Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-09-04

the recipient OF wealth. at the nandS or q
grateful people. for great services rem
dered the nation in times of sore distress.
He might, with as much consistency,
have denounced General Sherman for
Iei"s rich.
How the gentleman got over the "bloody
chasm" lie an dnsolved problem. 1t is
guessed. however. that his vaulting pro.
pensity helped him over. He failed to
cay a word about it. Evidently it is no
Banquo's ghost to him.
After delivering himself against Grant,
as above indicated, he finished and left
him by declaring him an ass.
He would not deal in invectives, but
General Hartranft is a criminal, and. in
stead of being candidate for Governor,
should be in felon's cell in the Eastern
Penitentiary. 1t was singular that he
did not allude to the Evans swindle.
Doubtless it was too thin for the gentle.
mans genius. There was not wool
enough in it to cover the eyes of those
present, and he gave it the go by.
His thrusts at Hartranft were made
through the State Treasury He repeat
ed the charge that is heard every day.
that certain amount of State funds are
deposited by the State Treasurer in banks
in different parts of the Commonwealth,
and that these favored banks pay . cer-
tain amount of interest to the Treasurer,
aud that the Treasurer pockets portion
of this interest and divides the balance
among his friends, and that General
Hartranft is an acquaintance and friend
of the Treasurer aud has also received a
portion of this interest. 1t is well
known fact that busincss men when they
purchase bonds, railroad stocks. oil stocks
or any other stocks, do it through bank
ers or brokers. 1t is almost an impossi
bility to get such papers through any
other channel. A broker in Philadelphia
had been intrusted with some State funds
He became financially embarrassed, and.
in the languag. in common use, broke
up''-as many an other man. with the
confidence of the community in which
he resides, has donc-and the State lost
one hundred thousand dollars. This
broker, previous to this trouble. had been
a man in such standing that it was not
deemed improper for good men to deal
with him. For the violation of trust re-
posed in him by the Treasurer of the
State, be is now undergoing state of
some business transactions with this
broker, as doubtless hundreds of other
good men have had. and the letters that
have passed between the General and the
broker, relative to the purchase Of some
stock for IIartranft, have been siezed
upon by the Democrats and are circula-
ted among their party as an evidence that
he had to do with speculations in State
fun1s.
1t may be true that State Treasurers
have drawn and used the interest of the
State funds kept on deposit in various
banks. If it is true. it has been prac-
ticed many years. How many Demo
cratic State Treasurers have availed
of the chance thus to make
money the gentleman did not say and
if Charles X. Buckalew and his friends
get into the power of the State govern
nent, unless the law be changed. they
will not hesitate to do the same thing
over. The safest way is for the people
to retain Republican rule, and demand
hat the law be so changed as to forbid |
:uch Mclk by the Treasurer All evils
n the ranks OF the Republican party can
De weeded out, if tho people but unite
against them The orator did cot say
hat if his friends get into power that no |
'uch thing will take place. He did moi
'ay that they will change and so amend
he law that such work cannot be prac
iced. He left that open. Mr. Jackman
hould have taken his friend by the coat
sleeve, pulled him down and whispered
n his ear that it is believed here in Juni-
lta that some Democratic ex.treasurers
lad been members of a ring for the pur,
,hase of county orders at heavy dis
count, and then charged the full face
value of the orders upon the county.
But Jackmau passed the chance.
After his TRADE on Hartranft. the
'peaker yrered and made dash at Grants