Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1866-05-30
THE JUNIATA REPUBLICAN.


THE JUNIATA REPUBLICAN,.
This paper was started on the 18th OF
April last by VIM NJ. Allison 4 Co to
sustain Congress, deuounce Andrew John
son, tell the Republicans Of Juniata coun-
ty what the true doctrine was, and to
break Patterson down. These objects
were avowed boldly and publicly in their
Prospectus and FIRST issue. They charged
that the SENTINEL no longer was stand
ing by the true doctrines of the party, no
longer was faithful to that party, aud had
become the organ alone of one man.
They said its columns we're open only to a
certain few, when they knew they we're
tellin. an untruth. and could not find a
man who had any position in the party
who ever had been denied proper access
to its columns. Because its proprietor
would not place It in the hands of such
drunken blackguards as Allison, Davis l.
Co., they raised the cry that the SENTI-
MEL was false to the party. BUT the
SENTINEL disregarded such SANDER, be
lieving it would be sustained by the true
men of the party against the weak but
willing attacks Of few sore heads led on
by cowardly sore heels Davis and the
bloated, drunken Allison, who, although
soldier, hid behind the beef wagon when
the fighting commenced. They weekly
abused Patterson aud his friends in their
paper until it disguised even some of
their blacks guard companions. They talk
of virtue aud honesty as smoothly as a
saint, when neither of them ever had the
frst impulse in so holy direction.
They got up meeting to abuse John
son and endorse Congress. Beef Allison
presided and sore heels Davis made
speech abusing johnson aud endorsing
Congress. He abused Patterson for his
speech the evening before, and said he
was forsaking the party. Poor old John
Williams, for small fee, made speech
too. aud said the true men who met there
the night before were measy RepupH-
cans. We bore it all. Their paper as.
sailed the SENTINEL abused Patterson and
other men weekly. We replied TO them
but once, explaining the whole scheme
and charged that it Was a conspiracy to
break up the party, and We named the
chief actors in the plot, and named the
party against them and left it to the peo
pie. To their repeated assaults we have
accorded silent contempt as we have too
much respect for ourself to handy words
with towards and ckguards aud drunk
ards,
The true men of the party in this
county on the 18th elected Delegates
unanimously in fourteen districts, and the
remaining three with trifling difference
OF opinion, and these Delegates met and
expressed the verdict of the people on
the issue made and forced on them by
Allison & Co. Col Patterson was unan
imously for the first time nominated for
Congress and the editor of this paper by
the same vote was presented for Assem-
biy, and the SENTINEL declared the organ
of the party. This is sufficient reward
for US, and rebuke which would bring
shame 70 the cheek of any honest, sensi-
tive man, but it can't affect men who
run like towards before the battle and at
home are low blackguards. 1t Was the
most overwhelming defeat ever set of
men got and shows the contempt felt for
them in this county. OF course they say
they we're cheated at the election, and
damn every body for being bought, when
they had been trying to currupt every one
they dared approach by Offering them
money, passes aud Offices when they had
neither to give. Like all towards they
said after they got whipped that they
were cheated.
We knew and charged that their OBJ
jects we're to iDjure the party. We heal d
they were in correspondence with recreant
Republicans at Washington and Harris
burg, trying TO get money and otlces to
turn around and support johnson aud
"my policy" We knew Bill Miller was
their chief counsellor, and that they were
to be tender to the Locofoco engine
We knew that on "Wednesday night, a
week before the delegate election, they
had gone to Washington to see the John
son leaders there, and had agreed to come
out for Johnso II, and that the Offices In
this county were promised them. We
knew they had agreed to support Clymer
and the whole LocofocO ticket. We