Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-07-20
Democratic Pole Raising ata
Bridgeport.

Our regular correspondent at Bridgeport,
furnishes the following graphic account of the
tribulations of the followers of ''Slppery
Sam" at Bridgeport, on Saturday and Mon
day:
The unterrifed of Bridgeport, have had the
police yil lately. Never did Digger Indians
pursue the luscious Rudix more industriously
than they to get up their stick. 1t was origi-
nally hauled in front of Adam Eberle's, but it
was decided it would never do to erect it
there, and so it was pulled in front of Cooks
block, and hole erected in the ground, the
faithful admonished to be present. On Sat-
urday last, the orator was cooked and prinaef
the band footed, the reformers yawped, the
pole broke, and lay fiat on the ground, after a
day of sweating and swearing, as old Sam
Tilden will lie next November. The Hend-
ricks end of the pole, in illustration of the
ground and lofty tumbling of the democracy
on the currency as well as almost every other
question, leaped in the air, as near glory as
any of the ticket it represents will ever get,
emblematic of Hendricks visit to Long
Branch-iew over the peoples heads, and
stuck in the mud, shivering the thing to atoms
in front of Hills livery stable. Darkness and
disappointment settled on the reformers, and
they silently and sadly, as they will do in No
vember, gathered themselves to their kindred
while the speech that had been in soak all
afternoon remained still in the suds, undeliv-
cred, unhonored and unsung Sabbath was a
long, long day. Monday came; SO did the
followers of Slippery Sam The day passed
in bnsy preparation, and the speeches again
put to soak; and just as the sun was trying to
hide her face in the West, the pole stood in
the hole erected for its reception, pointing up,
parallel with the spout on an adjoining house,
indicative of the course the ticket it represents
will take next fall.
A wagon was brought in front of butcher
shop, as being the appropriate place whence
to dispense the political hash and blood pud-
ding in reserve by the orators, the first of
whom, Ross j. Alexander, who launched out
vigorously in characteristic fusilade against
Grant, whom he attempted to abuse and be-
little, and succeeded instead in hoisting him
self with his own petard, and wound
up in saying Governor Hayes might do for
an engine, but the whole train must be chang
ed, and after appealing loudly for reduction
of the 10000 office hOlders-justices of the
peace and constables included-wound I'D in
about the same condition another reforluer
once found himself, when attempting to butt
an engine off the bridge. Then came,the
speech that had been in soak for number of
days in the earthly vessel, G. o. Davenpart, OF
Wheeling. We wished for a sausage machine
that we might report this dazzling oratorical
conglomeration in tuN-full is good; perhaps
full as goose is better. But then, in front
of the Liverworst shop he proceeded to give
the best specimen of democratic speech we
ever heard. Oh, for a double back-action
hulling machine! We cannot from memory
do him justice, but as nearly we can we will:
''Fellow Democrats of Ohio-As my learned
friend, Alexander has so eloquently said, Grant
is depot; he is-he is in favor of nepotism
we want change of cars in the depot; there's
Casey and the Dents, they're all in favor of
nepotism, so is Tom Murphy, so is all Grants
relations, as my friend has said; and then
there's sumption act, in England and France,
an army of 80, 900 men was called out to put
sumption through; and what you bought for
dollar you paid for with fifty cents, and the
sumption in England played hokey generally,
and the st. Louis platform, it said it was for
Sumption when the time comes, and there's
the Coolies, they work for 13 cents day
% cents more than what Jim Buchanan, the
great Democratic saint wanted the white la
, borers of America per day for their labor) and
they are coming here, and the st. Louis Con-
vention said they hadn't ort to, and even in
Wheeling, they wash all the dirty shirts-we
couldn't see Georges keep the old wo-