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

District Attorney of Allegheny coun
ty in 1865 He participated in tbs
Liberal Republican movement o
1872.
SECRETARY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS
Il George Washington Merrick, VIII;
was born in Wellsboro, Tioga county
on March 27 1910. While yet boz
on his fathers farm the rebellion
broke out, and on the 21st Of April
1860, he enlisted as a private, and
carried musket for two years. He
J received his promotion to the ranl
of Major on May II, 1864, and it wa:
on the 18th of June, at the battle o.
Petersburg, during fierce engage
ment while leading the regiment
that he lost his leg. Returning tc
his home he at once began the study
of law, and was admitted to the Bal
of Tioga county in 1869 He was sim
ultaneously appointed Postmaster of
Wellsboro, and has retained the pos
ition ever since.
| CoN6REsSNAN-AT-LARGE
Colonel William McMichael, who
was born in Philadelphia March 4
1912. He is the 3rd son Of Morton
McMichael deceased of the North
.7merican. He entered the military
service on the staff of General Ere
mont. He served under General Hal
leck while the latter was Commander
in-chief, was captured at Shiloh, serv-
ed several months in prison. and was
on General Thomas's staff with Gen
eral Garfield. He began the practice
OF law at the close Of the war. was
appointed Solicitor of Internal Rev
enue under General Grant. Assistant
Attorney General of the United
States and United States District
Attorney for the Eastern district of
Pennsylvania
FOR SUPREME JUDGE
George Junkin, who was born
March Is, 1927, in Milton, Northum-
berland county, Pa. He began the
study of law with James Madison
Porter, President Tylers Secretary
of War. His last year was spent with
the late Samuel III. Perkins in Phila-
delphia and he was admitted to prac
tice on March Is, 1S4S. Mr.. Junkin's
business has been confined to the
Civil Courts, and in that sphere he
has been counsel in many celebrated
cases. In politics he has always
been Republican, but never held
an Office.
THE PLATFORM.
The platform, or declaration of principals
adopted is as follows. The Republicans of
Pennsylvania who will not surrender their
political rights and who maintain the exer
else of their own conscience and judgement
concerning public affairs, having assembled
in State Convention, make the following
declaration of our principals and purpose:
FIRST. We declare our attachment to the
principals of the Republican party-free-
dom, union, nationality, equal rights before
the law, maintenance of the public faith,
protection to home lndustry-and we de-
msnd that the record which has been so
nobly made shall be wisely and fearlessly
perpetuated.
SECOND. We declare that the nomination
and election of James A. Garfield to the
Presidency signitied to US the triumph of
q true reform in the civil service and of an
enlarged liberty of action for the masses of
the Republican party in the nomination of
their candidates and the conduct of their
party affairs, and We deplore the oyerwhel-
ming evidence presented to US in Pennsyl-
vania that the calamity OF his assassination
has been followed by the overthrow of
these reforms in the hands of his successor.
THIRD. We denounce the practice of lev
wing assessments and demanding contribu-
tions for party uses from public officials.
We denouncc severally sad collectively the
evils and corruptions which accompany the
conduct of the government as a "spoils
SYSTEM" and which are inseparable from
such a method of administration; and We
denounce the system of "boss rule" and
machine control, which, when tamely en-
dured, makes leaders into au;ocrats and
reduces the mass of the citizens into politi-
cal bondage.
Wa dartsra 70 tak
up the work which fell when Garfield fell;
we demand in the place of the "spoiis sys-
tenn the reformation of the civil service
BY law, SO that the appointive places their
in may be freely open to all fit and meritor-
ious citizens, aud removals shall be only for
good and sufficient public cause; we de-
mard, instead of the prostitution of the
public service to private uses, its recoguI-
tion as high an honorable trust, to be ad =
Iaiaistered for the people, benefit, with
efficiency, economy snd integrity; we de-
maud, instead OF the insolence. the pros
cription and the tyranny vi .'bossism" and
''mschine" rule, the free and conscientiou
exercise of private judgement in politica
affairs and the faithful disc barge, by those
who assume representative trusts, of the
expressed will of the people.
FIFTH. We declare in favor of the follow
ing party reforms. First that delegates to
State Conventions shall be chosen by the
people in the manner in which candida ties
for the General Assembly are nominated;
second, that representation in the State