Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-06-14


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THK Democrats are painfully anxious to get
hold of that letter from the President to Gen
Garfield. They tried forgery, but without
success, and now they charge that the Fresi-
dent merits impeachment for writing it.
| Writing what ?? The forgery, or the letter
which nobody can produce z First catch
| your hare. u Hel naa - p }'sa "
SEcRETARI SBERMAN's rule that no two
members of the same family shall hold Office
in the Treasury Department will be rig:dly
applied in all cases where two or more blood
relatives are now employed there. No con-
sideration will be given to the fact that in
some cases brothers who are heads of separate
families hold Offices. One of them in case
there are two VIII have to be removed
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GovERsog Youse, of Ohio, declines to Be
a candidate 70: reelection on the plea of pri-
vate business duties, whereat the sanguine
Democracy shouts. sTold you so! He
knows his party is sure to be defeated" Thii
is the old Democratic plan of battle. As the
old politician said of his opponent 81 have
known you for thirty years; you were an ass
when first knew you and you have been :
failin' ever since."-[ BALTIC. American. gis
We have authoritative information thst
Governor Young has written q letter in which
he declines to be candidate for Governor be.
fore the coming convention, on account Of the
sacrifice N his private business which the
candidacy, and in the highly probable event OF
election, the occupancy of the Office would
involve Notwithstanding the fact that there
is a good deal of good Republican timber still
left for the chief State office, the many
friends of Governor Young will regret the
loss of opportunity to support him for another
term in the position which he is now 30 hon
orably filling. The Governor, however, has
become so indelibly identified with the poll
tics OF the State, that his influence must be
powerfully felt, whether on the ticket or I'd
auxiliary in the ranks.-lO. s. journal. n
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The sum of the lkmocratic action last
week was to block out a platform to which
the State Convention and the Democratic voE
tiers are expected to sccede. The salis nt
points of the agreement may be briefly stated.
The repeal of the resumption act isto be de-
manded, but ground is to lie taken against f.
nal resumption, and there is to be no direct
affirmative soft money action. The slogan of
the campaign is to be s'the silver dollar of the
fathers, and great relianeei is to be placed on
the record of the Democratic House in that
regard. Ii is intimated that this action threw
Mr.. Pendleton into state of dissatisfaction,
and that Gen. Ewing, having knowledge Of
the intentions Of q majority of the committee,
kept away from the meeting. This is rather !
q weak point in the story. Ewing would
scarcely let slip an opportunity to fight any
force that might be brought against him OF,
proposition which did not glofify greenbseks.
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THE New York Times says that Mr.. Thur !
man is ..'slver man. according to present |
appearances. He opposed an early convention |
by the Ohio Democrats, because lie thought
that if the Republicans met first they would !
quarrel and give the Democrats better
chance But he was not afraid that the Re-
publi ans would proclaim in favor of the sill :.
yer dollar He thought they would hardly. do
that. The Democrats had a patent right on
that already. r In their Convention of last
year they demanded the reconciliation of !
the dollar Of our fathers and the making legal |
tender Of it. Then it went into Congress- and /
was reafirmed by almost the solid Democratic
vote, and if % Senator Sherman, lad not |
smothered it away in his committee, it would |
have been passed by the Congress of the Uni
ted States. IL will be seen, however, that
Mr.. Thurman is a little cautious about defin-
ing his views He accepts RECOMMENDATION /
as Democratic doctrine, but he does not say
whether he-is in favor of an unlimited legal !
tender quality for silver, or OF unrestricted I
coinage. He occupies very much the same
position, apparently, as TO silver that he oc-
cupied as to the greenbacks. .sirer.T ri
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They [the Democrats of Ohio] are not like
10 to treat the silver question with any sifs
or butts; they win declare plainly for unlim-
tied issue of legal tender silver dollars. They i
will, in connection with this, again declare
for the repeal of the date fixed for resump-
tion. They will give US all the bad doctrine !
they have ever given US, and they viii add
the abomination of third legal tender cheap !
er than the others, to what has gone before.
Senator Thurman and like pretentious and
weak kneed statesman will stand by and
liz u,d
demagegues who are the real leaders of the
Democracy, and who care nothing for men !
who have not the courage to stand by their !,
real convictions 1t has been in Thurman's |
power within the past three years to have |
made great name and achieved position of |
splendid infiaenee'in national politics. If he |
had had the sagacity to perceive, and the |
firmness to seize the opportunity to defy tie |
soft money men in his own State, he would |
have been easily the leader Of his party; but,
instead, be weakly assented to their most out
rageous demands, and he is left with no POI |
litical strength to do anything for himself or
for his ideas. The Republicans of Ohio may
profit by his experience They have in times
past shown Themselves capable Of great devo-
tion to sound financial principles, and they
have repeatedly beaten their opponents by the
simple strength Of sincere and unwayeripg T.
deity to the right. They are now challenged
to take up the struggle once more, and to
meet their enemies on ground a little shifted
but involving the same principle as in former
struggles. We hope they will not commit
the fatal blnnder Of trying to rival the Dem
ocrats in their own tactics. On such a line
they would be beaten, and deserve to be-
N. Y. Times. ~, i - e.l.i,,.s,I ~ "a
West Point this year. Among them are sons
of TWO ex Confederate Generala a ann of Rem