Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-01-29
GOVERNOR HAaTRANFT'S INAUGURAL
ADDRESS.

GOVERNOR HAaTRANFT'S INAUGURAL
ADDRESS.
Governor Hartranft's inaugural address
is in the keeping of the people. Thou
sands read it in the daily journals; thou
sands more will read it in the weekly
journals.
Such a volume of abuse had been
poured upon him by Democrats, Liberals
doubling Thomases and false rcformers
generally, that all but his most ardent
friends had come to believe that what
ever he might say in his first address to
his people, he would 60 no further than
an avowal to adhere to old customs and
usages. He certainly would not advo-
cate such reformet as were in accord with
the views of the people, they said.
Iu the eyes of the Democracy he was
Nazarene. What good could come out
of Nazareth i? They had worked them
selves into this belief without any founda-
ton for so believing, further than that
they wished to believe so. In this they
were a good deal like the old gentleman
of story. This old gentleman was RICH
and he kept open house most Of the time
for bis friends. He had numerous friends,
as one might expect such man to have'
and they often assembled at his house to
enjoy his hospitality. He was very en-
tertaining himself; he could talk "like a
book" He was full of wit and story.
He had a number of stereotyped etories
that he used to tell on almost every oc
casion when he had company. Among
these stories was one that his house con-
tanned haunted chamber. 1t was the
abode of ghost nearly all the time. 1t
was good story, of course, and the old
gentleman dwelt largely on the startling
manifestations of the supernatural visitor
He told that story SO often that by and
by he came to believe it himself, and one
day he took company to the so called
haunted chamber to see and hear the
ghostly manifestations. Instead of low,
mysterious. unearthly sounds, all was
quiet. Instead of the furniture and con-
tents being in disordered state, every
thing in the room evidenced that its man.
agement was most complete. The COM
pany looked at each other in amazement.
They could not think that their old friend
and host had willfully and maliciously
deceived them. They were disposed to
be charitable, and they called it an halu-
cination on the part of their friend. He
was crazy on that subject, they said. So
precisely with the Democrats and Lib
erals. They had led their friends and
followers by degrees into the harshest of
declarations against Governor uartranft.
That ne was pledged against all reform
measures, and is the slave of clique
that scouts at the idea of reform, was
their constant cry
But when he appeared in his first great
act, on the 2Ist, at Harrisburg, before
many thousands Of people, in whose
presence be took the oath of office, the
illusion vanished. The detained General
stood before the critical audience of bis
people in his proper character. His ad-
dress indicates him as the very champion
of State reform, and his defamers have
skunk away in confusion and shame
They were under the influence of an
hallucination, if nothing worse.
Read the address on first page careful
ly, particularly the clauses that relate to
Special Legislation" "The Pardoning
Power" the Sinking Fund.-" aud Mi
litia."