Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-06-30

power. The sentiment is right
enough, but it awakens smile when
it is realized what a mockery such q
resolution is in the face of the fact
that all civilians have been put aside
and a military man taken as candi-
date to administer the civil Democ-
racy. An Indian would shrug his
shoulders and say, ugh! me no un-
derstand dat" and white people can
see no further.
The FIFTH resolve is in regard to a
free ballot Here again the Democ-
racy introduce the clap-trap, for Re
bellion was crushed out that the free
dom of the ballot and common rights
may be preserved and enlarged.
The SIXTH resolve is in regard to
the use of the military on election
days. If the reader will just reflect
that the efforts of the Democratic
leaders to divide and destroy the Re
public was the first cause of all the
ballot-box legislation they will better
understand the Cincinnati Conven-
ton when it ventilated itself through
the sixth resolution.
The SEVENTH resolve is in regard to
the Tilden and Hayes campaign and
the wrangle that followed, when it
became known that the election was
SO close that one elector was claimed
by both parties. The resolution ig-
nores the fact that the Democracy
were not satisfied that the regular
means as provided in the Constitu-
ton should be employed to deter
mine the count They do not tell
that they clammored for a commits
sion till Congress gave them one,
and that when the very commission OF
their own choosing decided against
them, they still shout, "Hurrah for
Tildenl'
The EIGHTH resolve is 80 indefinite
that the reader inclines to the opin.
ion that the Convention overlooked
it. 1t must have been written by O
man who had been drenched on Gin
cinnati beer.
The NINTH resolve is q lefthanded
regret that Samuel J. Tilden has de-
clined to become a candidate for the
Presidency, the hollow mockery OF
which Mr.. Tilden will plainly under
stand when he looks at the simple
fact that the Cincinnati Convention
would not even allow his letter, de.
clining a nomination, to be read in
convention.
The TENTH resolve is not poison
GUS.
The ELEVENTH resolve is worthy OF
consideration.
The TWELFTH resolve is q double
one, and the first half of it may be
construed two or three ways.
The THIRTEENTH resolve is hard to
understand, for it claims to Ter pro
lection to the poor against both the
''cormorants, and the commune.
How the Democracy can claim to
protect the poor, when its leaders
were in favor of slavery, and set up
rebellion in the interest of slavery, is
one of the things that the Democra-
cy should explain. The inconsistency
of the thirteenth resolution is enough
to turn the reader against the party.
They had better left such clap-trap
stuff out.
The FOURTEENTH and last resolve
congratulates the country upon the
thrift of the Democratic Congress
in reducing the public expenditures
S40,000,000 a year. 1t congratulates
the country upon the promised
change of administration. As to the
S40,000,000 per year saved, that is
one of the clean cuts of the Dem.
ocracy, out of the "whole cloth As
to change of administration, that
viii be point to settle next Novem
ber.
The late Cincinnati Platform, with,
out anything else, should be suffi
cient to defeat the Democracy by a
large majority. Read the platform
as published in full in another col
umn.