Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-07-20

men from doing it; aid said he, l see some Ia
dies here, but ! must say these cooley women,
ladies'. are not yirtuous, (wonder how he
knows?), and with this he vanished into the
meat house. The saloon was next door-evi-
IDENTIFY esteeming meat shop proper place
to land after such a raw head and bloody
bones speech.
| Then came the scintllating democratic
! llghtning-bug, John Pendleton, also of Wheel.
ing, who substantially said: Il am a great
man, have studied political economy with a
muchly. What has Hayes done? See what
Tilden has done. A hundred years has passed
over our country, and nobody is proud, when
they go abroad to say they are Americans,
for when the Lion should roar the gentle cat
amount is yawping; when the hewgog should
sound, only the chirp of the jaybird is heard
as it sits on swinging limb; where the great
leviathan should splash and flop up the mud,
only the voice of the cuckoo is heard, min
Cling with the chirp of the chipmunk. / tell
you, my fellow citizens, these are facts. And
there's the coolies-just think of them, as Mr..
Davenport has said, there's none that's virtu
Gus, no not one; and there's Boss Tweed, who
is sorry Tilden is nominated, and Tilden beat
John A. Dix 81, 900 for Governor, and yet
Republicans say he can't carry New York but
| if you elect Hayes the country is ruined-(just
then an Amazonian Dutch woman took her
husband by the ear and told him if he didn't'
get home pretty soon he would be ruined too
so he vent. Oh, my fellow citizens,
have read great deal; | know whole heap;
and next November Tilden will charge on the
White House, and play smash generally, and
he subsidized. The poor fellow labored as if
he had a compound cemminuted fracture of
his diaphragm. But it was magnificent.
am great reader of political economy. We
are glad he told us.
Then came ex-rebel Bob Sweeney, who
stood beneath the flag he had dishonored, and
the honor and unity and glory of whose folds
he and his associates had fought to DESTROY
and declared it to be "a dirty rag, and essay
ed by a few flat anecdotes to instruct the
American heart in its duty to the country, and
tell the people how 10 make the country pros
porous and happy. Where was your rebel
uniform, ROb?-that would have spoken your
sentiments louder than words. Bob told as
principal part of his speech, about miserable
old scalawag in West Va, member of the
Legislature, who came to board at the Nc
Lure House, and was jeered at and summed,
and was altogether regarded as a nuisance
Well, one day the old fellow took a hot pickle
in his mouth and it burnt him, and he threw
it down on the table, exclaiming. ''lie there
and cool, d-n you" So, said Bob, the old
man is like the Democrat party-(Jes so.
BoR)-and it will throw Hayes out this fall,
and say, 'lie there and cool. Yes, Bob, when
small rebel fry like you, whom Gov. Hayes so
gloriously whipped in arms, try to defame bis
untarnished name, it will, worse than the
pickle, burn your tongues from your Jaws, till
in vain you cry 'lie there and cooli-but lie
will coEe back at you hot and thick as the
bullets he seEt at you at Winchester and in
the Valley.
One of the speakers was apprehensive from
his declarations, from the nature of the speech
one of his fellow orators was making, and in the
eternal fitness of things, added eggs would be
thrown at him. But didn't Leet get down
from the wagon quick! Altogether the pole
raising and its orators, were remarkable for
our eyes and ears to behold