Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-10-14

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Ohio is drawn in defense of the forgery
in Fourth Ward. A, October Is, 1885.
We refer to this particular forgery toi
several pertinent reasons-alls sufficieRt
1. The man who committed them has
been convieted and is serving three
years sentence in the penitentiary.
2. Upon the forgeries in this precinct
alone did Dan Dalton issue certificates
of election to thirteen Democratic csndi'
mates for the Legislature.
8. The four Senator'S, certified upon
fra I'D to have been elected, were depend.
ent upon Fourth Ward, A. forgery and
nothing else for their places.
l. Upon these four Fourth Ward, A,
fraud Senators depended the political
complexion of the Senate of Ohio; and
the maintenance of the forgery was
therefore a. a.necessity,in order to hold the
Senate for the Democratic party.
s. The Clerk, Dalton, who counted the
Fourth Ward, A, forgery, and certified
the Senators on the Doodle Democratic
ticket as elected by that crime, withheld
figures necessary to complete the official
state count, and kept Glib Atherton on
the Supreme Bench of the state.
6. The OBJ ject of retaining Atherton
on the bench-though he had been can
didate for reelection, and was defeated
by an immense majority-was to have d
Democratic Court to approve the count
ing of forgery as regular, when clerk
had the hardihood to do 1t, and to hold
the senate by it, for the purpose of Carry
lug out great schemes of public robbery.
Z. The Democratic party was arrayed
in solid column in favor of holding the
senate on Fourth Ward, A, forgery. The
rules were amended SO as to provide
Democratic excuse for the establishment
of a quadrilateral of fraud in the senate,
each fraud representing forgery in the
senate to hold corner, three votes out
of four always going for the mainte-
nance of forgery that had been counted.
s. If there was any serious aud impOr-
tant Democratic dissent from this doc
trine-that the senate should be main.
tanned on forgery-it wasn't made known
TO the people of Ohio, and Bob Kennedy's
ruling that the four frauds should not
vote to support each other was declared
on Democratic authority to be the
sence of despotism-the most horrid un-
usurpation ever known-and he was
threatened with assassination. Demo
cratic roughs were directed to hold their
shooting-irons in readines for him.
9. 1t was the Democratic policy as
long as possible to deny all the facts, to
sustain all the lies, to cry aloud for legal
proof of self-evident swiudling and cold
the usufruct of the swindles. and at last,
when Investigation became the demon
stration of Democratic fraud and Ken
nedy was firm, the runaway took place,
the intention being that the Legislature
oHOuiu UO blOhOA up IL lOlSOiy ulu bOb
prevail.
10. Now the Democrats have nomina-
ted for reelection the Judge who held
firmly to the regularity of counted
forgery, and whose position would null
lily all the laws passed by the general
assembly after the reor ganizatiou of the
senate That is, he holds that the people
of Ohio must be submissive to forgery or
their action is unconstitutional, and it
was exactly in accord with this that Col
onel Follet sounded the keynote of the
campaign.
Thus the Democratic party of the
state is placed distinctly beyond equiv
ocation upon Fourth Ward, A, forgery,
its, vindication and maintenance as the
cornerstone of the party Com. GaZ.