Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-10-02
Another Ring Meeting.

Democrats did. They have been raiding
throughout the county ever since. The
ring men and the anti-ring men are raid
ing alternately. 1t would take columns
to record their doings and sayings. The
last of their serie, of meetings here was
held in Patterson last Thursday evening
1t was a ring meeting, under the control
of family and their adopted medical
proteges that are scattered about and the
brother in law chairman, and Mr.. Bon
sail. How fippantly they talk about
family rule. 1t is only done to direct
attention from their own family. Theirs
is a nice family There is father David
and father Samuel, with such loving and
dutiful sons of adoption as Greenleaf,
Grubb and Banks. tits not yet definite
ly settled whether the family name has
been conferred on Fisher. The unruly
condition of bis township should not
keep the fathers from putting the collar
on him if they can get it to stick. y
They should by all means take the in
telligence Of the district into considera-
ton Clique collars will not be worn
longer than until they are found out, in
intelligent communities Some discount
should be made on that account for Fay
cite. Let the discount be made. If they
could only get diplomas for Bonsall and
Jackman how nice it would be. No
matter, though, they are part of the fam
ily anyhow. Jackman is brother in
law and Mr. Bousall, well, he is attract
cd be is a satellite, aud a satellite is a
member surely. This was the party that
held the meeting at Patterson. They
had imported ex Mayor Richard Vaux,
of Philadelphia, to do the fine talking.
There is no discount on the gentleman's
flow Of language. trolls out like water
down an oiled plank and was not un
pleasant to listen to. leaving out the
sophistry and stuff that he had told hun
dreds Of times before. A cri,i ic pro-
nounced that speech thirty years old,
with few variations to suit the present
status Of the Democratic party. 1t was
thoroughly systematizcd. and what speech
of thirty years of age would not be. All
of it was comprehended under four divi-
sions. as follows: lst, Fraud; Cd Ferce;
3rd, Patronage; 4th, Power. What his
headings were at Waterford and Rich
field we do not know, but it may be ven
tured that tue speeches were about the
same. with few slight changes in the
headings.
The Democracy can stand a long course
of stale diet. They are not like the GER
tain young man who was boarding at a
place where large stock of "hog jaw
lad been stored for use By and by the
jaws were put on the table For days
the boarders had hog jaw for breakfast,
hog jaw for dinner, and hog jaw for sup
per. The young man could no longer
endure it; his stomach was in open re-
volt against it, and one evening, when a
fiagrantly steaming jaw had been placed
on the table by the lardlady, he said,
Madam, hog jaw is hai y, hog jaw is
tough; it is high time that We have hog,
jaw enough
If the ring did not feel that they had
enough of the heavy diet of fraud that,
Mr. Vaux was feeding them on. other
people did and they felt Ike shouting.
That is hog jaw enough - when he
turned and asked Father James Burns a
question relative to alflirs thirty or forty
years ago. Why did be not ask his aged
friend something of the manage ment of the
public works of Pennsylvania, that huge
avenue through which the Democratic
party for thirty years fattened its men,
bers upon the plunder of the State, and
entailed the enormous debt of $40 OOO,.
900 upon her citizens He talked about
the South and the debt and taxation of
that section for public works and other
purposes, but did not mention the fact
that a portion of the taxation there is for
for free school purposes. something that
his old Democratic friends did not need
down there, for it would teach the mig
gers and the "poor white trash" to
think. and to think was to see how they
had been misgoverned and oppressed aud
kept in ignorance and bondage No, he
left that out, and confined himself to
debts and taxation occasioned for other
purposes. Doubtless there are abuses in
the South that cry for redress Time
alone can redress them. The men for
whom Mr. Vaux shouted and delivered
nicely coined speeches placed the people
of the South in the "unfortunate" condi.
tion in which they row are. The Dem
ocratic party, the author of all their woes,
cannot relieve them. Patient Industry
alone can deliver them from the heavy
load of debt, as it has relieved the peo.
pie of this Commonwealth of nearly one
half Of the $4,000 600 of debt that the
Democratic party chiefly heaped on Penn
sylvania during its thirty years of rule in
cheap and economic times. If that party
had remained in power, with the patron.
age of the public WORKS at its fingers
ends. what a pile of debts would it not
have heaped up Mr. Vaux, in his old