Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-07-09
self, standing alone, to show the insin
cerity of such professions.

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cerity of such professions.
And now l wish, my friends, that tha
is all l felt called on to say about tn
senatorial election. regret that fee
compelled to say more. 1 regret it TO
the sake of decency. / regret it for tn
sake of human kind. l regret it for tn
sake, for the credit, for the fame and TO
the good name of the great State of Ohio
y If l am to talk about it at all must z,
at the outset that l have no persona
! knowledge whatever of the matter.
, do not purpose speaking upon any sucf
basis That which l have further to say
about it is predicated, my good Demo
, cratic friends, upon good Democratic
, authority. l shall speak only of that
which l read at the time of the transac>
tion in the Democratic newspapers OF
, the State of Ohio. Such Democratic
newspapers as the Dayton Democrat
Delaware Herald, Steubenville Gazette
Clermont County Sun, the Cincinnati
} News! Journal and your'own Columbus
Times. They gave bold and interesting
accounts of, and if one-half part OF that
which they related about it be true. If
we can only believe one-fOurth part of
what they said, then was the election of
Henry B. Payne to the Senate of the
United States the most infamously cor
rupt transaction that ever occurred in
the political history of the State of Ohio.
| (Applause.) 1t was no hing short, &C
cordiug to these Democratic newspaper
accounts, of open barefaced bargain and
sale. buying and selling of votes for
money; corruption in the most offensive
and reprehensible sense of the word; so
bad that knowing what We did of Mr..
Payne, his venerable age and his reput
ed good character, we did not think it
possible that he could be induced to ac>
cept an honor that was so stained with
dishenor. And yet we saw him come
and not only accept it, but in his speech
of acceptance according to these Demo
cratic newspapers. lear in mind), talking
to the very men who. according to these
Democratic newspapers. had been thus
for money price bought and sold like
sheep in the shambles, he stood up with
all the sanctity one can command, to
talk and discourse about honesty and
purity and integrity in political life.
Oaughter) And took occasion, in that
speech of acceptance, to tell his innocent
auditors that this great Republican party
that had been for twenty three years
handling the almost untold millions of
money of this government, had become
so corrupt that it was but a fetid mass
of reeking corruption. How shocking
that picture must have been to those
gentlemen. Oaughter) How badly
they must have felt for their country to
think it was in such terrible hands. And
what grave work they must have thought
was before them when the senator went
on to tell thetn with evident purpose to
diSparage the work of Mr.. Pendleton as
to civil service reform, that you could
not clean the Augean stables with
tooth brush; that if you wanted to do
clean job you must turn the hose on and
use the hickory broom and the scrub
brush. and then bring disinfectants in
if you were to make fit place for hOn>
est incumbeDts like those who were sit |
ting around him. Oaughter.) 1t is 10
wonder that last year, when the eloquent
Mr.. bolivar from Iowa was here address
ing assemblies, talking about such mat
ters with such picture before him, said
that those men looked to him more like
they wanted to steal the pitchforks than
to clean out the stables. Oaughter)
Well, there it is, my friends. don't
know whether there is any truth in all
they said or not. 1 wasn't there to see.
As l said before, tell you only what
Democratic newspapers said about it;
don't know whether there is any truth
in it or not. But do know that it was
an infamously corrupt election, as these
forty Democratic newspapers said, or
that one-half of the Democratic party
are the most infamous libelers and liars
on the face of the earth. daughter and
applause) l.
Now you can take either horn Of that
dilemma that pleases you most. We are
not interested in that.
But there are some matters we do
know something about, matters of public
record as well as matters of public con-
Germ affecting this Legislature. Cover
nor Hoadly was interviewed the other
day. He defended this Legislature with
a great deal of earnestness. He said
that there were a great many things it
was entitled to credit for. didn't know
hat until read it. Oaughter) Among
,ther things he said they were entitled
o credit for having established an in
,ermediate penitentiary for the reforma
ion of criminals. Well, now, my friends.
am not here to find fault with any such
endeavOr. There may be
great merit in the enterprise. Nobody =
wants to object to the reformation of
anybody. But what l want to call your
attention to is the evidence that this
provisions of 1.-THE cir
surrounding 1t and the inci-
tents connected with 1t, gives Of the alb
'olute insincerity and incompetency to
leal with our affairs of this Democratic !
,arty. What is that measure? 1t is
measure that provides that We shall have