Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-07-31
Deferred from last week.
That Removal Meeting.
BELLAIRE. O. July 10. 1919

in the city this morning, calling mass
meeting of citizens at City Hall this
evening, for the purpose of considering
the expediency of putting in nomina-
tion County Seat Removal Ticket this
| fall, your correspondent with an un-
usual amount of curiosity, repaired early
to the place of meeting designated.
The idea, upon reading the call, struck
us that movement so ridiculous must
have been the work of some wild politi-
clans, but judge our surprise when we
found it to be championed by Messrs.
Rees and Gallagher If any others were
backing" them in the audience of fifty,
they kept very quiet indeed during the
whole of the discussion. We noticed
many prominent citizens of Bellaire in
the crowd, and in addition to these were
several visitors from neighboring towns,
conspicuous among whom were Gen.
Capehart and j. Cal. Gray of Martins
Ferry.
The organization was effected by
electing J. F. Anderson, President; j. B.
Darrah, Vice President, and ]. NJ. Rees,
Secretary. The President stated the
object of the meeting, and Mr.. Gallagher
moved that the following resolution be
adopted by the meeting:
ReSOtUed, That we deem it expedient
to put in nomination ticket in favor
of County Seat Removal.
Mr.. Gallagher followed his resolution
with quite lengthy remarks favoring its
adoption, his principal argument being
the expenditure by the citizens of 81 900
in the "late effort" and that he thought
such an amount of money should not be
wasted. Mr.. Gallagher has paid but lit
tie attention to politics, inasmuch as he
insisted that should the removalist can
didates for Senator and Representative
be successful, they would previously be
instructed to vote for U. S. Senator as
the county would cast her vote for Gov
ernOr.
Gen. Capehart was called by the crowd
and responded briefly, stated that he
didn't come down to talk, but to listen;
he advised the people of Bellaire to be
very careful in their deliberation they
had many friends outside of Pultney
township; their cause would grow from
day to day, &C., and finally that they had
better make their selections from the
regular nominees of the political
parties.
Col Poorman here followed in his
usual style; the Co.'s speeches wouldn't
amount to much if he didn't have some
body or something on which to vent his
ire. This occasion was no exception, and
st. Clairsville-the only place on earth
where he ever made any money, and
where, had he stayed, might have by
this time, amassed quite a handsome
ompetence-seemed to be his objective
point; her recent vote taxing the corpo-
ration to build new railroad, bothers
him wonderfully. He stated that only
a few days since he had received a COM
munication from prominent st. Clairs-
vile Democrat, saying that the bull
doing in Louisiana at the last Presi-
Dental election was nothing to compare
with that done in st. ClairSville at the
election referred to above-that the tick
cts against the taxation had been de-
stroyed early in the morning, and that
many non-residents were voting during
the whole of the day. The writer isn't
an extraordinary guesser, but we think
whose autograph is at the bottom of the
ColonePs letter, and the gentleman we
would guess is one who, during the
whole of the removal campaign favored
Bellaire, notwithstanding the fact that
he is freeholder and resident of St
ClairSville. The Colonel does not believe
in special ticket in favor of removal,
but argues that with the combined in
fiuence of both parties in Bellaire, one
or the other of the county conventions
can be controlled very readily, and that
we have many friends over the county
who would combine with us-again re-
ferring to the above mentioned letter.
In referring to Mr.. Gallagher's resolu-
tion, he stated that if a separate ticket
was put in the field before the second
Tuesday in October it will have been
as the county would be flood !
ed during the campaign with the best
talent of the country, and that the en-
thusiasm would reach such pitch that |
partisan would stick strictly to party, |
and side issues would be buried so deep |
that resurrection would be impossible. |
Mr.. Rees wants to fight it through re-
gardless of all political parties, and says
that the remOvalists were not afraid of |
the parties, but the parties were afraid |
of them.
j. B. Smith, Esq, opposed the resolu-
ton quite elOquently, and stated that he
would give the U. 5. Senator his political
support and influence this fall, and that
under the circumstances he would not
fOrsake his party.
The President made very reasonable
argument both against the passage of
the resolution and Col. Poerman's idea,
and suggested that the proper time to
such question would be the
follnuinn ha |
After some brief remarks the question
was put, and on the second count by di-
vision was carried by SO to "a.
Mr.. Gallagher didn't like the looks of
,hings, however, and said that unless