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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-08-12
What the Papers Say About the
Re-nOminat ton of Sen:i-
tor knOy.

Mr.. Knox will be the next Senator
from this district. He is No. l man,
and, partizanship aside, gave entire
in the State Senate.-O. j.
NetcS. (Lad.)
While we would prefer the election
of Democratic Senator from this Dis
trict, We have nothing personal to say
against Mr.. Knox, the Republican
nominee. He is very much of a gen.
tleman, and attends faithfully to his
duty while in the Senate. C0diz Sen
tipdl. { (Dem,) .- III
Mr.. KnOx's course in the Senate, dur
ing his two terms of service, has been
such as to commend him to the unani-
nous support of his political friends,
and Belmont county did a noble act
when it ignored its claims for the can
didate and re-nominated for a third
term. (Lld.)
The Republicans of the Belmont.
Harrison district have again re-nomi.
mated Samuel Knox, Esq, as their can.
didate for State Senator. Mr.. Knox is
an able man, and cultured gentle
man. If a Republican is to represent
that district in our Legislature we are
in favor Of Mr.. Knox. X.-iSeu6enUiLit
Gazette. (De7n.)
THERE has never been any doubt
that he would receive larger vote il
this county than could be given to any
other man in the District. But under
the circumstances, the Republicans o
Belmont county having the right e
the decision, the fact of their presenta
ton of Samuel Knox, as their first anG
unanimous choice, was doubly crafty
ing to the Republicans of Harrison
county CGdiz Republican.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-08-12
P0VVHATAN.

The river is falling rapidly. Not
much injury done by the backwater.
Several bottom fields of corn were in
undated, and some potato patches COM
'pietely submerged and destroyed by
mud settled from the water.
Wheat since dried is not so badly in
jured as expected.
Grasshoppers are trimming the uncut
oats saVageiy. -e.s. 70
Rev. Wilson preached a splendid SER
mon yesterday afternoon at Amity,
and also in the evening, at the Point.
Rev. Wilson is a very efficient speaker
and popular preacher.
Prof. Gregg is progressing finely with
his class OF Instrumental music stu
dents. Most of them expect a degree
by Oct. 9th, 1875. .r-.i .
We were sorry to see 'Ardelio' OF
the Enterprise, blow himself to atoms
last week trying to translate my sigma
ture, on which he failed. Suuna QHisq,te
n0Scat inCeniun1 ct guam qttisQ,se nOr'it
dTtei1, an hQc sc e.rercedt, naRQlte ldlaCldre
Sc Udni est. He asks us in his article to
pardon the Stichit dot, if his very un-
courteous language otfends. Certainly
we do. ROmi1aes est e17,0re 'sed iasipi-
e1tiS est deere non pUtQyUne. -AltiSSinad
qudeque .funlijaa minintO sOnO td6aaltiUe
idcircO Udledt 'qatd3at1tDl rdlere pOtest,
Pttterd fila. FIDEI 'DEFENsOR.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-08-12

has been brought forwardsin Congress
to repeal the law taxing the notes of
State banks, which drove those banks
out of existence, and the repeal of
which would would again open up the
f1ood-gateS for public and private rob-
berry by the establishment of innumer-
able kiting and worthless banks in all
the States. Only last year Mr.. Thur
man and every Democratic SENATOR
voted for proposition to repeal that
law which was Offer ed as an amend
.ment to finance bill.
The restoration of the State bank sys-
tenn means as many systems of bank
ing as there are States, violent eXpan-
sions and contractions, hundreds of
broken banks, and millions of bank
note trash dying in the hands of the
people. 1t means the Western and
Southern States shall again pay mill
ions OF tribute to the Eastern States in
the form of exchange. 1t means that
the citizen of Ohio cannot pay his no.
tel bills in New York or Boston with
ONO money, without suffering shave
or buying Eastern funds. 1t means
that no man can receive the price of a
horse without examining counterfeit
detector to see that the money is good
or that the bank is not broken. The
old State bank system is necessary tC
the State rights Democracy. The par
ty that denies the nation and hate:
everything national, turns with aver
sion from national currency. State
sovereignty and State banks are twir
relics of the times that we fondly hope
have passed away forever.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-08-12

THE Ohio State Journal, OF Friday
in a we'll written article on the abolish
ment of National Banks, by the De-
mocracy, has the following in reference
to the banks of this State, which will
be of interest to taxpayers:
There is still another point to which
the tax. payers of this State, and espec-
tally the farmers aud manufacturers,
Should give serious consideration. We
have 81 millions of National Bank cap
ital in Ohio, and 80 millions of Nation
al Bank notes, which contribute anu
ally for local and general purposes not
less than fifteen hundred thousand dol
lars in the way of taxes. Now if you
destroy the banks and Substitute green.
backs, which cannot be taxed, for the
National Bank circulation, this fifteen
hundred thousand dollars will be abso.
lutely lost TO the revenue of the State,
and must of necessity thereafter be col
lected from your farms, houses, mer.
chandise and manufactures, in addition
to the amount now raised from these
sources. In fact if the Democratic
scheme of destroying the banks should
be carried into effect, the money of the
State would afford no revenue to the
State, and fifteen per cent. would be
added to the taxes of every farmer, me.
chanic and manufacturer. 4..I. =.
But there is another point which
should be well considered. The Ma.
tional Banks have loaned 10 the peo.
pie nine hundred millions. Merchants
Manufacturers, builders, miners, and
buyeI5 of wool, grain and cattle have
borrowed this mCuey on notes which
mature within sixty or ninety days
Now, carry out this Democratic scheme
abolish the banks, and they must o.
necessity call in their loans to enable
them to settle with the Government
with their depositors and with theil
stockholders. What would be the eff
feet of compelling the borrowers to pay
up nine hundred millions within three
six, nine or twelve months? 1t woulC
create such pania as we have nevel
dreamed Of. Threefourths Of Cur busi
ness men would be broken, and thel
iy0u might indeed look for the years o
the lean kline, when labor would fint
no reward, when capital would find NJ
profit, when that confidence which i'm
parts life and energy to business will
have disappeared, when, in short, dis
comfort, bankruptcy and ruin will be
come general throughout the land.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-08-12
Ex.SEcRETARY McCULIoCn

EX-SECRETARY MCGULLOCH is, an6
has been accepted for number of years
by intelligent. Democrats, as fair 1ex-
ponent Of right WINS Ola Einsnce.-
Concerning the bonds issued under the
act of 1862 hesays, in his last letter to
the New York Tribune, NO matter
whatresoIution may be adopted by
political conventions for party purposes,
If is unquestionably true that thebonds
Of the United States, issued during and
Immediately after the late civil war,
most Of which are known as fiVe-twen-
ties, were offered and sold with the
express understanding that they were
to be paid, principal and interest, in
coin. They were subscribed for by our
citizens, and taken from them by forei-
gners with this understanding. Had
it teen otherwise, the rebellion would,
in all human probability, have been
successful, for it must be borne in mind
that the contest between the Govern
ment and the Confederate States de-
pended in its results as much upon
money and credit as upon arms" In
further discussing the views held, then
and subsequently, he shows that all
who prominently participated in ma
king this law expressed the view that
principle and interest should he paid
in gold. We do not argue the subject,
but merely furnish an additional evi-
dence, as against the teachings of the
Ohio platform.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-08-12

The Ohio Democratic Convention,
forced to speak, pronounced against
|sectarian control o! the schools and by
so doing confessed that there is danger.
From whom? Undoubtedly from the
Roman church. Which party has this
church used in Ohio and New York
Is it the Republican or Denocrutic?-
Which party did slavery use? Which
did secession use? Which party every
where depends upon tie ignorance and
prejudice of the voter? Which is
strongest in The slums of great cities
and in the rural parts Of the Union,
where there are feWest schools? The
Democratic party is the one that Rome
uses to overthrow the public school
system, and tie Democratic declara-
'tions of 1875 in favor of iunsectarian
schools, are just as worthy of respect
as the Democratic declarations of 1872
in favor of the equality of all men and
exact justice to all of whatever race or
color; "when the Devil was sick, the
Devil, a monk would be-" "'
The party that slavery managed is
not the party of freedom that which
secession controlled, is not the party of
Union that which demands imitation
and repudiation is not the party of pub
lie faith; that which sneers at "nig-
gers" and kisses the feet of "White
Leaguers," is not the party of equal
rights; and that which truckles to the
demands of Rome, and buys by sub
sides the support of the Catholic vote,
is not the party of the unsectarian
American Public School system.
Why now, for the first time do po-
litical platforms declare that the un-
sectarian school system, must be main
tanned? Has the Presbyterian, or
Methodist, or Baptist, or Episcopal, or
Unitarian or Congregational sect, or
any sect known as Protestant, attacked
it? Have the Israelites, or these who
own no sectariau christian name, as.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-08-12


WHAT follows may not be consider
ell entirely complimentary, but the
Cincinnati Commercial is our authority.
Speaking of Aliens administration. il
says: '"Phe Legislature was caught
and exhibited in shocking state OF
corruption. This body had a Demo.
cratic majority. Governor Allen did
not insist upon purifying il and the
party. His solicitude was not that the
ridscals should be punished, but that the
legislature should adjourn. So the
sdIied linen was hung ON the public
clothes line, and the dirty rascaIs ran
home: In Cincinnati, The Democracy
Fave for some years had full posses
sion, ana affairs progress from bad t.
worse. The percentage of stealing il
hisler here tnan ever before. ,Weare
with the Republican party in this CON
teSt, not because there is a question of
Allen or Hayes, Cary or Young. hui
because We are. sure that the very
worst Interpretation placed upon the
aggressive imitation platform of the
Dt nocralie laTtY is not as bad as the
p1Jlcy Vi tie Ggsperadoes who have
taAeu phsse ssipD Vi ,tAat pariy in til,
Stat 1t Nlliibe difficult 10 say hard
er 'hiDgSpi tLs OhIo platform than il
aere DECLARED 10 be true r M.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-08-12

THE returns from the North Carroll
ma election, although by no means
complete, indicate the defeat of the re-
dictionary Constitutional Convention
scheme. If the Democracy should car
ry the State it will be by very small
majority. At the State election last
fall their majority was 14.036. The
openly avowed purpose of the Demo-
cratic leaders Of the movement was to
modify for the worst the existing pub
lie school system, and put sevele re-
strictions around the colored citizens
and poor whites in the exercise of their
right of suffrage.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-08-12

sailed it? But there is coDfessedly an
assault upon the schools. There is a
strong and crafty effort to make them
seetarian. lis SO powerful and pro-
nounced that the party conventions be-
Gin to condemn it. The country knows
which sect it is, that isN plotting the
overthrow OF our school system. Cor it
boldly owns its designs. 1t is the RO-
man church by means of the Demo
cratic party. This issue alone, which
forces itself irresistabIy into our cam
vsss, were there no other would give
the most Vital interest and importance
TO the result il Ohio this fall. Let the
people awaken to the magnitude of
this question and meet it in such a
manner as to settle it for all time.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-08-12

THE Cleveland Herald begins to
see it thus
t'The free-liquor plank of the Demo
cratic platform reads that the party is
opposed to any interference with social
habits, or customs not IN Themselves
crin1nGI,' DC. And this plank was laid
down expressly for Sam. Cary, and
sam. Cary says he stands upon it.
':We have frequently called atten-
tiOn to these four wOrds-.not in them
selves criminal-as containing ment-
al. reservation which stamps the entire
resolution as dishonest trap-a deIu-
slon-a snare. 1t also SHOWS Sam.
Cary to be hypocrite-a political
fraud.
"Cary is on record as denouncing
lager beer as a filthy foreign swill,' by
the use Of which the American-born
are becoming brutalized.'
she is on the record as avowing that
beer is AN unhealthy, demoralizing,
destructive, and brutalizing beverage
He IS on the record as saying: There
is no drink that disigures the body.
stultifies the intellect and brutalizes the
feelings more than lager. The chill
dren of the habitual drinker of beer
must be dwarfed, diseased and in
ferior race, physically and morally
"And Sam. Cary is on the record as
making nc distinction in beverages, for
he says: The beer-drinker, the wine
bibber, the whisky-dri are all in
the same broad way to death and hell
.'These sentiments We're uttered by
Sam Cary but a few years since, and
on the stump, as Democratic nominee
for Lieutenant Governor, within a
month, Sam. Cary has said that his
sentiments cnt mperaL &c m.,tterS have
met with no change. And Sam. Cary,
IN the speech, eclared that he stands
.nlly on the Democratic platiorm.p
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-08-12

Mr.. PINCHBACK, OF Louisiana, the
distinguished advocate of the civil
rights Of his race in this country, in a
recent speech in Cincinnati directed at
tention to the statements in the prints
that the c9lored race was deteriorating
and dying out, and by and by would
be extinct. lie denied these state
ments in toto, aad cited the United
States census from the first taken to the
last completed to refute them. In 1890
the census showed as follows: Whites,
3,172 ,0O5; colo-ed, 757 POS. In 1870
Whites, 14,lG5,808; colored, 2,S73, ,G4S.
In lS59-Whites, 26,9Oa, ,537; colored,
4, Al $50. In l87O-Whites, 80, ,5S9, ,377;
c0lored, 4,S80,O09.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-08-12

IN addition to our usual paper we
present our readers this week Supple
ment containing the excellent speeches
of Gov. Hayes and Senator Sherman at
the opening of the Republican Canvas,
at Marion, we ask for both these
able documents a careful reading fIom
beginning to end. They cover the
whole ground of political dispute. Re-
publicans viii find in them able argu-
ments to combat Democratic heresies,
and Democrats viii find facts stated
which ought to convert them from the
error of their ways. Read every line
of them without fail. 49,. d.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-08-12

THE Shepherd Of tie Talley, Catho-
lie paper published at St. Louis, is very
frank in telling what may be expected
in a certain contingency. It says:
''In the future, when we shall have
gained the aseendancy in this country,
as we surely shall, then will it be true,
even as our enemies now say, that there
will be no more religious liberty, as
there ought not be-"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-08-12

IT will be remembered that in intro
ducing Senator Thurman at Mansfield, !,
Col Rarnabas Burns paid some high
compliments to General Hayes and
rather sighted Governor Allen. This
moves the Cincinnati Enquirer to say:
1T is nothing new for Colonel Barnabas
Burns to have one leg over the Demo
cratic traces Itseems the Democratic
traces are badly tangled up with the
legs of a good many Democrats just
n0w.-T CyeGelalld Herald.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-08-12

As general evidence of the judg-
ment of the late Democratic Legisla-
ture of Ohio Of its own work, the fact
may be cited that atits second session
it altered or repealed twenty-four OF
the laws passed at its first session, and
absolutely changed some at the same
session in which they were passed.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-08-12

a CORRESPONDENT of the Baltimore
Gazette writes from Cleveland that
"Judge Ranney keenly feels the awk-
ward position of the (Democratic) par
ty in this State, and cannot consistently
support it in the present. contest" Oi
the Hon. II. b. Payne hesays: "Like
Judge Ranney, he will maintain his
self-respect and his principles by dig
nitied silence" Mr.. Tburman's mis-
sionary appeal has nothad much effect
in GleXeland.,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-08-12

g. DURING the protracted rain storm
Serious apprehensions were felt over
the entire country, that great portion
OF the crops would be destroyed. In
the immediate neighborhood of water
courses, where the land has been over
lowed and crops have been SWEPT away
bodily, personal losses are generally
confined to the inundated region. 3 -
The damage to the wheat crop by
sprouting in the shock is not nearly as
extensive as was eXpected-not enough
in fact to materially decrease the
amount of grain marketed. In this con-
nection the Pittsburgh CoanserciGt
says: -..r,....- .-..
'The growing corn, generally, except
upon the Overtlowed bottoms, will be
bettered by the rains; the oats will not
be materially injured; and the aggre-
gate supply of breadstuff5 for consump-
tion will not be shortened. The potato
crop is good everywhere, and as the
breadth of ground occupied by the tub
er is much larger than usual, the price
OF potatoes, one of the great necessities
of life, will be cheaper than it has been
for fifteen years. All ready contracts
are making as low as twenty-five cents
a buShel; and as long as potatoes can be
got at from twenty-five to fifty cents q
bushel, there need be little apprehen-
sion of suffering from, any supposed
scarcity of wheat. The individual in
juries from the floods are doubtless nu-
merOus and heavy, but the aggregate
supply of iood is not likely To be ma
terially lessened.'
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-08-12
TIE CINCINNATI Commercial

THE Cincinnati Commercial states ii
after this fasion: 'Those great Demo
cratic statesmen, Cary, Allen, Ewing,
Pendleton. and SO on, ask of Ohio Re-
publicans that they shall put the DEM
ocratie party into power because they
have patent-right invention for max
ing money plenty by simply issuing
Iegal-tender notes withoutany promise
of redemption.'
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-08-12

GEN. HAYES put the Republican
platform in telse form. Our motto,
said he, is honest money, for all and
free schools for all. There should be
no imitation which viii destroy the one
and no sectarian influence, which viii
destroy the other.' 1s --.l +
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-08-12

PESDEIToN, the other day, stated in
his speech at Gallipolis, Ohio, that he
opposed the issue of greenbacks as un-
constitutional, and still held to that
view. Yet he and his party wish TO is
sue $500, 100000 more of them. Can it
be doubted that they mean repudia-
ton ..
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-08-12

y TREASURY clerk named Hallick
has been arrested on suspicion of hav-
ing stolen the a47, 900 money package
missed shortly before General Spinner's
retirement. The indications are strong
that the rightman has been caught.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-08-12

TIE Catholics hate the Republican
party because 1t opposes a division OF
the school fund. Why does it rot an
tagonize the Democratic party when
that takes the same position.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-08-12

THE New York R0rld classes the
prevailing Democratic sentiment in
Ohio on the currency as the Pendle-
ton scab' and.says that as it'broke ou:
in 1865 and again in 1875 it must be the
seven years itch.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-08-12

CATHOLICS all over the world are
Of the free school system.
They desire, and are working for q
Democratic victory in Ohio. Does the
state propose to accommodate them?
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-08-12

THE Boston ReJdtd tells why Mr..
PendletOn called Gentleman George
He derives his handsome cognomen
from the fact that the late Horace
Greeley once alluded TO him as the only
gentleman in the Democratic party.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-08-12

SENATOR MoRToN's speech at Ur-
bana on Saturday, causes a fluttering
among the foul birds of the Democracy.
He alTays shoots TO hit and seldom
misses. --
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-08-12

TIE next Ohio General Assembly
will have 81 members in the Senate
and III in the House, an increase OF
one Senator and six Representatives.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-08-12

SOLOMON on imitation: "A false bal.
ance is an abomination to the Lord
but Just weight is His delight
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-08-12
Senator Morton at Urbana.
FINANCIAL PLANK OF THE
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
DISCUSSED.
Restoration of State Banks The
Iitinlatum Of the State
Rights Party.

Hon. o. P. Morton, OF Indiana, ad-
dressed an audience of about one thou
sand people in the Court House at Ur-
hana, Ohio, on Saturday. The follow
ing isa partial report of his remarks on
the financial issue in the pending CAM
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-12-22

The Poultry Show at the Town
Hall last week was a success in every
particular, and nobody regrets the
quarter that it took to see it. Great
credit is due to the managers for the
ability and tact displayed, in manag'
ing it, it being the first Of the kind
ever attempted in the State. Our
reporter gives few notes on it in an
other column
AT the fowl show the committee
on premiums were very particular to
find out all the 'points' in the various
birds, and sometimes u white feather
or black one IN chicken would
condemn the whole coop. One Of the
committee discovered a 'point," in
John Eaton's big rooster. that raised
question, but it was allowed to be nat,
ural, and he got the premium all the
same.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-12-22
Windsor.

Windsor.
The weather last Sunday aud
Monday was intensely cold. Last
Sunday night the thermometer regis.
tered at the Evarts place 800 below
zero. In other places at daylight the
"weather teller" indicated from 90 to
26o below zero.
Prof Edward Conant. State Su-
perintendent of Common Schools, is
advertised to deliver an Educational
address in this village on Monday
January 3rd.
Christmas and Christmas presents
are now the topic Of interest with us.
Our places of business are full of Hol-
iday gifts. Every religious denomi.
nation in the village are each to have
"Christmas tree" for the scholars of
their respective Sunday Schools.
-Ice-gathering here has already
commenced. The article is of good
quality and full II inches thick.
Our friend Peter Coil, recently
killed shoat that weighed 4l5 lbs,
dressed.