Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-10-12

UsDEx the rules that govern the
primsry election OF the Republican
party IN Juniata county, citizens that
desire to present themselves as cam
didates for nomination are required
to be announced at least two weeks
previous to the time for the holding
OF the election. In the past autumn
when candidates were announced, no
one came forward fer the important
Office of Prothonotary. At the
twelfth hour, Wm. n. Allison took
advantage of the vacancy in the list
of candidates and announced himself
as candidate for the Office named
above. When he announced himself
the tiaae was about up to close the
nominations under the primary cleo
ton system, and he thus became q
nominee without a challenge. After
his announcement at the last moment
it mattered not that men felt that a
milestone had been hanged on the
necks of other candidates to carry.
the mistake could not be remedied,
for under Republican rules when q
candidate has no opponent at the
primary election it matters not
whether he receives IL votes or 1900
votes. The result with the IL votes
is the same as if he had received
1900 votes; in either case his name
goes on the ticket DIS announced
with other candidates-by the return
judges In such cases when candi-
date is Objectionable because Of habits
that unfit man for responsible office
and endanger the interest of other
people the only redress left is to un-
load; to not vote for the candidate
at the general election. In the sketch
Of the Republican candidates as pub
lished in these columns in the issue
following the primary election it be-
came painful duty to state the un
fitness of Mr.. Allison for the Office
of Prothonotary. He responds or
answers by declaring that the Senti-
mel and Republican opposes his cleo
ton because OF jealousy, which an
swer might do if left stand unchal-
lenged, as was his candidacy for the
primary nomination. If some good
man could have been announced after
his name had been presented he
would not now appear as among the
candidates announced for the gen
eral election. He has nothing of
which the editor of the Sentinel and
Republican can be jealous. His theory
of jealousy is an hallucination which
he unwittingly, but Justly, destroys
when he brings B. T. Burchfield for
ward to prove similarity of posi-
ton on the part of theSentinel and Re
publican in 1878 Mr. Burchfeld was
not a journalist. and there could not
possibly be journalistic jealousy in
his cese; but if Allison wishes to
use Burchtield as an illustration and
as club to knock his own halluci-
nation to pieces We cannot help
it, no more than we can help his bad
habits. If the editor of the Sentinel
and Republican had Office to bestow,
he would appoint largely from the
journalistic profession. He, however,
would reject such editors as indulge
in disreprutable writing and indulge
in drink to intoxication, just as soci-
ETY. rejects men that use disreputable
language and drink to intoxication
and make exhibition of themselves On
the streets and in public places, and
in newspaper articles when they have
the opportunity.
1t is high time for the Republicans to
resent the insolence of men that have
been everything, and are nothing
What right have they to berate Re
publicans that have always stood by |
principles' What right |
have they to berate anybody The
party is in earnest this
fall; its good name is at stake; un-
worthy men are being pressed for
ward, and are pressing themselves
forward into places that they cannot
fill for the public good. Office is for
the public good, and if men are put
into Office that are disqualified to dis
charge the trust, the public good must
suffer.