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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-09-30
Grains of Gold.

Three things to hate-Cruelty, arro-
gance, ingratitude.
Three things to love-Courage, gentle
ness, affection.
Three things to admire-Intellectua
power, dignity, gracefulness.
Angry friendship is not unfrequently
as bad as calm emnity.
Large charity doth never soil, but on
ly whitens soft hands.
1t is very easy thing for a man to be
wise for other people.
Be not hasty to believe flying reports
to the disparagement of any.
We know more about our feelings
than about anything else, yet scarcely
understand them at all.
Beware of the delusions of fancy rea-
son must be our guide if we would ac-
cept durable happiness.
Strive not with your superiors in ar
gument, but always submit your judg
ment to theirs with modeSty.
Hope without action is broken staff.
We should always hope for things that
are possible and probable.
If you would hit the mark you must
aim little above it; every arrow that
flies feels the attraction of the earth.
1t is more from carelessness about
truth, than from Intentionally lying, that
there is so much falsehood in the world.
An affected humility is more insuffer>
able than downright pride. Take care
that your virtues are genuine and un
sophisticated.
The pleasantest things in the world
are pleasant thoughts; and the greatest
art in life is to have as many of them
as possible.
1t is tasteless to seek admiration by
adorning our house or person; let us
adorn our characters by the charms of
kindness and amiability.
There is voice from the tomb sweet
ter than song; there is a remembrance
of the dead to which we turn, even from
the charm of living.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-09-30

PROBABLY there is no practical limit
to the dimensions of snake stories save
such as the inventive power of the mar
rator constitutes. But we venture the
opinion that story of the kind just
published is about as "tall" as the kind
of yarn can be made without danger of
doubling up. The ingenius correspond
ent describes lake in the Pennsylvania
mountains-"a peculiar body of water
which is filled with blacksnakes and
rattlesnakes, while the latter are in such
numbers on the rocky banks of the
lake that "only here and there could
patches of the rock be seen for the
squirming mass of reptiles. This, how
ever. is nothing to the great effect of the
story. When the bushes are disturb
ed, continues the truthful historian, in
stead of running away they would raise
their ugly heads and hiss till the air
seemed to fairly seethe. Then all in
chorus would set up a rafting that
sounded like tons of shot poured on a
plate of sheet iron, and the echoes of
which, reverberating between the huge
boulders, would agitate the lake as if
swept over by a storm" Really. it
would be hard to beat that for a gO-as-
you-please description, unallOyed by the
slightest lingering scruple. There is a
joyous mendacity about the little story
which justifies high expectations for the
author. With such talents there is
scarcely any place in the gift of third
party which he might not fill with dis
tinction.-N. Y. Tribune.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-09-30

a Mr.. SCHoEHoFF, who Is free trade
pamphleteer, and who has gotten con
sular position at Tunstall, England, by
the influence of the Free Trade League,
has presented to the Government bill
for $4,000 for extra expenses, incurred
in working up some matters for the
State Department in England and Ger
many. His real business is understood
to be the collection of material for free
trade document which doubtless will in
due time be issued by the Department.
Exactly what lawful business at Gov
ernment expense Consul had in other
Consular districts the State Department
may be given a chance to explain when
Congress meets. With Democratic
Administration in power, it is only ma
tural that the Free Trade League should
run the Consular service, but when it is
proposed to make the Government foot
the bills of special service in its inter-
est, presumption is carried to danger
Gus extent.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-09-30
John McBride,s LITTLE Came

John McBride's connection with organized
miners began in 1879 as near as can be
learned, and in 1881 he was Democratic
candidate for representative in Stark county,
but was defeated. Then he spent year in
plotting to get at the head of the Miners
union, and in 1882 he succeeded in being
elected president of that organization. Then
in 1888 he was again successful Democratic
candidate for representative In 1885 he was
again a successful candidate for the same
office, and this year accepted the Democratic
nomination for secretary of state, ''as a
Democrat" 1t will be seen by this that his
sole work has been the advancement first
of himself to political Office, and (second) the
advancement of the cause of the Democratic
party. As a means to success in these
achievements he is endeavoring to use the
miners union and other labor organizations.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-09-30
A Word to Trades-UnionIsts.

The members of workingmenis organiza-
tions are called on to defend their organiza-
tions from the crafty wiles of scheming, dem
agogical politicians. Let them ponder well
the history of the past few years. Let them
consider seriously the results which have at
tended the introduction Of politics into other
organizations of a non-political character.
We all remember that the Grand Army of
the Republic was well nigh disorganized at
one time by the partially successful attempts
of politicians to make political engine of it,
and only has recovered its former standing
and strength by stringently preventing itself
to be used by designing politicians.
We all know that through the same form
Of efforts even more successful the state
Grangers in various states were disorganized,
demoralized and destroyed. In making po-
Iitical engines of the Oranges they were de-
stroyed The introduction of politics into
the organizations formed for the establish
ment of temperance principles and the
partially successful efforts of designing DEM
engines to push themselves into office, has
done such organizations incalculable injury,
and retarded the movement they were organ
lied to advance.
Cannot the true friends Of organized labor
gather the lessons to be learned from these
examples! Will it be necessary for them too
to pass through the fiery crucible of expert
ence to gather this knowledge which
observation should teachl Organized
labor has many friends. 1t will be
impossible to retain them all should labor Or
ganizations become the tool of demagogues
who want to be elected to political offices.
The advancement of labor flor which such
organizations were formed cannot result
from their being utilized as instruments for
the advancement of political ambition of
any designing politician who may have
craftiness sufficient to attempt to ride into
office on the shoulders of the members Of
such organizations
Some of the Democratic papers before his
nomination asserted that John Mcbride was
such demagogue. The workingmen know
best whether this be true. The workingmens
of Ohio are too intelligent to allow them
selves to be tools for the use of any man in
the qualification of his personal ambition
We commend this matter to their careful
consideration. Let them hesitate long before
they take step toward the disorgani zation
of their unions Let them heed the lessons
Of the past Let them consider the example
Of Powderly, the leader of the knights of
Labor, who would not take political nomi-
nation lest it imperil the success of the great
organization of which he is the head, before
they think of dragging their organizations
into politics to aid any man, for by such
course they take the first step toward de-
moralizing, disorganizing and destroying
their organizations and defeating the ends
they seek to attain.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-09-30
"WorkingmenD Who Don't Work.

The members of workingmen's organiZa-
tions are as rule hard-working citizens who
support their families by their daily toll
Unfortunately for them, there are also in
some of these organizations a class of pro-
fessional agitators who do all their work
with their mouths and live off the earnings
of those first mentioned To the credit of
workingmen be it said this class of profes-
sional agitators is being weeded out, and the
day is mot far distant when they will be ex-
terminated from the ranks of the labor or
ganizations. One man who has been for sew
eral years living off the earnings Of the
miners of this state as president of the
Miners union is not, if all reports be true,
Just the sort of individual to whom the real
workingmen owe anything. This is John
Mcbride, the Democratic candidate for
secretary of state, who poses as miner. OF
him Andrew Roy, late mine inspector Of
Ohio, who is an authority with miners and
others, are all subjects pertaining to mines,
mining and miners, says:
John Mcbride did work in the mines
when boy, but work and John were never
on good terms, and he ran away and joined
the regular army when he was seventeen
years of age. lin 1S71.l
"His father brought him home after three
years absence, hoping the hardships of sol
diering in time of peace would cure him Of
his lazy and triiing habits But John still
hated work and managed to get himself on
the police force of Massillon, thence he got
employment as check weighman, but he was
soon removed for intermeddling, and the
miners employed another.
"Finally, he elbowed his way into the
Miners union, and by a cunning use of the
influence his position gave him, and the aid
of some of the coal operators of Stark
county, he got the Democratic nomination
for the legislatures mine operator paying
his assessment of $10O He became great
champion of labor, with his jaw, and by rea-
son of his supposed influence with the labor
unions got the Democratic nomination for
secretary of state. All the coal he ever
mined would not keep up a respectable fire in
poor widows house a single winter James
s. Robinson, the Republican candidate for
secretary of state, while making no blowing
about the matter, has done a hundred times
more work than John Mcbride. He learned
the trade of a printer while boy, AID
worked in printing office for twenty years.
The first coat he ever owned he paid for by
cutting wood. When the war broke out he
enlisted in the army and distinguished him
self, rising TO the rank of general, which he
won by hard work, fighting rebels and trait
orSn
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-09-30
AClEAR CUT CASE.

Woolgrowers as Well as Laborers Repu-
dated by the Democratic Party This
Year.
The Ohio Democratic platform directly an
tagonizes the interests of the woolgrowers,
and is in line with the British free trade prin-
ciples of the Golden Club. As a sort of
preface to the tariff plank the tariff resolu-
ton of the National Democratic convention
of 1884 is reaffirmed, and then follows dec
laration for low tariff, and the declaration
that taxes should not be collected beyond the
needs of government economically admins
tered-in plain language "a tariff for revenue
only" the synonym for free trade. All prop
ositions to make an exception of wool were
defeated, and the woolgrowers were unable
to get recognition either directly or indi-
rectly: Had the tariff planks of former years
been followed the woolgrowers might have
had some little comfort, but the platform of
1886, as it is, fully indorses the MorrisoR
tariff bill in which wool is put on the free
list
The platform declares that all revenue col
lected in excess of the needs of the govern
ment is robbery. Not one word of protec-
ton to American industries except in denun-
citation Not one word for the woolgrowers
of Ohio, but an express declaration inimical
to their INTEREST,"
The Republican platform on the tariff
question is clean cut and unmistakable in its
impact 1t says: ave believe in the Re-
publican doctrine of tariff, not only for rev.
enue, but also for the protection and devel-
opment of American labor We demand in
behalf of the great wool growing interests of
our state restoration of the wool tariff of
1867, and we denounce the recent attempt Of
the majority in the National house of repre-
sentatives to pass the Morrison bill, reducing
tariff duties and placing wool on the free
list"
Here is an issue clearly defined between the
two parties Woolgrowers, laboring men
Won should not hesitate between thema
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-09-30

And the dear Democratic brethren don't like
the changes Governor Foraker has ma de at the
penitentiary, don't they2 Well the tax pay
ers do Under the Hoadly administration
the penitentiary in 1885, fell nearly 100000
short of paying its own expenses. That
$500, 900 the taxpayers had to contribute.
Under the wise and economical Republican
administration of Governor Foraker, by the
changes in the personelle of officers COM
planned of by the Democratic brethren, the
penitentiary is once more on a paying basis,
and for the month of August lSS6, its re-
ceipts were $330S more than its expendi-
lures. And this was effected by the hon
esty, economy and Intelligence the Republi'
cans infused into the administration Of that
insttution-three graces unknown there un'
dar ths Hoadlv administration,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-09-30
Church Directory.

DRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rev. R
Il Alexander, pastor. Public worship every
Sabbath; morning service, IL; evening
service, z. Sabbath School, 900 am. Young
mems prayer meeting: Tuesday p.m.; gen.
eral prayer meeting: Wednesday z pm.
Strangers welcome to all services.
M ETBODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
I1Rev. W. Ii. Haskell, pastor. Sabbath
preaching: II am; 7p.m. Sabbath School:
2;30 pm. Young mems meeting: Friday
pm; general prayer meeting: Thursday p
Strangers are cordially invited to all our
services.
TINTED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
" Rev. Thomas Balph, pastor. Sabbath
School 10 am. Public worship: II am.
Weekly prayer meeting: Friday pm.
Monthly prayer meeting: Last Saturday of
each month, 2 pm. Woman's Missionary
Society: Last Saturday each month, pm.
District prayer meetings: First Tuesdays,
Wednesdays Thursdays and Saturdays each
month, 2 pm. Young women's prayer meet
ing: Second Saturday each month at the
Parsonage, Pm
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-09-30
New Conditions Cali for Home Ta1ent,

For the first time, under the new law, the
state election in Ohio is this year to be held
in November. This will change the charac-
ter of the campaign from that of former
years and render it necessary for Ohio Re
publicans to take an especially active interest
in the campaign. Heretofore, with the Ohio
election in October, speakers have been glad
to come to this pivotal state and devote their
energies to the piling up of big Republican
majority in Ohio in October for its influence
over the other states at the November cleo
ton. Now Ohio will be deprived of this foreign
talent and will have to rely on home talent,
the campaign here being contemporaneous
with that in other states.
We mention this by way of encourage
ment to the young men of Ohio, as well as
older politicians, who, with very little prepa-
ration, can do themselves great credit and
the party great good by addressing their fell
low citizens in support of the Republican
cause. There can be no higher or prouder
accomplishment than to be able to stand up
among the free citizens of this free land and
advocate the cause of the Republican party
the party Of freedom. Arouse yourselves,
young men. Aid your fathers in spreading
the principles of Republicanism and advocat-
ing the election Of Republican candidates.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-09-30
416 q. q

At the two preceding gubernatorial cleo
tions the vote of the precinct had been but
443 in 1881, 500 in 1888. These frauds made
majority from PSI in 1888, and 274 in 1884, to
S77 in 1885 Over one hundred Republican
ballots, regularly cast, were destroyed, and
did not appear in the count These forgeries
and frauds have been proven. Indeed no one
ever dared deny them This whole return
from Precinct A, Fourth ward, was proven
to be tissue of frauds. John Tosney, the
Democratic judge most blamable of any of
the wretches who did this foul work in this
precinct, has been sent to the penitentiary.
After desperate resistance from the benefici-
aries of the fraud and forgery, they have
been compelled to vacate the seats in the leg
islature to which their only title was based
on forgery. Their Supreme Judge Follett
who decided the forgery must be counted
just as though it represented honest votes, is
candidate for reelection and Endorsement
of that decision. The Democrats have in
their platform condemned Republicans for
defeating and furnishing the objects of the
criminals several of whom are now in the
penitentiary.
In Columbus a similar forgery was COM
mitted on the returns from the Thirteenth
ward. The returns were taken from the
office of the county clerk and the figures
raised so as to increase the Democratic vote
in the precinct from POS to sos by the follow
ing changes:
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-09-30

The Edmunds law against polygamy
has borne tolerably good fruit thus far
as it has cut off from the elective fran
chise all the known polygamists, and
thus done away with great deal of il
legal voting, and procured the convic
tion by the courts of more than hum
dred Mormons charged with illegal CO.
habitation. It has also caused the flight
of the worst of the Mormon leaders, and
there is little danger of their return SC
long as the law stands on the statute
books and they are in danger of prose,
cutioD and punishment. Now let Con-
gress forbid the landing of any more re-
cruits for the Latter Day Saints. and the
doom of the great abomination will be
sealed.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-09-30
Volumes of Truth in Three Sentences.

Volumes of Truth in Three Sentences.
Seldom do we find in three sentences so
many pungent truths and ringing declara-
tions of principles as Gen. Edward +. Noyes,
speaking of the Republican party, expressed
in the following:
"With regard to all great measures, our
party occupies to-day the field of its victories
with nothing to regret, or explain, or apollo
gize for. 1t stands upon its old platform,
without a single rotten plank, or without
post decayed or weakened. 1t stands to-day
for the equal rights and privileges of all men
before the law; for purity of elections: a free
ballot and an honest count; for the protection
of American industry and capital, whether
engaged in agriculture or manufacture,
whether in the hands of the woolgrowers or
rail maker; against the cheap labor and free
trade heresies of England, and the Demo-
cratic parties of the United States; for up
holding the rights of all American citi-
zens, native and naturalized, against ma
tions however powerful, on land and sea; for
liberal pensions to our old soldiers, their
widows and orphans; for a sound currency,
with gold and silver standards; for a safe
and convenient banking system; for honest
and economical administration; for wise leg
islation and just judicial decisions; for the
encouragement and development of the re-
sources of the whole country; for the imposi-
tion of just taxation upon such traffic as
renders taxation necessary; for the adjust
ment of all difficulties and disputes between
capital and labor, in accordance with the
principles inaugurated and ill ustrated by
our international arbitrations with England
and France, which resulted in decisions hon.
orable to all concerned, and conduced to the
highest good of all-realizing as we do that
capital can never be remunerative without
the cooperation and aid of the sons of toll,
and that labor must depend for employment
and fitting compensation upon accumulated
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-09-30
Miscellaneous Business Cards.
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-09-30
PRACTICAL PROMISES
AND DECLARATIONS WHICH MEAN
SOMETHING FOR LABORlNG MEN.

The Republican Party Has Ever Stood as
the Friend of Labor Against All Who
Would Either Cypress OF EnslaEe It
Working Men Read and Ponder.
We desire to call the attention Of our read
ers to the position the Republican party of
Ohio occupies on the labor question The
fifth plank in the Republican platform de-
clares THE Republican party has ever stood
as the friend of labor against all who would
either oppress or enslave it; and every meas
ure, state or national, which will protect the
laborer from dangerous foreign competition,
or improve or dignity his condition at home,
will meet with our unqualified approval.
Unswerving in our hostility to Anarchism.
socialism and communism, we favor such
wise legislation as may insure that harmony
which ought always to prevail between the
employer and employe. We recognize
the right of all men by association
to promote their mutual good and protection,
in every way that does not infringe upon the
rights of others. We favor the creation by
congress of national department of labor,
the head of which shall be cabinet officer,
whose duty it shall be to collect, systematic
and publish statistical information relating
to the social, sanitary, educational and conf
mercial condition of the workingmen
of the nation. We demand that all
officials, state or national, charged with
the duty of enforcing laws which provide
for the proper security of the lives and
health of workingmen, shall be practical
men,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-09-30

DUTY, be it in small matter or great,
is the duty still, the command of Heav-
en-. 1t is only they who are faithful in a
few things who will be faithful over
many things. only they who do their du.
ty in everyday and trivial matters who
will fulfil them on great occasions. We
all admire and honor the heroes of the
battlefield, we all trust that we should
have done our duty also in their place,
The best test of that is, can we do our
duty in our own place?
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-09-30

ONLY Judge of the Court af Ap
peals is to be elected on the State ticket
in New YORK this fall, and both the
Democratic and Republican committees
have decided to hold no Slate conven-
ton. There is a probability the two
parties may unite on some eminent law>
yer for the place. AS the retiring Judge
is Democrat the Democrats claim the
naming of the non-partisan candidate.