Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-08-21
Republican, County Ticket.
Infirmary Director,
THOMAS LODGE.

9 +. i''ta THOMAS LODGE.
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sa'i Parallels -Democratic management
in Belmont County, has lost the people
over s14, ,O0O,- land in Fairfield County
sl42, ,50l.s Well might they clamor fol
.reiorm--of their own party. 5r.... .r-7s
s "A perusal Of the resolutions adopted
by the late De1iocratic Convention in
s this County, would impress a man who
7liad lived for fifteen years in the Coun-
ity and observed the workings of the
political organization which they rep
resented, with the idea that, the men
composing that body had just awaken
ed from a Rip Van Winkle sleep,
(which had been imperturbed by the
stirring events of the period. A stran-
ger would imagine that that Conven-
tion was party of 'Innocents" who
had come together for the, purpose OF
.inventing some simple device by
which the power Of the guileless and
immaculate Democracy could be re-
stored to them again; he would never
dream that this same organization, SO
profuse in innuendoes, and so extrava-
giant in its denunciations, was the same
whose hands are red with the blood Of
your sons, and whose hIdeou5- shape
should ever cover and hide in the
presence of the sombre cloud that
hangs over thousands ofhouseholds to-
day, for which they are responsible; he
would not conjecture that this same
party lent aid and comfort to an inter-
nal foe whose only object was the de-
struetion Of the Union, and the over
throw OF the Government; he would
be amazed when you would tell him
that some of the very same men who
head the present Democratic orgapiza-
tion, were holding secret midnight
.conclaves under the name of the
knights of the Golden Circle and Sons
of Liberty, devising hellish schemes
whereby to assist rebels at home and
in the field; and he would, be astounded
to learn that these same men resisted
the government at every step whetherl
it be in raising troops to fill up our
decimated ranks, or money to clothe,
feed and equip our soldiery, and after
the war had closed that every obstacle
was thrown in the way by this same
party to prevent a reconstruction OF the
States anc reuniting of the estranged
elements sol the union- ta '.tt..
so much for their Sp0tless record,
which, according to their platform.
they do not seek..to revive,
IL IS truly 2'etI'eshslig TO hear the
Democratic party Of Belmont County
in grave assembly, resolve to endorse
the Democratic platform of August 9th,
which says: i''aA-.> ri''
aWhen aofficiald ldefalcations are ofsuch
lreiuenls occurrence as scarcely to eX-
stsnt1o St Az ,a a,,n ~ ~ - oonG ,G'
dence in free institutions. f'|Ti'''F''
To remedy these evils we insist that
pubic virtue shall be upheld, and want
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- S.Y0' "sg''. ~.
noeee5sFeil for the peopleito Gallup the G
long cline OF impositiens and frauds t
which navebeen practiced upon them Ia
In this County for years under Demo- r
say whether the ap-fo
pIeafloibof the principle which they "
50 boldly proclaim, will not bury them Il
50 deep that they would never be heard D
OF again except on judgement DAY, il
When they would receive their seEtence .
Depart from me, &c. i'4 t
Reform, IL a-sweet. word to the tax. {
payers of this County, yet, it will not a
answer for the sins OF this party who n