Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-06-14

ALL tnleves and murderers Jugtl1
themselves hom some stand poin
SO that is no wonder and no excel
ton to hear Guiteau, the murdert
of President Garfield persist in ju
tifying himself.
The North .dmertedn says; An /,
geniously superstitious person ha
found out why it is that the countr
has not been doing SO well for th
past twelve months, why the crop
have failed and business been depre.
sed, why the balance of trade Ia
been turned against us, and winte
fingered so unconscionably in the La
of spring. He attributes this 81
Iquence of misfortunes and reverse
to the fact that the country has
monumental Jonah within its border
in the person of Charles J. Guiteau
and he insists upon it that so long a
Mr. Garfeld's assassin remains in tn
land of the living, and the murder o
last July is unavenged. we need no
expect that fortune will smile upor
rs. There is something original il
that theory at any rate. and time wa
when it might have found genera
acceptance, but the evil complained
of will soon be removed. Guiteau':
time is growing short.
Four outlaws robbed the Brook
field, Kansas bank, in broad daylight
on last Thursday. Two of the rob
bers went into the bank. and held a
pistol to the head of the man and
woman cashiers that were there
Some $1,000 were handed over the
counter. One of the outlaws stood
guard at the door, and the 4th thief
held four horses in an alley near by.
The whole party went to the alley,
mounted the horses and rode away
Citizens gave chase all night; the
next morning the outlaws were sur
rounded in a piece of woods, and
a guard is kept over the
jaii in winch they are, to keep the
people from taking them out and
hanging them Wouldn't it be Just
as well for the cashiers of banks to
have a revolver ready under their
counter, and when an outlaw de-
mands their money, to reach down
and hand him ont n dose of lead.
Society would be benefited this way.
a great deal more than by catching
the thieves and sending them 30 jail.
A NUMBER of Union and Confeder-
ate officers visited Gettysburg battle
field, and walked arm in arm over the
ground that they fought each other
On, nineteen years ago. The reun-
on took place last Wednesday. The
war is over. The cause that led to
t. and the bloody struggle can never
De forgotten. The consequences,
which are free northern system of
government throughout the Repub-
ic, are accepted and recognized by
he people of this country, and all
he civilized governments of the
world as fully as are the results
If the revolutionary wars of 1776,
md 1872. The bloody shirt
AN no longer be Haunted
successfully for political purposes
before the eyes of intelligent men,
or everything that it represented is
lead beyond resurrection. The thing
% do is to harmonize the sections
lpon questions of more perfect local.
state. and national government. If
he Republican party can do that, its
Mission is not yet at an end. 1t
'annot live longer and feed on the
bloody shirt issue. Slavery is dead;
IL Europe united with the few men
Who still believe in it here, could not
einstate it. But there are other
-ital questions, such as the adoption
# system of rules for the election
# delegates to State nominating con-
'entions, and the nominating of
tate officers. The object of the
Meeting of officers of both armies at
gettysburg on the 7th-last Wednes-
lay-was for the purpose of locating
more definitely the position of the
arious commands during the battle
n 1868.
Ex-Attorney General George Lear.
Who was chairman of the Harrisburg
Republican Convention, has refused
o go to Harrisburg and preside over
he re-ra led convention on the 21st,
# this month. He says the old con-
'entiOn has no right to go to Har-
isburg, to convene and nominate a
nan to fill the vacancy created by
he resignation of Marshall, who re-
igned the nomination of Congress
nan-at-large. He says that the con-
'ention that be presided over, pro-
'ided, that nominating Republican
State conventions shall have the del
gates that compose them, elected in
he several Representative and Sena-
orial districts of the State by the
people of the party. He says that
the old convention meets and fills
Up the vacancy, it will violate the
cry rules that it adopted before it
.djourned. 1t Will violate what it
ued should be the methods adopted
or the election of delegates to Re
publican State convention. He says
lie cannot become party to such a
To be consistent with
he honest purpose of the people of
he party; to be consistent with the
uling of the convention that nomi-
lated Beaver for Governor, he can
lot go to Harrisburg, and attend the
e called convention as its President.
He says the only right and consistent
way is to elect a new convention un
Ter the rules adopted by the Harris
,urg convention over which he pre-
ided ON the 10th of May last, such new