Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-11-02
Communication.


FAYETTE TOWNSHIP. Oct. 90, 1881.
Editor Jania,a Sentinel and RepGbiican
l am Republican and have been since the
formation of the party, and there are some
matters upon which desire to be heard
| have also heard and seen the abuse which
has been showered upon number of re-
spected citizens of Juniata, because they
dared TO think, act and vote independently
There were twenty Republicans who voted
for Wellington Smith, and pray who are
these gentlemen Are they vagabonds,
horse-thieves, highway robbers or murder
ers Let me give you their names: ].
Nevin Pomeroy, Samuel Sieber, C. B Hcrn-
ing, Solomon Books, Michael Coldren, Solo,
mon Manbeck, Urah Shuman, Silas Shamp,
10 nathan Kiser, Henry Auker, Christian
Sh ely, William Fahnestock, Henry Page,
John Brown, Captain Lewis Degan, Lewis
Wilt, Edward Shiffer, John A. Mclaughlin,
A. W. Snyder, Isaac Book. l have some
kno Wedge of the families of Junists.
may say that l am well acquainted with
these gentlemen, and if you go through the
county of Juniata you cannot find twenty
more respectable citizens. They belong to
families that have been in the county for
almost a century. They and their ancestors
have been the architects of their own for
tunes, and the result of lives of honest toll,
and industry in the case OF many of them is
handsome fortunes They are gentlemen of
means, possessed of the respect and conf
dence OF their fellow-men-men of the
highest integrity and moral worth. These
twenty gentlemen concluded to act inde-
pendently of the machine, although the
machine politicians all over the county had
been gathered in, to tell Nevin Pomeroy,
Uriah Shuman, John Brown, Samuel Sic
Der, Isaac Book, Solomon Manbeck, Chris
tian Shelly, and the others how to vote.
These gentlemen acted independently, con-
scieDciously. ard selected the person whom
they believed TO be best qualified, just as
DR.. Wickersham suggested in the School
Journal, that politics should be eliminated
from the contest. But upon these twenty
men judgmen. has been pronounced. They
spotted in all the years of the future,
bounded and cursed. At all tEe stores.
street corners, hotels, and public places
they have been slandered, traduced, ma
lisned and abused and Professor J. J.
Patterson informed a certain gentleman,
and We challenge, and defy contradiction,
that it was the intention to punish all these
gentlemen. They will have the operation
of kari tdri performed upon them as the
opportunity offers. They win be slam aud |
offered up in installments. Now is the |
time fer these twenty gentlemen to rise to
the gravity of the occasion and strike down |
the men Shc have insulted their integrity |
and manhood, who have blackguarded and |
bounded them since the convention in May. /
Now is their opportunity, and let the thun-
der from their guns strike terror and con-
sternation into the ranks of the men who
have revifed them. Captain Patterson well
knows that he did not seek the nomination
for the Associate Judgeship, and when he
was nominated and the fusion idea was ad-
vanced and approved on a certain Monday
by Judge Junsfn, personal interviews were
sought with the Professor, and letters came
10 him from different parts of the county
pressing him to retire from the field, and
fearing that he would incur the hostility
md ilI-will of his party he finally yielded.
Republicans of Juniata voted for Captain
Patterson for Associate Judge, and four
teen members of the County Committee re-
Tersed the action, and placed in nomina-
ion for Associate Judge a man whose fam
ly has been Democratic for hundred
years. l cannot submit to such conduct.
{ is sub, ersive of the system of nomina-
ion in the Republican party in this county.
Under this precedent few designing men
,an strike at the very fountain of the Re-
publican system, and overturn the verdict
'endered at the polls. 1t inaugurates an
'ra vi c'asoiia' iuie III "niNn '-e "'
will of the people is Withdrawn.
IN the case of Mr.. Allison it became sppa-
ent to every observing Republican that for
lin to be candidate for Prothonotary was
mere farce. He commenced his political
.areer az a Republican then, in connection
Nth Mr.. Greer, conducted q Democratic
ournal, and, in consequence of the abuse {
,iven to Richard Doyle, Esq, who was
.andidsie for Sheriff, and to the late David |
3eshoar, candidate for Commissioner, he
sas prosecuted. Then again he became q {
republican and conducted Republican I
heet. On account Of the personsl abuse Of
citizen he was sgair Prosecuted for bel
D the courts Of Dsuphin county, and then