Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-04
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

OOLI MBlS. ", MdICu %. 1917
FRIEND HUNT: Your kindly notice in
the Chronicle of this week is appreciated,
but coupled with the notice is a SuggeS-
ton that does injustice to my colleague.
Colonel Poorman has been very regu-
lar in attendance upon the sessions of the
General Assembly. / believe the records
will show that he has not been absent from
his post more than two DAYS this year. and
no one has worked more indusUriously in
season and out of season for the best in
terests of his constituents and the State
at large.
write this without consultation with
Colonel POOrman, as a simple act of just
ice to one of the most faithful members
of the House.
Very truly, A. I. MCKELyEY..
We willingly give place to what Bro.
McKelvey has to say of his colleague, and
remark in reply to it that facts and cir
cumstances fully justified all that was
said about the unseemly scramble for of
fee upon the part of some members OF
the General Assembly, of whom Mr.. C.
L. Poorman was conspicuous example
The people of this county elected him tC
represent them in the General Assembly
and while that body is in session are not
only entitled to his time, but to his un-
divided attention to the duties he had
asked them to assign him.
The Objectionable feature of the Leg
islative rush for Office is the fact that
members presume, because they voted tc
return Mr.. Sherman to the Senate, they
have especial claims upon his support
In the election of Legislature in 1884,
John Sherman was as distinctively the
candidate of the Republicans of Ohio as
was BENJAMIN Harrison last November
and if member of the Legislature had
refused to support him he would have
been guilty of as great breach of trust
as would a member of the Electoral Col
lege had he voted against Harrison. In
deed, the fact that Senator of the Uni
ted States was to be elected strengthen
ed Mr.. Poorman in his canvass for the
Legislature. In other words, the people
felt that they were voting for Sherman
not Poorman, and many of them so ex
pressed themselves.
Mr.. Poorman has written and haC
printed in his BelIaire Tribune an i'll
natured rejoinder to the paragraph tC
which Mr. McKelvey refers. He should
compose himself. There are candidate:
in Belmont County for Federal appoint
ments more deserving than he. He in
sisted upon having the undivided atten
tion of every man supposed to have any
influence in the matter of appointments
and we very properly, as we think, ex.
pressed qualification when it was an
nounced that his demands, for the pres
ent, at least, were ended. That was al
there was of it.
If Mr.. Poorman will compose himself
and be just little bit reasonable, posi-
bly, he may see that he has been extrav
agant and unreasonable in his demand:
for Office, and always an impulsive ant
ungrateful man. 1t is not necessary, mol
would it be profitable, to review the ex
perience of the Republicans of Belmont
County with him for quarter of CEN
tury. The people know all about it, and
in the paragraph complained of we sim
ply expressed the universal satisfaction
felt that his appointment to an office al
Washington would relieve them of his
annual opportunities.