Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-04-11
DEcAruR, ILLINOIS, April ID, ".

DEAR CHRONICLE From time to-
time we are favored with visit by the
GAINESVILLE Enterprise; again it makes
its appearance, and from the general
tone we conclude that its Editor has
given up the idea of remaining neu-I
tral"-perhaps he can call to mind some
of his boasts of neutrality. Two of
the leading articles in the Enterprise al
though in direct opposition to each 9TH
er tend to make the readers of the pa
per believe that It's editor-if posted on
the political issues of the day-is try
ing to keep his knowledge from them.
We quote: "The caricaturists of Har-
pe1's Weekly are busily engage in try
ing to ridicule the reformatOry efforts
of Sumner and Schufz. 1t is singular
fact that the same paper that helped to
demolish the Tammany thieves is now
aiding and abetting the robbers of the
New York Custom House," Our friend
surely had need of something to fill
that particular space inhis paper. "Are
busily engaged in trying to ridicule
! the refornatOry efforts of Sumner and
Schurz." The mass of the people in
this section of the country are quite
confident that they (the earicaturists)
have eminently succeeded in their un-
Idertaking, as the refOrmatory efforts of
the above named Senators are such
as will-if their authors can--make
1 them reform the country from its pres
Ient prosperous condition to poverty,
land we doubt if this be reformation.
This enterprising editor must be either
a sore-head Democrat or a lame-wing
Republican expecting the two-penny
aid Of some of the "P0ssumites" of the
4 to-be Cincinnati Convention. For the
! especial benefit of our friend we will
say the inhabitants of this Western
country know that the United States
are paying these Senators the peoples
money for wasted time and we also
I know that the disgraceful scenes
that are being enacted in the Senate
Chamber were only rivaled by the fol-
lowers of "My policy" Reformatory
efforts surely our friend does not know
his s'lesson.D We would wish to in
, quire if he has the honor and the bene-
fit of exchanges and is he aware of the
tact that the life-aim of Trumbull has
been to be President of the United
States? Schurz knows that under the
present law he is not eligible to the
office; but oh, how he wishes he was.
aoO~o A2Ol w anu W DO u LCoANSAAoi
but We should very much dislike tC
have the people try to give him the
> place. We know that Hdrpeg''s Weekly
Is an arrow-steel pointed-shot by ex-
perienced marksmen into the Heart o.
Democracy and disappointed office,
I seeking Republicans staggeF against its
tempered point as it protrudes, and
they take up and repeat the cry of theiI
once despised now accepted brethren.
''For Rulers of these United States
the great Reformers, Sumner, Trum.
bull, Schurz, Davis and all the rest ol
the gaHg that we can ring in" Sc
; much for this, In another article oul
! friend says: "Belmont County has one
independent politician. Col. Poorman
, has discarded the collar that Others
make for him, and if he can't go to
: Columbus in his own way he won't &c
at all. The people in general will
unite with us IN praising his great
, courage" Neutrality would demand
:, the letting alone of either side of this
question, and as we wish to be as bri d
as possible; we will only say that If in
1, future our friend-the editor of the
1 Rarnesville Enterprise to write
: of politics he must discard the false
/; "neutral" colors and sail openly and
: without fear. NJ. D.