Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-05-03
CONGREssIONAL MFLANGE.
PRIMARY ELECTIoS-TAY-
LOR FOR CONGRESS.

IMPORTANT PRIMARY ELECTIoS-TAY-
LoR FOR CONGRESS.
Sieuhcnyiile Chic Press.
The Republican Central Committee of
jefferson county met al the Court House
in this city on the Sd agreed upon
and have announced Saturday. the 18th
of MAY. as the day for holding the pri-
mary elections in this county. Prima-
ries for the election OF delegates to rep
resent Jefferson county at the Congress
iOnal District Convention, To assemble
at Bellaire the 18th of May, are to be
held on the same day-Saturday. May
u. 1888. SO the primaries are import
ant, and should enlist the special atten-
tion of every Republican voter in .Jeffer-
son county having regard for local. as
well as the interests of the country at
large.
From present condition of affairs in
Congress fillibustering Of Southern
members stopping legislatiOnfor weeks.
because a bill was proposed for refund
ing money contributed BY Northern
States in support of the government
during the war of the rebeliion-whick
would, if passed. have awarded million
and half of dollars Justly due the State
of Ohio-it is evident that citizens of
the North now. as well as before the
war, need men of ability and experience
nominated and elected, TO look after
sectional as well as individual, political
i srN al. 70 Nf
the prime reasons why we advocate the
denomination and reelection of Hon. !.
ID. Taylor, who a present represents
this. the Seventeenth district III the Con-
gresS of the United States.
Hon. J. D. TAYLOR has not only been
an active, industrious. attentive, but
prominent member of Congress, since
his election. In the Forty-eighth Con
gress he was a member of the Terr;tori-
al Committee and made the first full
and practical report on the Mormon
question. + The report was en-
dorsed by the Congressional committee
so popular that Congress ordered sew
eral Thousand copies of the report print
ed for distribution.
He made the first pension
speech in favor of supporting invalid
soldiers those without health or the
means of support-in favor of pension
ing widows of soldiers who died in lin
tied circumstances the pensioning
of orphans of dead soldiers. under six
teen wears of age. He has taken an ac-
tive part in the interests of wool grow
ers advocated laws in the interests Of
labor, without injustice TO capitalists.
We could give many other facts without
reference to Hon. J. d. Tavlor's success
as representative in Congress, but
have not, in this issue, time or space.
But these should suffice should be suf-
ficient to secure his denomination and
reelection without opposition.
But few, if any Congressman. during
the brief term-few years Gel. J. ID.
TAYLOR has represented the people. have
introduced more bills or secured their
adoption as laws. During the session
of the Forty y-eigthth Congress, thirteen
bills introduced by him became perma-
nent national laws. For soldiers he mas
secured hundreds Of individual pensions
for residents of his own and other
Ohio districts, and has become specially
popular with that class of patriotic citi-
zens, who almost unanimously regard
Hon. J. ID. TAYLOR ''aS man Of heart
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