Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1870-09-14


AT the Democratic Conference, whicl
met some time ago at Lewistown ant
nominated DR.. u. VI. Crawford aud L
Bruce Petriken. Esq . for State Senate, +;
series of resolutions were offered. Among
them we find that one-the third read.
as follows "3rd. That we denounce all
schemes by which the securities now in
the sinking fund are to be diverted to any
other use, loaned to any corporation, O,
exchanged for the obligation of any
other corporations, or in any other man.
ner tampered with, as a violation of the
spirit of the constitutional provisions
above recited, breach of public faith,
and part and parcel of a scheme of gigan
tic corruption and public robbery
This resolution with all the accom-
panying ones, were rejected by the Con
ference in such a manner that the candi-
dates which the Conference nominated
have been styled in different parts of the
State the 'nine aud half million candi-
dates of The 2lst Senatorial District" 4"
The Indignation against the course cf the
Conference in Blair and Centre and
other counties is overwhelming. SO says
Democratic paper.
candidates who refuse to stand by
the Constitution. refuse to say that the
sinking fund shall not be violated-that
the public securities shall not be tamper-
ed with-are disgrace and dishonor to
the Democratic party
Such language we hear on the streets,
and read in Democratic papers. 1t is
stronger than any language that we have
heard Republicans use against the Dem
ocratic candidates, and we make use of it
here simply to show how Crawford and
Petriken stand in their own party. Yet
these men, occupying the unenviable posi-
tion that they do in their own party,
have the audacity to say that a number
of the Republican party will vote for
them. They are electioneering with this
argument They used it at Lewistown,
at their nominating conference, and they
are using it every day throughout the
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the Republicans that they count on. We
do not know where to find the men they
claim. We believe better than what they
say of the Republican party. To pur-
sue such course can only lead to polti-
cal ruin. 1t would be political suicide
DIR. Crawford has always been a Demo-
crat. and will in all probability remain
one. There is no probability of Mr..
Petriken changing his politics, and if
they cannot get the full support of their
own party, what mad folly it would be
to send them aid from the Republican
party. The district is close; the eyes of
the Republicans of the State are CEN
tered on it. The attention of the Ad-
ministration at Washington is also earn
estly directed to it. The re-districting of
the State. and the election of United
States Senator is involved in it. Shall
we faIter and bring political shame upon
ourselves and party! In the support of
Crawford we have much to lose and moth
ing to gain. In the language of trust
ed and honored Republican of this State,
whose reputation is not limited by the
State of Pennsylvania, Crawford and
Petriken constitute 81 pair of those half
fedged Republicans to be found just now
everywhere in the Democratic party,
who are liberal enough to attract cur
sympathies, and sometimes our votes
but who, when they secure official posi-
tions, are the bitterest and most unyield-
ing of our opponents because their
standing in their own party is so preca-
risus and suspected that they are CON-
PEELED to an excess of partisanism to
maintain it."