Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-10-16

nastiness of the Clerks office, of which
he had intimate personal knowledge, is
calculated to make honest men distrust
all statements he may make. The aver
age citizen has an innate love of fail
play, even in politics; but the editor OF
the Gazette does not seem to be thai
kind of a citizen.
THE Martins Ferry NescS objects to
candidate McComas because he is mig
gardly, and the Gazette retorts that Com,
missioner Berry has been extravagant'
The Auditors Office has been controll-
ed by the Gdzette's partisans for seven
teen wears. Not one dollar can be law
fully drawn from the Treasury except
upon the warrant of the Auditor. Ii
public mouey has been "needfessly' eX-
pended Democratic Auditors are pri-
marily responsible for it. The response
bility can not be shifted upon the Com
missioners, even though they assent to
it. mo money shall be drawn from
any county or township" says the Con
stitution, 'except in pursuance of law. y
mo money shall be paid out OF the
county treasury, or transferred to any
person for disbursement" says the law,
s'eXcept on the warrant of the Auditor.
Money expended in needed public i'm
proyements is not wasted. 1t is the un-
lawful expenditure of money which
hurts, as, for example, the Sl,25O which
the Democratic Auditor took for alleged
extra services rendered in the building
of the court house, but paid back under
duress in an unheard of manner. That is
the character of waste" which oppress-
es the people, and few persons have any
idea of the extent and magnitude of it.
The Commissioners may not be like
Caesars wife, yet they are powerless II
the Auditor is man of capacity, cour-
age, and integrity. Few men appreciate
this fact as they should. The Auditors
office is the office taxpayers should bat
tie for, and when they get it into the
right kind of hands keep it there. A
prominent Democrat of this county said
to the writer few years ago, "The Golf
land Barrett regime has cost this coun-
ty more than any like experience 1t has
ever had" And, since the able Gazette
is disposed to complain of deputies sue
ceeding their chiefs, it is not out OF
place to remark that Auditor Hender-
son succeeded his chief, and that he was
cognlzant of his wrong-doing.
-218-Democratic gain 6l0."
These words and figures are ostenta-
tiously paraded in several places in the
Gazette. They have reference to the re-
suit in Belmont county in 1888 and
1889. Republicans should look upon
the exhibit, likewise.
The majority of 1888 was a phenomi-
nal one. 1t was the result of superior
organization, and, a Congress and a Pres
ident to be elected, the fear that if the
Democrats were successful serious harm
would result to the industries of the
country because of the attitude of that
party upon the tariff.
The most admirably constructed tar
if, it is believed, the country has ever
had has just gone into operation. High
hopes are entertained as to its working.
1t is believed that under its operation
the country will enter upon a period of
unexampled prosperity. But the able
Gdzette-whose editor was educated in
the school of Calhoun and jeff Davis
keeps croaking "The tariff is tax" and
big and little Democratic organs of the
State repeat the stuff. That party is
hopelessly committed against Protect
ion. If it succeeds in Ohio this year its
organs will proclaim the result as YER
diet against protective tariff. If it
should elect a Coroner in Belmont cOun-
ty the virtuous Gazette will proclaim it
a victory over Mckinley. These things
Republicans well understand, and will
be apt to have in mind when they go to
the election. Some Republicans were
disappointed at the action of the con-
vention, but, recognizing the fact that
the people have to make choice between
the Republican and Democratic nomi-
nees, that the abominable convention
system is at an end, and that there is
good hope thGtif the Republicans elect