Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-08-24

Mr.. C L. PooRNAN, who has for
eighteen years, with the exception Of
1872, when he tried the Democrats, be-
deviled the Republicans of this county
about sending him to Congress, and who
is little short Of insane upon that sub
ject. in his paper last week made vim
dictiys assault upen Representative Up
degraff, full of fragrant falsehoods and
misstatements of fact. We will notice
few of them. Mr.. Poorman says:
After q remarkable contest, ia which
he had the aid of money. government
patronage and every influence that
free use of these could secure, he enter
ed the recent convention with but 62
delegates out of 163, and after three
days of strife, and the use OF extraordl-
nary efforts, he was unable to secure the
additional 20 votes necessary to nomi :
nate, and the convention, rather than
permit his success by the use Of ques-
tionabls means, adjourned without NOM
mating.
What intelligent man in the county
believes one word of this reckless state
ment? Has the improper use of one
dollar been traced to DR.. Updegraff? ?
Did not Mr.. POorman and the other dis
appointed aspirants for Updegraffs seat
have ample opportunity to prove the
reckless falsehoods they set afioat about
Updeeraff? Did they not utterly fail,
and did not that shameful performance
disgust every fair-minded man in the
convention, and make its actors the
laughing stock of the town. Wherein
has government patronage been used IN
behalf of Updegraffs denomination I
True, some Republicans of the district,
who hold government office favor his
denomination; but have they not the
right to express their opinions, and to
support what Republican they please ?
OF the government office-holders who
attended the convention, majority,
perhaps, were against Updegraf. But
the most flagra ut misstatement contain
ed in the paragraph quoted above is that
wherein Mr.. Poorman would have his
readers believe that Updegraff lacked
20 votes of nomination. Why did he
not tell them that his vote increased
from 81 to u, and that at the adjourn
ment he only lacked votes of noml-
nation? An adjournment was precipi-
tated by madmen, whose falsehoods
were of no avail, and who saw that the
nomination of Updegraff was inevitable,
and who thereupon broke up the conven-
tion rather than submit to the expressed
will of the people. That's what was the
matter with Hannah.
As to the Bellaire postOffice, Mr.. Poor
man knows as well as he knows he is a
living man that the appointment of Mrs.
Hoge was impracticable. We do not
care to discuss this matter, but it is suf
ficient to say that she was not resident
within the delivery of the Bellaire Office
when she became an applicant for 1t,
and therefore was ineligible. DR.. Upde-
CRAFTS interview with Mrs. Hoge was a
delicate and painful one. No doubt he
would gladly have helped her if he could.
He knew her grand old father and her
husband well, and respected both of
them; but he was powerless to help her
in the direction indicated, and sensitive
of the delicacy of his position, ended the
painful interview by assuring her that
he knew nothing of any intended
vacancy.
The matters we have cited will serve
to show the malicious character of this
assault upon DR.. Updegraff. 1t is idle
to debate this matter with an individual
who is so reckless and malevolent in his
attacks upon another, and what we have
said above is solely for the purpose of
calling the attention Of those whe do
not know the character of DR.. Upde
CRAFTS assailant, and the motives that
| control him, to the animus of his as
saults. Mr.. Poorman thinks he ought to
have been in Congress long ago. The
people think, and for eighteen years have
thought, otherwise; and in turn they
chose Mr.. Bingham, Mr.. Danford, and
DR.. Updegraff, to represent them. Mr..
Poorman, consumed with envy and van
ity, has in turn lied upon and abused
all of them, solely because he could not
get above them. Longing for Mr.. Bing-
hams old shoes, he pursued himiwith all
the devilish hate he possessed, and
when Mr.. Danford was before the pee-
pie he set ahoat all manner Of stories
calculated to blacken his character and
bring reproach upon the great party
whose standard-bearer he was. Now
the same motive prompts him to assail
Updegraff, and for months he has been
doing what he can to scandaliZe the
whole party of the district, by fabri-
eating and circulating stories OF
corrupt practices, which, when offered
an opportunity to substantiate, he was
compelled to admit he could not do.