Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-01
their friends. and not before. IA voice" rha.


them III the race of life. And, Mr. Democrat, he
will do 1t unless you attend to your business.
The simple fact that you are white cannot save
you always You have got to be industrious,
honest, and cultivate a sense of justice. II you
don't. the coio1ed race will pass YOU as sure as
you live. anifor giving every man chance.
Anybody thit can pass me is welcome. Ia
voice, " There can't many do it." 1 believe,
my friends, that the intellectual domain of the
future, like the land used TO be in the State OF
Illinois, is open topre-emption. The fellow that
gets a fact first, that IS his that gets an idea
first, that is his. Every round in the ladder OF
fame, from the one that touches the ground TO
the last one that leans against the shining sum-
NIT Of human ambition belongs to the foot that
gets upon IL first Applause. Mr.. Democra.
q point down because they are nearly all on the
first round of the ladder), If you can't climb,
stand on one sideandlet the deserving negro pass.
/ must tell you one thing. / have told it so
much, and you have all heard it, ! have no
doubt, fifty times from others, but I am going
to tell it again because like it:
Suppose there great horse-race here to day,
free TO every horse in the world, and to all the
mules, and all the scrubs, and all the donkeys.
AT the tap of the drum they come to the line,
and the judges say, i" Is it go.' Let me ask
you, what does the blooded horse, rushing ahead,
with nostrils distended, drinking in the breath
OF his own swifJness, with his name hying like
a banner of victory, withhis veins standing out
all over him as if a net of life had been east
around him-with his thin neck, his high
withers, his tremulcus Hanks-what does he
care how many mules and donkeys run on that
track. Prolonged and deafening laughter.
But the Democratic scrub, with his chuckle-
head and lop ears. with his tail full of cookie
burs, jumping high and short, and digging in
the ground when he feels the breath of the
coming mule on his cockie-bur tail, he is the
chap that jumps the track and says /" / am
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roar.ous laughter
My friends, the Republican party is the blooded
horse in the race. A yoice-'Anything may
follow that wants to-" Laughter. / stood Il.
little while ago in the city of Paris where stood
the Bastile, where now stands the Column Of
July. surmounted by the figure Of Liberty. In
its right hand is broken chain, In its left hand.
q banner; upon its forehead glittering star,
ami as looked upon il said, such u the Re-
publican party of my country.
The other day going along the road came
TO the place where the road had been changed
but the guide-board was as they had put il.
twenty years before. II pointed diligently IN
the direction of desolate field. Now, that.
guide-post has been there for twenty years.
Thousands of people passed but nobody
needed the hand on the guide post, and IL
stuck there through storm and shine, and II
pointed as hard AS ever as if the road was.
through the desolate field, and / said to my
United States" Laughter and applause.
The other day came to river where there
had been . mill; part of it was there yet.
An old sign said, "Cash for wheat" Laugh
teri The old watcr-wheel was broken /; il had
been warped by the sun, cracked and split by
many winds and storms. There hadn't been n.
grain of wheat ground there for twenty years.
There was nothing in good order but the dam :
IL was as good dam l ever saw, and ! said,
70 myself, "Such is the Democratic party" J"
lRerewed laughter.
vas going along the road the other day,
when came to where there had once been n.
hotel But the hotel and barn had burned.
down; nothing remained there but the TWO
chimneys, monuments of the disaster In the
road there was an old sign, upon which there
were these words: Entertainment for man
and beast" The word "man" was nearly
burned out, There hadn't been . hotel there
for thirty years. That sign had swung and
creaAed in the wind; the show had fallen.
upon il in the winter, the birds had sung upon
it in the summer. Nobody ever stopped at
that hotel but the sign stuck 70 il, and kept
swearing TO it, Entertainment for man and
beast; !" and / said to myself, "Such is the
Democratic party OF the United States"
[Laughter.l And I turther said, " One Chin
ney ought TO he called plden and the other
Hendricks" (Reneved and continued cheer
now, my friends, both of these p.rtie. have
candidates. The Democratic party trots oUt
Samuel J. Tilden. WHO is hei He Is q man
that advertises his honesty and reform, the
same as people advertise quack medicines. In
every Democratic pa;Jer in the United States he
has advertisements iof his honesty and reform.
Samuel. Tilden'is al sttorney-alegal spider
that weaves webs 0F technicalities, and catches
in its meshes hone t incorporated flies. He has
stood on the sho1 Of bankruptcy and clutched
the drowning by '-he throat Samuel J. Tilden
is demurrer THAT the Confederate Congress has
filed against the amendments to the Constitu-
ton Of the Unit ed States. Samuel J. Nlden is
an old bacheloI IL a country depending upon
the increase Of its population for its glory and
honor [cheers and laughterl, to elect an cid
bachelor is suicidal policy. Renewed and
prolonged lsughterl. Think of a man sur
rounded by beautiful women, dimpled cheeks,
coral lips, p arly teeth, shining eyes i think Of
a man throw ing them all away for the embrace
Of the Democratic party. Laughter. Such n
man does . OF know the value of time. Laugh
ter.
Samuel J. Illden belongs to the Democratic
party OF 7he city of New York. That party
never haf. but two obiects-grand and petit
larceny. tLaughter.l They rarely elect a
man 20 office except for q crime committed.
They ddn't elect on a crime credit; it must be
thing they could lay their hands on, and, nv
God, ilat hands When they had stolen all
the pc ople could pay the interest on they
elsppefl thsir enormous hands upon their spa
cious pockets and shouted for honesty and
form. Samuel J. TIlden has been pupil in
that school, He has been teacher in that
school. He was reared In Tammary Hall,
which bears The came relation to penitentiary
as the Sunday school 20 q church. Applause.
More than bis, when the rebellion began they
called mex lng ct Union Square, in the city of
New York. b YVES Of great importance how the
city Of New York should 90. No man refused 10
sign that petition in the city of New York but
one, and that man was Samuel J. Tilden. A man
that will not lend his name to save his country
never should be the President Of that country.
You offered. to save your lives, and be would aot
give his infamous name.
Now, my friends, want you to vote the Re
publican ticket A voice, We will do IT."
| want you 10 swear you will not vote for = man
who opposnd putting down the rebellion.
want you 10 swear you will not vote for q man
opposed to the proclamation Of emancipation.
/ want you. TO swear that you will not vote for
a msn opp osed to the utter abolition Of slavery.
want you. to swear that you will never vote for
4 man who. called the soldiers in the field Lin
coin hirei;hnys. want you 70 swear that you
as tyranr. want You to swear that you will
and talk % every Democrat that you can zee !;
him, like Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, with
mean things his party ever did tell him kindly;
tell him in Christian spirit, as / do, but tell
him. Applause and laughter Recollect