Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-01-24
How They Kick.


press of the State, regarding the election
of Mr.. Payne to the Senate. 1t is good
reading for the Democracy, and we hope
our Republican friends win see to il,
that their Democratic neighbors have
the opportunity of perusing these valu-
able opinions:
The Standard Oil mess of pottage is
beginning to make some stomachs sick.
1t is too greasy" to be healthy.-Dayton
Democrat.
Ever and ever Payne has been hand
in hand with every interest which is op-
posed TO the preservation of the rights
of the people.-Cambridge JEFF.
1t is war of monopoly against honest
government-the Standard Oil Compa-
ny, worth its untold millions, against
the friend of the people.-Troy (Ohio)
Democrat.
The election of any candidate under
the auspices that are pushing forward
Henry b. Payne would be demoraliZing
beyond any hope of recovery this year.
Cadiz Sentinel.
Mr.. Thurman's testimony has fastened
upon the members of this foul. harpy
crew the stigma of "bought and owned"
and throughout the United States there
is and will be but one opinion News
Journal.
And the vilest uses of money and of a
machine organized to defeat the express
ed will of the people have combined to
cruelty the natural leaders and the great
majority of the Ohio Democracy.-Cath-
olic Universe, Cleveland.
Corruption has made rotten the Demo
cratic Legislature of Ohio. Money has
had its potency to drag honor down into
the mire. There can be no per-
functionary eulogy of that man (Payne)
without self-stultification. The
tower of popular rights and honest gov
eminent has been topped down.-COl-
umbus Times.
We confess our shame and humiliation
in the work of Democratic Legislature,
and had hoped that patriotism and hon.
esty would rise above the corrupting in
fiuences that caused its members TO be-
tray the party that coniided to their
keeping public interests. Down with
II he demagogues and the corruption that
are dragging TO the death the Democrat
ic party--Catholic Columb bian.
There is not an intelligent Democrat
in Ohio who does not feel lnsHlted and
humiliated at the unseemy and disgrace
full partisan wrangle over the Senator
ship. 1t has turned the honest and
hopeful Democratic triumph of last Oc-
tober into supreme and irremediable dis
asterl The scoundrels who have wrought
this sorry transformation are known
and will be appropriately remembered
aud dealt with in the future. -Bellefon-
taine Examiner.
Backed by the gigantic monopoly, the
Standard Oil CUmpany-led by few OF
the most treacherous scavengers that
ever disgraced a political party by aspir-
ing to its management-a certain clique
of Ohio politicians are waging desper-
ate and unscrupuious opposition to the
reelection Of Senator Pendleton. From
John r. Mclean down to Allen o. Myers
the gang is disreputable-wi but an
occasional, isolated exception-and seek
Mr.. PendletOn's defeat from no high er
motive than petty. personal malice or
| ambition-Lake County Journal.
The curses of the Democracy over the
nomination of Payne are not loud but
deep. Now what will these mereenary
old pappes say to their constituents
and how will they brush the Oil off their
skirts. They forgot that they were ser
wants of the people, but each considered
| himself little tin Jesus on wheels.
Fol shamel The Democratic Legislature
of Ohio is SO foul that a rotten egg shat
tered against the Speakers desk would
smell like bunch of mignonette. Now
if this is treason to the Ohio Democracy,
let the Ohio Democracy make the most
of it. We are Democrat and an honest
one, and never will endorse political
thief or any other thief.-FOstOria Dem
ocrat.
In times like these when a rich, venal
and jubbing gang of political bermaph-
rodiLes seek to cheat the party out of its
birthrigb!, the true and honest Democ-
racy and it's leaders stand together, for
getting the errors and differences OF the
past. to prevent, if possible, further dis
grace, the defeat of Democratic princi
pies, asd the ruin of the Democratic
party. Far better would it be for the
Democracy to remain in a permanent
and respectable minority, than submit to
the degredations of majority whose
watchword of discipline Is 1.-The most
powerful, best officered, and richest die
tatorship ever seen in Ohio" The honest
Democracy will never submit to such an
outrage.-Butler Co. Democrat.
The Democratic CD legislative eau
Gus at Columbus, on Tuesday night,nom-
| tol
of Cleveland, to succeed Hon. George I'll.
Pendleton. The interests of the people
OF Ohio have been trifled with and their
confidence betrayed. What has Mr..
Payne done for the Democracy of Ohio
for forty years past, that he should be
honored with a seat in the U. s. Senate
Simply nothing. He was pressed forward
by that prince of grinding and exacting
monopoies, the Standard Oil Co., and
backed by the leading anti-Democratic
newspaper of Ohio, the Cincinnati En-
quirer. Have the people of OhiOno rIgh s
that their representatives should re-
spect? 1t seems not. If not Pendleton,
where were Thurman, Ward and hosts
of other Democrats who have fought
the battles of the partyp Echo answers
where ?-St. Clairsville Gazette.
1t is painful and humiliating to rec.
ord the fact, but it is nevertheless true
that considerable number of members
who went to Columbus protesting to be
the friends of either PendletOn or Ward
by some mysterious influence or agency
+ were as suddenly converted to Payne az
Paul was converted to Christianity or
his way to Damascus. Had there been
an open ballot as was desired by the
friends of Ward and Pendleton, there
would no doubt have been different re
suit, but behind the secret ballot thu
recreant members took refuge. and be
trayed their trust. For the man wht
voted for Mr.. Payne, as matter of dut,
and conviction, We have the highest re
spect. But for the men who sold thei