Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-08-25

"bandwriting on tie WALL" other men,
ss Of old, wall come 10 aud occupy
their plsoes. People, though they
be IS loyal TO q cause as loyalty
itself, may be driven to point where
they will have to strike TO save the
cause. That was done last fall. Has
the lesson been lost, Let the men
who appoint these turbulent people
learn the lesson before it is too late.
There is q wide spread discomfort now
smong tie people, and if such caarac-
ters arc not held IN leash, they will
raise such a storm, ns that Of last fall
when compared to it, will De as nothing.
We know what the sense of the people
is, and VIC say these Things, "more in
sorrow than in anger" for the good Of
all, as one Of the great body Of the
Republican party who have no Office
and are no; asking for place.
The columns of the Sentinel and Re-
publican bear testimony as to how true
the paper has been to tie cause. II
will compare favorably with any county
paper in the State iD the advocacy Of
the faith.
For weeks the names of the men
at the head of the organization-the
County Committee-have been publish
ed at the head of a column of reading
matter, publication that has not been
in custom, except fer one or two inser.
tIons.
Some time since the County Com
mittee was called to meet IN this town.
Undesignedly, no doubt, it Was called
at such time when the members con-
stituting it we're busy at home with
their business ana could not leaVe with
out some sacrifice to their personal In-
terests The result was that on the
day of meeting, few men were in at.
tendance. Tie men present were, Geo.
". Smith, chairman, Reuben Caveny
I'll. \. Stambaugh, Mr.. Hertzler, T. 7.
pavis and Daniel Kaufman. At the
meeting the following resolution was
offered by Mr.. Davis:
Resolred, That the rule requiring all can
didates' names to be announced four weeks
previous TO the Primary Election be and
is hereby abrogated."
1t is plain justice to Dir. Davis to
state that be was not the author of the
resolution that at one stroke proposed
to destroy the system under which the
primary elections are conducted and
candidates elected by the Republican
party in this county. Mr.. William Al
lison, who Is also one of the Office
holding class referred to above, and
ranks admirably well with Moore and
Wilson, and plays the part of the pro-
verbal sfifth wheef' in an Office in
Philadelphia, and engages in private
business there Of which it is not our
purpose now to speak, framed the reso-
luton and induced Mr.. Davis to offer
it. 1t was a malicious blow at the
system of rules or laws under which
the Republican party vote at the pri-
mary election in this county, and if
they counted upon US becoming silent
partner in the outrageous attempt to
violate the rights of the Republican
people in this county, they counted
wrongly. The resolution, however, did
not pass in that form. Mr.. Smith, Mr..
Stambaugh aud Mr.. Caveny knew, if
the others did not, that it was an act of
usurpation, and that it would prove an
Get of suicide almost as il we're to all
concerned to pass it. They knew that
it was touching matter that did not
concern the Committee, a point with
which 1t had no business whatever, and
that is passage would bring down the
righteous Indignation of the whole
party on the offenders, and they SO ex-
pressed themselves The whole subject
should have been dropped at that june
ture, for the Committee had no busi-
ness to act on it in any other way than
to reject it. 1t was no more their busi-
ness to act on it, than it is their busi-
ness to act on the matter of ruling out,
or amending the State Constitution.
The system which they attempted to
rule out is the Constitution of tile
party in this county for its government,
adopted by the Republicans on pop
ular vote, at the polls. But it was not
dropped. 1t assumed an amended form,
which We published, which we should
not have done, and as far as the publ
cation of that amendment goes, one
time, We are guilty of having been q
party to refusal TO recognize the rules
of the Marty Tho flo of tho Eeufiney
and Republican, hewever, will bear tes-
timony that at the same time that We
published the action of the Committee,
we also stated that i; was wrong for
them to SO act, that their act was an
usupation of rights that belonged to
the mass of the party, rights that can.
not be touched by committee or con-
vention of return judges, and if the
RerubIican Marty will Ior0iya ms far