Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-09-14
Republican State Convention.

LAAC 4tCpi-tnCtl t0o<ktt ODuStUtlOl
net at Harrisburg last Thursday fol
the purpose Of nominating a candi
date for State Treasurer.
+ General Harry White wes elected
President. Among the Vice Presi
dents were S. N. Shelly, native OF
this county but now a citizen of Mont
gomery county, and II. A. STAN
baugh, of Juniata county.
Silas N. Bailey, of Fayette county,
and William I. Davies, of Bradford
county, were put in nomination foi
the Office of State Treasurer.
The ballot resulted, Bailey, 157
Davies, 81.
["Silas II. Bailey was born in
Brownsville, Fayette county. in 1886,
and is consequently In his 45th year.
He was educated in the common
schools of his native county, and
then entered the iewelry business, in
which he has since continued. AT
the commencement of the war he
recruited company of three months
men in Greene county, but Pennsyl-
vanias quota having been filed they
could not be mustered in. When the
call for three years men was made
this company rendered their services
and were mustered in as company !
of the Eighth Pennsylvania Reserves.
MIR. Bailey was commissioned cap
tain He was soon promoted for gal
lantry to the majorship of his regi-
ment, and subsequently became its
colonel Shortly before the war
closed he was brevited brigalhsr gen
eral for gallant end msritorious SER
vice in the battle of the Wilderness.
After being mustered out be returned
to Uniontown, Fayetts county, where
he has since resided. He has never
held public Office. He has been 8
candidate for Congress, but by 'res-
son of the heavy Democrats 1nsiori-
ty IN his district Was defeated, though
he ran far ahead OF his ticket He
was q delegate to the National Con-
vention at Chicago, and was one of
the 306"]
The Convention passed the follow
ing resolutions
/. Resolred, That the Republican party
of Pennsylvania is in the most hearty ac-
cord with the administration of President
Garfield, and while uniting in the prayers of
nnnd ff.r tls Nv
pledges continued fealfy and the most active
support in the prompt aud courageous cor
rection of all governmental abuses. As Re-
publcans We are ia favor of ANY proper and
well-considered reform. either in the gov
ernment of the Nation, the State, munich
pslity or county and We court suggestions
10 any or all of these ends, and only ask
that in their advocacy well-establisbed safe
guards shall not be hastily supplshted by
experiments The administration Vi Presi-
dent Garfield has set the right example in
this direction, and while firmly adhering to
the principles and better practices Of the
great party which called il into existence,
il yet insists upon faithfulness and honesty
in every branch of the public service. The
bullet of an assassin should interrupt this
work. 1t should be pursued while its su-
thor lives, and beyond his life, if through
away
D Re,oJr,d The Renubl;can Marty has
aver beeD ,,rogressive and reforma,ory and
ubiIe re.I;ling that nothing in goyernment
i wboIIr righI we desire I, IN he aIwav,
hrave enoreb 70 seek every avenue of an
nro,cb 70 the RIGHT 10 tbe end Thar all on,
may ersr-increasing bIass;ngs of
good goyernmant
Rc,oJrsJ That to President lanes A
Garfield this tender and loving This st,uc-
gl;ng and suffering tbi. nur,. sno hr.vr NAV.
now becomes the bslov,d of tbi. neonI.. and
the admired of an neonles We Tender for
onrsalyes ana our const;tn.n,s .ssur.ncs.
of deem and heartfelt svnnathv: and keen
lv annreciating the value Of sncb a life 70
his country we axnress the nr,verful bons
that he may soon he restorad Ia tb,. d.
cbarge of the innortsnt dnties 70, which bs
Is remarkabIv ouslifed and from which by
a peculiarly infamous crime and in unde-
served assault upon whom for conscien-
tioue eAeIClse oi proper LAccutNe power,