Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-07-11
Public Opinion.
NATIONALS INDIGNANT.

loathe those who offer it. Justice and equal
ity before the law is asked and expected, aLt
will be exacted if the Republic is made tc
tremble to its base Sympathy, forsooth =
Philadelphia National (Greenback-Labol
Party)
BEN. BuTLKR's SQUIRT GUN.
So far as now appears, the great meyemen'
that was to uncover fraud, vindicate Mr.
Tilden, unseat the President, convict Secre-
tary Sherman and Minister Noyes of bribery,
fraud, and subornation of perjury, has taper.
ed off to small squirt gun, which Mr.. But
Ter has got hold of and is trying to use fol
squirting dirty water at some of his personal
enemies. And the present prospect is that
even this use of the committee will turn out a
failure-[N. Y. Tribune (Rep).
PRETTY PASS.
Senator Bruce and his bride made the trip
from Cleveland to New York il special car,
stopping in New York at the Hoffman House,
where white people do congregate. Think OF
that, Democrats; and yet the great Demo
cratic party of a great State assembling i'm
mediately after the act entered no protest in
their platform. What are we coming to p
lChicago 1nter-Ocean (Rep)
BUTLKR FRIGHTENs THE DEMOCRATS.
You can't tell which way the Hon. B. F.
Butler is looking, but it is pretty certain that
he is sliding toward the Democratic party in
a suggestive manner, that makes every good
~ xxyifl, oxxful faar rhaf ha
may take notion to jump the fence some
day when nobody is watching New Or
leans Times Oem).
WHERE ARE THE SILVER MEN?
Where are the silver men? Where is that
large crowd that made itself hoarse few
months ago in calling for silver, silver, silver?
The Government has on hand nearly 800 tons
of coined silver, and the stock is daily in
creasing because nobody wants it. Let the
silver men fill their pockets with it instead of
greenbacks. Il Albany Journal (Rep).
BRING BACK OHIO.
The good of the country, the redemption
of Ohio, and a Republican majority in the
next House of Representatives are the things
now to be looked to. Therefore let the
Southern policy be d-ropped; let Mr.. Hayes
go to Halifax, or wherever else he pleases,
but let us bring Ohio back into the fold in
Octobet.-[ Ross County Register (Rep)
BUTLRR's POSITION.
People who are in doubt concerning Major
General benjamin F. Buffers party will avoid
much confusion of thought by remembering
that he always belongs to the opposite party.
Ben was constructed inversely, and, like an
Irishman, is constitutionally opposed to the
existing order of things. He loves his enc
mics instead of his friends; and when an ene-
my strikes hard, Ben promptly goes over to
his side out OF pure admiration for the pluck
which successfully withstands him. Wash.
ington Post Dem).
ELIZA PINKsTON.
The thinnest piece of business yet is the
obtaining of an affidavit from Eliza Pinks
ton, the famous colored witness, declaring
that she does not know who the persons
were that assaulted her and killed her hus-
band. That's what she testified to before,
and it was through others that the damning
guilt was fastened on the Ku.Klux Democra-
cy. 1t apprars that the latter have followed
the poor, ignorant woman up, and at last,
through threats, probably secured her present
statement.-I Chicago Inter- Ocean (Rep).
EFFECT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL MANIA.
What won't man do when he wants to
be President? Here is Judge Thurman, Il
hard money man by education and principle,
fathering, SO to speak, the Ohio semi-infia-
tion platform, and consenting to the crazy
idea that, when we have made the greenback
within fractional per cent. of equal value
with specie, we must flee from specie pay
ments, pour out more paper, and go again
through all the tronbles we have experienced
since 1S73.-TBoston Herald (IndD.
THURMAN OVERRIDING THE THING.
Senator ThnIman will overdo the matter
when he tells how fondly he approves the
Ohio platform of the Democracy, if he is not
careful The old gentleman should rid him
self of the platform with lew graceful and
glittering generalities We can hardly sup
pose the old Senator would really allow the
country to be dragged from the hard, high
ground of the level between coin and paper
money, into the profound and dismal abyss
of deprecated paper. He might consent to
do it for the sake of being President, but we
should be sorry to hold that opinion of him.
CCin. Com. (Ind).
THE COMMUNISTS.
1t is no longer safe TO treat these enemies
of civilized society with Indifference. Presi-
dent Grant is probably right in saying that
they can never prevail in this country; but if
so, it is only because popular intelligence will
arrest the schemes of Communists at very
early stage, whether they mediate employ
ment of bullets or ballots. 1t has become Pc
culiarly necessary to teach those who lean to-
ward communislic notions that their ideas are
essentially revolutionary, and tend TO blood
shed and anarchy-that in fact, they are not
a whit better citizens than the runaway as
sassins from Paris whom they seek to dis
own. Let them compare their most guarded
political platforms with the formal declara-
tions of the Communists of Paris. Let them
listen to the speeches of the men who cele-
brated the French Revolution of 1S48 on
Monday night. Exactly what they want,
these assassins tried to get, and by the only
possible method. Let the ideas of the So
cialists, or sGreenback. Labor advocates in
this country, be fairly compared with those
of the French Communists, and it will be
seen that the distinction between them is not
one of purpose, but one of courage and can
dor.-[N. Y. Tribune (Rep).
Some men are so awful slow that the
only time they get ahead is when they
buy cabbage.