Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-06-28
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The Registers Disclaimer Of the Ring more
of an Admission Of its Existence than a
Denial. II Blunders in Writing of Re.
publican Nominations.

The Registers Disclaimer of the Ring more
of an Admission Of Its Existence than a
Deuial. II Blunders in Writing of Re.
publican Nominations.
Itis no news 10 tell the reader that peri
odicaily, for years. certain Democrats
aud Dem cratic journals have charged
the Republican party with being under
the control Of rings 1bls has been a
fsvorite charge with certain parties with
IN the ranks of the Democracy. Some
time ago VT took occasion to refer 10 these
charges, and said that thev were princi-
pally made by Democrats who are unscru-
pulous ring men themselves, within their
own party, and that they more frequently
cry The ring" The rirg 4" for the pur-
pose of turning public attention from
their own ring work. than for any other
purpose and we further said that ring
now rules the Democratic party in this
county, and that this ring controls the
nominations, that it sets up, and that it
pulls down. Last week the Register
took exception to what we said. and de-
li.6E,d ;t,oif ga al original article of
twenty eight lines. a we do not recol.
lect OF ever having seen in that paper an
original article Of that length that did not
somehow or other confuse. deny, or mix
i:self before IL ended, of course in this
case we wc'e not surprised to find the
latest original article bearing the charac-
teri-'ic' of former one. Surely there
must be something wrong With the heads
Of The editors Of that paper, that they
cannot produce an article Of any length
wilton; producing a muddle We have
feeling If solicitudc for them. We are
no doctor. however, and dare not venture
prescription. but we dare say that scien-
tifc men assert that the kind Of food that
a mau lives on has something to do with
the dullness or brightness Of his head,
and they particularly recommend diet
of fresh fish for dull heads but as the
season for fresh fish is about closing, of
course we shall not suggest that kind of
diet, but we politely hand them over to
their master, who is skilled in dietetics, /
and earnestly entreat him to see to their
intellectual condition, for certainly it is a
matter of importance that his editorial
lackeys be clear headed.
The article in question, if intelligible.
is intended as disclaimer or denial of
what we said of the Democratic ring in
this county. As disclaimer or denial
1t il failure 1t is an indirect and un-
admission of our charge of
the existence within the ranks of the
Democratic party in this county of an
unscrupulous and proscriptive ring Look
at it. In the third line thrust. as vio-
lent as the writer knew how to word it
TO confine it to the limits of decent Ian
guage, is made at member of the Dem.
ocratic party, whom the ring is secretly
trying to prescribe and hound down.
This Democrat is placed at one side of
the editor of this paper, and he it is. says
the Register, who breathes into the Sen
tineI what has appeared in its columns in
regard to the ring There is perhaps
as much truth in that assertion as could
be crowded into the assertion, if made,
that the senior editor of the Register is a
faithful, a worthy, devout member of
tue church to which he processes to be-
long. But comparisons to gentlemen
Of such tender sensibilities are said to be
odious, and we promise that we shall be
sparing of them in this article.
Who the Democrat is that the Reg
'ster refers to we do not know, but we
know a number against whom the pup
pets of the ring secretly talk, and open
v insinuate as in the article of which
We write, whenever the interest of their
master demands it of them to do so. We
;ay that we could point out this or that
nan, that the ring is opposed to, or point
mt number, but we can only guess for
whom this individual thrust is meant.
We DO not here guess, but we say that /,
bis assault upon a prominent member of (
Is own party is an indirect admission of
ur charge of the existence of a ring
uch as we described. 1t is an indirect, I
not clearly direct admission of what
We said of the ring, when it declares that
Democrat informed us of what we
rrote 1t does not gay that be told us
That was not true. 1t does not even in II
innate that what it declares that he {
reashed into our ears is a falsehood. a
he fact that it does not deny the charge q
an admission of the truth of what we
aid Poor, miserable defence! It should Z