Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-05-31
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

Congressman at large. He wasnom
mated by the Harrisburg Republi
can Convention George Lear
who was President of the Har
risburg convention that nomina
ted Marshall says that, a new
convention must be called to nomi
nate man in place of Marshall, re
signed. He says that the State
Committee have no right to fill up 9
ticket, when part of the ticket re
signed 1t is an usurpation on the
part OF a committee to make nomi
nations unless the committee be
formed for the purpose, and the
State committee WAS not formed for
thst purpose. Lear is fundamen-
tally correct. State committees and
county committees have no right
whatever to withdraw the names of
candidates regularly nominated, and
set up whomsoever they please un-
less they have such authority del
.egated expressly by the people of
the party at the primary election,
or unless such authority be
conferred by convention that had
the authority from the people of the
party when electing convention off
GERS at the primary election. Lear
Is correct. State committees. and
county committees have no right to
nominate candidates to fill places
made vacant hy candidates that re-
signed, unless such power has been
expressly conferred upon the commit
tee by the power that called it into
beng. Nosuch power was conferred
by the Harrisburg Convention
upon the State Central Committee,
and Il that committee nominate
a candidate in place OF Marshall,
who has resigned, the usurpation will
be resisted 1t will not answer to
say that past Committees did such
things. The past is full of blunders
and outrages, upon the rights of the
people, and all precedents are trash
records when they are not OF the right
kind. II can be said that in Penn
syiyenia, once upon a time King
George the third reigned or ruled
this State, but who would want to
say 50, and use it as guide or pre-
cedent to go back to King rule
The Republican party is an advance
ing party IN the interest OF the people.
1t crushed out individual slavery.
That issue is dead beyond resurrection
for generations to come. The party
is nov about to enter upon career
10 perfect a system of rules for the
submission of all question of public
government to the people direct.
A system that submits all nominations
and elections to the people. The test
case Is to be made in Pennsylvania
now. The test has come sooner than
expected, and Marshall's resignation
will force men to take sides for the
right of nomination by the people,
or the old system of Committee rule.
The State Committee should not
make nomination to fill the place
made vacant by Marshalls resigna-
ton. A new State convention made
up of delegates elected by members
of the Republican party, Is the prop
er authority to supply q candidate
for the vacancy for Congressman at
large. Tie Republican party was
strong enough to manage a bloody
war successfully against slavery, is 1t
strong enough to give the country a
truly representative government
from the lowest to the highest; or
must it die in struggle with itself
for the spoils Of Office, and bossism!
The hour OF the test is here, the
Republican party must die or go
higher.
A TERRIFIC storm devastated part
of Polka county, Arkansas, on Tues
day May %. Fifty farms were de-
vastated; houses, barns and fences
were swept away, and a number of
lives were lost. Several churches
were demolished. The damageis said
to be not less than S1S0,000.
CITIZENS of Lafayette Indiana, are
ready to go to war with Germany,
because Barney Horotman, who set
tied near Lafayette years ago, and
in due time was fully naturalzed as
a citizen of the United States, and
who 4 months since went to Germany
to see his parents, has been seized
and imprisoned in Munster. When
he left Germany for this country 8
years ago, he WAS under orders to re-
port for military duty. Such is the
statement that the Layfayette people
send abroad. If their statement is
correct King William doubtless will
gracefully relinquish the ex subject
It is too late IN the 18th century for
European Governments to tell Amer
lea that an honest man, may not sew
er his citizenship in his native coun-
try, and become citizen of foreign
government. The people of TINS
country will not stand up in defense
of the forgers, thieves, defaulters,
and murderers that come to this
country, and become naturalized cit
liens. if they are called upon under
the law to answers for their crimes
Bat they are ready to defend all reg
ularly naturalized citizens, from be-
ing forced to serve in European ar
mics, perchance because they left
their native land before they had
been called into the army. The
attention of King William should be
directed to the causes that brought
about what the Americans call the
war OF 1912.
The York Republican doesn't be-
lieve in being defrauded by persons
who lift the papers for q series of
years and then leave without paying
up. 1t publishes a ''black list of
fourteen subscribers with names,