Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-10-26
PENCIL POINTERS.

1t is a common remark about election
time among those who do not appreci
ate the condition that no one will ever
know the difference whether one party is
successful or the other. 1t has some
times made no change in individual for
tunes when one party has been over
thrown and another put in power. But
that day is past. Parties now represent
something No man can now evade re-
sponsibility by saying that it will make
no difference. The result of last falls
election has proclaimed it in voice that
fills the heaven and earth that the Demo
cratic party is unfit for rule, and will
ruin the country if given half a chance
Let the man who says it will make nc
difference compare the conditions of the
country at large, of his own community
and of himself, with the conditions a
year ago and then say if he dare before
his own conscience that it has made nc
difference The ghost of dead prosperity
would rise and point an accusing finger
at such a man. 1t does make vast diff.
ference which party is successful. II
makes, in short, all the difference be-
tween this year and last-between boom.
ing prosperity and stagnant hard times.
Democratic county candidates are now
soliciting Republicans to give them com
plimentary votes. They say they do not
expect to be elected, but that they would
appreciate the compliment of having
their Republican frieLds vote for them
This is an old ruse and Republicans are
not likely to be caught by any such
scheme. Many man has been elected
by mplimentary votes, when these
votes would not have been cast for him
had it been thought he stood any show
of being elected There is not man on
the Republican county ticket but de-
serves the vote of every Republican in
the county, and as voting is business
matter there should be nothing compi-
mentary about it. A Republican can
best display his Republicanism by voting
for Republican candidates.
Van Allen, the dude who gave $4,000
to the Democratic campaign fund last
year with the understanding that he
should be appointed Ambassador to Italy
has been confirmed by the Senate. He
has resided most of his life in England
and until last year never voted. This
sale of an appointment is pronounced by
the Democratic New York Post to be a
blot on the character of President Cleve-
land from which he can never recover,
and Democratic papers of character
everywhere denounce the affair in the
strongest terms it is possible to employ
Even had Van Allen not bought the place
he is said to possess no qualifications for
the position, being in no sense American
The Democratic candidate for County
Treasurer is making campaign on ex-
travagant promises of what he would do
if elected treasurer. He should know, if
he does not, that many of the promises
he is making would be contrary to law
should he attempt to carry them out.
He should know that he could not check
the tax off the duplicate until it is paid,
even if his friends are hard up for money.
The people rather prefer man who will
promise to adhere to the law rather than
one who makes promises that are ridic-
ulous in their scope and that if carried
out would cause violation of the law.
Some Democratic papers makes the as
founding claim that man need not be a
lawyer in order to discharge the duties of
Probate Judge of Belmont county. Such
claim is certainly not honest. Any
one knows that the work of Probate
demands the education of lawyer and
of good one, too. Mr.. John W. Laugh
lin may be talented man, as he is a
gentleman, but surely no one unless
blinded by partisanship can believe that
he can carry on the work of the Probate
Judges Office with the same ease and
quickness, and the same saving of money
to the tax payers as the present incum-
bent.
Unless there is a united effort made to
get out the Republican vote the majority
for the county and State ticket will not
be as large as good many people are
expecting. This campaign there has been
too much talk of big majorities and not
enough earnest work among the rank and
file of the party to make big majerities.
1t is the votes that count and they are
yet to be deposited in the ballot boxes.
The Democracy are conducting a still
hunt, and they are conducting it vigor
ously. Every Republican voter must be
at the polls. Such is the price of victory.
The Democratic leaders have been in
timating that they have copy of letter
alleged to have been written by Governor
Mckinley to various manufacturers
asking them to not start their mills uutil
after the election, and it is evident that
they intended to launch some such a
story just previous to election. Gov.
Mckinley has spiked that gun BY de-
nouncing the story as false and malicious
in every particular, and if such "a letter
is in existence it is forgery.