Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-04-05

right well did he represent his constitu
ents, but she might well e1claim, save
me from my friends when this fellow
squawks. After he had dried up, to the
delight uf all, Mr.. Locke, who had come
in for d share of Plug-ugley's scurrillity,
rose and administered TO him such q
scathing castigstion as the fellow never
before received. since he first heard
of his ark-ancestry, and the universal
verdict was. well donei Poor Plug
ugsley looked as if he wanted to hide
his Knott, on which rests No. 8 hat.
We suggest to the people of st. Clairs =
vile if ever this community should be
inflicted by the pestiferous presence of
this Plug ugsley, that they ship him to
Arkansas where be belongs.
There was a man from Knox county
named Koons who led off in speech
against the bill-full of great impor-
tance to himself--and only succeeded in
showing what fit representative OF
Proctor Knotl's ark a chap can make of
himself. HIS name is koons-William
Koons-Wm. A. Koons-from his name
he too had descended from Proctor
Knott's Plug-ugley's ark as "two and
two of his kind" had entered evidently
though Knott's cOpyist failed to mention
the fact. Well Mr.. Rooms two by two,
YOU see) swelled up and let lOOse-all
were glad when he quit. This is the
great stickler for the rights of the peo-
pie to pass upon their own Indebtedness
and voted against the Belmont bill
when only last winter he did his feeble
best and vOted for the Tuscarawas bill
similar measure. This is Knox county
consistency presented by Mr.. koons.
When Mr.. Locke got through with a
brief review of Koons VS.. Koons, Mr..
Koons looked and doubtless felt that he
would like to have crept into the ark
and pulled Plug-ugsley in after him.
Speaker pro tenn. l. n. Hathaway, Of
Geauga, made mastery and dlgnlled
speech in favor of the Locke bill, and
against its amendment-citingt the ac :
ton of the Legislature in reference to
his own county as q precedent In the
Belmont case-as the cases were exactly
similar-the thing asked and granted
and closed with an earnesl appeal in
favor of the right-and entreated the
Legislature to pass the Lock- bill In the
interest of peace and 14rnpny. His
speech was a most digB,1 u and able
effort, and contrasted mos, t,Jpily with
the two harangues that pr ~-I-dit.
Short speeches were alsp n.tte in IA
vor of the bill and against he amend
ment submitting the question of taxa
ton to a vote, by Messrs. Greiner, Nc
Cullough, brooks and Jones of Jackson.
4 vote on the amendment resulted in
the adoption of the amendment by vote
of A to "a. AS soon as the vote on the
amendment was announced by the clerk,
Mr.. Thorp, of Ashtabula, friend of the
measure, moved the indefinite postpone
ment of the bill. which was agreed to
yeas 46, nays 30-leaving the Question
where it started, with rapid growth of
public sentiment against the cOmmu-
nistic agitators at Bellaire, as instanced
in Pease township and elsewhere. As
in the other seventy-two cases cited by
Mr.. Locke, when Legislative enactment
intervened to settle the vexed question
in counties, so will it he eventually
solved in Belmont. While the agitation
has never been of st. Clairsville's seek
ing, her friends should resist every en-
croachment upon her rights whether for
a communistic sheet at Bellaire or a
blackguard Legislator in Columbus. Let
them stand firm and their cause will
gather force until it ultimately tri
umphs.