Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-09-25

resolutions of the National Republican
Platform. The fifth was favorite one
it expresses opposition to the further
grants of public lands to corporations or
railroads lie charged the Republican
party with having granted large tracts OF
land to railroad corporations That was
true. He thought it an Inconsistency
now for them to say that there should be
no more grants There must be limit
to everything He would be considered
a queer man who now, since the compile
ton of the railroad through 60 California,
would declare that the grants conferred
on that company were wrong and OF a
general injury yet it would not do to
give all of the public domain away. 1t
seems just as the proper course. to grant
az much as will secure permanently such
as will open the country to
easy emig alton to settlers, and extend to
them the means of acquil ing cheap lands,
and through routes to get at them. All
this the Republican party has done. 1t
has granted lands to several through
routes. and says no more shall be granted.
1t has provided homestead law, where
by any man who desires may go west on
to the public lands and take up l60 acres
of land and live on it and improve it five
years, aud it will be his, with only the
cost of survey and the making out of the
proper papers, which in all does not
amount to $40 And in the case of SOL
diers, the time that they served in the
army will be deducted from the five years
Those who served four years will be re-
quired to live on the land only one year,
and those who served three years, will
be required to live on the land only two
years
The 10th resolution, relative to the
restoration of American commerce and
was another on which he
dwelt at considerable length. He de.
plored the loss of American commerce.
All Democrats on the stump do. In so
doing they unwit.ily denounce and de
plore the rebellous conduct of their
Democratic brethren of the South. They
are the people, with the aid of the Eng
lish fitted out privateer. that drove our
commerce from the seas England, for
her share of the work, has just been con
demned by the Geneva board of arbita-
tors, and sentenced to pay Sl5,5O0.O00
The South has not been asked to pay
her share of the damages.
MEETING No },
on Friday night, was held under the au
spices of the anti ring Democrats, at the
Court House. The room was full f. s.
Hoty. Esq, presided. On taking the
chair he delivered speech. He is an
able man. an able speaker, and if he had
thrust himself forward and used the usual
machinery of unscrupulous politicians.
he would occupy one of the most prom
inent places among the Democrats of this
State, and be great leader in the Couu
ellis of the Democracy of the nation He
believed that the questions at issue are
places-that is all. Greeley is now the
Of the Democracy, Grant
the representative of the Republicans.
Civil reform is an old question it was a
question IN the days of the Wing party.
1t is now being revived. He favored it,
in the county and elsewhere. Mr. Doty's
speech was good Democratic speech !;
but it savored too strongly of Judge
Black S political notions. 1t will never
do to put the representatives of such po
litlcal notions at the head of the State
and National Government.
Mr. j. Mcclure, of Harrisburg. was
the first regular speaker. lie is large
fine looking MN. but the general express
sion of his face is obscured by a huge
beard. He opened with some embarrass-
ment, doubtless occasioned by Mr.. Doty's
intimation that the whole movement
meant Democracy, and that the new COM
bination was only means to the end.
He glided lightly over the general poll
lies, and took up Mr.. Allen, the Republi
can cand date for Auditor General. He
denounced his political course, ard by
assailed his private character,
and turning to the ladies with smerk-
ing expression about the eyes, he said it.
would bring the blush to fair cheeks to
tell what he knew. If his conduct was
unfit to tell in the presence of ladies. it
was unfit to refer to. That is unfair cam
paigning. The insinuations were coarse
and not at all becoming of men of less
than Mcclure. But all this
was but preliminary to the great bur
len of his speech. namely, an effort to
connect Hartranft with the Evans SWIM
lie. He charged Hartranft with crimi-
nal negligence, for not reporting the con-
1ition OF the claims that Evans, as the
agent, was to adjust between
he State and the general government.
He treated the question as plain ques
ion of auditing There was not a law
yer that heard him but who knew better.
They all knew that an account between
he State and. general government is quite