Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-10-23

additional as recorders Ices, ana ft6 were
closed and remained closed.. The amouut
of money which Recorder Quay paid into
the State Treasury is $4,000, and the
amount of his ten per cent. fees in the 706
cases is S3 $50.
Boiled down, the result In the first i've
months of the office is the collection of
$35, 300 revenue from source which could
not be reached IN any other way, and the
closing of 796 of the low groggeries where
liquor was sold secretly and illegally.
know of no late legislation which has been
so productive of good, morally, socially
and financially. N. EDGAR KING.
Altoona, Oct. l6, 1878.
We have no space to consider Mr..
Randall's capital and labor sophistry.
He closed BY asking that they vote to
put out the Republicans who have been
in Congress IL, Is and 90 years, but
be did not say that because he has been
in Congress l6 years he should be re-
tired, The reform movement of retir.
ing himself because he has been there
l6 years, be forgot.
Mr.. Stenger was introduced, and
struck the subject at neither end, but
in the middle, by referring to the elsc-
tion of 1875, aud the defeat of Mr..
Tilden, who he declared was elected by
both the popular vote, and the electoral
vote. He said be blushed because Mr.
Tilden had failed to get into the Presi-
Dental char, but if be did blush, no
one saw the red. 1t is true that Mr..
Tilden had . msjority Of the popular
vote. Other Presidents have had tue
same, and still we're not elected 70 the
Office under the forms of the Constitu-
ton. If the popular vote of certain
Congressional districts are taken in the
State of West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana
and Iowa, the Republicans would have
a majority of thirty seven thousand st
the late elections. But when be said
that Tiiden had a majority of the cleo.
toral vote, righteously obtained, he
made a mistake. In this connection he
might have referred to the cipher dis
patches that have lately been revealed,
that were sent to the South to buy cleo
tors for Mr.. Tilden. He might have
told how the dispatches revealed that
Tilden's friends were willing to pay
Se5, 900 for electors in South Carolina,
$50, 900 for electors in Florida, aud
$4,000 for an elector in Oregon. He
is one of the Potter Committee. Why
did be not tell why it was necessary to
go into three States and offer one hun
dred and forty-three thousand dollars
for electors, if they had secured them
at the polls
When he was talking about the Til
den popular vote, he might have told
that both the popular and electoral
vote of this State we're cast for Hayes,
and yet in defiance of that clear fact
he proposed that one Of the Electors of
Pennsylvania should be cast for Tilden,
so that in truth his own argument, if
applied to himself, cuts his speech into
pieces, for be claimed it as a benefit
for TiIden in the Nation and does not
wish to recognize it in this State where
it had, also, the backing of the elector-
al vote He proposed in Congress to
give enc of the electors of this State
to Tllden. He might have told how
he voted to put off the settlement of
the Tilden and Hayes wrangle, and how
his every act looked to the Inauguration
of revolution on the 4th of March,
1877, how he voted against the decis-
lon of the Electoral Commission as re.
CARDS South Carolina, Florida and
Louisiana. He did not say, but he
might have said, vote for nae, for l did
all knew how to get up new rebel
lion over the Tilden and Hayes wran-
gle
The next important point that he
struCk was the extravaganza Of the
times. which he charged or the Re-
publicans. He forgot that the extrav-
agance of the country grew out of the
war. He forgot the first cause; be
forgot that the war was the first cause
of extravagance. He forget, or bad
never stopped to consider that as to TO-
dividuals in private life, in business h,e,
in political life, that the Democrat is as
e1travagant as other people. He for
got that 10 Legislatures, and in Con.
gress the Democratic members are as
extrayagant as other people, and if be
bad asked his audience to examine the
WAYS Of the living of the citizens of
Miffiintown, and Juniata county, they
would have told him that the examine
tions reveal as many extravagant Dem
ocrats as other people. From extrav
agance he stepped to
ECONOMY,
and that vas his point, or the point that
be tried to make was, that because the
appropriations in Congress have been
reduced thirty millions, and because be
proposes to reduce the Presidents sal
airy from $4,000 to $25, 900, that they
are an economical party. He claimed
great credit for the reductions. He
called the House saving House. He
declared that the Democracy is enti-
tied to great credit for such reduction
of appropriation. Talented, and pene-
trsting as Steuger is, it is just possible
that be never Saw that the shrinkage in
prices is the cause of the reduction OF
appropriations, for everything that is
needed now is bought at one-half its
former price. Iti possible that be has
not noticed that ship building, and the
furnishing of the munitions of war, and
property of all kinds, and material of
all kinds, and wages, too, have shrunk-
en- from their former prices, from half
to one-third their former prices, and
that therefore the appropriations are
sbrunken to lower figure than when
everything was up to imitation prices.
He forgot, or did not not see that when
be claims the credit Of the reduced ap-
Preparations which grew out of the
sbrinkage of prices, be, also, could not
help claiming the credit on the shrink
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