Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-06-04
Letter from an Old Jaeksonian Democrat
of Greenwood Township.
NEAR SEVEN STAR TAVERN, /
MAY 81. 1879. {

been down TO the Stars this evening, and as
| walked home through the shimmeriag
silver light of tie moon | could not help
but feel that tonight the two lite months Of
all the year are joined together. The two
months meet. Mays merry, mirthful strug-
s'e against cold End frost WAS but for June.
They meet to-night-May and Jdne-and
happy, joyous meeting it viii be. They
saw leaves, and grass and all srch things
breathe. d. they !eel Do they speak
when they rustic in the breeze? Do they 2
Who knowsl We are told thai among Ger
tain kinds of plant life, two sexes exist. Is
that ;rue9 Is it true that there is a male
and female among plants man and a
woman Be that as it may, tonight is the
night that men go among the omen. and
mary man is now declaring 10 the object
Of his love, L am
Thine own true knight,
By day or night,
Or ary kind of light,
With all my might,
For thee to light
G:..S are often entrapped By such sweet
iingling promises into reliance on men who
are not worthy OF the trust of good girl.
Old Hickory was often told of how the men
deceive the women, aDd by way OF consola-
rioa he generally repeated the following
verse in the hearing .. those who were
smartins under i4ise promises:
sSisi % more, ladies'. sigh no more,
,.rn were deceivers ever,
t-s, loot in sea, and one on shore,
To one thir . constant never
On tender night like this, the tenderest
suhiec:-tha. of man and a |om2n-ls
usually discussed at the Stars with relish,
tu. politics, which comes next, is ahead
new. and NAY be expected to lead all o;hel
questions till citer my cid party irieLd'
have settled he political question that is
booming among them DOW. You see my
old friends are getting their eyes rubbed
open 10 2 little b. of iigh;, and that lttl'
bit of Ught as enough 10 let them see ihs
no one in their party has the ghost oil
tain parties an.org them have taken thei
measure and pronounced on it. Ii 1t snit
the parties, all right; if not, the candidate
nust tate a back seat, and sit, and sit, sit
sit, sit till ne finds out that his turn is nevs
to come around.
Old Hickcry's idea Of .Lis government wa
that its Offices were not made for any par
ticuIar set of men neither did he believ
that everybody should be an Office seeker
b.t he believed thai when fellow wants
Office he shouiG have the right 20 go oefor
the people for the Office, and if they elec
him, ali well and good, and if they cleo
Lin to stay out of the Office, well and goo
again. Well, that's what my old friend
want to keep from being done. You kno
that nv cid party have the Delegate Sy'fer
er.d YOU know that few active men ca
run a system of that kind, and make nom
nations to suit themselves If Old hickor
could be about rq.,, he'd favor the ciectio
of United States Senators and President
by 6 popular vote. He would speak an
write in favcr of an amendment to the oil
fer-nt State Constitutions and the Constit'
ton of the United States so that Uni'e
State. Senators and President should sll
siected By direct vote of the people. IL
way the thing stands we elect Legislatur
and the Legislature elects the United ; tat
Senator. We elect an Electoral ColieS
and the Electoral College elect or count u
vote for the President. You see when u
government was made there vas no 9th
to pattern after, but the old kind that III
been in use over five thousand years, and
had got TO believed that the people cou
not be trused; it was thought mat III
could not be trusted TO elect I AIted = tat
Senator. or President direct. Old Hicko
vas one OF the people, and ne always sa
that while the people generally did sol
oueer things sometimes, they always mea
ripbt. Of course, he did not mean bad pt
ple. for they won't do right, but he me'
the general run of people meant to do rig
and when they did wrong tHey did Al
cause tney Olu nob
they were acting on. That was Old Hickor!
belief. and he had large experience IN
world. You know the people were wrong
biiudly following the lead of the Democra
and voting with them till they got up
Rebellion under Buchanan, but tney dla
know they were deceived, and they o'a
believe it when they were told OF II. In
did not believe it Till the Johpnies nreo
Sumpter; that opened the eyes of 'he ma
and they swung around
1t may be so that the mos' Oh Ps
ple are reader to adopt the oad slds
humankind, than TO adopt the good ''de