Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-10-09
STRAY SHOT.
THE sxmausHERs OF ARGUMENT.
Great Facts IN Little Space-No Grains Of
Allowance for Those Who Would
Destroy the Country.

Destroy the Country.
Was it the Ohio idea, after all? 1t seem
not
The Ohio "ideen is now 5000 Republican
majority.
There seems to be panic among the Dem
ocratic President-makers.
The Graphic expresses the opinion that San
Tilden will become a nun. None like him now
Marble suggests tombstones. Perhaps h
will get place at the head OF Democracy, afte
all.
The silent agony of the Democratic edito
is the most moving spectacle of this storm,
epoch.
party must have convictions to win conf
dence The man who has no political faith is
thing Of putty.
1t was a favorite remark of the late Samue
]. TIlden, reformer. who died OF too muct
cipher, TO say ''I'll see you later"
1t would add fresh laurels to his brow i
Edison would invent a Democratic platform
upon which that whole party could stand.
Democrats are consollng the Greenbacker.
with the idea that though they may not carry
Pennsylvania this year, they win do so IN 1880.
There is at least one crumb of comfort fol
| f,af ba a. lai aua In
his little bed. He made 1t soft and he will lIt
easy.
The only fixed principle the Democratic
party has is its unwavering advocacy OF foreign
pauper labor against American industry and
enterprise.
| The Tribune says the cipher dispatches
which have been published compared with
those Thai are TO come are a penny whistle 10
| a afog-horn.
| Fernando Wood is financially embarrassed;
| he is bad of politically, too, and is truly In
condition TO sympathize with the great Demo-
cratic party.
The music of the Greenback song appears in
| the Graphic. Every note is marked on the back,
''This is million dollars, " but the song doesn Z
seem 10 sing well for all that.
The fiat men in Ohio lost a grand oppor-
| tunity 10 put their principles in practice They
| should have got together a few votes early, and
declared ''this is a majority
An exchange says the crop of hay and oats
| Is so large In Maine that IL is cheaper to be a
Jackass than a man. The greenback craze down
| there was then really question Of cheapness.
Thurman is satisfied that he was cheated
when he traded with Pendleton a seat in the
Senate for Presidential chances. He would
| like to have '.Gentleman George" take the rag
baby back, at all events.
Cincinnati paper says you can't make a
diphtheria patient drunk. 1t is evident that
Democratic politicians don't have the diph-
iberia, and Il is gratifying TO know there is
disease they haven't got.
The Greenbackers have proved themselves
better takers than they are voters, as shown
by the result of the elections in the west; but
they are altogether too strong 10 be made light
OF by the friends Of honest money.
tduuludlc DlIullCh, vi lilt It itctulH tOil-
gressional district, must feel lonesome. Nearly
all the Democratic papers refuse 10 support
him. He is realizing how much easier IL is TO
humbug a convention than the public,
The Democratic papers have forgotten all
about the fact that there was an election in
Maine. That Greenback party that fought SO
braveIy in September forgot the better part of
valOr, and did not live TO fight another day.
The mortality among Democratic states
men this year is positively frightful. Mr.. TIL
den dies OF too much cipher. Mr.. Thurman OF
too much "ohio idea. - Mr.. Hendricks Of too
much Communism, and all the Massachusetts
Democrats of too much Butler.
Senator Wallace began speech the other
day in this way: There is something the mat
ter. What is it?'' In Ohio II seems 10 he
great slaughter of windmills; in Pennsylvania
it seems to be that the people begin 10 wake
up and realize the danger that threatens.
The Brooklyn Eagle cannot discover why
John Kelly should hate Mr.. Tilden, whose only
crime consists IN his having been elected Presi
dent OF the United States. We rejoice at the
remark. 1t shows that Mr.. Tilden is charged
WIN Cilluc Va Hc ISL
The Republican party believes in the en-
forcement of law and the punishment of crime
that what a man honestly earns or becomes
possessed of he shall be protected in enjoying.
Democracy is the party of lawlessness, riotous
demonstrations, repudiation; Greenbackism is
its side show of financial Jugglery.
Senator Hendricks has done well, but he
is wishing just now that he had drawn it a trife
sitter on the currency question. Mr.. Hendricks
can read the mystic writing on the wall just
well as any man In politics, and IL says that in
1880 one of the signs out before both camps will
be, '.No Greenbackers or Infationists need APP
ply
A desperate effort is making by the Demo
cratic journals OF the oil regions 10 get some
credit out OF the passage of the Pipeline bill.
The record OF the Senate shows that ten Repub-
licans and an eqnal number OF Democrats
voted for the bill, but the record is by no means
favorite source OF authority for Democratic
editors They prefer to draw on their imagi-
nation for facts.
The Republican party proposes that the
dollar for which the mechanic and laboring
man works shall be the best dollar in the world
Democracy and Greenbackism declare that IL
shall be piece of paper the value of which
shall change as often the moon does IL not
as often as the tides OF the ocean rise and fall,
subject TO the caprice of gamblers and specula-
tors.
Secretary Schurz states, and states cor
rectly, that one-fourih of the national debt has
hsnfa linn fdaf a.4 e.,
summer of 1865. At the same rate of payment
the entire debt would be paid In 1917; but as
the resources of the country are sure TO in
crease, we have no doubt OF the debt being ex-
tinguished about the year 1907, when the thirty
years. four-per-cents. will fall due
Colonel Victor +. Piollett, State Master of
the Pennsylvania Grangers can take his place
by the side of Rise-up William Allen, OF Ohio.
The latter declared that resumption OF specie
payments was ID barren ideaiity. - Mr..
Piollett goes him one better, and says that the
assertion that paper has no intrinsic value is
''the fallacy OF the age. :" He regards IT more
valuable than silver or gold, because pals and
car-wheels are made OF 1t, and houses built of
it.
Whatever progress in industrial strength the
Republic has made In the last seventeen wears
is attributable largely to the influence of firm
adherence 10 the protective tariff policy. Dur
ing the most of the time, the Democratic party
has repeatedly attempted reduce all the pro-
tective duties, and has assaied all the states
men advocating those duties as corrupt incom-
petent. stupid and ignorant. In that period we
have had but two Democratic Congresses and
both OF them have made desperate attempts TO