Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-03-22

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| believe it was Socrates-pronounced
gen6ihe fame TO be, +" the perfume of
heroic action" Shades of departed
heroes, how the fame of the Pendle-
tons vanish, when from the depths a
comparison is copjured up. They could
hardly believe it at the Stars that PEN
dleton had fallen alongside of Belknap.
Many of my old party friends expected
to vote for him as the next Democratic
candidate for the Presidency, but now;
that his work has been of such an un-
heroic and mean kind, the deepest dis
gust is felt for him. He had cut such
a swell, and kind Of looked down ON
people who didn't swell like him, tha.
folks who like show and don't know
that there is nothing in it, that il is like
tinkling brass, we're kind o. blinded
with the vulgar preiensions OF the fell
low, and believed that there was some
thing good in him. Since reading his
testimony they say be is only bIather-
skite, butterfly, Goldfish sristocrat,
and the goodness knows what all, and
the putting Of him in his true coiors
before the country has done more tc
cripple the Democratic party than even
the work of Beiknap and Marsh, and
the exposure Of the two last named,
you know, gave New Hampshire to the
Republicans with cleaner sweep than
for ten years past. Everything is Re-
publican there now by larger majority
than at any time since the war. If
they had got Pendleton's testimony a
few days before the election, the very
foundations of the false Jacksouian
Democracy would have been swept
away. How Old Hickory detested
such people.
There is no telling bow many people
Pendleton has spoiled, and it is the
most probable thing in this neither
world that Belknsp, and his two wives
and Marsh thrown iD, and all others in
that RUG are victims Of his, if not di-
rectly, then indirectly, for by his testi-
mony, if l aux correctly read In it, all
the people just mentioned engaged in
crooked ways after his example or in
tercourse with them through the Bowler
estate. l believe said in my letter
last week that in nine cases IN ten of a
"man and a woman," where there is a
wrong, the man is to blame. That is
the testimony of by-gone days. 1t was
the testimony of Old Hickory, and if
you read the testimony of to day il will
tell you the same thing unmistakably.
1t is just what the testimony of PEN
dleton tells to this country, reeliug in
a,nasement at the mass of corruption
that is floating to the top in business
and offcial life. Isn't he nice man
for fame Wouldn't be be nice fell
low for the country to have in the
White House If The man hadn't been
SO full of pretension, self righteous,
sanctifed, the effect wouldn't be so
bad. '.Sugar wouldn't melt In his
mouth" but he melted Gown like a
snow ball under the rays of sunlight,
That wasn't the way with Old Andy I;
when the light was turned on him he
could stand 1t. He didn't melt he
was made of solid stuff.
Pendleton made fuss when be heard
of what Mrs. Belknap had done in the
War Department. He should have put
on sackeloth and ashes for teaching her,
perhaps, the first lesson that led to the
debauchery of the post trader service.
You can set it down, my boy, as rule
that has few exceptions, that whenever
you find man that comes down un-
mercifully on women, he's sba,n, the
purest specimen of natural fraud, and
ohly needs a certain kind of atmos-
phere to develope him, just like it took
the adminis,ratorship of the Bowler
estate in Kentucky to bring out in full
relief his natural meanness, and all the
time he was doing it he was setting him.
self up as the pink of perfection. He
is nice pink.
The Bowler estate in Kentucky was
quite a snug one, from all accounts.
Mr.. Bowler owned four-fifths of .he
entire stock of the Kentucky Central
Railroad. During the Rebellion rebels
got hold of the road and damaged il
considerably. The United States War
Department used it some, and all these
things being summed up in claim
amounted to one hundred and forty.
eight thousand dollars, which was pre-
septed to the Secretary of War, Edwin
NJ. Stanton, for payment. He did moi
pass the claim. 1t was presented to
Secretary Rawlins be rejected it.
Mr.. Bowler died. Pendle.on became
the administrator Of bis estate, and
took the four fifths of the railroad
stock of the estate aud at the first cleo.
tion of the railroad company just men,
toned had himself elected President ol
it, aud managed it as such. In the
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