Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-11-14
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THURSDAY. NOVEMBER IA, 1889.
Tur ORGAN whose party has .'won the

Republican rule" o. squealed like
stuck pig last week because the mia
nous campaign which was made under
the direction of its editorial manager,
did not nan out as ne expected, in his
party gobbiing all the offices, and retain
ing the Clerks Office. The able editor,
who was so apt at figuring cost bills In
that Office during the past few years,
raves like one whose occupation is gone,
and he relieves himself al TGuSedm on
a weak and sickly veteran soldier, whose
life has been burden from disease con-
tracted while defending the country's
flag. because he had the effrontery to re-
sent the coarse and brutal insinuation
made by the Democratic candidate for
Clerk of Courts-that the soldiers were
nothing but set of government pau
pers anyway. The Gazette and its can
didate knew that that charge had been
openly circulated among the soldiers
and their friends during the whole of
the recent campaign, but they dared not
deny it in print for fear they would be
met wiihthe very affidavit establishing
its truthfulness beyond any question
whatever, which was finally made in re-
sponse TO the private denials of Meyer
and his friends. The charge made by
VT ond offncfod nv fyVn
men who heard the statement, is true as
gospel, and it does not lie in the mouths
of any of the gang who have no knowl-
edge of the facts, to dispute it; and the
man who in a court OF justice, under
oath, would deny that the words as
charged by Malone had been spoken,
would be shown, as he would deserve,
to be wanton and reckless perjurer.
As to Mr.. Hall, faithful employe of
this Office for many years, and who
lost two brothers in the war, who also
comes under the ban of the creature of
the Gazette, he takes care of himself in
his own language, which it must be ad-
mitted applies with great directness.
Come to think of it, it is not strange
that the editor-in-chief of the Gazette,
who is devout worshipper at the shrine
of old jeff Davis, the arch-traitor of his
age, should have little respect for men
like Malone, who stood the shock of bat
tie and the seventies of march and
camp, and with mendacious indecency
and vulgar coarseness, denominate them
'paupers," even though in their feeble
ness and i'll health they are doing their
very best to honorably maintain them
selves and families.
The sleek, able-bodied editors of the
Gazette present pitiable aspect indeed,
in this matter, and look as though they
were heartily ashamed of themselves.
The Gazette last week made personal
attack upon me for no other reason than
because L did not support one Robt. G.
Meyer, Democratic candidate for Clerk
of Courts. Although have been an en-
ploye of THE CHRONICLE for several
years, and have been classed as Demo
crat in politics, have generally voted
the Democratic ticket, reserving the right
to erase the names of persons for whom
II uTu not see proper to vote. / have
never been solicited by Mr.. Hunt to vote
for single man on the county Republi-
can ticket in all that time, and am, there
fore, no caterer to the lusts of others"
desire to place before the reader of
THE CHRONICLE a few plain facts. In
the first place we will quote portion of
the salutatory of the present editors,
when they took charge of the Gazette on
Sept 5th:
ave shall not engage in personal controversy,
preferring to discuss measures rather than men,
public interests rather than personal character,
but if in delneating the tendency and sequence of
events, it becomes necessary to advert to the NOR
al mental development of those who originate
or apply them, we shall prefer to deal with such
persons as members of party, and not avail our
selves of the license usually allowed for personal
scurriIlity and detraetion."
Last weeks issue violates in every
sense of the word the quotation above
referred to. 1t is certain their cowardly
assault is not approved by decent people,
and profits them nothing.
The fact that the press is powerful for
good implies that it is powerful also for
evil Like the rarest intellect, it may
pervert and destroy where III hould bless.
Without high moral principle, intellectu-
al gifts are apt to prove curse to society,
and big hat is often apt to be filled with
shallow brains, and without moral princi-
pie, honor and true manliness to control,
the press becomes depraved and an en-
gine of evil.
Judging from the tone of the Gazette
during the campaign, its capacity for
public Generalization and private injury
is beyond estimation. 1t profigates the
currents of public thought; depraves the
mind of youth; defames the best and de-
grades the highest, and destroys even the
life as well as the character of the sensi-
tive and pure. 1t frightened the heart
cords of two of our most highly esteemed
ladies within the past month by villifying
and falsifying, and for that alone the
Gazette was branded a knavish and an
infamous sheet, edited by self-conceited
changeable, unpublished and unprincipled
men p, and filed with vileness in both
literature and morals.
Intimately the words used in the Gazstte
last week does more injury to the editors
than to me. The cause cf this storming
of the Gazette is nevertheless true, and
hurts the writer and the aforesaid candi-
date. "The truth is mighty and will
prevail"
Your sheet is more offensive, insulting,