Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-01-25
Communioatioif.


proportion of the best class Of citizens Of
Junisfa county. The same man that ran
the concern while sitting under the thumb
OF another, is still splitting out his venom
and endeavoring to figure before the public
as reformer, and posing At every oppor-
tunify as veteran soldier OF tbs Post. He
makes an elegant figure on Sus Parker's
white horse on Post parade days; he looks
fully as well, it has been remarked. as q
bologna sausage on horseback, and would
stand about az intich fighting against real
soldiers, IS bo!sgns sausage wuuld stand
under the appetite of lot Of honest hun
CRY veterans that had just come of the
march, or out OF fight. When Chaplain
McCabe comes here to deliver his address
or lecture, this quartermaster shysfer SOL
dier should put on his Post Uniform and
take front seat. He looks well in an sn-
dience. His turn-up snub nos. shows the
holes in bis smelling organ to advantage,
and his back hair and plug neck sits admir-
ably on his shoulders. He could not be
cosxed to relate a reminiscence of shyster
soldier achievement in the quartermastrr's
department, bat might tell Of how some
other men did the fighting. His reminis-
cences are delightful tales to listen to. He
might vary the entertainment by telling Of
his brave, sympathetic utterances IN Patter-
son for the rioters Of 1877; little Com
munism thrown in would entertain the
Chaplain, and to instruct the lecturer in the
urtcrahces for an iBiidel CT ovid he II Ugh
give him . sentence or two Of scoffing ex-
preston. IL adds very much to the stand
ing Of the Post to shove such a valorious
soldier 10 the front on every occasion. This
marvelously brave soldier Of the quarter
masters department has for help. as an ally
in dirty, scurrilous writing and conspiracy
work, Billy Allison, and there are score of
men in juniata county that could success
fully maintain suit for libel against them
for having charged them with having PROS
tituied the Common Schools. Billy is not
under the thumb Of Ezra, who rebuilt the
walls OF Jerusalem, but he is under the
thumbs of sey eral, Henry Sulonf and 80
forth, unless indeed he has wriggled out
recently from SuiouH and so forth, ana is
nesting under the thumb, and 10 the pock.
ct Of another, who l will reveal in an
other communication, at a more convenient
al m
the quartermaster's department, and the
Post honors itself above all measure for
coaching him. 1t was wonderful hit when
they brought him out to recite tan original
poem" in his highly cultivated elocutronary
shrill voice style in the Court House. They
should get him to recite that poem when
McCabe comes. He would do it with dra-
matte effect. Perhaps AcCsbe would ask
him to repeat it. By all means Billy should
have frunt seat after having been ushered
in by the private or back entrance, and be
seated in front, where McCabe can alsays
have the author OF the .'originai poem" III
bis eye. His face is a striking one the
hu,cs 10 his snub nose do not show quite
AS distinctly as they do in the face oi his
Bologna shaped companion OF the qn1rter'
masters department, and the difference IN
the s;zc of the valorious veterans will keep
NcCabe from mistaking the one Tor the
other. Billy is u much larger man, but his
fac. is no Improvement on that OF his fel-
low, and his back hair and neck are just aS
Impressive and suggestive to the sight oil
the beholder. There is no danger, but q
stranger seeing either, in . lonely place
from hind or front view, or side view,
would insiinctively Put his hand quietly
Into his pistol pocket, if his garments
contained such pocket.
| Billy ought to recite a "reminiscences. II
would be a fearful recital to relate how he
shed tears when he asked to be placed II
the quartermaster's department because h'
did not want TO go 10 the front. The Pos
has some valorous soldiers in its fold, anc
Billy is one of them lie might tell tn
audience that the editor of the Sentinel am
Republican was out in the emergency ser
vice sf 1862, and that he Was q 9TH Corpo
raj, and that he had two substitutes IN IN
ARMY, neither Of which did shyster servic
in the quartermaster's department.
When the two snub-nosed quartermaste
soldier, are taken all in all they are a har
couple to be b.ackgusrdina the best class q
men n the county, as engaged in the wor
Of sprostituting the common Schools" an
as being boss-riddcn, but the day of reck
oning will come. They are hard coupl
to blackguard Republicans, neither OF tbeI
being q Republican both Of them are poll
ical mongrels, that have no politics furtht
q an the spois of office g.. What bui
tlescue on the honest substantial everydd
life effort of community TO have such fe
lows deliver their blsckgusrdism again'
substantial citizens Of the county. Th
substantial aid TO the school fund IN.
the two blackguards pay is about or
dollar each, and their substantial aid to tt
county umDt.nts to about thirty-fve CEN
each. II man is the right sort OF mat
Il cannot be urged against his manhood TIL
, he pays a small amount oi tax. but when
. Insignificant taxpayer extends his meddI'
someness into every nook and corner OF q
/ county, and calls as many as dozen an
more of the best men in a convention
: prostitutes of common schools, with q
their friends. 1t is time that the communi
pick itself up to realizing sense of Il
kind of people that are being warmed an
rampered by county authority. Taking
the tax they pay together it would requi
about thirty years. time to pay the increa
of salary that has been added by the Cou1
~ Commissioners to the salary Of the
clerk. The salary has been raised one hu
dred and fifty dollars. More anon.
PATTERSON.