Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-08-25

Joseph Middagh was nominsted for
County Surveyor.
A resolution, offered BY EpLraim
Duncan nominating DR.. Arnold as
Chairman of the County Committee,
was passed.
MIR. Copenhaver reported series of
resolutions.
The 1st resolution was In regard to
Hancock and English, but it did not
state that the inscription over the chair
of the President of the convention left
English out entirely, and read T" Han
cock, Harmony and Victory" The
committee on resolutions should be
called, so as to get the resolution and
the declaration on the wall to bar
monixe.
The 2nd resolution started out with
q mention of the principles of the Re-
publican party, but it never stated one
of them; it did not state that the prin-
ciples of the Republican party abolished
slavery, and raised labor to the stature
of manhood. ltspoke of corruption,
just as if there has been no corruption
among the Democracy. 1t insinusted
that Garfield Is not pure man, but it
did not state that the millions of debt
resting on the Commonwealth, came
through the corrupt public improve
ment of the State during the days that
Democracy ruled in the State. 1t did
not state that all of the corruption that
was bred during rebellion came indi-
rectly to the surface through the war,
and is chargeable only to one place, and
that place is the organization of the
Democracy, for within its organization
rebellion was born and reared.
The 3rd resolution was in regard to
the Democratic nominees for Supreme
Judge and Auditor General.
The 4th resolution endorsed Senator
Wallace, but it did not tell that the
Senator's Congressional committee, that
was looking around in Northern cities
to find some business men who had
urged their workmen to vote as they
wanted them to vote, so that Wallace
could say that there are bull dosers in
the North, utterly failed, and that in.
stead of the frauds they looked for,
they found that in q number of the
wards of the Democrs.ic city Of New
York more votes are polled than all the
people there, men, women and children,
and the dogs, cats and cattle thrown in
to boot
The 5th resolution was an endorse
ment of the political course of Senator
d. N. Crawford.
The 9th resolution was IN endorse
meut of the course of Representative
Lucien Banks.
The 7th resolution was a high-falu-
ting glory shout for the ticket.
On motion the resolutions we're adopt
ed, as expressive of the true sense Of
the Democracy of Juniats county.
The next business was the announce
ment of the vote, as cast on Saturday,
for and against the change Of system Of
nominating candidates. The vote
stood, For the new system, 1892 votes ;
Against the new system, AZ votes.
There was little fun in all this for the
boys. Mr.. Fink, of Port Royal, con-
cluded to enliven them. He arose and
proposed three cheers for Genefal Win
field Scott English and the whole Dem
ocratic ticket, which was responded to
! by about one-teuth of the audience
quite lively.
The next business was the passage OF
a resolution that the Chairman of the
County Committee cali the County
Committee together on the first day
of December, 1880, to formulate and
systematic the system that had been
generally voted for on Saturday and
adopted by such an overwhelming vote
of the Democracy to provide for the
election of a Chairman of the County
Committee BY the people, and to pro
vide for the election of all the candi'
dates by the people, and all other
things that we're implied if not ex-
pressed in the election on Saturday.
Adjourned s,ne die.