Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-10-02

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i--lL'at RscAPrruLArtoS DEFICIENCY.
Barr. .essiiIe and somerson .45i IL
-. CIai rsyille and Warnoek i.l2u G.
st. Clairsyiite and Cad 2s6 IS
Bsrnesviile and Hendrysburgh...-. ...-......- S5l 81
Total Defcieney... .- -.........sII,s ga 6
Sept. estimated mt uterestdus unpaid I, COZ
Total Deficiency ana Interest siz,sli g.
4 ~ xsfIiS 49,
! ~ ISAAC II. PATTERSON, -'-''.
4 ". s. KENNoN, aJ 81 Com. q
!. NJ RILEY, 1. s7e n, Jsz,o,. Il
There it is! After straining every
device that interest and ingenuity cod
invent and examining every theory
however utopiah or wild, to see if some
tway could not be found out of this to
them and their party shameful dis
closures, this committee, the two
accountants upon it both, Democrats of
the most approved pattern are driven
by unimpeachable facts to report as
above. We might explain this subject
at greater length but the interest of the
County and justice to the defendant in
the suit now pending, forbid. 81 ID:
Such, people of Belmont County, are
a few of the facts; you know the posi-
ton of the Republican party of the
County, and Of the men placed in
nomination by it. Their administra-
ton of your finances for the past twa
years is all that you can ask, all that
men could do in the way of retreaeh-
ment and reform. Fewer errors in
accounts have been made by these ofii-
GERS than ever before, in the history of
the County. Out Of confusion and er-
ror piled upon error they have brought
rs good a degree OF oatter and correct
ness as have over been obtained in the
records of their respective Office. Dis
honest bills have been mercileSsiy cut,
4 whether coming from friend or foe,
political or personal. They propose to
puIsue the same course in future il
detected. Out of debt first, and pay as
you go afterwards is their motto.
Il What is the position of the other
party in this campaign? What word
of condemnation does it have for the
record OF its past three years? What
\ docs it have to say against the blunder.
ing management that piled up debt
on the County funds of si50,0O 90 in
three years, and left it so, nearly all
due and nothing to pay with? What
docs it have to say against the filchings
petty plunderings, and larger first class
lstealings done or permitted by the off.
GERS elected by it? Not one word
against any of these things, or the
notorious; carelessness and incompe.
tence OF the larger number. of these
officers. A feeble defense until the
facts are admitted and known of ali
men, then stolid mul:sh silence, with
an occasional SANDER of the men who
have unearthed the frauds and brought
tie rascals lace 10 lace with justice is all
4 that, the organ or the managers OF
that party have had or now have tc
say. There is a reason for all this.
There is po wer behind the Democrat.
ic ticket greater than the menfwho are
: on that ticket, greater tissn the Con:
!, Yention which nominated it, greater
than the people who are expected t.
elect it, a power which for. years; ll;s.
ruled Their Convention ndleiected Off,
ces,f With. a skill that is unrivaled bui
ifor purposes > that are evil only. II
showed itself this very faH in "a mos
unmiatakable Way in the defeat of Com
missioner Kinney He believed that
Lit was his duty to the people to recover
for the County any public funds that
had got out OF the treasury Illegally
Iand Without consideration received,
leven though he found tin the pockets
OF the ring Of which swe speak. His
honesty Was she cause ofG his defeat
when II Vas clear to these mem that
he was thoroughly honest, they ALL al
once found out that he was not availa.
| BILE and half the men who voted agains,
him did not know that they were be,
ing made eats-paws, out of by the ring.
masters. No matter how good and true
the men may be who are nominated
if elected they will be tried in every
possible way, by cajelery, deceit, prac.
tical D bribery, matchmaking, threats,
every means known by. which men
may be seduoe to ruin. This is the
lpower the people have to fear. 3 1t has
been able to gull, deceive or swindle in
some way almost every official the
Dem oeratic party has placed in office
here for years, who has had any control
over the funds in the treasury. Its
whole objectsis plunder; reduction sOi
expenses don't suit the men who com-
pose it, they are in favor of public i'm
proyements, they are in favor of large
expenditures, they believe in jobs for
by these means they live. Watch them,
| vote against every man who has their
favor, for every one they ore against,
and after the year 1873 you will have
no occasion to complain of high taxes
as far as the county is concerned.A
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