Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-06-19
POLITICAL,
Tribune-isns.

Tilden begins to feel an interest in
politics again.
Your Uncle Dick retires with an i'm
mortal Repatriation as strategist.
Ben Hill hesitates in his speech con-
siderably-when he meets Mr.. Blaine.
Something more substantial than Ew-
ing's wind will be required to elect him
Governor.
The Ohio Democrats are whistling
boisterously to stimulate their courage,
but with slim success.
Thurman's breakdown has got ahead
of his backdown.
Ohio politics will let go for few
weeks now, to get fresh hold.
Perhaps Tammany will be willing to
advance some "sinews" for Ewing.
The black-headed Louisiana liar is a
worthy match for his red-headed prede-
ceSSOr.
Thurman and Hendricks should meet
and drop a mutual tear of sympathy and
reconciliation. They are fellow suffer
ers.
Thurman should endeavOr to grasp
the fact that he does not answer COnk-
ling's towering arguments by accusing
him of towering cOnceit.
Gov. Bishop, of Ohio, is spending all
his spare time promoting Democratic
harmony by rejoicing in the overthrow
of ''the Boss"-JOhn G. Thompson.
The Shermans can afford to be indif-
ferent to the Ohio election. Foster is
l.
ing is Gen. Sherman's brOther-in-law.
| A batiot-box pierced by bayOnet is a
| fayorite Democratic transparency. If a
negro were substituted for the ballot
box the party's creed would be more &C
curately displayed.
Somebody with an unpleasant memo
ry recalls the fact that Gen. Ewing, of
Ohio, sought the passage of bill
Through the Legislature few years ago,
making it a penitentiary offence for
workingmen to organize societies for
self-prOtection.
The ingenious suicide who rugged up a
machine which killed him in four diff
ferent ways, by poison, shooting, break
ing his skull with an iron bar and
drowning, seems to have been taken by
the Democratic party for an example.
Ewing's nomination does pretty well,
but the beautiful harmony of things
would have been better preserved if the
Bounding Banning had been put on that
platform demanding an unobstructed
ballot-box. 1t was the Construction" that
ruined Banning.
In speech made in 1873, Gen. Tom
Ewing said: "All these events have
forced me, though most reluctantly, to
the conclusion that the Democratic par
ty is powerless and Ineffective as an al
ly, and not fit instrument of reform in
American politics" And, in all his
guesses, lie will never hit any nearer
right than that.
Take him all in all, Wade Hampton is
about the best of the brigadiers, and yet
| if he had been a full-sized man he never
would have been moved to say in the
Senate of the United States: 1.-The South
has no apology to make for the past. -
| The fact that no one has asked the
South for any apology is enough to have
made the words stick in the throat of a
genuinely mIgnanimous man.
Jefferson Davis has opened his mouth
zee more, and spoken only a half dozen
lines, yet he has, rs usual, shown him
self to be an unregenerate Bourbon and
ali EXETER of Southern bitterness against
the Union. He was present at the Mis-
sissippi Press Association last week, and
declared that he had never yet seen a
Southern woman reconstructed" A
perfect panic of applause greeted the re-
mark, and when it had subsidized, he add
ed: Il wish it understood that am not
preaching revolution or party strife" I"
So far us the North is concerned, that
wish will not be gratified.
The Republican outlook in California
grows brighter every day. The quarrel
between the two factions of the Work
ingmen's party is growing in bitterness,
and all chances for agreement upon a
single ticket is out of the question. The
Democrats are badly demoralized, and
are trying to form coalition with the
Honorable Blk wing of the Working
mems party. The only party of the four
which is well organized in all parts of
the State, is the Republican. Its lead
ers are confident of victory, because they
have faith that the other three parties
can be depended ON to kill each other
1t looks now as if the Republicans would
carry the State and control the Con-
greSsional delegation.
West and South.