Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-10-19

The Republicans of Martins F, rry
jubiIatcC on Tuesday evening. Capt.
DanfCfd spoke.
| Bridgeport has contributed 10j Visi-
tors to the Centennial. At IA fair e5ti-
mate each one spent $40, aggregaiiDg
| $1,000, our little town Of 1000 iuhahi-
tmnts has contributed TO the show, and
! still he times are as hard as a Demo
Gratis heart, to hear some people talk
Geo. Bartholomew. Mayor McCohaugh-
ey, F. G. Robinson, John Amrne and
fanily, and DR.. Cook and May Todd,
are our latest contributions.
We warmly welcome home Mrs.
Tallman and daughter Ella, from q
summer visit to Kansas City.
Nany will remember with pleasure
old Robert Thompson, for many years
Il resident of Bridgeport, hut lately OF
Iowa. whittier he had gone TO spend
the remnant of his days. Though full
of years. we were sorry to learr. of his
death last week He was buried on
Sunday last, from the kirkwood
! Church, beside his wife in the Bridge
port Cemetery.
Worknlen are employed night and
day, repairing the surroundings of the
Railroad bridge below West Wheel
ing, which was SO seriously Injured by
the recent fresElets.
Republicans Of Pease township and
Belmont county, looic the enemy
squarely in the eyes-pGsbing daunted,
shoulder to shoulder, eyes right, and
march with unbrCken, unfaltering
steps TO victory on Novenber-7th.
Adam Forepaugh, who, by the way,
is live Hayes man, was not pleased
with the pecuniary result of his late
visit to Wheeling with his show. 1t
was the day OF ii grand Democratic pa
rade, and he says when the people saw
the grand Democratic aggregation on
the street, they at once concluded bis
animals had got loose land hence didn't
90 to the show at all. Lest Adam
would capture one of them aS com
paniOn-piece 10 the baby hippOpOtamuS,
he was unhofsed, and not permitted to
60 in the procession.
Miss Retta Lafferty was elected by
the Board of Education to the Gram
mar room of our school, and she has
entered upon her duties.
We are all apt, at the close of an ex-
citing campaign to appropriate large
share of the credit of whatever success
we have had 10 our individual efforts.
But without disparagement to any
campaign managers, we hesitate not to
aver our conviction that the hearty,
united, determined harmonious effort
put forth by Beliaire, West Wheeling,
Bridgeport, Martins Ferry, .Steuben
vile and East Liverpool, with other
intermediate points along the border
between the two extremes, saved the
State at the recent election. Surely
we are under no obligations to the
State Committee for anything. We
fought our own way, at our own eX-
pense, asking, or ut least receiving no
favors from any body. The intense in-
terest awakened along this line was
alone attributable to the gallant efforts
of the glorious Clubs that bore their
torches, and night after night, in
storm and tempest, kept step to the
music of the Union, till victory perch
ed on their banners. There were many
brave men-sOme of whom never be-
fore were Republicans--honest men,
who could not tolerate the Democratic
howl of 'Tilden snl Reform caught
the cOntagiou, and worked like heroes
for Republican success, coming at the
head of great cavalcades from the dis
tant hilI-tops, to join in the grand
sweeping anthem OF Hayes and Vic
toryr John +. Smith is deserving of
special mention for noble services in
this way. This river border is the
hardest in the State to successfully de-
fend. With the unscrupulous Tilden
papers of Wheeling, and the natural
perversity ofthe Democratic heart, we
fought "lhe world, the flesh and the
devil" and the Democratic party, and
beat them all combined. Without, we
repeat, this indepe ndcnt effort along
populOus river range, we believe Onr
ticket would huve been defeated. For
the influence of the spirited campaign
here spread and widened into the rural