Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-07-15
POLITICAL NOTES.

Gen. Preston is talked of in connection with
the position of United States Senator from
Kentucky.
The Ohio Democratic Exective Committee
have decided to formally open the compagn at
Gallipolis on July 81, with speeches by Gov.
Allen and Senator Thurman.
A nut for free-tradcrs to crack-SuGar from
the beet that has become so abundant in Eng
land the sugar refners have protested against
the further free introduction of the article into
that country.
They have good, old-fashioned Jacksonian
Democratic government in Franklin county,
Ohio. The Commissioners report reads:
''Whisky for the poor farm, $50 so; bread
for the poor farm, S16 35.
Mr.. Ignatius Donnelly is disturbed because
''The agricultural State of Minnesota is repre-
sented in the United States Senate by couple
of lawyers, who scarcely know the difference
between potatoes and turnips growing"
Governor Allen occasionally says a good
thing. In his celebration speech, for instance,
he remarked that eff you put an old silly fool
into high place you have your remdy at the
ballot box" Nencne contradicente- Dayton
Journal.
We do not believe that the Ohio platform
can fairly be considered the representative
platform of the National Democratic party.
1t is evident to the most casual observer that
Democratic journals, especially those of the
East, denounce that platform with vehemence
and indignation. But it seems more than pro-
bable that it will create division in the party,
and the question is, Can the Democratic party
stand division ?-N. o. Picayune.
The Iowa City Republican says: ''The Rev.
Mr.. Ingalls,, in his address last Sunday before
the Band of Hope, said he had withdrawn
from the Republican party because a Republi-
can State Senator Cooley, of Dubuque, had
defeated temperance bill presented to the
Legislature, last winter" Upon which the
Muscatine Journal observes that, in order to
be consistent, Mr.. Ingalls, should withdraw
from the Methodist church also, because Sen
stor Cooley is Methodist. And the point is
very well taken.
The New Orleans Times says that the be-
lief which the North entertains that the South
is in favor of initiation is ''most extraordinary
humbug," and adds ''The South has given
no manifestations of such a sentiment, and for
the best reason. She has passed through the
whole course of the financial disease-the
plethora, the fever, the exhaustion, the pros
tration-and is now weak and emaciated, but
cOnvalescent. She feels already the steady,
normal pulsations of returning health, and
does not long for relapse to fever and chill
and delierum. She has only now to exercise
ordinary prudence to regain lusty health"
Governor Allen is now soliciting votes. So,
in his celebration speech at the Fair grounds
Saturday, he said: 81 don't ask whether a
man drinks beer or not; don't care" But it
is fair to show that the Governor is always
ready to peceive somebody, just little. In
April last he visited Cincinnati. The crusaders
had little fair, and Governor Allen was SIN
duced" to attend it. Being Governor of the
State he was, of course, invited to say some
thing, and he did. He said to the crusaders
that crusading SIS one Of the forms achicR, in
eue,y aoelz-reguIated community, must command
itself to all men ao0 are soorty to be called such"
This is neat specimen of demagoguism.-
Dayton Journal
The Ohio Democrats re-nominate the venera-
able but obstreperous William Allen, and emit
piercing walls for more paper money. 1t is a
pretty bad days work for the party. 1t is
also pretty bad days work for Mr.. Allen G.
Thurman, especially if it is true, as reported,
that that able gentleman "accepts" the plat
form. If he is guilty of such suicidal self
qualification, that is the end of him as Pres
idential candidate. Indeed it would't take
great deal'of this sort of thing TO sour the
grapes so effectually that no eminent Demo-
crat, endowed with common sagacity and an
eye for distance, would care to strain himself
by jumping for them. 1t is probably the last
kick of infationism in our politics; after this
year, we shall probably hear very little more
from it.-SprinafeM 4eepubIican.