Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-12-02
Letter from an Old JaeksOniaa Democrat
ofGrsenwoed Township.
MAR SKyES-SrAs TAvBRs,
November %, 1885.


"when in the night thy far imperfec'
shade,
Through heavy sleep on sightless eye
doth stay.
All days are nights to see, till see th ee
And nights, bright days, when dreams
show thee me-"
As he Journeys home In the stiffness of
perhaps, the smallest hour in the morning
he mutters to himself
.sHer lips to mine how often she joined,
Between each kiss her oath of true lovs
swearing,
How many tales TO please me hath shs
coined,
Dreading my love, the loss whereof still
fearing,
Yet in the midst of all her pure protest
iugs,
Her faith, her oath, her tears, and all
were jestings.
I am just in from the Stars where We ex'
pecteG TO have good, old fashioned Andy
Jackson time over the way eyeland I
boot has been lifting you fellows out Of the
post-ofiices and SO forth, but before We
got started one OF the old boys came in
With the news tha; Vice-President Tom
Hendricks had died and will be buried next
Tuesday. tell YOU that WAS 4 dampener
for Tom vas an Old Hickory sort Of fel-
low. He died in a day of stomach ailment.
He was an Andy Jackson Democrat TO the
marrow and hadn't any oI Cleveland's nom
sensical notions Of Civil Service Reform. g.
Tom believed with Old Hickory and BIo.e
king David, that the spoils belong to the
yictors and that only friends Of the powers
that be. shOuld have the offices. We took
a quiet "snooker" all around to the MEN,
ory OF Tom and Ola Andy, and thst stirred
the sand and sc quit crying.
Andy you know was a double coin man,
that is gold and silver man. He stood
with Bible Abraham who paid 400 sheckeis
of silver for the piece of ground in which
to bury his wife Sarah, all tho great men Of
long ago, end ali the great men of every
time have been IN favor of silver and gold
as the measure Of value, and 1t is only
few years since, tha, the new school of
gold measure men have sprung up, they
are q small set of fellows who tell it anon 6
ssMake gold thy weapon and
The strong lance OF justice breaks"
Cleveland is gold man. Tom Hen
dricks was with Old Hickory on that ques-
ton. Look out fSr Clevelsnd's message
on the silver question next week. de wants
TO stop the coinage of silver. The British
are with him. Maybe he'll not show the
whole hand Of the British, for they are Sc
cretIy al WORK to get the bankers OF this
country TO work to have silver ruled out as
thst'c their game. They are play
ing fast and loose on the gold question.
They rule over 200, 900 people in India
and there silver is the money and in Eng
land they make gold the measure OF valu-,
why Because they run the business Of In
that country, when it passes through the
bloody hands OF Johnnie Ball, they shave
it by the gold measure. II they can get the
American Congress TO rule out silver as
money, don't you see everything will drop
to the gold measure. You'll have to sell
your horses, coEs, sheep and grain by the
gold measure 1t would he harvest for
the gold men, millions, billions for them,
for to rule silver out would be TO rule out
half of the precious metal money of the
country. II would knock things higher
than Kite. Property of all kind. would
go down one half, wheat would 60 TO forty
cents. weep for Tom Hendricks for he
would have lead his party against Clove-
land in his movement against silver. Let
the National Banks beware In their gold
when the people pull the wool
of their eyes that gold men have squeezed
over them they'll rails up an Andy Jack
son. You know what Andy did With the
United State. Bank In 1882, he smashed it.
1t vas a strong concern. il was started in
i7si, it stood fiity-one years, but Old Hick-
ory kicked 1t to pieces, and tell you that
If the National Banks stand in with the
bloody British they will have to go.
How they have mi,led the people. they
have said through the city press that gov
eminent pays gold for silver. It's not true,
this is the tEIth. Suppose that you have
enough silver to coin $1,000, you take il to
s mint, they convert IL into standard dollar,
you'n get $500 OF the $1,000, and govern.
ment will keep $3.50 for pay. Now sup.
pose you don't -.nt to carry the $500, and
you say keep them but instead give ma sill,
yer certificate. to that amount they will {
handy and any one viii take them, becsus,
everybody knows that they can get coin fol
the certificates at the Z. S. Treasury snl
time they present the certificates there 70
redemption. That's the kind of banks Ok
Hickory favored, he said paper is worti
nothing unless il ia, coin or real estate. tC
back it. II the Treasury isn't big enougl
build it bigger. II you had mountain o.
silver dollars to redeem country full o
certificate notes how safe your finance
would be. That i, the kind of bank that
can't break. If you had billions of silve,
certificates aioat and q silver dollar to re
deem every certificate dollar no financial
racket could destroy the credit of the papel
certificate. Johnnie Bull couldn't disturb
1t unless he'd send an army across and $ tea
our pile OF coin and ship it to his little is
land. Stand up for Andy Jackson money
which was the double standard 81 gold an,
silver, don't consent TO rule out silver
Tel your Congressman that if he vote:
with the gold men and votes against silye
at Washington then you'll spot him if h
runs for office in the future. Good night
Yours truly,
BARTON SPEAK.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.