Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-09-27
The Great Democratic Question.

The Great Democratic Question.
The spectacle which the Democratic party
of Ohio exhibits in this canvass by its speak
ers is one for gods and men TO admire. as tes-
timony to the popular capacity for governing.
What great issue does Ewing present in has
formal debate with Senator Matthews? Moth
ing but scheme to make the people rich by
the issue of paper money, thing which
quacks have been necessarily trying ever
since the world began, and which has always
failed, and has proved the laborer's worst ene-
my; thing to which all that is not very green
I in the Democratic party has been hostile; q
plan which, when by mistaken judgment re
sorted to in the terrible strait Of war, every
one ofsfhe Democratic leaders and sof the
masses denounced as unconstitutional and
pernicious This is the sole issue that Ewing
presents. And Pendleton and the rest are the
same.
| Even the feeble pretense of silver ques-
tion. has no part in it; for Ewing and Pendle-
ton know that the greenback issue which
they cali for drove out even the debased sil
yer change coins, and that there can be no
circulation of the silver dollar in any such pa
per scheme as they demand. The Democratic
party, trying 10 ride into power on paper
money scheme, Is surely enough to make the
walls of Pandemonium ring with the shriekf
q of t'old line Democrats" that have gone be
! fore. And this, too, is in, the face Of the no
torious fact that Ohio Democrats are in thi'
matter rebels. against the ruling class of ths
: party, and that whenever they come together
these paper money heretics have to succumb
and to bawl and sweat to elect men that cool
ly snuff out their initiation lunacies.
e Another feature in this canvass for th,
: iaforesaid powers to admire is that the repre-
sentatives ofthe Republican party should per
t NIT these apestate Democrats to put and con
fine the canvass and thegdebstes to, the issu
of miserable scheme of irredeemable pape
money; that a party with such record Q
to country and Of preserving itfron
Eseing rent into ever hostile fragments, an
with everything to merit the confidence o
d THE people, should permit party with such
Vi uAIooo W aSOADbJS oeS>tA "a
e attempt at its destruction, such devastation O
it, such burdens beaped upon it for all time
!. and such 1Inminent future dangers in IFS ma
y tionaI aseendency, to turn the canvass who'll
upon the financial merits of a money scheme
And most astonishing feature is that po
lteut,, grave, and reverend statesman, shoul
& make The great issue of an election betwee
:, such parties a question of the details of III
IcoiRage of silver; a thing whose future reia
n lions no man can reekon;f which is a mer
: : matter of detail; question of SO small diner
y sions that this country has even BOW two
thirds as much silver in circulatian as it hs
Y had in forty years; thing of the smalles
:, practical value, and which has captivated th
ignorant and dishonest only by mounting th
= Imitation luEacyi with the promise ofa col
\ that shall be plentier and cheaper and MOI
shifting than ever irredeemable paper. TAX
il all together, this is so far a wonderful cam
paign.-[Cin. Gaz
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A Love IdylL
The following love ldyll we translate frol
the columns of lie Progres de Saone ct Loire
Two closely entwined bodies of young ma
slahds young giri were fished out of the rive
Saone at Verjus the other day. They were eI
Icircled by two pocket handzerchleis tied U
gether; the young girls right arm was tie
with her scarf to the left arm of the you'll
and with her left arm passed over the rigi
shoulder of her lover The girlaheld him close
her. The unfortunate pair were lovers; II
youth, who was twenty -one years of age, ha
drawn an unlucky number and was about to
conscripted in the army for term of fiy
years. The sad thought of their approachiu
separation pushed the lovers on to the fatal ac
rhey went to Verjus, and there, after tyin
themselves, walked slowly and delibeiatel
:. into the Saone until the waters Of the rivl
flowed over and buried them alive. sWhe
they were found they were taken to the sho
and Inferred in one grave in the Verjus cen
etery. ~ - ~ - = . . -