Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-10-04

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VICTIMS.
The Work ofthe Convention
not Lawful.
The Democrats of Juniata county
nominate their candidates by popu.
lar vote. At the primary election
held in the autumn j. Harvey Nc
Clure and John Etka were the can
didates for county treasurer. Mr..
Mcclure received S43 votes, Mr.. Etka
received 473 votes. Mr.. Mcclure
having received the highest number
of votes for that Office was announced
by the convention of return judges
as the nominee of the party for
county treasurer, but an all wise
Providence decreed otherwise and
removed Mcclure from this to bet
ter world.
There was no question in the mind
of the people who should succeed
him as the nominee of the Demo
cratic party for county treasurer.
| JOIN ETKA THE NOMINEE.
Every fair minded man regardless
of political lines, and prejudice, said
"John Etka is now the nominee of
the Democracy for the office for
which he ran and received so large a
vote" All the rules of equity known
among civilized men pointed to him
as the rightful nominee of the party,
but equity and fair-dealing some
times has its opponents and ID this
case the schemer was not wanting,
but turned up to turn Etka down.
and violate the expression of the
popular vote that had been cast at
the primary election in his favor
What matters it if Etka is sacrificed
if the little Junto only accomplish
their end.
| OTHER MEs's RIGHTS.
They see not beyond the length
of their nose, to see that when they
juggle Etka s rights away that they
will not hesitate to juggle the rights
of other men out of sight whenever
they can, and whenever it suits their
purpose to do SO, such people are
dangerous people when their per-
sOnal purposes and schemes are in
yolved as against the rights OF other
men, and so the rights of E.ka were
schemed away.
| ANOTHER VICTIM.
1t is said, the scheme that dOwued
Etka, has at least one more victim in
plain sight, and that Mr.. Washing
ton North, who was set up as the
political eIeeutioner of Etka, is also
to become the political executioner
of the second victim. 1t is n scheme
worthy of the Junto, and is as thin
as water. Neely, who was afraid to
have the Mitfiintown primary election
box vote recounted on a challenge
from Heck, in company with
DR.. Lucien Banks hastaned to the
Harrisburg State convention to wave
the flag of the Junto under the
mask and name of The UNITED
DEHocRAcY' for the purpose of get
ting into the good graces of Hsrritv
and others who have the ear Of the
Cleveland administration. so az to
land Wiiilam Banks in the MIifhin
town post office. What a scheme
With Washington North on the
ticket of the so-called United Demo
cracy," how nicely it viii do to go
to Washington and head off Mrs
George Jacobs from getting the
Mifflintown post office, and drop the
plum into the eagerly reaching hand
OF William Banks. What an argu-
inert it will be to whisper into the
ears of the political powers at Wash
inGton that the Norths are getting
too many offices in Juniata for the
good of the party. They will say,
behold, Mr. North the brother of
Mrs. Jacobs on the ticket for county
treasurer, and there is Hon. James
North holding office under Governor
Pattison. No! no! it will never do
to give the postoffice to Mrs. Jacobs
1t will be giving too much to one
family; it will defeat the Democracy
in Juninta, Give the postoffice to
William Banks, and that is the way
the Junto propose to get Mrs. Jacobs
out of the postoffice, and that is the
way Mrs. Jacobs becomes a second
victim and that is the way Mr. Wash
ington North unwittingly is made
the political eXecutioner of his own
sister, as well as the executioner of
Etka. 1t is 10 wonder that honest
Democrats in Juniata are in open
rebellion over the whole of the
RECALLED CONVENTION.
To put the plan into working order
the return judges were called to meet
in the upstairs of the Banks drug
store last Saturday. But the un-
trameled portion of the Democracy
would not stand that, and the war
whoop of protest was heard from
every nook and corner of the county.
The meeting must be held in public
as free men hold their meetings said
the rank and file of the party and
many of the ablest leaders were
loudest in their shout of protest. So
the schemers were scared and driven
from their Gar of Russia star cham
Der place of secretly fixing things in
the rooms over the Banks drug store,
and the chairman of the defunct
board of return judges was ordered
to change the program and hold the
meeting in
THE COURT HOUSE.
The meeting convened on Satur-