Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-10-26
.wn record as Of dead issues. while tor.

ing ones that can have no life in them.
1t has not one single argument fof
itself, or against the Republican party
that has single element of an iInpor-
tant truth or TACT. 1t cries 'Reform.'
But tCitdt? aud holC?-not a word OF
principle or policy for the enlighten
ment of any one. 1t dare not announce
any such thing.
1t sets up man, as its standard
bearer, blackened all over with DANA
ging charges-charges confirmed by
records, by testimony of scores, by
oaths, and ameng them his own con.
Trajectory oaths, all unchallenged. HIS
party, to divert from these undeniable
charges eliminating from week to
week, like mountain on mountain,
dash recklessly into the knavish bust.
ness Of crying, the wolf! the wolf y
-trumping ups false charges against
Republicans, without shadow of proof
Charges believed by none but silly
Democrats of the lower class-charges
not believed by their authors or seusi.
BILE retailers. Example is not wanting
At our doors we have flung to us the
Gazette Supplement of the 18th inst
a Supplement sentf from the mill al
head quarters, ,and charged to the Dem.
ocratic barrel and containing about
10 trumped items, most OF which have
been reiuted repeatedly. The most Sc.
rlous of them all are simply ludicrous
humbugS. Take this as a specimen
The charge of completely with the
American Alliance. In regard tC
Hayes nearly every phase of the story
is false; false in every damaging phase.
His Secrecary's letter, even, has not
one word unbecoming the polite gen.
tleman, the patriot, the statesman.
Not so with slippery, deceitful, calcu-
latlng Tllden when candidate for Gov
ernor, who had the very same kind OF
correspondence with the very same
American Alliance-the same kind OF
returned, but with this
exception, that no humbug Democrat
ever mOuths-Tilden added, Keep
tisis secret, for it ,oU damage my elec-
ton" See testimony of secretary of
the Alliance. All! now the lawyers
bull is gored. Hayes Secretary. like
the simple farmers OK, did not think
of election effects. Tilden, in this cor
respondence, played the sneakins
humbug; and yet, the similar Hayes
Secretary correspondence, stripped of
disreputable or inconsis-
tent about it, is, by the Humbugs, ex
hlblted in fac sinlile as a damaging
aging campaign Democratic humbug.
The party not needing hurnbug or
falsehood either, for campaign purpo-
Ses. but stocked with facts stands up
boldly challenging contradiction. while
Tilden and his party writhe under ir-
refutable charges, fitting feIon candi-
date Tor penitentiary rather than a
candidate for the Presidency. Why
do not honorable Democrats, blushing
with shame for their country's honor,
hang their heads or demand the remo-
val of an Infamous candidate? From
the days of Washington the country
has failed to fill the chair of the Amer
lean Presidency with man PERSONAL
ly disgrace. Not one man charged
with perjury, fraud, disloyalty. Even
James buchanan was gentleman,
without moral stain. His
political opponents never assailed him
otherwise than politically. Jackson
spurned the perjurer, the swindIer, the
secessionist. He would have spurned
IllQen from his fellowship.
Why can Tilden be candidate now?
Let us see. The Solid South is the
on which the party stands.
of the Democrats of the
South would to-day, if they dared to
meet the consequences, vote first for Sc
cession. But not yet prepared, their
second vote is for 1iIden. He is the
man for them, above any other man
available. They tried their Breckin.
ridge in 1860. Tilden is better for all
their purposes in 1876. This year no
Union Democrat could be nominated.
Such would not suit the masters, the
Solid South Hence the candidate
educated in cunning, in hypocrisy, in
nominated in corruption and
shameless etirontery-would give US
the most corrupt administration the
country has ever known" Thus said
the Cincinnati Enquirer, Democratic,
when the muzzle OF Solid South had
not been fastened by its nomination.
After the nomination this child of in
iquity' becomes Democratic reformer!
mericans!-Brethren of the Demo-
cratic party!-think of these Banners!
As Republicans we proclaim, Our
Country FIRST, and the Republican
Party for our country and the Union
ever.
As Democrats do you declare-The
Democratic Party first, and the coun-
try for Solid Soutb!'
ANOTHER of Tilden's corrupt trans