Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-10-28

From the consideration Of officc-holders
he launched into back pay, hut here, as was
his usuh way, he left great part untold.
He did not tell that the percentage Of Re-
pu6icans thst voted for ssBack PAY" was
not larger than the percentage Of Demo-
Gratis that voted for it. 1t was NOT party
measures II was . combination Of both
parties, but Stenger carefully kept that
hack. 1t was hard shot st Mr.. Spear, his
competitor for Congressional nomination.
If he had stated the names of the Con-
gressmen, Democrats and Republicans al
ternatel,, il would have been a fair state
ment, and the proportion of the two parties,
which is nearly balanced, would have been
clear to all. The Congressman no repre-
seated our old district-Mr. Packer-voted
against it, while the Congressman who lives
in the present district-Mr. Speer-voted
for il, and thus almost evenly balanc d the
vote stands over the whole country.
President Grant was also handled for al
lowing his salary to be increased. S,enger
did not complain of tile Democratic Con-
grcssmen who at the same tiLhe permitted
their salaries 10 be increased, neither did he
breathe the fainte,i expression that he
would work to reduce his own salary II he
were a member of Congress. After spear
ing Speer over the shoulder Of bick pay to
his hearts content, he perched himself on
the Civil Rights Bill, and deliberately pro-
ceeded to quarry the colored man out Of it.
The negro has been the game of the DEM
ocracy for generations, and the 'sbugaboo"
Of equality, that the knaves of that party
have preached, has time and again kept
men fron doing justice, not to the negro
but to themselves.
The Civil Rights Bill makes no men equal
further than in the lawful pursuit of busi-
ness and pleasure. IT gives the negro the
rights Of all public places. ItdOcs not give
him more or less Of privilege Of such places
than other people He dare under il 60 To
church, and if the pews are free he dare
take seat wherever vacant, and il the per-
son at whose side he may chance to sit docs
not like it, he-the disliking one-may get
up, walk away 70 another seat, just q, Mr..
Stenger would have tho right to do in a
public place If we should sit by his side and
he not like our presence. He dare go to all
schools that are kept up BY q general or
public fund, to all places of public amuse-
ment, ride or walk on all public highways
for such purposes, and have the Use Of all
public vehicles, and the accommodation Of
Of hotels kept for transient customers and
the public generally, in short he shall have
the rights and privileges generally accord
ed to other people in all places that are kept
open for the use and patronage of the pub
lie, and can only be excluded from such
places on the same ground that white and
other people are excluded. Social and
private rights are different matters entirely
and these were the qualities that Stenger
as u y iik W piACS ucibEc MS AuuichCc -
stumbling blocks. The infercnccs TO b.
drawn from his harangue on the Civil Rights
Bill was that its purpose was to break down
all barriers bct~een people in every particu-
lar. lie knows better. But it is only one OF
the tavorite wool-pulling processes that the
erring brethren have fallen into. He, hcw-
evei, mistook his audience. The people
who heard him, with few exceptions, knew
better than that. From this loving subject
Of the Democracy he took up his p-rora-
ton, carrying through it all the way to the
end, Allen of Ohio as the champion of the
latter day Democracy.
The attendance at this meeting was large
enough, and embraced the different ages Of
life between 5 and 20 years. A few ladies
were present. The effect Of the speeches
was like a shower of cold water. The au-
dlence expected to hear some plan laid
down as to the manner Of extricating the
C, untry from what those men complained
of. There never WAS an audience dispersed
by adjournment in hi. place so greatly dis
appointed.