Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-03-15

the time to beguile a candidate for
the Legislature, for piece of
money or some other consideration
for a vote. A half dollar and mp
wards if it is money, or a drink or
perchance a jug of booze. Such is
the practice in the wards, town
ships and towns to a certain de-
gree and candidates become SO
used to it that they look upon the
whole transaction as an affair of
merchandise with a large percent
age of the people, a-d when a can
didate's moral instinct and better
judgment induces him to protest
he is met with the 'fOh well you
can stand it, when you get into
Office" "When you go to Harris
burg or Washington, or wherever
else he wants to be landed, there
you can make it all up and a great
deal more" They expect the
office holder to make it off some
other set of men. With the en-
cOuragement for snch practices
that the candidates receive in the
election districts the wonder is that
the Office holders are as good as
they are. Where is the moral
difference between a man in the
Legislature giving his vote for q
stated price, and man in the
ward or township giving his vote
for a stated sum. Give the mem
bers of the Legislature a chance.
Let him who is guiltless cast the
first stone. Let him tell that out
among his constituents there are
many guilty ones, and that among
a large percentage their guilt is
like that of the ancient Greeks, is
not considered in the act but in
being found out. He doesn't like
to tell on his dear constituents.
how, perchance Sunday school
struck him for a dollar or two be-
cause he was candidate. How a
band or cake walk struck him
for a contribution because he was
a candidate. How a book agent
struck him because he was a can
didate. How church enterprises
for festival, for a bell, for re-
pairs. struck him fora contribution.
Let him tell how the local officials
among his constituents, road super
visOrs, perchance get Il divy in a
deal with machinery agents for
putting machinery on the town
ships or borOughs, and how school
boards are moved into line by a
book, map, or perhaps piece of
money to introduce certain changes
of books, charts, furniture, and so
forth into the schools. Let him
tell of bargains with cOuncilmen
for rights of way and other fran
chise in cities and towns and then
you'll probably be of the opinion
that the investigation should be
into the wards, the town.
ships, and bOrOughs, not to clear
any guilty man but to strike the
evil at the fountain head. An in
vestigatiOn in the Legislature i'll
carried on for a century will not
cure the things complained of till
they are cured among the people
who create the members of
the Legislature. The man who
has to buy votes at home among
his own people, in all probability |
will not hesitate to sell his own
vote in the Legislature if he can
gain by SO doing.
GERMANY is about to Withdraw
Ter war ships from the Philippine
Islands feeling satisfied that the
United States is capable of taking
are of the German interests there
Is well as her own. Germany
eels that when the United States
protects her own interests there,
he is protecting the interests of
Ill other civilized people who have
interests at stake in that country.
a COFFIN trust with a capital
took of twenty eight million dol
ars is the latest in the trust line.
\ New York banking company
will float the bonds. 1t will not
Ne many years till the coffin agent
alls on you and you can order
our coffin, and store it on the
arret or some other place till
our funeral day.
A PUMP trust company has been
Drmed and will be organized un-
er the laws of New Jersey with
capital of twenty-seven million
we hundred thousand dollars.
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