just deserts
The CHRONICLE must be hard run ior supJecl
In write upon and in this instance very nn-
fortunate in its attempt TO palm on Radical
as a Democrat In ats language we say:
"a party that needs such shameful trickery
and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. must be hard run
indeed. and. an Editor who resorts TO such
means to mislead his readers must have a very
poor regard for moral lhonesty.'-[Gazette.
As dodger the editor of the Gazette
has few equals. He seems to be equal
to any contingency wherein subterfuge
and deception can make probable OF
plausibIe defence. Whenhe penned the
above he well knew that be was attmpt-
ing 70 mislead his readers; that he was
suppressing thetruth ,and perverting the
facts he was attempting to give.
Samuel Ketchum was the defaultlng
Treasurer of Coshocton County, elected
by the Democratic party. During his
administration he was SO mysteriousiy
robbed-Democratic Treasures are fie-
quently robbed. We. have had two mys-
terious robberies in this county and in
both cases the Treasurers were Demo
cratic--that suspicion was aroused, and
the impression socn settled into con-
viction that the gagging was all sham
and that Kstchum himself was the
true thief. .Ketchum was arrested and
on his compliant Brown was also arrested
and finally yconvicted on the evidence OF
Ketchum. But before the Gazette arti-
Gle was published, Ketchum, the Treas
urer and real thief, plead guilty to the
robbery and was sentenced to serve five
years in the Ohio penitentiary. What
ever may be the politics of Brown he
was only an accemplice ofthe real thief,
and that real thief was the Democratic
Treasurer who had been placed in posi-
tion by the Democratic party, and the
effort of the Gazette to create the inn
preston that the Republicans are re-
sponsibie for the THEFT, is discreditable
dodge. Last week nearly every paper
in the State published the fact that
Ketchum, the Treasurer himself had
plead guilty to the charge of roobing the
Treasury, and the Gazette made No
mention of it but, on the contrary re-
hashed the old story of Browns gasg-
ing the Democratic Treasurer and rob
bing the. Treasury. The editor Of the
Gazette should be very careful how Ia.
talks about people who ought to be i'll
the penitentiary ''if they had their jnsi
DESERTS in connection with this sub
ject ofsrobbing the Treasury. 1t is pos
sible that some persons who are not
Radicals" might find themselves in
uncomfortable quarters. How about the
Treasurer of Butler County? Is he a
"Radicxi thief also? How about Ketch
UNI? Will you please let your readers
know thas he, the Treasurer of COsnoc-
ton County, has plead guilty to robbing
the Treasury and las been sent to :he
penitentixry for i've year. ...g