Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-09-22
The Approaching Election.


This is an off year in politics. There
is not much excitement. Large meet
ings need not be expected. Stump
speakers are not in demand. Because
of the sufferings of the President. in
which the people, irrespective of party.
sympathiZe, there Can not be much spi-
rit in the campaign. Therefore, in all
probability, light vote will be cast
This is point Republicans should not
forget. There is all the more necessity
for quiet work, pnd special effort to
bring out the vote. To suffer Ohio to
fall into the control of the Democratic
patty this year, or any other year, would
be mistake. The Legislature to be
elected redistricts the State. Past expe-
rience teaches that the Democrats, if in
power, would gerrymandsr it, and such
unfairness might secure a majority in
Congress against Garfield's administra-
tion. 1t is important to the whole eoun-
| try that Congress should be in sympathy
with the President. For Ohio to con-
tribute to different result would cer-
tainly be ungrateful, and specially dis
graceful.
Aside from this there are strong rea-
sons why the Democratic party should
not be restored to power in Ohio. When
trusted by the people two years ago, un-
der the disgraceful administration of
Bishop, it demoralized every public in
stitution in the State, and debauched the
municipal government of Cincinnati.
from which our city has not yet fully
recovered. 1t also managed the State
finances badly,and thus imposed heavy
task upon the Republican Legislature
that was chosen in 1879. The latter,
however, proved equal to the task. 1t
placed in order the public institutions
1t repaired, as far as possible, the dam
age done to Cincinnati. 1t paid off
considerable slice of the State debt, re-
funded several millions of it at a rate of
interest equal to 81 per cent, and it
made large reduction in State taxes,
while meeting deficiencies handed down
by the Democratic Legislature. In all
these particulars the Republicans made
good record. In all corresponding par
ticulars the Democrats made bad rec
ord-so bad that the party was distinc-
lively and emphatically rebuked by the
people in 1879. 1t is the same party
that now asks to be restored TO power.
If through Republican indifference it
should succeed, it would be the O'Con-
nor Legislature over again. 1t would
promptly attack for partisan purposes
all the public institutions, and would
demoralize and debauch them precisely
as it did when last in power. 1t Is q
party that in this respect never learns
new ways. 1t would. for the sake of
few offices, cripple the penal, benevolent,
and reformatory institutions of the
State. 1t would use Bookwalter quite
as freely and as unscrupulously as it
used Bishop. The Democratic candi-
date for Governor is politically weak
man. He did not know whether he was
Democrat or a Republican when he
was introduced as a candidate. He was
selected because he was rich and not be-
cause he was Democrat, or represen-
tative party man. But for his barrel he
would not have been thought of. Such
men are always dangerous, not only to
their party, bnt to the State. They are
uncertain quantities. They can not
lead a party except to disgrace. The
Ohio Democrats have had bitter expert
ence. in this regard, and could the ques-
tion have been submitted to vote OF
the Democrats of Ohio, Bookwalter
could not have been nominated, nor
could any man have been nominated
who was not a fair representative of the
party. This is another reason why the
Republicans of Ohio should 90 to the
polls and elect their whole ticket, and
especially their candidate for Governor,
who is a representative man, and who
knew before he was named for an Office
what party he belonged to.-Cin. Gaz.
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! PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATION OF THE
CATECHIsM.-Not long ago bright little
girl in the Sunday-school of st. Luke,
Nm, New Jersey, who was in the Cal
vary Catechism class, taught by Miss
s., and evidently had reached the bot
tom facts of the lesson-the creation OF
man out of the dust Of the earth-came
running home to her mother, overfull
of confidence in the Scripture theory and
her own reflective conclusions, and ex-
claimed:
"Oh, mother, know it is all true
what the catecEism said about Adams
being made out of the dust Of the earth
III know it isr'
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