Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-05-22

with honor and dignity until the en-
SUNG election, when one of the dom
inant party was chosen to succeed
him. In person he is full six feet i,
height, we'll proportioned, and of g
dlgnihed presence. He was married
In 1855 to Miss Mary E. Loveland.
CHARLES W. STONE.
the nominee for Lieutenant Governor
was born at Grotou, Mass June 20,
1913 he graduated at Williams
Coilege in 1868. having paid his way
through by teaching In vacation. Soor
after finishing his collegiate course he
became Principal of the Union Acad.
emy at Warren, and continued in
charge until appointed Superinteudsn'
OF the schools of Warren county, in
March 1855. During the summer OF
1866 he entered the Office of Judge
Wetmore, of Warren as a student at
law, and in September, 1867, ae was
admitted to practice in the several
Courts of the county. La the fall of
1868 he was elected to the State House
OF Representatives from. the Warren
and Venango district. In 1870 he was
reelected without opposition, the
Democrats paving him the compii-
ment of declining to put man IN the
field against him. In 1876 he was
elected to the State Senate for two
years, carrying bis district BY 400
more votes than we're cast for Pesident
Hayes. In the latter body he has ta-
ken leading position, b.ing chairman
OF the Judiciary (generaD Committee
HON. JAMES P srERRErr.
the candidate for Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court, was born in the
Tuscarora Valley, Juniata county,
on the 9Th of November, 1922. He
received his preliminary education at
the Tuscarora Academy and graduated
from Jefferson College in 1915. Hav
ing read law at Carlisle, and completed
bis course at the University of Virgin
Ia, be was admitted to the bar of that
State 10 lS4S. In the spring of lS49,
in partnership with the late Judge
Bond, be began the practice of law IN
Pittsburg. 10 1861 lie was appointed
on a commission authorized by the
Legislature to revise the revenue laws
Of this Commonwealth, but resigned
after acting in that capacity for brief
period. On the 4th of January, 1862.
he was appointed President Judge of
the Court of Common Pleas of Allie
gheny county, to fill the vacancy occa-
stoned BY the death of the Hon. Will
liam Il. Mcclure, and in the fall of the
same year was elected by the Republi-
can party to fill the President Judge
ship for term of ten years. In 1872
he was again unanimously nominated
for this position by the Republican
County Convention, and was reelected
without any opposition from the Dem.
ocrats. On the 26th of February 1877,
he was appointed by Governor Hart
ranft to fill the position of Associate
j ustice of the Supreme Court, made
vacant by the death of Associate JUS
tice Henry w. Williams. This ap-
under the Constitution, was
for the remainder of the year only. He
was confirmed BY the State Senate on
the day ofhis appointment by the Gov
ernor, and he assumed his seat on the
bench of our highest Court at session
held in Philadelphia on the 18th of
March of last year.
At tie Republican State Convention
held In September last, he was nomina-
ted By acclsmation for the seat be then
held temporarily. but was defeated by
Judge Trunkey, the Democratic can
iidate In early life Judge Sterrett
was an Old Line Wing, and be has been
an earnest Republican ever since the
of the latter party. He
has always been prominently identified |
with educational and progressive move
nents.
AARON X. DCNkEL.
State Senator Dunkel, who was
nominated by the Republican party,
for Secretary of Internal Affairs, is
we'll known and very popular in Phila-
ielphia. He is a native of Lancaster
county, the peculiar Dutch dialect of
which he still speaks, and is now forty
one years of age. After learning the
typographical trade in Lancaster city
MIR. Dunkel removed to this city in
1856 and worked for time at the case
On the Daily Pennsyiuanian At the
outbreak of the war he enlisted in the
Eighteenah Regiment, Pennsylvania
Volunteers. He was a gallant soldier
and won deserved promotion. He par
ticipated in all the battles of the Army
IF the Potomac, was a prisoner in Lib
BY and came out of the army with the
rank of captain, having served as aide
lie camp to General Patrick, Provost
Marshal of the Army of the Potomac.
In 1867, with a number of other prac-
teal printers, be began the publication
If the Sunday Republic, a journal which |
has prospered under his management
and that of hi. associates. In 1874
be was elected to the State Senate from
the Sixth district and reelected again |
in 1876.
THE PLATFORM.
The republican party of Pennsyl- |
Vania, adherIng 20 its historical record |
and to its principals heretofore often
affirmed, declares.
First. That it is uncompromisingly !
opposed TO free trade, in whatever dis-
yuise presented; uuchangingly devoted !
to the principals of protection to home
industry, and hereby avows its special
and direct hostility to the ta-iff bill
now pending in Congress, the same be-
ing in the interest of importers aud for
slgn manufacturers and IL opposition to
American labor.
Second. That labor being the great
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