Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-10-31
ELECTION TUESDAY, NOV. 5th.

THEY NEVER DID LIKE FORAKER.
General Geo. A. Sheridan at Mt. Vernon, Ohio:
81 understand the Democrats of this
State do not like Foraker. Was there
ever time when they did like him9
| Applause. If so, have not been able
to discover it. They did not like him
when, mere STRIPPING, he denounced,
with flashing eye, the traitors that
sought to rend this republic in twain
More applause la voice, "That's
right."] They did not like him when, a
little later, he clothed his youthful form
in the blue of the republic and marched
out with his comrades from Ohio.
chanting songs of battle and eager for
the fight. Cheers. They did not like
him when the news from the battlefield
told that he was in the very van of the
lines that went crushing through the
ranks and over the ramparts of rebellion.
More cheering. They did not like hin
when they learned that after the battle
he sought out the comrades that had
fallen by his side closed their eyes, fold
ed their hands across their breasts and
buried them under the sod of the valley
where they fell, but gray-haired old
fathers and sweet-faced, tender hearted
mothers in Ohio blessed him for the
kindly act he did when he laid their dar-
ling to his eternal sleep. Prolonged ap-
plause. They did not like him when
they learned that he watched beside the
couch of the wounded and the dying;
ministered to their wants with all the
tenderness and tact of woman. They
did not like him when the loyal people
of this great State nominated and elect
ed him Governor of this Commonwealth.
They did not like him when they honored
him once more in the same direction
They do not like him because of the
magnificent administration he has given
the Commonwealth of Ohio. They do
not like him because he has redeemed
the State and placed its credit foremost
among the Commonwealths of all the
nation. They do not like him, because
he has lightened the burdens of the peo-
pie and built homes for the blind and the
helpless. They do not like him because
he sprang to his feet and declared that
no rebel flags, wrested by Ohio Boys in
Blue, in fair fight upon the field of battle
should be returned while he was Gov
ernor, at the command of Democratic
traitor in the White House, to the men
from whose keeping they were captured.
Continued applause. They do not
like him, because his tender heart
prompted him to whiten the hills of the
Conemaugh with tents to shelter the
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valley by the fierce rush of the loosened
waters; but the people of Ohio and of
the land blessed him for his thoughtful
charity, and thanked God Ohio had
no emergency could paralyze
and no danger daunt when humanity
cried out for held. Loud cheering.l
They do not like him, because he has the
nerve and courage to stand forward for
the rights of all, and is determined that
all men of all parties shall have the right
to cast one ballot for the party or man
of their choice, and have that ballot
counted just as it was cast. Applause
They do not like him, because he stands
to-day the foremost representative of his
State, in State and Nation; splendid
soldier, an unquestioned patriot, and a
true American. More eheering.1 For
all these reasons, and many more which
| could enumerate if the lateness of the
hour would permit, the Democratic party
do not like Governor Foraker But,all the
same, they must accept him [cheers, and
cries of That's so" for he viii be car
ried by twenty-five thousand majority
into the chair he now digniies and graceS.
Long continued applause, and voice:
I'Yes, thirty thousand"