Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-08-15

be held back long enough to hide tho
little game. Again he furtively glanc.
ed at the doctor and met sneer which
said "still too thin" With all his cour.
age fast ooZing away and choked utter.
ance he presented the name of John
Long who also was to decline, which he
did, but the watchful eye amp ear o
the doctor detected a feebleness and
tone of half regret in Johns refusal, as
much as to say "I'd rather like to have
it." This time as Tomp. with a faint.
ing heart glanced at the savage
doctor, he met the doctors eyes flash
ing triumph and his ugly phiz all
glowing with assured victory as he
sprang to his feet, seconded the nomi-
nation of White, and in terms of un-
measured eulogy begged Long to re.
consider his hasty action in refusing to
serve, assuring him he was the choice
of great majority of the party, prais-
ing Johns answering fidelity to the
party, Long voted for Lincoln, urging
the great duty he owed the party and
the country in this hour of direct peril,
by giving the benefit of his vast exper-
ience and able counsel in the honorable
position that was rendered him, The
old mans was so tickled and his heart
so softened by the doctors elOquence,
that he mellowed, forgot his allegiance
to the "ring" ahd while family whisper
ing "I will ne'er CONSENT" consented.
The doctor still pressing, still talking,
moved his election by acclamation, and
before poor demoraIized Tomp. could
gather his scattered wits the thing was
done by yell from the eMcDonoughites
that shook the house and rang the
school bell. Thus was Krim, with a
clear majority in his favor, slaughtered
by the superior strategy of his rival;
and thus was Tomp. "hoisted on his
own petard." Krim sinks to private
life. Oh, the wickedness of this world!
many hardened Democratic sinners
said, "d-n the old fool, why didn't he
decline ?'
Just before adjournment DIR. Voor-
hies spoke as follows: 81 desire to speak
a few words before we are dismissed.
We have here now the largest attend
ance ever assembled at a Democratic
primary meeting in this township.
Here we have men who were never
known to attend such meeting be-
fore. Has this unusual attendance,
unusual in its number and in its char
acter, been gathered here through zeal
to the party? I answer no. This
crowd has been gathered and drummed
together in the interest of a ring and
clique as questionable in character as
its action here to-day has been disreput-
able. Here we have to-day the sad
spectacle of seeing such men as Ellis
and Dunn, men of character and posi-
ton at home and influence abroad, men
who for forty years have through good
and evil report stood firmly by the
Democratic party, who have sat in
council with the ablest Democrats of
the district in nearly every judicial,
or Congressional Conven-
lion we have ever held, defeated as
delegates to a County Convention by
new recruits to the party and boys
judgment or experience. on
these well tried men who have born
the burden and toll of the party are
itly rewarded by a shameless "ring
and clique"
And the Doctor might have very
itiy added in the language of Burns,
hat they were defeated by men:
T. "Who drink the sweet, and eat the fat,
For which they never toiled nor swat"
REPUBLICAN,.