Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-10-09
Take Your Choice.
y The State Election Oc-
ours Tuesday, Oct. Il.
DEMOCRACY and CONFEDERACY
use of Coal Oil Cash.

4f3 Use of Coal Oil Cash
lCincinnati Commercial Gazette
Ii we elect Democratic President on
account of his personal purity. as the
cranks put it. and along with him
Democratic House, and Democratic Leg
isIatures enough to turn the Senate over
to- the Democracy, we have-what
Will we have reYolutien? We have
the law making power complete in the
hands of the Democratic party. Would
Glover Cleveland resist the revolution
sry tendencies Of his party? Certainly
not. He WAS one of those COpperheads
who sat around hotels during the wal
and prophesied Con nfederate victories and
magniAed them wdenzthes seaH,e,sand
whe were disappointed when there were
National victories and endeavored to
make them seem as small as possible
With Congress, and the office which is in
its nature executive, in Democratic
hands, what would, the, party try next
They would at once reorganize the lSu-
preme Court. The plea would be made
Immediately that there were not Judges
enough, and there would be eompre-
hensive system of reorganization. Some
amiable citizens would think this un-
popular. Give the Democratic party the
power, and what would they care for
popularityp They would, with the MAJ
tiopal offices all to dispose of, complete
the consolidation of The South. 1t would
be made with little delay not only Dem
ocratic under penalty OF murder. but
bomb proof, The Cenfederates would
back their bull whips and shotguns and
bull dog revvlvers with the National
authority Then throughout the North
they would not leave a live dollar PUst>
Office 10 the hands of Republican. In
New York City the Postofice and the
Custom-house would be added to the i'm
mense fortresses of the party. The Re-
publican party has been accused of ex+
travagance, and men belonging to II
have been named who have profited ln>
duly by offices and contracts, and there
are Democratic wolves who, while not
tapping their jaws, are bowling ABOUT
economy and the necessity of change.
Now, the Democratic party is, as Cover
nor Cleveland says of the Chief Magis
tracy, in its nature executive: ~
There have been many trials on a
small scale, and the Democracy will
double the capacity of the Republicans
under given conditions in getting away
with public money. Their executive
ability runs that way. That the usufrHct
ef the Secretaryship of the Treasury
under Cleveland has already been sold
to the coal oil ring of Ohio there are
striking appearances. The rumOr is, and
the Indications are, that this has been
dune to procure money to use in paying
rppeaters and ballot box suffers on the
18th of this month in the cities of Ohio,
especially those where there are Demo
cratic police. If this scheme has not
been arranged, there is no doubt that il
will be substantially undertaken.
Some of the cranks are still telling US
of the amazing integrity of Grover Cleve-
land, and, strange as it may seem, the,
have probably been able to persuade
themselves that he has the elements of d
reformer in him, and is personally dis
tingulshed by towering integrity. We
notice, however, that his. friends take
care not 10 notice the grave imputations
that Senator Grady throws upon his Off
cial character. and we remember that at
Chicago dissatisfied Democrats did not
hesitate 10 say that the solidity of the
Cleveland combination was due to the
use of coal oil money, and the States
that were creased and the names of the
,greasers were duly given. 1t is a mod
81 ate estimate that iG two years of Dem
ocratic administration there would be
more plundering and protiigacy-more
riutous rings Ill fat contracts more
surplus revenue going into the pockets
of the ruling politicians, than in twenty
years of tile Republicans. Add to the
Solid South, and the Democratic cities,
and the army of one hundred Thousand
office holders, the money power that
could be extracted from contracts, and
the general practice of the worst dema-
gogy appeals to all low prejudices, and
s what chance there would be to arouse
the people to the peril of their fortunes
and liberties to stop the revolution. Does
any one think the task could be easily
accomplished.
The solemn fact is that if the Demo
cratic party is voted into the high and
responsible places of the Government
this fall, it win stay in them long time.
With their President and their Congress.
and their reorganized Supreme Court,
they will make their revolution back
ward according to the forms of law.
Who shall dare to oppose the crowning
act of Cancellation of putting the Con-
feGorate cripples on the pension rolls !?
Who woaid be SO sectional and penuri-
Gus as to object to compensation for
slaves? 1t would be shown that the
Southern soldiers had been conquered
NJ d the slaves emancipated in an uncon-
sti, utional manner, and then every one
W no resisted the constitution v ould be a
rebel. The Solid South would give law
to the Nation. The Southern Confeder-
acy would be supreme over the United
States. There would be ten Thousand
grievances to redress, a thousand times
ten Thousand revenges will compound
interest for twenty years unpaid for
rebels and Copperheads to crafty. The
South. would recoup herself and would
help herself ts the Natiopal money with
both bloody hands, and it would be made
in official circles discreditable to have
taken part in the unconstitutional war
fer Union and liberty.
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