Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-09-09
fhe Political. Catholic and Dem
Ocratic Alliance.

Facts and figures are more reliable
than political fal!acies. Nothing nore
unreliable than Democratic Platforms,
orators and editors. They evade the
existing facts in regard to the grave
question at issue in regard to Catholic
political meddling with the common
schools of Ohio, and the succumbing OF
a political party TO their demands to
secure the Catholic vote.
PLATFORMS.
Democrats have issued platforms at
differenttimes on many issues especial
y contradictory; trimming the sail to
the changing breeze to catch votes,
without regard to principle. A few
specimen facts. They have, in Ohio,
issued pro-slavery and anti-slavery
platforms. They issued war and anti
war platforms during the rebellion, Just
as the hope of securing party votes in
spired. Our brave soldiers, who vol
unteered TO put down the Shareholders
rebellion, were denounced as "Lincolu
Hirelings." After the war they voted
to rob the surviving manned soldiers OF
their votes when in the charitable
Homes provided for them by Republi-
cans; then again they have pronounced
batteries to secure the soldiers vote
They have declared for a white mans
government, and again cringed before
the colored citizen for his vote. They
have issued tariff and anti-tariff plat
forms, as localities and shifting signs
of the times seemed TO promise votes.
They have issued specie resumption,
contraction, initiation, and reputation
platforms, just as the party drag net
would promise votes for the party
See facts. The Greeley platform &C.
cepted by the party in 1872, thorough,
ihard money, specie resumption, con.
Itraction platform, now denounced In
Ohio, and next year to be the platform
as certainly as-76 enough
specimen facts. Can such party have
principle? Can such PARTY be reliable:
Can such party be honest? Can such
d party be truthful when denouncine
Ohio State officials MS thieves and de.
faulters after Democratic officials OF
rigid investigation, have again anC
again pronounced, as Governor AlleI
and others, that nothing could be
found of the kind chargeable tn any
Republican when Democrats tool
lcharge of Records at columbus two
years ago?
THE CATHGLIC SCHOOL QUESTION.
The honest, uninformed voter will
TASK Can there be any truth or honest.
in the party mad-dog cry of "Knov
} Nothingism"? What was the ''knOv
Nothing" party? Hard to say, in We
cry particular-fOr it was a secret so
ciety in its organization, and then it
object contemplated foreigners, as sucl
their naturalization, &c. With home
born citiZens-their ancestry their re
t ligion, it had nothing to do. Foreign
{ born exclusively. Now, have the pre-
ent issues any thing to do with foreign
ers?-With German-with lrish-wit
English, French or any other foreign
D er?-Anything to do with the laws O
/. naturaliZation?-An akin t.
"Know Nothingism'? Nothing in tn
issues of to-day giving place, in an
form, to the question, where any ma
e was born. Palpably and absolutel
t nothing of the kind. The howl abou
: Know Nothingism is purely Demo
cratic.
= But how comes the Catholic Churc
n to be involved in the political issues {
Y Ohio just now, and that too, withou
q regard to either foreign or home biIt
= IOr i thprn neither fact nor truth ma
/ reality in the interference of thee atho
e ic Church with Ohio legislation putin
d in jeopardy the integrity of the ire
q school system of our State? Is all thi
agitation sheer Republican lie? .
mere party trick to divert from tru
issues? a slander upon the Democra
e ic party? a wolf-cry of thieves? W
l. sh Ould know the