Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-10-02
Meeting OF the Minlin Grant Club.

ment of President, the presence of go
many of the loyal Republicans of thi:
community went to make the first meet
ing of the Grant Club of Mifflintown a
decided success.
The orator of the evening. A. J Cul.
bertson, Esq. of Lewistoxn, fortunately
failed to tisappoint his audience, and
spoke for almost an hour. The speaker
reviewed the record of the Democratic
party from $50 to the day of its disso-
luton and death at Baltimore told US of
the support it gave Breckinridge, the man
who favored and did his utmost to sus
tain slavery; he spoke of that heinou.
Democratic amendment of Vallandig
ham. that rock which split the political
ship and led the Democracy of the South
to rise up in arms against this Union of
eur fathers, aud how the Republican
champions guided the bark freighted with
the hopes and loves of the loyal Of man
kind through danger AMI darkness and
national tribulation
The speaker farther laid down three
principal points of difference in the plat
forms of the candidates in the present
campaign:
/. The Ph laielphia Or Grant platform
declares in favor of the re election of any
man for President who las shown him
self diligcnt and uncompromising In duty,
and in every way attentive to the inter-
ests of the people. This declaration the
experimenting party of Cincinnati and
Baltimore rejects.
2. The Grant administration SAYS
home interests shall be protected The
would-be Greeley power on the other
hand in referring the question to the
respective Congressional districts. par
ally zes the arm of the President. and
wrests from him his right of veto and
objection. Then will the commodities of
England come in direct competition with
the productions of American producers,
who are obliged to pay national State
and local taxes, and you, in favoring this
plank, Dc necessarily grant privileges to
foreigners which must be Withheld from
and denied to yourselves.
8. The Republican party favors the
emf fIcement Of the kuklux Bill Ithat
bulwark of individual security and ma
tonal peace when the necessities of time
and place make such a demand. This
the coalition crowd under the false cry OF
oppression on the one hand and reform
on the other, refuse to sanction and ii
they would be consistent with most OF
III r acts aud professions, they must and
viii continue TO oppose all measures
-avoring of jnslice. humanity and patri-
otism 1t has been twelve years since
all the States voted togtther-years of
bloodshed an trial-years Of priceless
value to the American Union; and years
the results % which are TO be guarded
and most carefully cherished. And as
we look abroad and around and see thou
sands of the old Democratic party who
have determined no longer to be ruled by
it. we are safe to conclude that no dis
loyal party can ever again control the
country. The gentleman closed by al
luding to orr victories in Maine, Yer
mont and North Carolina, assuring his
hearers that Pennsylvania and Indiana
will take up the cry and answer over
whelmingly for Grant. The enihusias
tic applause amid which the gentleman
retired was the strongest testimony to
the quality of his speech and the man
ner ia which it had been received.
Mr. Lyons next addressed the meet
ing He referred to the fact that the
Democrats were loud in their denuncia-
tons of the State and National Admin
istrations, but thought if they were the
honest set of men that they declared
themselves to be, they would begin at
home, and practice the doctrine they pre-
tend to teach He stated that he be-
lieved that in every township in Jupiata
county where the Democrats have a ma
jority the people are more heavily taxed
than in those townships where the Re-
puLlcans have MA jority, and the same
might be said of every county in the
State and every State in the Union
/ hat wherever the Democratic party was
in power the people were p!uudered -
lie thought reform ought to begin at
home, AHA advertcd to the unlawful and
unwarranted expenditure of the people s
money in Juniata comfy that one fifth
of the taxes annually collected from the
people were expended to keep up the
ring and its dependents that the allow
ance to the County Treasurer and the
Clerk to the County Commissioners was
too high; that the contracts for repairs to
county bridges were let out to political
favorites st enormous rates aud that
last but not least. the county printing
was an outrage and a complete swindle
and robbery of the people-though at,
tempted to be done under authority Of
an act of the Legislature, the passage OF