Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-07-26

the internal tax on tobacco; six millions
from alcohol used in the arts: from
twelve millions to twenty-five millions
from the tariff on sugar, would more
than do it, and leave margin for
the healthy growth of importation.
A further contingent plank of our
platform which favors the entire repeal
Of internal taxes, if necessary, has given
occasion for the cry of free whisky"
This need not alarm temperance people,
for the Prohibition platform has plank
identical with this.
If We are yet in lack of enthusiasm,
the outlook, it seems to me, should en-
courage us. In the past four years, the
Democracy has been on trial, and to find
a parallel in administrative perversion
and pitiableness we must go back into
some of the unSavOry records of this
same party before the war. The whole
trend of the administration has been to-
ward the prostitution of the executive
power to elf-emolument. Peeping from
every act of the President has been the
phantom of a second term. Aside from
having used the patronage of his office
to six things" for denomination, what
has this President done? This honest,
wise, firm, hard working President?
What has he done? He has lowered the
dignity of the Office more than any man
who ever occupied it; he has shown him
self wofully ignorant of the country's in
terests and of craftsmanship, and has
miscOnceived the nature of his office; he
has openly betrayed the trusts of civil
service reformerS; he has studiously in
suited the patriotism of the country and
pandered to the disloyal States. He
came to the Office an obscure man, with
no political training, and having shown
no quality that would fit him for the p0-
sitiOn. Before his nomination he was
unknown outside of New York. Soon
after his election he began maSquerad-
ing before the world as a Benedict, and
as viSitant to cattle shows. The sad
wall of Mr.. Curtis admits his utter dis
honesty in the matter of civil service re-
form. His use of the veto power has
shown him either ignorant or inclined to
usurp the legislative functions of the
government. This power" said John
Adams, ''ShOuld be used by a President
only in Self-defense." Mr. Cleveland, with
no constitutional right. has used it
as he used the same power while
Mayor of Buffalo, to stamp upon legisla-
ton his own opinions. The veto power
in legislation is equal to u votes in the
Senate and 81 in the House. This tre-
mendOuS power, representing 2,OOO,OOO
of votes, this political upstart has WELD
ed again and again in defiance. of the
recognized intention of the trainers of
the Constitution, and without the sane
tion of precedent. Feeling for measures
that would strengthen his hold at the
South, he made the famous Rebel flag
order When the howl of righteous
indignation went up from the loyal
North, what was the course of this great
and wise man, who ever acted on prin-
second Jackson, this man of
iron and unfaltering determination! In
the presence of the world he made the
most sudden and ridiculous ''craw-fiSh"
known to history
Grover Cleveland has further trampled
on the rights of loyal Northern soldiers
by vetoing pension bills, both private
and general, and has added insult to in
jury by sneers whenever occasion arose.
On a day sacred and dear to the hearts
of all true Americans, this patriotic
President goes fishing. The admins
tration, faithful to John Bulls interests,
presents treaty to the country which
is a national disgrace, and makes us the
stock for the world.
This man and this party ask for the
suffrages of the people. Their record is
to us in our outlook
We 90 into the fight with no such cata-
logue of unpatriotic acts and inefficient
We go in with no unknown
blunderer at our head. Our General is |
q loyal man, a general indeed, of fond
war memory, whose patriotism went
deeper than S400 substitute money
who gave both money and blood to the
Union; man the magic of whose name
has united every faction and healed ev-
cry wound of the Republican party; a
man of clear, honest, even Christian
man in whose veins is the
blood of patriotism since the founding
Of the nation; a Republican by sympa
thy, by love, by inheritance; a sound eX-
ponent of Protective ideas, a man who,
though he has not the very highest
place among Republican leaders, IS yet
the first, and infinitely superior
in every statesmanlike and patriotic
Iuality to the.stolid Cleveland.
One of the banners under which we
shall march in the coming battle is
marked with the Stars and Stripes and
lhe red, white and blue. Through for
eign countries the world over, it COM
nands respect and is known as the Amer
can Flag. Among our opponents it is
Known as the "bloody shirt" Those
Stars and Stripes have always had lurid
appearance to certain enemies of the
They prefer to march under
he stars and bars, an English bandana,
)r some other unpatriOtic rag. Southern
people may build monuments to perpet-
late the names of traitors; Southern or
ltors may vapor about the sacred men,
)ries of their traitordOm; jeff Davis
nay make addresses filled with dislOyal:
y and treason; one of the grand results
If the war may be openly and inSolent-
V rendered useless by Southern shot
yuns, and if a voice is raised against
hese OutrageS, instantly the cry of
bloody shirt" is heard from Democrats
Ill over the country; honest protest
against reasonable utterances and ille-
gal acts is greeted with the charge of
leeping alive sectional hate!
Shall the Confederate flag be unfurled
lgaln on the hills of the South, shall the
ebel yell be heard at every election box,
hall coercion, suppression, SlGce1y,
flourish in this country, and no one run
Up that flag which means liberty to ev-
ry citizen? Let us carry the American
lag full high advanced-let us hoist it
o every wind; if to the distorted vision
# treason and lawlessness it seems a
bloody shirt, let them make the most of
t. To us, at least, it is dear. 1t has ,