Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-06-07
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" The Rings The Ring Candidates"

Inc hiuxs-' lHe Mug (duuiudtebs
Democratic journals and politicians
have, since the State nominations by the
respective parties. entered the political
arena with whoop and wild flourish that
assures all who have observed their move.
menrs, that they are determined to make
the campaign of 1871 as vigorous as they
possibly can They leave nothing un-
touched that they think will aid them in
reaching the goal-and tha. is, all the
Offices filled with Democrats. One of
the sentences that they employ the most
frequently, indeed the one that has been
furnishing material for denunciatory ar
ticles for the Harrisburg Patriot, the
great organ Of the Democratic party in
central Pennsylvania, and other Demo
cratic papers, ever since the meeting of
the Republican State Convention. is that
" He is the ring candidate" This they
apply to every Republican that has been
nominated 1t ia not very difficult task
10 discovery the cause of this continual
cry of the "ring candidate" They ex
pect by continually shouting The ring y
The ring!" to prejudice many of the
independent Republicans against the
nominations of their own party. aud, as
a consequence, get them to support the
Democratic party They also expect by
the cry of 1.-THE ring" 1.-The ring candi-
date to stimulate into actual opposition
such Republicans as have not been served
with desired nomination. If any of that
class. for such a reason. make depar
ture, we fear it would add as much to
their own misfortune as to that Of the
party. and that they, sooner or later, must
realize that they have done worse than
lesping from the pan into the fire.
Again the cry The ring" The ring
candidate" is to draw attention from their
own Ring" which is one of the most
unscrupulous and exacting that ever in
Hicted rules or mandates upon the people
of party Such ring has governed
the Democratic party for many years,
and it shouts '' Ring Ring vocfer-
ously, as the thief does who is escaping
from the officers of the law. down a crowd
ed street, and directing attention from
himself all the time by pointing in front
and shouting "Stop thief, stop" until the
favorable moment arrives when the whole
street is in an uproar and the attention Of
the people turned in another direction to
look for the guilty party. the thief sinu-
ously glides into by way and escapes
further molestation on that score. But
we need not generalize upon this cry.
We need not take the State to chow how
it is done; we need but open our eyes
here in Juniata to see an illustration of
the ring work of the Democracy. The
ring has its members in every township
in this county, from Lack, in one end, to
Susquehanna. in the other; and when
the ring master cracks his whip, they are
up and as eager for the work as are the
hounds on the estate of an Englishman
eager for the chase when the master of
the pack sounds his horn. The courtiers
at the Court of Berlin respond not more
readily to the limited desires of King
William than do the members of the
Ring of the Juniata Democracy re.
spond to the limited desires of their "ring
master )" and these are the men who are
screaming and writing about rings" and |
"ring candidates" These shriekers are
the very embodiment of ring workers.
They are the offending parties them
selves, and their candidates for State
officers are ring candidates so they will
be in this county, this coming fall.