Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-08-27

of the United States. These fortunate
events, and the wise administration that
has followed, have already dispelled the
illusion that Democratic success is in
consistent with business interests of the
country, or perilous to the rights of the
freedmen. The revival of prosperity
and the increase in the value Of proper
ty, already begun, demonstrate the be-
neficence of Democratic principles, even
before any session of Congress has en-
abled the country to realize the full fru>
ition of their application by legislation.
Second-We congratulate President
Cleveland and his Cabinet on the auspi-
cious beginning they have made in the
necessary reforms of the Government,
and heartily endorse their Administra-
tion.
Third-We approve the measures ia
ken by a Democratic Congress for pre-
venting the appropriation of unearned
lands by railroad companies, and by a
Democratic President in firmly holding
public lands for public uses and prevent
ing their unlawful occupation.
Fourth-We reaffirm the platform of
principles adopted by the Democratic
National Convention held in Chicago in
1884.
Fifth-We commend the administraE
tion of Gov. Hoadly and the work of the
Sixty-sixth General Assembly as wise,
honest and economical.
Sixth-We especially commend the
fidelity of the Democratic members of
the Sixty-sixth General Assembly to the
pledge of the party in favor of licensing
the traffic in intoxicating liquors, and
we denounce the fraud and hypocrisy of
the Republicans in defeating this wise
measure of reform. Every Democrat in
both branches of the General Assembly
voted to submit for popular adoption a
constitutional amendment providing for
license. Enough Republicans protesting
to be in its favor were present in the
House of Representatives to have given
it the three-ffths necessary for its suc>
cess, but refused to vote, for the avowed
and only reason that it was proposed by
Democrats. Upon the Republican party,
whose caucus dictated this course, lies
the reproach of the postpOnement and
temporary defeat of this most wise and
salutary plan for the regulation of the
liquor traffic.
Seventh-The Democratic party is, as
it always has been, opposed to sumptu-
ary legislation and unequal taxation in
any form, and is in favor of the largest
liberty of private conduct, consistent
with the public welfare and the rights
of others, and of regulating the liquor
traffic and providing against the evils
resulting therefrom by judicial and
properly graded license system. Under
the present constitution of Ohio such a
system is forbidden, and taxation is lin.
tied to property and required to be meas
ured by its money value. We therefore
are in favor of constitutional amend
ment which shall permit such a system,
and we promise its submission for adOp.
tiOn by the people if the necessary three
fifths of each branch of the next General
Assembly bc composed of Democrats.
Eighth-The Democratic party is and
always has been the party of the people
and of the agricultural and wool growing
interests; the enemy of monopoly; the
friend of labor; in whose hands the in
terests of workingmen are and always
will be safe, and we favor arbitration as
the wisest means of settling differences
between labor and its employers.
Ninth-We commend the steps already
taken in the cause of prison reform.
Tenth-We favor the preservation OF
the canals as the cheapest transportation
for producers and consumers, and rec
ommend that they be put into an efficient
condition for public service.
Eleventh-We favor the establishment
of an intermediate penitentiary for the
reform of prisoners not belonging to the
criminal classes.
Twelfth-We are in favor of the adop'
tion of the pending constitutional amend
ment changing the date of the annual
state, county and congressional elections
to November.
Thirteenth-We mourn the death of
General Grant, the citizens of his native
state, without distinction of party, sor-
row at his loss, and cherish the memory
of his modest and heroic character and
his great deeds, as among their proudest
public possessions. We sympathize with
his bereaved widow and children, and
we trust and hope that his last words
urging harmony and good will between
the sections" may be so taken to heart
by his countrymen that sectional alien
alton and hate may be thing of the
past.
Resolved, That in the
death of Judge John W. Okey, the state
has lost pure and able jurist, and We
condole with his family on their irrepa-
rable los.
THE St. Clairsville, o. Fair Associa
tion are making unusual efforts to make
their Thirty-Seventh Annual Fair, to be
held at st. Clairsville, September 2,
and 4, to surpass any similar exhibition
ever held in the county. Liberal pref
miums are offered, covering all branches
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