Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-09-14
Politics in Belmont.
cadiz Correspondence of the Gin. Gazette.
BELMONT COUNTY.

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But Belmont County, which forms a
senatorial district with Harrison, and
which has heretofore been Democratic,
is now almost sure to turn the tables
upon that party, and send DIR. Arm
strong to the House. Weyer, who re-
presented the County in the last Legis-
lature, and is at present the Democratic
candidate, is an old sessionist and State
rights man, politically objectionable to
the new departure faction, and not per-
sOnally popular even among Democrats
of his own stripe. DIR. Armstrong, on
the other hand, is not only personally
unObjectionable, but popular all round.
| The prohibitiOnists, whose movements
at one time threatened to throw the
County irretrievably into the hands of
the Democrats, have recently determin-
ed to make no nominations. Upon the
whole, therefore, / believe it may be
set down as reasonably certain that in
Belmont we shall gain a Representa-
tive. lsl1t- .1.i feb la7lal.l ea
THE SENATORIAL DISTRICT. ~
But better still, our friends confident
| ly expect to gain the Senator from Bel
mont and Harrison. was some time
ago inclined to think this expectation
entirely too sanguine, but we have a
capital candidate in Mr.. S. S. Knox, of
Harrison: and one who, at any time
heretofore, could have made the race
difficult for Mr.. Jamison, the last Sena-
tor and present Democratic nominee
When Mr.. Jamison was elected in 1869
he had but 209 majority. Since then
the Republicans have not only received
an accession of strength in the shape of
about 800 colored voters, but have made
they actually carried the district last
fall by 2S7 majority. The Democrats
say that our majority last year was
owing to the extraordinary effort made
by Mr.. Bingham and his friends to get
out the vote for the Congressional race,
and that the thing cannot be repeated.
Let our friends there show them that
the vote is always brought out by ac-
tivity and vigilance, working in behalf
of good cause, and S. S. Knox will
unquestionably be their next Senator.
Here is a nut for our Democratic free
trade friends, who shout themselves
hoarse in denunciatioh of the tariff inn
posed by the National Government on
lIOn, W CIdCh SO Ill5lT I0lSuTC. lIl6 ClGy
government Of New York some time
ago passed ,an ordinance requiring all
columns, pillars and girders used for
building purposes to be inspected and
pay tax of seventy cents per foot
length In single building, and that
not an extra large one, recently inspect
ed under this law, it is said that the tax
in question amounted to some thirteen
hundred dollars, in return for which
the inspector simply looked at the iron
and wrote out certificate, subiecting
neither column, pillar nor grider to any
examination or test, however eursory
or slight. Furthermore, this Tammany
inspector is himself an iron founder,
which is suggestive of a possibility that
he may sometime refuse to give GER
ti6cate unless the iron is purchased of
himself. The iron masters of New
York are reported as generally COM
planning that the whole operation is a
matchmaking sWindle, devised by the
Ring to benefit its favorites By fleeing
the people. This inspection tax aver
ages about one cent per pound, Orsome-
thing like twenty dollars a ton-more
than double the amount of any tariff
ever imposed by the general Govern
ment ON any iron of similar character
and class. When the organs and ora
tors of Free Trade Democracy have left
off proving that we are ruined by Pro-
lection, little attention to this other
matter will be in order-[[ Pits. Com.