Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-12-13

8aaO KaticrSOu " tue Ocms
Ocrats.
CoNrEDRrr z RoAps, J
WIoH B IN TUE STATE OF KENTUCKY,
Nov. 26, 1877.
knowed i'll have felt it. During
the long daeary years that the Dino
crisy hev lHouFned under Radikel rule,
hev DID certain that the day would
come when we should hev our own
agin, and wunst more controle the de-
sLlnies and the post Offise5 of this great
republic.
never did live for one day, nor
never did make base calkilashuns on
the events av a single year. The phil
0spher hez TO go to the bottom NV
I things and reason from cuz to effect.
The Dimocratic party hez the rum
mills, irish and the Cross Roads.
Everything in society and popelashun
ljist ez materially ez iron films comes tu
a nas nit. 1t is a law Nv nacher tina:
like attracks like. Start a'siOon in the
strfctest Mo- England town aud the
few Dim0cratic voters will find it out
IN q week; aud from that time their
cduc0sse will De held in the back room,
and ef the 'sl0onkeeper is industrious
the party will be reinforced by all the
men which wood like to be dissiIated
in the vlsinity.
My faith wuz based on this law Nv
uscner.
Tne Dimocrisy bein minority becOz
Nv the presshur Nv the war, it KEEP the
drift wood In the Republican camp.
But when that pressher wuz removed.
aud the independent Rephlikins coui.
,nenced to split up on other questions
than recouStruckShun an Sich, and the
Dimocrisy taken advantage NV these
began to kerry this dee
,trib AMI that deestrik, optil they he'd
the House, aud this Senator and that
Senator till they wuz within two votes
NV majority In that body, khowd
what would come.
1t hez come.
Conover and Patterson hev come
over to us. Conover and Patterson
hev cast 10 their lets with Us, and
hentzforth and forever will be found
battiin for purity and reform, in the
Oimecratic ranks.
Its an acquisition.
Patterson is threatened, it is troO.
W th the PeDitentiary, but wat Nv
that?
Whenever a Republican puts his
self in danger of the P-nitenshnry, h..
jist begins to be- fit for the Dimocrisy.
A Republicans bein In danger Nv
the Penitenshary, shows that he h q
bin cOntemplstina u change in his politi-
Cal nff1liashens, and hez bin preparin
for II.
Welkom, Patterson and Conover!
WelkOm! last recroOts to the army
Nv reform.
l see the end. The House Ia ours,
the SENT is ours, and the yooserperl
stands alone. He hez in biz yuoserrin
hands the symbol NV power, but 1t J.
harmless Pz Il sword Nv lafh. We hev
him and the party which forced hin
onto US. Ef the Dimocrisy hev any
sense the postnffices Is ours In 1880.
Thank hevin that our enemies Is |
made up Nv men with opinions, and
thank hevin they pride themselves
onto Ii. Thank heven that they differ
70 ez to he Way to do II, that they
perveni themselves from doin ii at ali |
While ,hey sre Ightin over how Tn.
game shsi be played, we hev run of
with the stakes. II is delightful tnl'
b'lon to party whose only principle
8 po5soffis.
We are 20 near The control NV the Z
invernmeni, hat the crit wood will
Either come to " or reuiain neufrel.
md that dr.itn,r,d We k,n manage
'tttcr than the R-pabIikins did. We
dot bigoted or per'ikler; welkon,
'sfterson and ConoverI Tie Ablish..t
lists held to these men when the,
|tdn't need 'em-now that they dol /,
eed 'sm, they come to US, Forchoonl 4