Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-10-07
MOVES AT CINCINNATI.
ScatIling Arraignnlent of the De-
mOcracy.
STATE AFFAIRS.

! DSulOcTatlc orators are passing owe
our State in this political campaign
playing upon the lrejudices and pas
sions, and counting upon the ignOranc
OF the people to enable them TO succeed
by preaching lie. They are going al
over the State, orators imported aud O
home production, uttering the bases
SANDERS upon men who are their peer!
in ability, in integrity, and in every
virtue, and who have been called t.
the high places which they occupy BY
the voice of a great majority of thi;
people. ISLANDERS from that cOnStitu
tional old slanderer, who commenced
by viIifying General Harrison, who
persisted in abusing Abraham Lincoln
and who has continued his defamations
down to this day, and SO all the way
down to hired libelers, who peddle
their abuse for pay, and want a
Lieutenant GovernOrship thrown in fol
make-weight. Cheers.
| L desire here to enter my solemn
| protest against this wholesale vilifica-
zion of good and honest men who are
now administering the affairs of this
country, and whose government has
been more successful than any which
has heretofore been known on the face
of the civilized earth. Loud applause.
| am here to inquire who are these
men that abuse the Republican Ad-
ministration Are they not the repre-
sentatives of that party which, in 1861,
assisted the rebels in their attempt to
steal our forts and our arsenals, our
whole country, real estate, merchandise
and all? are they not the representa-
tives of that party in Ohio whose last
official act before we came into power
was TO steal from the Ohio State Treas
ury between seven and eight hundred
thousand dollars, not one dollar of
which has ever been returned? Are
they not representatives of that party
which, in the counties of this State,
since The Republican administration
came into control of affairs. has stolen,
by defalcatiOn, between six and seven
hundred thousand dollars ? And does
it become these men, the representa-
tiveS ofsuch party, to go around over
this State abusing better men than
themselves?
| tell you, my fellow-citizens, the
people of Ohio will this fall express at
the ballot-box their disapprobation of
this wholesale defamation, and will
teach these gentlemen that they may
not hope to win success in political
campaign by lying about their political
adversaries. Applause.
Remember that two years ago they
came into power promising reform in
the administration of the State. Re-
form of what? Why, the first act
which they had to perform, of course,
was to appoint an investigating COM
mittee, whose duty it should be to in
vestigate the conduct of their political
adversarieS during all the fifteen or
twenty years that party had been in
power. What was the result of it #? You
will remember that that committee re-
manned in session during the whole
report only upon the last day before
and then that committee,
whose chairman WAS distinguished
Democrat from Muskingum county,
General Ball, reported that the COM
mittee took great pleasure in saying
that they had discovered no single in
stance of corruption or fraud on the
part of any office-holder, elective or
appointed.
That is the testimony of Democrat
ic investigating committee, and of a
Democratic Government, who by their
own confession, had examined with |
great scrutiny the conduct of their pre- !
decesSOrs. Now then, what were these |
gentlemen proposing to reform after |
such record as that, and how success
full have they been in reformation =? |
Laughter.
Governor Noyes, after quite a lengthy
discussion of the Geghan Bill, contin-
ued as follows:
Another thing they did WIS to over
turn. the public institutions of our
State. After they met in caucus at
the Cincinnati Enquirer,
the ableSt and most influential Demo-
cratic newspaper IN the West, to which
PAPER l have been under obligations
or great many compliments laugh
er !, said that the overturning of our
public institutions was without prece-
lent; that it was simply shameful, and
aid to them, "The people will have
hese institutions, and will tolerate no
lonsense regarding them" Notwith-
tanding this gentle admOuition of the
Cincinnati Enquirer, the eXigencies of
he party We're such that they over
urned them; and WHIST kind of luck
lid they have? Well, they turned out
rood old DIR. GriswOld, who was the
of the Soldiers and
sailors Orphans Home up here at
[enia. Now, if there ever was an in
litution on earth whose inmates should
'e free from profane look or vulgar
ouch it would be the inmates of an in
titution which was filled with the or !
'ha1 boys and girls of our dead SOL
iers, who had lain down their lives
or their country. Cheers. No SOON
+ was DIR. Griswold's successor ap-
'ointed, hardly had he been two
months in his place, before he was ac-
used Of attempting to debauch the lit