Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-06-18
The Primary Of the Democracy.
"They viii laugh best,
Who laugh List,
When the ur,y-burly's done,
When the battles lost and wou."

The evidence of tremendous
effort among the Democracy was
visible long before Saturday, the day
on which the clans met at the polls.
All last week quiet caucuses were
held wherever convenient, and the
leaders were Frenchy, and made it
convenient to hold their little meet
ing in the open air. A. . blacksmith
shop, ON the road in buggies, ON the
pavement. at street corners, indeed
everywhere, the work went merrily on
The one party had the word REFo2Min-
scribed on their escutheon the other
party had inscribed on their escutch-
con, The OLD WAYS ARE Coon ENOUGH.
As early as on Friday afternoon, Da-
vid Watts, a noted leader, having no
fences to repair, no patients to see,
or no clients to consult, must needs
so Milford township to repair some
kind of an old threshing machine
Theorus Garman was going about like
a stalwart of the unterrified, declar-
ing that he knew nothing of the mat
ter in hand, but he could not under
stand how minority candidates so
frequently came TO the front to carry
the banner. Senator Crawford was
busy attending to the sick his pock-
cts were fairly bulged out with pills,
and Binks stepped around as briskly
as if the yellow fever or some other
dreadful malady had broken out in
the community. Ezra Parker was
never more attentive to working up
the social part, and visited all the old
ladies in town. John Mccoy sus
pended operations as far as his own
individual work was concerned on
the railroad, and turned in for a fair
play tit. Professor Stone visited the
Upper End, and Bob Parker popped
his Jokes and worked. and intimated
that he could tell Garman something
about how to get minority candi-
date to the front. Southard Doty
WAS rubbing up his circulation for the
convention. DR.. Elder was interest
ed in the Sunday-schools immensely,
in which useful employment Mr.. Pat
terson was scarcely a step behind 3;
but with all that they both managed
to take shy at REFORM and The OLD
WAYS. Dave Hetrick and DR.. Ar
mold had journalistic business early
on Saturday with Bonsall and Jack
man. and for some reason or other
Sheriff Loudon's new well lost its
attraction. Some one must have
fallen awful sick in the Lower End
so sick indeed that a doctor was
needed, and a lawyer was needed,
possibly the latter to make a will.
Be that as it may, DR.. Fisher and
Lawyer Jacobs went down on Sun
day. Hollobaugh forgot all about
game and fish laws, and broke out in
Patterson to surprising extent
A book might be written of the
work of the lovers of REFORM and
the lovers of The OLD WAYS, for as it
was about town SO it was in the town
ships. The hurly-burly of reform
and OLD WAYS WAS even greater in
the townships than in town, for in the
latter a sort OF compromise was
gotten up-that only one set of dele
gates should be run, while in a NUM-
Der oi the townships two sets were
run. The poll in Fermanagh town
ship WAS o.e hundred, nearly the
whole Democratic vote there. In
Walker the poll was 127, which seems
20 point out how the battle was
stirred up by the leaders.
On Monday morning as early as I
o'clock there was a noticeable com
motion among the leaders about town.
Senator Crawford established his
heada uarters in his Office, and thither
frequent pilgrimages were made and
caucuses beld. Editor Garman had
his headquarters in the street. E. ID.
Parker yamoosed the ranch, and
did not put in an appearance, Bon
sail was around, bat felt as if he had
been led to the sacrifice. He might
have dictated his own nomination,
but somehow, willingly or unwilling.
ly he allowed the people of the "old
way to give him away. +. 5. Par
ker was early out to hold aioft the
banner of REFORM. Represen tative
Banks lowered his one shoulder, drew
back a foot, shut one eye, and threw
himself into position as if he was
about to receive a blow from a shoul-
der hitter. Sheriff Walls was using
the persuasive art, and Lawyer Nc
Meen Strengthened himself up, looked
ON, philosophical on how crooked
things can be made straight, and with
drew with a shake of the head
Burchfeld once in while stood and
looked on, as if calculating the chances
for a triplet, that must, if christened,
embrace the name of Democrat-Na-
tional Greenbacker. Meanwhile a
steady stream of local Democratic
politicians and lavmen came pouring
into town until the circle of recogni-
ton and hobnobbing that the candi-
dates were almost of necessity con-
PEELED to make, was so large that to
go around it was hard on the nervous
system.
The work of the Democracy on
Monday speaks well for their energy,
but their system contrasts most un-
favorably with that employed by the
Republicans to nominate candidates.
With the Democracy it is a nervous
whirl and hurly- y-bruly With the Re
publicans it is an ''even tenor gath
ering whose duty is simply to sum
up the work done in the districts and
announce the names and give the or
ganized official stamp to the candi-
dates that have been elected by di-
rect vote of the people.
The CONVENTION.
Long before the Convention was
called, which was at 2 o'clock, the
Court House was filed.
The assembly was called to order
by Chairman Bonsall.
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