Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-09-30
BURNING NGTRUTHS
Bright Record of Gallant General
Robinson.
DEMOCRATIC THEFT AND ExTRAvA-
GANCE.

Friday, September "a:
"MY FELLOW CITIZENs-We are about to
have another election. We vote this time
not only for state officials, but also for repre-
sentatives in congress. This gives the canvass
a dual Importance, and makes it proper to
discuss both state and national issues, but l
shall not have time this evening to discuss
any but state affairs. : l want to say
a word about our candidates. Gen. Robin
son has been long and favorably known to
the people of Ohio. He has held many i'm
portant positions of trust, and has acquitted
himself with the highest credit in all. He is
the present incumbent of the Office, and it is
no exaggeration tosay he has been one of the
most faithful and efficient secretaries of state
we have ever had.
"He was a soldier, and one of the bravest
and most heroic OF all that grand army who
battled for the Union. 1t was my fortune
few years ago to visit the battlefield of Get
tysburg. 1 was shown over it by a guide
who took great pains to point out all the
most interesting points. l shall always re-
member the glow of patriotic enthusiasm
with which he pointed out spot in the edge
of the town, where, as he expressed it, some
Ohio troops had gallantly held the advancing
enemy in check, while on the first day of tho
battle our army was moving into position
Il shall stop to tell you no more than that
one of the regiments engaged there was the
Eighty-second Ohio, and that it went into
the fight with twenty-five officers and 236
men, and of these numbers lost there, nine
teen officers and 147 men killed and wounded.
This is enough conclusively to testify to the
heroism and valor of these representatives of
our state on that great historic field, where
the fate of the Republic was determined. On
the eve of the battle of Eylau, Napoleon
sought TO inspirit his men and nerve them
for the contest by telling them that so long
as they might live, and wheresoever they
might go, it would be sufficient to say of one
of them, There is a man who fought at
Eylau,' to elicit the response, Then there is
hero.' To be able to say of man that he
stood with the Eighty-second Ohio, on the
bloody field of Gettysburg, in that sanguin-
airy hour to which have referred, is enough
to warrant the Napoleonic response: Then
there is hero,' and one, we may add, to
whom the people of Ohio owe debt of graf
1UuQe Uley never CAL repay.
HOur standard bearer was there He was
then the colonel of that regiment, and it was
his fearless bravery that inspired his COM
mand and made them equal to the fiery or
deal through which they passed. But not
only did be stand at their head, but fell at
their head also. One bullet grazed his left
temple. Another shot away his sword-belt,
a third pierced his clothing, and fourth
h f,,I1 FoT flaa Loft
and passed entirely through his body When
he fell our line retreated, and the lines of the
enemy swept over him, and he was pris-
oner of war, wounded, as all then supposed,
unto death. During the three days the con-
hict continued he lay on that dreadful field
while the tide of battle ebbed and flowed
about him, suffering more than any language
can describe. But when finally victory
perched upon our banners, and the columns
of Lee retreated, he was rescued by his COM
rades, and, after a six months struggle, was
sufficiently recovered to join his command
and win new laurels for his bravery on other
fields as he helped to carry the flag of the
Union to the final triumph at ApPOmattOx;
GBut I'would have you vote for Gen. Rob
inson, not simply because of what he is as
man and citizen, but also and more particu-
larly because of what he represents. He
SIdnuS lOT d lT0S DdilOO OLlo
taxation of the liquor traffic, and the sup
preston of its evils He stands for economy
and honesty in the administration of public
affairs; for all, in short, that is essential to,
any good government But not so his COM
petitor Let me briefly call your attention
to some things Mr.. Mcbride must necessarily
represent as the candidate at this time of the
Democratic party. And first, what does he
represent as to the purity of the ballot!
CINCINNATI ELECTION FRAUDS
aThe particulars of the election frauds of
last year are so familiar to all the people of
this state that would not be justified in con-
slIming time to reState them. 1t is sufficient
to recall here in a general way the fact that
it has been established by the sworn testi-
timony of more than 500 witnesses, who tes-
titled before the investigating committees and
in the courts, that under the guidance and
direction of the Democratic managers and
Democratic officials regular organizations
were perfected in Cincinnati for the perpe-
tration of frauds at the election; and that the
police force of that city, instead of being
used to prevent such outrages, was used to
protect the perpetrators of them.
"You will remember that these frauds con-
sisted not only of illegal voting, repeating,
ballot-box stuffing and switching of tickets,
but they also involved the forgery of hum
dreds of fictitious names upon the poll books,
the destruction of genuine tally sheets and
the substitution of false and forged ones, false
swearing to the correctness of such returns
and that bold defiant villainy by which they
undertook the impossible task of making
plus equal 9. 1t was by methods such as
these they sought to secure ten representa-
tives and four senators from Hamilton county
in order that they might control the legisla-
ture and elect United States senator. The
frauds were so open, notorious, and on the
face of the returns, so manifest, that all
right minded citizens were of the opinion
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officer would think of giving effect to them.
But not So Democratic lawyers, who had
previously been accounted respectable men,
made haste to defend the iniquity, and
Democratic clerk made like haste to give it
effect by counting every fraudulent name
and tally and issuing certificates Of election
to the Democratic candidates. But not only
were there Democratic lawyers and Demo-
cratic clerk found who were willing to COM
NIT their party to such frauds by seeking in
its name to appropriate the benefit of them
to the advancement of the party, but the
contest was carried into the courts, and
wherever there was Democratic judge en-
countered, from the common pleas to the
supreme court, he was found ready as sub
servient tool of the party to uphold the fraud
and lend to it all the sanction Of a judicial
decision
Governor Foraker here told how the Dem
ocratic legislators to a man defended the
frauds by every possible means, and now the
Democratic senators fed from the state, con-
tinuing:
"This act was a deliberate attempt to ccerce
the senate into an acquiescence in the
frauds by revolutionary methods. When
they violated their oaths of Office and fled
from the state, every one of them knew thai
the treasury was almost empty, that 1t would
inevitably become so within q few days, ane
that unless they returned or others took their
places no measure of relief could be enacted.
Their flight was to stop the state government
and involved as one of its intended results,
bringing upon the state the discredit of bank
ruptcy and protest And this result they ac-
complished. Governor Hoadly's administra-
tion had exhausted all its own revenues and
had drawn in advance upon those intended
for this year to the amount of $500, 900:
"To replace this we were compelled to bor-
row. A bill authorizing the loan had passed
the house and was pending in the senate,
where they might have passed it any day,
when the Democratic senators took their
flight and by thus hindering and delaying
the enactment of authority to make the loan
brought the great state of Ohio, with all her
wealth and splendid credit, to the humili-
ating condition of being unable to pay even
the janitors who scrub the floors of the state
house. Their idea was that by such course
they could compel the lieutenant governor to
surrender his constitutional prerogatives and