Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-08-22

seldom do we see this princely virtue
a total absence of self in our professed
ly public benefaetors; but here we
have a shining example of a total sur.
render of ones self for the public good
and when honored(?) by even the vul
gar masses for this and other redeensisas
G'irt1EeS. Why, that due from peasants
to their lords required formal recogni.
ton Of their gift; and then, obi how
gracefully the compliment was &C
knowledged without even an allusion
to self I-ztt0hl no; he never mention.
ed self,n and taking pattern from the
matchless Lincoln-that this is sgov.
eminent of the people, by the people,
and for the people"-he totally ignored
self. On, why did you not at least in.
troduce the personal pronous ''I' a fen
more times, then we would have an Op.
portunity to know who was speaking,
and for what. If you did not care to
even allude to yourself, why, oh, why,
Colonel, did you not lay aside small
smolick Of your overweening and over
whelming modesty, and tell US about
the tremendous victory won last fall,
secured to Belmont County through
speeches you made somewhere, oi
no one heard outside of do MT know
where or when, but you did, you know,
Or if modesty forbid you doing this,
because of lack of doubt about the cor
rectness of it, why, OIL why did you
not at least refer to the immense sacri-
fees you have at various times made
for your country-mOde all for con-
science sake. Here would have come
~ N, rct o,1proprio a falv, fo clouv ynuoio
in two tableaux, your rejection last
spring Of the Temporary Chairman-
ship of the State Republican, Convention
which wasn't offered you, though
you sought the pOsitiOn-but maryland
then bloviated about the great sacrifice
and loss of worldly honor you had
thereby sustained, rather than "dwell
in the tents of wickedness." And then,
oh yes, and then, why, oh why, when
the visions of corruption of Grants ad.
ministration were rising before your
Ps, did you not gently lug in q small
smarter about the corruptions of the
Census Bureau. Here you could have
been felicitous, yea, happy with q
Ifnuchly, for ssyou know how it is your.
|self.n But you were so modest you
could not even allude to things that
shattered of personality. Oh, do cease
to be so disinterested, and next time al
least refer to yourself, and keep an / on
the effect it must have. But fear all
is lost to history concerning the inter.
lesting events referred to, for as Logan,
the Indian chief, another great orator
/ like yourself, once said, "Who is there
to mourn for Logan ?o SO you can most
pathetically inquire. if you win only
once consent to introduce even q slight
reference to yourself Gin public on the
stage" after the second Tuesday of Oc-
tober, "Who viii care for Poor-man
then ?u And the cdgTioa croics will
Zap their wings and flop their tails as
they answer: "LO, he is dead and
stinketh." I" Dead from overmuch mod.
.esty. -.
We do MT want any of that in ours.
From a disappointed and sorrowing
POLL ONE oFTHE PooRMANIsTICAL,
GRRRIEYIsucAL, ,BRowN-JUGIsTIcAL,
'.is o. : -, - =. DEMI-HELLIsTIcAL,
i = an.a sysid CRow-Foor TRIBE.
For, the Chronicle,l = H.. .5e.f N
The die is cast! The deed is done
The dog is dead ! Colonel G. L. Poor
man is the nominee of the Democratic
party of this District for Congress
Why? Simply because no Democrat
was found in the District anxious for
the honor of defeat, and the vaulGing
ambition of the Colonel was so great
that rather than stand as third or fourth
as the probable candidate in his own
party, he would prefer to be at the
head of coalition, not like the hum
BILE Psalmist, who sang, 81 would rath-
er be door-keeper in the house of the
Lord, than to dwell in the tents of the
wicked for season."
But what humiliating spectacle to
see the great Democratic Convention in
solemn conclave assembled, without a
candidate before them, waiting patient
ly until the % Liberal Republicans en-
naGsSe should solemnly present the Colo
mel to be sacrificed on their unhoIy al
tar. He is presented and formally ac-
accepted as their candidate, and then
after being called for steps boldly for
ward to render his thanks for the high
and mighty honor conferred. He
makes a speechin which he tries to con-
vince himself that he is still a Republi-
can, although found in such company,
and, perhaps his conscience stinging
him, he tells them that he shall be
branded as traitor and denounced as a
bolter, and then tries to console himself
by swelling up, like the frog beside the
OK, and compares this little act of his
life to the actions of some of the great
reformers. He says (words that true
Christians would call almost, If not
quite, sacreligous), "Was not Christ a
bolter from Judaism ?'' forgetting that
Christ proclaimed that he came to full
fl the law and the prophets. He says,
were not Luther, and Wesley, and Cal
vim boilers, forgetting that Luther re-
manned in the mother church and clung
to it until he was excommunieated and
that Wesley lived and died in the es-
tablished church of England. And did
any Of these WORTHLESS apply to their
enemies for succor? Did they call up
on the infidels and scoffers and. mock
|ers to sustain them and further them
in their noble work of reformation
Yet the Colonel as reformer would af.
filiate with the supporters of the Ku-
Kux, the Tammanyites of New York,
and the negro-haters Of both North
and South. - - 'ss' ~
Out upon such reformersl Colonel,
the veil is too thin, and some:of your
Democratic friends think that if they
support you that they viii have to 90
something worse than crow, they will
have to gulp down buzzard.
A REPUBLICAN,.
A SASSY" boy of an agricultural
turn, asked Mr.. Greeley, at Nashua,
how his lobster vines were growing.
Mr.. Greeley at once saw what prom
ising chap he was, and advised him to