The Huntingdon Journal,
.1. R. DURBORROW,
HUNTINGDON, PENN'A.
Wednesday Morning, Sept. 4, 1872
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL TICKET.
FOR PRESIDENT,
General ULYSSES S. GRANT,
OF ILLINOIS.
FOIL VICE-PRESIDENT,
Honorable HENRY WILSON,
OF MASSACHUSETTS.
ELECTORS.
SENATORIAL. . -
Adolph E. Borie, Phila. I J. M. Thompson, Butler.
W. D. Porten, Philadelphia.
REPRESENTATIVE.
1. Joseph A. Bonham. 14. John Passmoro.
2. Marcus A. Davis. 15. W. J. Colegrove.
3. G. Morrison Coates. 16. Jesse Merrill.
4. Henry Bumm. 17. Henry Orlady.
5. Theo. M. Wilson. IS. Robert Bell.
6. John M. Woman. 19. J. 31, Thompson.
7. Francis Shroeder. 20. Isaac Frazier.
8, Mark H. Richards. 21. Geo. W. Andrews.
U. Edward H. Green. 22. Henry Lloyd.
11. D. K. Shoemaker. 23. John J. Gillepsie.
11. Daniel R. Miller. 24. Jones Patterson.
12. Leander M. Milton. 25. John W. Wallace.
13. Theodore Strong. 26. Charles C. Boyle.
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.
FOR GOVERNOR,
Cen. JOHN F. HARTRANFT,
OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY.
FOR' SUPREME JUDGE,
Judge ULYSSES MERCUR,
OF BRADFORD COUNTY.
FOR AUDITOR GENERAL,
General HARRISON ALLEN,
OF WAUREN COUNTY.
FOE. CONGRESSMEN AT LARGE,
Gen. LEMUEL TODD, of Cumberland.
Hon. GLENN' W. SCOFIELD, Warren,
Gen CHARLES A. ALBRIGHT, Carbon.
Mr Delegates at Large to the
Wm. M. Meredith, Philadelphia; J. Gillingham Fell,
Philadelphia; Harry White, Indiana; William Lilly,
Carbon; Linn Bartholomew, Schuylkill ; H. N. M'Allis
ter, Centre; William H. Armstrong, Lycoming ; William
Davie, Luzon.; James L Reynolds, Lancaster; Samuel
E. Dimmick, Wayne; George V. Lawrence, Washington ;
David N. White, Allegheny; W. H. Arney, Lehigh; John
H. Walker, Erie.
REPUBLICAN DISTRICT TICKET.
For Congress :
A. L. Gass, of Huntingdon county.
[Subject to the decision of the District Conference.]
For Delegate to Constitutional Convention :
Dr. John hrOulloch, of Huntingdon.
[Subject to the decision of the District Conference.]
REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET.
For Assembly
Franklin H. Lane, of Shirleysburg.
For Prothonotary :
Thomas W. Myton, of Huntingdon.
For Register and Recorder:
William Lightner, of West township.
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For District Attorney
H. C. Madden, of Huntingdon.
For County Commissioner
David Hare, of Porter township.
For Director of the Poor :
Michael H. Hyper, of Shirley township.
For Auditor :
Barton Green, of Banco township
Republican County Committee.
Alexandria Bor.—D. 8. Henderson, Dr. Geo. W. Hewitt.
Barree—James Stewart, Henry Conpropot.
Brady-11. H. Meteor, Dr. Samuel M'Carthy.
Broad Top City—Henry Cook, C. K. Horton.
Birmingham—Joseph:Madsen, Capt. T. 8. M'Cahan.
Carbon—A. R. M'Carthy, Samuel Done!son.
Cass—Jacob Chilcote, George Smith.
Cassouk Bor—Amon W. Brown, James G. Corbin.
Clay—S. L. Glasgow, Adam Fleeter.
Cromwdl—twin M. Harvey, John Kelly.
Coointent Bar—Richard Owens, George A. Ileaton.
Dublin—Wm. Clymans, David Peterson.
Franklin --David enured, D. M. Thompeon.
Henderson—David Grove, George W. Miller.
Hopewell—Jackson Enyeart, Wm. Heeter.
Huntingdon, East Ward—K. A. Lovell, Robert King.
West Ward—Alex. Elliott. S. T. Brown.
Jackson—Thomas F. Shipton, George M'Alevy.
Juniata—Wm. E. Corbin, Isaac Heiffner.
Lincoln—Joseph Detwiler, George W. Shontz.
Mapleton—A. W. Swoope, Samuel Park.
Norris—John K. Templeton, James H. Davis.
Mt. Union Bor—John S. Bare, Elias K. Rodgers.
Mt. Union, Dist—David Snyder, Wm. P. Patton.
Oneida—Robert bi'Divitt, James Green.
Orbisonia Bar.—Thomas M. Kelley, Th.s. E. Orbison.
Peon—Wm. J. Geissinger, Jacob liaMey.
Petersburg—John Ross. Dr. Geo. B. Orlady.
Porter—Beni. Isenberg, H. G. Neff.
b'hirley Tap—Robert Bigam, David Long.
Shirley Bar—John A. Kerr, D. P. Hawker.
Shade Cap Bar— Dr. Wm. M. nay, W. P. Shade.
Springfield—Morris fintahall, Elihn Brown.
Tell--J. A. Blair, James Bolinger.
Three Springs Bar—B. T. Stevens, Wm. J. Hampson.
Tod—John Horton, Theo. Houck.
Union—D. F. Glasgow, S. P. Smith.
Walker—John Brewster, J. P. Watson.
Warriortmark—Dr. J. W. Dunwiddie, Jesse Fetterhoof..
West (Upper)—Henry Neff. Henry Davis, sr.
West (Lower)—Wm. M'Clure, J. C. Hamilton.
A. TYFIIIRST,
Chairman.
Republican Committee Meeting.
The members of the Republican County Com
mittee will meet at the Court House. in Hunting
don, on FRIDAY, the 6th day of SEPTEMBER,
1872, at one o'clock, P. M. It is earnestly desired
that every member be present, as business of much
importance will be transacted.
A. TYHURST,
Chairman.
GRAND RALLY!
REPUBLICANS, AROUSE !
HEAR GENERAL CHARLES ALBRIGHT!
A GRAND MASS MEETING of the REPUB
LICANS of Huntingdon county will be held in
the COURT HOUSE, Thursday evening, Septem
ber 5, 1872.
GEN. CHARLES ALBRIGHT,
one of the Candidates for Congressman at Large,
and other able speakers will address the meeting.
Let there be an oat-pouring of the people that
will sauce each a quaking among the dry bones of
the Greeleyites as will overwhelm them.
"Come as the winds come,
When forests are rended,
Come as the waves come,
When nnvies are stranded." -
A. TYIIIIRST,
Ch. Rep. Co. Com.
le_ The little bill which the Globe pre
sents against Messrs. Myton and Hare was
squared when Mr. Morrell was defeated.
Aar Henry R. Shearer, we are told, is
the anti-Cameron candidate for the Legis
lature. We are glad to hear it. One
Shearer, at least, will be Shorn.
v e s_ The Labor Reform ticket, in this
county, is dubbed a "side-show" by Speer,
Lewis & Co. Laboring men are not want
ed by that firm. Remember this when
Mr. Speer asks you to vote for him.
ie., The Globe endeavors to answer our
articles in favor of sustaining the party by
copying some indigestible stuff from a
small Voice on the opposite side of the hill,
which tries to eke out an existence by
tendering cold victuals and blarney to ev
erybody that will buy. The Globe under
stands this kind of living—it has tried it.
Democrats are beginning to com
plain fearfully of Mr. Speer. They say
that the•mails have been roaded down, for
months, with his franked documents and
garden seeds, principally addressed to Re
publicans. They think they might just as
well have a Republican member of Con
gress.
THE BEGINNING OF THE END
After the Cincinnati, the Philadelphia
and the Baltimore Conventions completed
their work of nominating candidates for
the Presidency, there was a feeling of un
shaken confidence on the part of the Re
publican party that General Grant would
be , triumphantly elected. Occasionally
among those who took but a superficial
view of the situation doubts as to the result
were expressed. But among close obser
vers there was from the first an unshaken
conviction that General Grant would be
re-elected by a larger vote than that given
to him in 1868. This conclusion was based
upon two important facts, which were,
1. The success of his present Administra
tion, and 2. The intelligence of the Peo
ple. The opposition have admitted all
along in their campaign - speeches and doe
uments, and in their newspapers ,that as a
General of the armies Grant was a success.
But they denied to him similar results as
a Statesman and Chief Executive officer
of the Government. His Administration
was attacked and misrepresented at every
point. Says Schnrz, he is "a tyrant, who
has managed, in three short years, to over
come the House of Representatives, reduce
the Senate to a mere instrument of his
will, corrupt the Judiciary, remove all
guards from the Treasury, and extend the
usurped authority of the Executive into
every election district of the Union." All
this and much more was published to the
world by the opposition, against Grant and
his Cabinet, and the Congress that sup
ported him. And in view of the energy
with which those charges were spread be
fore the people, one of the first duties of
the Republican party was to meet them
quickly, promptly, and prove to the people
that they were without foundation in fact.
They entered upon the work with spirit
and determina ion. Everything was at
stake. The reputation of the party, its
representatives. in Congress; the Cabinet
and the president himself were alike in
volved in charges of dishonesty, corruption
and incapacity, and impeached before the
people. They are now on trial. Evidence
of the facts in the case is abundant. The
committees of investigation called for by
the opposition in and outside of Congress
have done their work and have pronounced
the charges brought respectively before
them groundless, and in nearly every case
"frivolous and vexations." The reports
of the respective committees have been
laid before the people, and on examination
they have endorsed them under the fall
conviction that the charges against the
Administration were without foundation
and originated in personal spite against
the President and members of his Cabinet.
EDITOR
a Convention.
But these charges were not dnough. A
thousand others were made by Sumner and
Schurz, and Trumbull in the Senate, and
by a score of others out of the Senate,
down to poor pauper Dennison, who has
just now arraigned the President for in
temperance. But TRUTH is still powerful
and will prevail. Denison has been dis
posed of, and his charge of intemperance
his been satisfactorily met by Senator
Wilson and a dozen other reliable witness
es who have convinced every candid, hon
est mind that the habits of the President
are strictly temperate. And so of the
other charges : One • after another has
been proved to be false or the facts dis
torted. The New York Tribune has been
prolific of falsehoods against the Adminis
tration. Greeley announced that he had
retired from the management of that pa
.per; but he is still,upon the stage, behind
the scenes, where he directs Whitelaw
Reed, and Reed dictates to his correspond
ents at Washington and in other parts of
the country, and they all misrepresent the
facts according to his bidding. His Wash
ington correspondent announced, a few
daysago, that Blanton Duncan had a claim
for $52,000 before the Government which
had been rejected two years ago; but
which was now ordered to be paid in con
sideration of his energy in working up the
Louisville Democratic Convention. This
is only one out of half-a-dozen similar false
hoods fabricated against Grant personally,
or others connected with the Government.
Now what are the facts in reference to the
$52,000 ? Mr. Duncan announces in a
card that he never had a claim against the
Government, and that it never owed him
anything. The Quartermaster's and the
Treasury Department has been searched
and no claim is on file there. Nothing
approaching it excepting an old claim of a
relative of Mr. Duncan, a woman, for nine
hundred and odd dollars, which has long
since been laid aside as worthless, and
never since called up.
So one after another of these charges
against Gen. • Grant and his Administra
tion have been met and disposed of as false
and malicious, and the People have become
satisfied of their slanderous nature.
With this conviction comes also, through
public addresses, pamphlets, and docu
ments, full and complete statements of
what the present Administration has ac
complished in the reduction of taxes, pay
ment of the public debt, internal improve
ments, and the general and unparalleled
prosperity of every department of industry.
With speakers everywhere in the field no
one need go uninformed; and it is safe to
conclude that the masses are pretty thor
oughly posted on all that affects the Gov
ernment and its bearing upon their own
individual interests.
Well, having the facts before them, the
PEOPLE will not be slow to come to a de
cision. Already the verdict has been pro
nounced, and no one knows the sentence
better than Horace Greeley himself. In
his Tribune, a few days ago, it was announ
ced in the editorial columns that the Lib
erals are defective in organization, and the
following significant admission is made :
"Our campaign is to be short and sharp, and we
are likely to be beaten unless we do more than we
arc doing now to get our men into the field and
secure recruits from among the wavering and dis
satisfied."
The New York World also points signi
ficantly to the re-action of sentiment and
the decline of enthusiasm for Greeley. The
New York Herald remarked, a few days
ago, in an editorial headed "The Decline
in the Greeley Enthusiasm," that "what
ever the causes, it is apparent on all sides
that since the late North Carolina election,
there has been a reaction in the tide of
public opinion on the Presidential ques
tion," and concludes that
"From the present outlook, the prospect from
every point of view is growing somewhat gloomy
for Greeley, cud unless in the results of the com
ing state elections he shall make a break in the
apparently compact lines of the administration
party, the Philosopher of Chappaqua, as a pilgrim
for the White House, may
Lay down de shovel and de hoe,
And hang up de fiddle and de bow."
This is the beginning of the end, and
those who conceded at the commencement
of the campaign a larger majority for
Grant on his second than he bad on his
first election will find their judgment con
firmed by the result in November.
WILL BUCKALEW EXPLAIN ?
The further we get into BUCKALEW'S
record the uglieritbecomes, says the Pitts
burgh Gazette. Now that he is making
personal appeals to the people of Pennsyl
vania begging for their votes, it is proper
to remind them of sonic of his own votes
while a Senator of the United States, and
during the most trying period in the his
tory of the Union.
On the passage of the bill to equalize
the pay of soldiers, Mx. BUCKALEW voted
NAY. This on the 10th of March, 1864.
On the resolution of GARRETT DAVIS
to discharge all the colored soldiers at a
time when every musket was needed in
the field and on the eve of important
movements, BucKALzw voted YEA. This
on the 23d of February, 1864.
On the passage of an act to increase
temporarily the duties on imports, Mr
BUCKALEW voted NAY in the interests of
the free-traders, and the rebellion since it
was a vote to prevent the raising of means
for prosecuting the war. This on the 28th
of April, 1864.
On the passage of the act to repeal the
Fugitive Slave law, Mr. BUCKALEW voted
NAY with GARRETT DAVIS, POWELL,
SAULSBURY and other rebel sympathizers.
This on the 23d of June, 1864.
On the passage of the "Civil Rights
bill" true to his natural objections to Re
form, as shown in the National Legisla
ture, and the State Senate, Mr. BUCKA
LEW voted NAY. This on the 2d of Feb
ruary, 1866.
On the bill to increase the salaries of
United states Senators, he found a meas
ure which suited him precisely, and Mr.
BUCKALEW voted a loud YEA. This on
the 25th of July, 1866.
Now while Mr. BUCKALEW iS trying his
hand at "explanations," suppose that he i
takes these votes up, and give the people
of Pennsylvania his reasons for their re
cord of the journal of the Senate. He
cannot however, he dare not undertake
to explain them away. They have passed
into history and cannot be abstracted from
the national archives where they will
forever remain unefaceable blots upon his
character. Pennsylvania was disgraced
and humiliated by Mr. BUCKALEW in the
United States Senate, and she does not
propose that as Governor he shall have
another opportunity to lower her in the
estimation of her own people and those of
her sister States.
go_ The Republican Congressional Con
ference, of this district, met at Altoona, on
last Wednesday morning, at 10 o'clock.—
The following Conferees were in attend
ance : Cambria—C. T. Roberts, Thomas
Davis, David Hamilton; Blair—William
Gardner, J. A. Lemon, Dr. M. S. Bitner ;
Huntingdon—Dr. J. A. Shade, Samuel P.
Smith, Dr. J. F. Thompson; Mifflin—Geo.
Frysinger, Dr. A. Rothrock, David Milli
ken. Geo- Frysinger, Esq., of Lewistown,
was elected Prerident, and C. T. Roberts,
Esq., of Ebensburg, Secretary. The bal
loting started with three each for Prof. A.
L. Guss, of Huntingdon ; T. Taylor, of
Mifflin ; Hon. S. S. Blair, of Blair ; and
Hon. A. A. Barker, of Cambria. They
balloted through Wednesday and Thurs
day at Altoona, and then adjourned to
meet, at Lewistown, on Friday, at 10
o'clock, and continued to ballot until Sat
urday afternoon, when they adjourned to
meet to-day at the same place. After the
first few ballots Mr. Taylor was dropped,
and Mr. Blair received six votes to three
each for Guss and Barker. There is no
telling what will be the up-shot of the
matter.
Bea,, "Stop the Monitor and take the
Globe 1" urge the friends of Mr. Speer.—
The Monitor is to be crushed out. Old
Democrats, you who have stood by the
Mo'nitor 4nd assisted it into position, what
do you think of it ? The Globe that has
done all it could, for the last ten years to
destroy your party, is now to crush out the
paper that stood by you through thick and
thin. Will yon stand by and permit it ?
gel,. Mr. Speer has heretofore neglected
his own party to attend to the affairs of the
Republicans. We are glad to know that
he has just about as much as he can do
now to manage the outraged element in
his own party. Grasping at shadows and
losing the little substance in store is ex
tremely foolish.
VW" The Globe has hung out its shift
gle : "NO LABOR REFORMERS NEED
APPLY AT THIS OFFICE 1"• It signi
fies thus: Democrats and Monopolists go
hand in hand to crush out the Working
People. Laboring men, remember this
when you come to vote!'
m. It is a pity indeed that a Wash
ington mill, or some other mill, does not
furnish the Globe with some readable mat
ter now and then. It would be such a
treat to find something refreshing—brist
ling with fine points and overflowing with
hightoned sentiments—in its columns.
m. McNeil, if we understand him,
takes the ground that the Republicans,
who elected him three years ago, ought
now to be defeated by his re-election. This
is Democratic logic and Democratic grati
tude !
vegk. The Globe alleges that Mr. Myton
voted for McNeil three years ago. If this
be so, and we have no evidence that it
is, Mr. McNeil should have the manliness
to vote for Mr. Myton. One good turn
deserves another.
Da. Democrata, if you want to hear the
wrongs, and grief, and chagrins, and
sorrows of an oppressed young man.
call at Mr. Speer's office, No. 229, Hill
street, Huntingdon, Pa . . No charge.
gm_ The Speer-McNeil ring, in the
Democratic party, has a heavy load to car
ry. Down with the Monitor !
THE PAST AND FUTURE OF THE
AMERICAN UNION,
D'Aubigne says of Gibbon, that, seated
on the ancient Capit d of Rome, and con
templating its noble ruins, he acknowledged
the intervention of a superior destiny. He
saw and felt its presence; wherever his eye
turned it met him ; that shadow of a mys
terious power re-appeared from behind
every ruin ; and he conceived the power
of depicting its operation in the dioorgani
zation, the decline and cwruption of that
power of Rome which enslaved the nations.
Shall not that mighty hand which this
man of admirable genius discovered among
the scattered monummts of Romulus and
of Marcus Aurelius, the busts of Cicero
and Virgil, Trojan's trophies and Pompey's
horses, be confessed by us as that which
guided the little barques of Columbus to
the New World, and after him the feeble
bands of pioneers from which has grown
a nation of forty millions of people ? Is
this all the result of accident ? If there
is a Providence in revolutions which pulls
down and levels empires in the dust, how
much more in the events that lay the foun
dations and build up nations with nobler
inspirations, purer purposes and higher
aspirations than governed those which have
gone down into oblivion ?
Was the late great American war,con
ceived, begun, and carried on to its close
without a purpose higher than that of
mere human ambition? Are not the nobler
purposes of Providence manifest in the re
sults, and presented in striking contrast
with the meaner conceptions of man ?
The leading object of the war, humanely
speaking, was a Southern empire on the
basis of human slavery; but its fruits are
perpetual freedom for every human being
in the Union. The Northern power that
resisted the rebellion went into the strug
gle without a thought of breaking the
chains that bound the slave. They met
the enemy. Defeat followed defeat, and
in despair the President proposed tq the
South that if they would lay down their
their arms their slaves should all be resto
red. But while man proposes God dispo
ses. We are but the instruments in the
bands' of the Supreme Architect of our
destiny. Thu offer was declined. The
war continued. The South was almost in
variably the victor. Driven to it the Pre
sident issued his proclamation of emanci
pation. This wastreated as a burlesque by
the South, but it was the first oat owl
edgment and annunciation of a great prin
ciple in human progress and civilization'
it was a partial recognition of the hand of
destiny under forced circumstances. It
checked the success of the South, and from
that day victory alternated between the
contending forces.
Congress met. The emancipation pro
clamation was reoognized, approved, and
established by Act as the law of the United
States, by which all must henceforth be
governed. The heart of the South trem
bled. Its strong arm was weakened. From
that day the fortunes of the war were all
on one side. Victory followed victory
until the slave power surrendered, and four
millions of human being,s, hitherto in bond
age and bought and sold as so many cattle,
were acknowledged and recognized as,free
men by their former owners ! How widely
different the original purposes and the fi
nal results of the war !
But the noble achievement of universal
freedom is only one of the grand results of
a war in which, so far as heroic valor is
concerned, the rewards of both armies are
alike creditable. One of the purposes of
the rebellion was to disintegrate the Uni
on; but it was made the immediate and
direct instrument in removing forever the
leading motive for separation, and in fitting
all the parts for a firmer and more thor
ough union of States and individual inter
ests, while the Government, instead of
being weakened and reduced down to that
of a third or fourth-class Power, is made
stronger, and now ranks among the, most
powerful of the nations of either hemis
phere.
Not only this : freedom from slavery
and freedom of body and of mind for all ;
a united people—(for the discontent of a
few restless spirits, is in history, but for a
day)—a stronger and more powerful gov
ernment, are shpplemented with great gen
eral prosperity and unparalleled thrift in
all the land from the Atlantic to the Paci
fic, and from the Gulf to the 39th parallel.
So much for the past and the present,.
But what of the future That the Gov
ernment of the United States, its public
institutions, regard for the maternal pros
perity and general welfare of the people,
and attractions for immigration, are supe
rior to those of any other power, is now
conceded, generally, by all classes in every
part of the world. Then why may not
these advantages, and the blessings that
grow oat of them, be extended so as to
embrace the contiguous territories and the
people inhabiting them ?
Mexico, one of the most valuable agri:
cultural and mineral corners of the globe,
is without efficient laws, incapable of pro
tecting its people, and in a state of perpet
ual anarchy. Annexation would remove
these curses and secure to the inhabitants
all the comforts and enjoyments of good
government, public schools, internal devel
opment and general prosperity. The bet
ter portion of the Mexican communities,
and especially the thinking classe=, desire
this union; and if the subject should be
presented in a cordial and friendly manner,
even in their normal condition of ignorance
and inexperience, they would soon rise to
an appreciation and cordial approval of the
measure. And while a union under our
Government would result in untold bless
ings to Mexico, it would at the same time
stimulate the American border States—
especially Texas—and add largely to the
commerce of the,Union. Border raids and
robberies and murders would cease, civili
zation would advance, and its blessings be
felt and appreciated by millions beyond the
Rio Grande now in ignorance and semi
barbarism.
Cuba has been appealing in blood to our
Government for aid. So far those appeals
have, for all practical purposes, fallen upon
deaf ears. Still the struggle for liberty
and human rights goes on. Judicious
statesmanship on the part of the United
States Congress and the Administration
could have long since stayed the flow of
blood, and secured to that oppressed peo
pie the blessings found under the Ameri
can fia7. It is not too late. A chanze of
policy must sooner or later give us Cuba,
and give at the same time to her people
liberty, peace, security and the blessings
of maternal prosperity. The London Trines
has written and British statesmen have
spoken in approval of the union of Cabe
with the United States, and all believe
that Spain, Cuba, the Republic and the
commerce of the world would be benefitted
by the change.
The Dominion of Canada contains be
tween three and four millions of inhabi
tants, fifty per cent. of whom, speaking
certainly within bounds, openlyapprove of
a union with the United States, while all, l i
without exception, fully believe in the
great commercial advantages of such a
measure, advantages in which both inter
ests would share alike, while the nefarious
and degrading system of smuggling now
so extensively practiced along four or five
thousand miles of contiguous territory
would be forever abandoned. It will come;
and the time, sooner or later, will be gov
erned wholly by the action of statesmen on
either side of the St. Lawrence, the great
lakes, and the nth parallel.
Is it too much to predict the union of
all those great territories to the east, the
west, the north and to the south of us,
with the United States, under one govern
ment, Ono system of laws, internal free
trade and foreign commerce ? Before the
introduction of steamships, railroads and
the telegraph such a policy would have
been chimerical. Now it is not only prac
ticable, but manifestly necessary for the
best interests of all the peoples interested
in and affected by the movement. So much
so that its importance grows rapidly in
magnitude before every candid mind that'.
gives the subject a careful investigation.
It is in the spirit of the Monroe doctrine,
and more, it is "Manifest Destiny," con
trolled by a Providence that not only-pulls
down empires and scatters nations in the
dust, but builds up in the advance of civ
ilization, stronger, and purer, and happier
powers and peoples upon their ruins.
It is reasonable to predict that this great
measure of andinental Unffication will
become one of the mat prominent of the
new issues in the pear future, and the par
ty that enters most fully into the spirit of
the movement will be the party of progress
and of popular power.
SUPPORT THE PARTY,
We sometimes hear men say that they
are no slaves to party; that they vote for
whom they please and that they are under
no obligations to any partizan. This would
indicate that they have no fixed principles;
that they are on all sides of questions;
everything by times and nothing long.—
Men of this class are not to be trusted.
They are generally very fickle and govern
ed entirely by self interest. When you
'think you have them, like Paddy's flea,
they “are not there." A party, made up
of this class of men, can never succeed-
There is not persistence enough in it; not
sufficient adhesiveness. Parties, to suc•
ceed, must be determined; must stand up
for their organization; never halting or
hesitating. This is the only road to success.
Whenever men begin to straggle and say
they vote for whom they please and that
they are under no obligations to support
such and such a candidate, they are de
moralized, and the sooner the party gets
rid of them the better. Parties can only
maintain themselves intact by keeping up
a thorough organization. And the only
way for an aspirant to office is to support
ihe party. No party can ever support
stragglers ; better let the enemy pick them
up at once and get rid of them.
Republicans of Huntingdon county, you
have too many stragglers in your organi
zation ! Men who talk as if they were
anything bat Republicans; very frequent
ly men do it who have filled office and who
want office in the future. This is all
wrong. No man who even talks in a way
to indicate that he is dissatisfied should be
tolerated as an aspirant. No man should
be named for any office who does not talk
and work for the party. If men desire
positions at the hands of the party they
ought to stand up square for the organiza
tion on all occasions. Our advice would
be : Let the man be marked as a politician
who does not stand by his party through
thick and thin !
Several Republicans have allowed
themselves to be persuaded, by Messrs.
Speer and Lewis, to run• as independent
candidates, for the purpose of defeating the
regular Republican ticket, of which there
is about as much prospect as there is of
the re-election of Andrew Johnson to the.
Presidency. Are these gentlemen, who
have heretofore received some credit for in
telligence, willing to be made dupes of in
this way ? Do they want to commit poli
tical hari kari to gratify Mr. Speer ?
116%. The Globe thinks that McNeil
"will go over the course ahead, easily."—
Of Greenland we have no doubt, but he
will not be able to "hold a candle" for our
man. He (McNeil) will be so badly heal,-
en that be will never be heard of after the
second Tuesday of October. A one-armed
soldier to be beaten by , an able-bodied
dyed-in-the-wool-proslavery-Demoerat du
ring the war, is not to be• thought of in
Huntingdon county! Water will run up
hill when this comes to pass !
Mr. Speer, we hear it reported
about the streets has concluded to take the
post-office into the family. It's to be lo
cated opposite Broad Top corner. The
Monitor and the Globe can hang up their
fiddles. There are, of course, two contin
gencies which are expected to happen
before this can cone to pass: in the first
place Greeley must be elected, and in the
second place, Speer. Both are extremely
doubtful, you know
AE:r The Globe assaults Mr. Hare for
his vote three years ago, but says nothing
of the vote and efforts of the editor ofthat
paper, a year later, to defeat Mr. Morrell
to balance the account it now charges Mr.
Hare with. Come, old fellow, that little
bill was settled !
WY" The JOURNAL will be furnished to
new subscribers front this date until the
10th of November, (close of campaign,)
for 50 cents. tf.
GEN. JOHN F. HARTRANFT.
The Calumnies Against Him Reacting
Testimony of an Independent Journal.
If persistent, unmitigated, unwarranted
abuse will suffice to beat the Republican l i
ticket in the State at the October election,
then our ingenious Democratic friends can
confidently count on victory. Gen. Hart
ranft enjoys the distinction of being the
best abused man in the Commonwealth fur
the time being. If the multitude of
charges which has been brought against
him could be proven, he would certainly
be a most unfit person to be trusted with
the chief magistracy of the State. But to
tell the truth our Democratic friends have
gone a little too far; they have overreached
themselves, and forced candid readers and
voters to believe that the persistent defama
tion of the Republican candidate fur Gov
ernor is merely a desperate device to insure
his defeat. From the . serious charges
which have been brought against Gen.
Hartranft since the opening of the cam
paign, he has been fully vindicated. In
telligent people might very readily be
persuaded that neither he nor any other
candidate for office presented an embodi
ment of all the public and private virtues.
Nowadays it is not customary to find men
of such commanding respectability enga, g.
ing in the struggle for office of any kind.
If we desire to put our finger upon a man
who is beyond the breath of suspicion, we
must go outside of the political world to
find him. But when we are told that Gen.
Hartranft is not only as bad as the general
run of office-holders and office-seekers, but
a thousand times worse than any man who
ever had the audacity to aspire to any offi
cial station, we naturally reserve to our_
selves the privilege of doubting until the
positive and tangible proof is brought to
our attention and forced upon our convic
tions. Gen. Hartranft has, in fact, been
so belabored with unscrupulous partisan
abuse as to be almost invested with a halo
of martyrdom, and it is questionable if the
desperate endeavors made by his political
enemies to insure his defeat have not tend
ed to strengthen, rather than weaken him
before the puplic.
Pennsylvania, as every sensible person
knows, is a strongly Republican State, and
on the square issue is bound to go Repub
lican by a very large majority. The only
possible chance of success for the Demo
crats, therefore, is to create a diversion by
transforming the struggle over She Govern
orship into a mere personal issue. If, by
the persistent blackening of General Hart
ranft's character, they can succeed in sink
ing out of sight the issues at stake, they
stand a slim chance of getting hold of the
State government for the next three years.
It is an old trick—one that has been tried
over and over again, and over and over
again exposed and brought to naught, as
will, to all appearance, be the result in
this case.
The Republican ticket presented in the
State at large, and, in this city, for the
verdict of intelligent voters at the October
election, is unusually strong, and unusually
unexceptionable, and we can see no sub
stantial reason why any sincere Republican
should sacrifice his convictions by scratch
ing the whole, or any considerable portion
of it. In regard to the candidates for
legislative honors in this city, we regret
that we cannot speak in terms of unquali
fied praise. Among the list are some men
who aro worthy of the trust, and who will
undoubtedly prove themselves trustworthy
if elected. Bat there is an unwholesome
admixture of the old "rooster" element,
which in due time we shall endeavor to
discern and expose. Aside from the legis
lature, however, the Republican party of
the city and State presents a ticket that is
unexceptionally good ,
, and in every case
worthy the support of all good Republicans.
The Democracy being in a decided minori
ty in both the city and the State, it is
necessary for them to create a diversion
in the ranks of the Republicans on the
question of personal fitness; but, as we
have already intimated, their zeal has got
the better of their discretion, and they have
overreached themselves. If they do not
discover their mistake sooner, they will be
fully convinced of it on the day after the
election.—Philadelphia Telegraph.
ca,.. It is very evident to the most or
dinary mind that the man who runs, as an
independent candidate, must be very anx
ious for office. But doe's he not over
shoot the mark ? To secure an election
he must receive all the Democratic and at
least five hundred Republican votes ; but
he will not receive all the Democratic
votes, because the Democrats are under no
obligations to vote for him and are just as
likely to vote for one Republican asanoth
er. No independent candidate, we are
confident., can take away- three hundred
votes from the regular nominee at an im
portant election, let alone five hundred.
If he is beaten he is dead in the Republi
can party foir years to come,ltnd with the
Democrats he is equally bad off. Inde
pendent Republicans, reflect before you,
commit suicide?
Die - That paragon of virtue, the Globe,
says: "We want it to be distinctly under
stood that the contest, in this county, on
the Assembly, is Cameron and anti-Cam
eron." Indeed ! Who makes it so ? Is
Mr. Shearer a Cameron man ? We are
quite sure that Gen. Lane is as little com
mitted to Gen. Cameron as the editor of
the Globe. Gen. Lane is running for the
Legislature fbr the purpose of electing a
Republican United States Senator and
passing a fair Congressional Apportionment
Bill. Mr. Shearer ain't. These are the
issues. The Globe cannot make them
otherwise.
gel. John F. Hartranft is the first Aud
itor General of Pennsylvania who busied
himself sufficiently in the interest of the
people as to recommend the repeal of a spe
cific tax levy. Every owner of a farm and
of a house owes the repeal of the State tax
on real estate to Hartranft's direct influ
ence, because lie recommended and person
ally urged its repeal in the Legislature.
M.. Gov. A. G. Curtin was nominated,
by acclamation, as the choice of Centre
county for Congress, on last Wednesday,
and it is currently reported that he has ac
cepted. We hope this is so.
New Advertisements.
HUNTINGDON ACADEMY
WILL AGAIN OPEN SEPT. 2, 1372.
Tuition ; $lO, .512.50, and $1.5 per Eleven Weeks.
JAS. A. STEPHENS, Principal.
Huntingdon, Pa., August 28, 1872-21.
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AND STATE AGENT
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Election Proclamation.
POD SAYE TUE COMMONVSALTH4
PROCLAMATION. -NOTICE OF
GENERAL ELECTION
TUESDAY, OCTOBER Bth, 1872.
Pursuant to an Act of the General Assembly of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania, entitled "An Act relating to
the elections of this Commonwealth," approved the second
day of July, Anno Domini, 1830, I, AMON lIOUCK, High
Sheriff of the county of Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, do
hereby make known and give notice to the electors of the
county aforesaid, that an election will be hold in the la id
county of Huntingdon, on the first Tuesday after the first
Monday of October, (being the Bth day of OCTOBER, ) at
which time the following officers will be elected:
One Person for the office of Governor of the Common—
wealth of Pennsylvania
One Person fo; the office of Supreme Judge of the Com
monwealth of Penn sylvan if...
One Person for:the office of A oilitor General of the COM
mon wealth of Pennsylvania
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Three Persona for the offices of Congressmen-at-Large to
represent the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania In the Con
gress of the United States.
Twenty-eight Persons for the offices of Delegates-at
Large to the Constitutional Convention of the Common
wealth of Pennsylvania.
One Person for the office of Congress to represent Cam
bria, Blair, Ifuntingdon and Mifflin countiel in the Con
gress of the United Stites._ •
o
Three Persons for the offices of Delegates to the Consti
tutional Convention, to represent the counties of Centre,
llnntingdon, Mifflin and Juniata, of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania.
One'Person for the office of Assembly, to represent the
county of Huntingdon in the llonee of Representatives of
the Commonwealth of Penneylvnna,
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One Perm for the office of Prothonotary of Huntingdon
one Person for the office of Register and Recorder of
Huntingdon county.
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One forson for the office of District Attorney of Hunt
ingdon county.
One Person for tho offico of County Commissioner of
Hunhnicdon county.
One Person for the office of Directorof the Poor of Hunt
ingdon county._
One Person for the office of Auditor of Iluntingdon
Tu Pursuance of said Act, Tabm hereby make known and
give notice, that the places of holding the aforesaid general
election in the several election districts within the said
county of flnntiegdco, are as follows, to wit:
let district, composed of the township of Ilendenson, at
the Union School House.
2d district. composed of Dublin township, at Pleasant
MU School louse, near Joseph Nelson's in said township.
3.1 district, composed of so much of Warriorsmark town
ship, as is not included in the 19th district, at the School
Douse, adjoining the town of Warriorsmark.
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4tb district, composed of the township of Ilopewell, at
the house of Levi llonpt, in said township.
fith district, composed ,f the township of Barren, at the
home ofJames Livingston, in the town of Saulsburg, in
'aid township. . . .
Bth district, composed of the borough of Shirleysburg
and all that part of the township of Shirley not included
within the limits of district N 0.24, as hereinafter men
tioned and described, at the hoots of David ' , raker, deed.,
in
_ .
ith district, composed of Porter and part of Walker tp.
and so much of West township as is included In following
boundaries. to wit Beginning at the southwest corner of
Tobias Kauffman's farm on the bank of the Little Juniata
Ricer, to the lower end of Jackson's Narrows, thence in a
northwesterly direction to the most southerly part of the
farm corned by Michael Maguire, thence north forty de
grees west to the top of Tussey's Mountain to intersect the
line of Franklin township, thence along the mid line to
Little Juniata River, thence down the same to the place of
beginning, at the Public School House opposite the Ger
man Reformed Church, in the borough of Alexandria.
Bth district, composed of the township of Franklin, at
the house of George W.Mattern, in said township.
flth distnct, composed of Tell township, at the Union
School House, near the Union Meeting House, in said
township,
10th district, composed of Springfield township, at the
school house, near Hugh Madden s, in said township.
11th district, composed or Union township, at Grant
School house, in the borough of Mapleton, in said town
ship.
19th durtrict, composed of Brady township, at the Centre
school how, in said topnship.
13th district, composed of Morris township, at public
school house in said township.
14th district, composed of that Part of West township
not included in ith and 26th districts, at the public school
house on the farm 110 W owned by Miles Lewis, [formerly
owned by James Ennis,] in sold township.
15th district, composed of Walker township, at the house
of Benjamin 11.1egahy, in 11'counellstotyu.
tath'district, composed of the township of Tod, at Green
school house, in (add township.
17th district, composed of Oneida township, at the house
of WI Ram Long, Warm Springs.
19th district, composed of Cromwell township, at the
Rock 11111 School House, in mid township.
.„.. . .
19th district, composed the borough .- of Birmingham,
with the several tracts of land near to and attached to the
same, now owned and occupied by Thomas M. Owens, Juo
R. M'Cahan, Andrew Robeson. John Geroimer, and Wm.
(lensimer, and the tract of land now owned by George and
John Shoenberger, known as the Porter tract, situate in
township of Warriorsmark, at the public school house in
said borough.
- 20tlidKrriCt, composed of the township of Cass, at the
public school house to Camille, in said township.
21st district, composed of the township of Jackson, at
the public house of Edward Littles, at M'Alavy's Fort, in
said township.
224 district", composed of the township of Clay, at the
public school house, in Scottville.
224 district, composed of the township of Penn, at the
public school hosue in Marklesburg, in said township.
24th district, composed and created as follows, to wit :
That all that part of Shirley township, Huntingdon coun
ty, lying and being within the fallowing described bounda
ries, (except the borough of Mt. Union,) namely: Beginning
at the intersection of Union anti Shirley township line
with the Juniata river, on the smith side thereof; thence
along said Union township line for the cite once of 3 miles
from said river; thence eastwardly, by a straight line, to
the point where the main from Eby's mill to Germany val
ley, crosses the summit of Sandy Ridge to iheJuniata riv
er, and thence up said river to the place of beginning, shall
hereafter form a separate election district: that the quali
fied voters of said election district shall hereafter hold
their general and township elections In the public school
house in Mt. Union, in said township.
25th district, composed of all that part of the borough of
fluntin4don, lying east of Fifth street, and also all those
parts of Walker and Porter townships, heretofore voting in
the borough of Huntingdon. at the east window of the
Court House, in said borough.
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26th distriCt, composed of all that part of the borough of
Huntingdon, lying west of Fifth street, at the west window
of the Court House.
27111di;trij,cMnposed of the borough of Petersburg and
that part of West township, west and north of a line be
tween enderson and West townships, at and near the
Warm Springs, to the Franklin township line on the top
of Tussey's Mountain, so as to include is the new district
the houses of David Waldsmitle, Jacob Longencker. Thos.
Ramer, James Porter, and John Wall, at the school house
in the borough of Petersburg.
28th district, composed of the township of Juniata, at
the hour of John Peightal, on the land of Henry henberg
. . .
29th district, comiaed of Carbon township, recently
erected oat of a part of the territory of rod township. to
wit. commencing at a chestnut oak, on the summit of Ter
race mountain, at the Hopewell township line opposite the
dividing ridge, in the Little Valley; thence south 52 deg.
east 369 perch., to a stone heap on the Western Summit
of Broad Top Mountain; thence north 67 deg., east 312 per
ches to a yellow pine; thence south 52 deg., east 772 perch
es to a chestnut oak; thence south 14 deg., east 351 perches
to a chestnut at the east end of Henry S. Green's land;
thence math 31% deg., east 294 perches to a chestnut oak,
on the summit of a epur of Broad Top, on the western side
of John Terral's fada; smith 65 deg., east 934 perches to a
stone heap on the Clay township line, at the public school
house in the Tillage of Dadley.
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30th district, comp reed of tte borough of Coalmont, at
the public school house, in said borough.
•
314 distnct, composed of Lincoln tp., beginning at a
pine on the summitofTussey mountain on the line between
Blair and Hnntinguon counties, thence by the division line
south, 58 deg., east 798 perches to a black oak in middle of
township; thence 4234 deg., east 802 perches to a pine on
summit of Terrace; thence by the line of Tod towaship to
corner of Penn tp.; thence by the lines of the township of
Penn to the summit of Tussey mountain; thence along said
summit with lino of Blair county, to place of beginning,
at Coffee Ran School House.
3fM district, comp reed or the borough of Mapleton, at
the Grant School House, in Raid borough.
.
33d district, composed of the borough of Mount Union,
at the school house, in said borough.
34th district, composed of the borough of Broad Top City
at the public school house, in said borough.
35th district, composed of the borough of Three Springs,
at the public school, in said borough.
36th district, composed of Shade Gap borough, at the
public school house, in said borough.
37th district, composed of the borough of Orbisonia, at
the public school house, in Orbisonia.
I also make known and give notice, as in and by the 13th
section of the aforesaid act, I am directed, that "every per
eon, excepting justices of the peace. who shall hold any of
fice or appointment of profit or trust under the govern
ment of the United Stites, or of this State, or of any city or
or corphrated district, whether a commissioned officer or
agent, who is or shall be employed under the legislative,
executive or judiciary department of this :tate or of the
United States, or of any city or incorporated district, and
also, that e: err member of Congress, and of the State Leg
islature, and of the select and common council of any city
commissioner of any incorporated district, is by law in
capable of holding er exercising at the same time, the of
fice or appointment of Judge, inspector, or clerk, of any
election of this Commonwealth , and that no inspector or
judge, or any officer of any such election shall be eligible
to any office to be then voted for."
Also, that in the 4th section of the Act of Assembly, en
titled "An Act relating to executions and for other pur
poses," approved April 16th, 1840, it is enacted that the
aforesaid 13th section "shall not be so constructed as to
prevent any militia or borough officer from serving as
judge, or other inspector of any general or special election
in this Commonwealth."
mi;TheLTOI/jOnbly of 1889, known as the Registry
Law, itis provided as follows:
1. ' , Elea - ion racers are to open the polls between the
• hours of six and seven, a. m., ou the day of election. Be
fore six o'clock in the morning of second Tuesday of Octo
ber they are to receive from the County Commissioners
the Registered List of Voters and all necessary election
blanks, .d they are to permit no man to vote whose name
is not on mid last, unless he shall make proof of his right
to vote, as follows: . . . .
2. The person whose name is not on the list, claiming
the light to vote must produce a qualified voterof the dis
trict to swear in a written or printed affidavit to the resi
dence of the claimant in the district for at least ten days
next preceding said election, defining clearly where the
residence of the person was.
3. The party claiming the right to vote shall aloe make
au affidavit, statingto the best of his knowledge and be
lief where and when he was born, that he is a citizen of
Pennsylvania and of the United States, that Lt Lae lorded
in the State one year, or, if formerly a citizen therein and
temoved therefrom, that he has resided therein six months
next weeding said election, that ho has not moved into
the district for the purpose of voting therein, that he has
paid a State or county tax within two years, which was
!messed at least ten days before the election, and the affi
davit shall state when and where the tax was aasevsed and
paid, and the tax receipt must be produced unleas the RM.
ant shall state that it has been bolt or destroyed, or that
he received none.
4...iiiiceapPliCant be a naturalised citizen, he must, in
addition to the foregoiogproofS, state in his affidavit when
where, and by what court he was naturalized and produce
his certificate of naturalization.
5. Every claiming to be a naturalized citizen,
whether on the registry list, or producing affidavits as
aforesaid, shall be required to produce his naturalization
certificate at the election before voting, except where be
Election Proclamation
has been for ten years consecutively a voter in the diotrict
where he offers to vote. and on the vote of secb persons be
ing received, the election officers are to write or stamp the
word ••voted" on his certificate with the month and year,
and no other vote can be hod that thy in Tines of said
certificate except where sons are entitled to vote Upos the
naturalization of their father.
6. If the person claiming to vote who is not registered,
shall makenn affidavit that be is a native born citizen of
the United States, nr if born elsewhere, shall produce evi
denre of his natursilzation.or that he is entitled to citi
zenship by reason of bis father's naturalization, and furth
er'
tbUt he is between 21 and 22 years ofage. and has rand
ea in the State one year, and in the election district 16 days
next preceding the election, he shall be entitled to vote
though be shall not have paid taxes."
In accordance wi , h the provisionor the Sib section of an
Act entitled "A further supplement to the Election 1.0.11,1
of this Commonwealth," I publieh the following:
WHEREAS, By the Act of the Congress of the United
Stu., entitled "An Act to amend the several acts hereto
fore passed to provide fur the enrolling andcalling maths,
national forces, and for other purposes," and approved
March 3d, IS6.i, all persons who have deserted the military
or naval services of the United States, and who have not
been discharged or relieved from the penalty or disability
therein prodded, are deemed and taken to have volunta
rily relinquished and forfeited their rights of citizenship
and their rights to become citizens, anti are deprived of ex
ercyiing apy rights of citizens therecf ;,
AndlohireaZ Persons not citizens of tho United r•LSIPS
are not, under the Constitution and laws of Pennsylvania ,
qualitittdisioc!ors of this Commonwealth..
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Sec. 1. Ile ft enacted, cEc „That in all elections hereafter
to be held in this Commonwealth, It shall be unlawful for
the judge or inspectorsof any such elections to receive any
ballot orb allots from any person or persons embraced in
the provisions and subject to the disability imposed by
said act of Cougress,approved March 3d, 1865, and it shall
be unlawful for any such pelsou Wolfer to vote any ballot
or ballots.
Ssc:Y.That it any such Judge or inspectors of election,
or any one of them shall receive or consent to receive any
such unlawful ballot or ballots from any such disqualified
penrm, he or they so offending shall be guilty of a inhale
theanor, and on conviction thereof in any court of quarter
session of this Commonwealth; he shall for each offense,
be sentenced to pays fine not less than one hundred dollars,
and to undergo an imprisonment in the jail of the proper
county for not less than sixty days.
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Ssa'..3. That if any persoit, deprived of citizenship, and
disqualified as aforesaid, shall, at any election heresfl er he
held in this Commonwealth, vote, or tender to the officers
thereof, and oiler to vote a ballot or ballots,any person so
offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on
conviction thereof in any court of quarter session of this
Commonwchlth, shall for each offence be punished in like
manner at is provided in the preceding section of this act
in case of officers of election receiving any such unlawlul
ballot or ballots.
tne.4. That if any person shall hereafter persuade or ad
vise any person or persons, deprived of citizenship or dis
qualified as aforesaid, to offer any ballot or ballots lo the
officers of any election hereafter, to be held in this Com
monwealth,or shall persuade or advise,any such officer to
receive any ballot or ballots, freer any person deprived of
citizenship, and disqualified as aforesaid, each person so
offending Oral' be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con
viction thereof any court of quarter sessions of this
Commonwealth, shall be punished in like manner as pro
vided in the second section of this act in the race of officers
of such election receiving such unlawful ballot or ballots.
Particular attention is directed to the first section of the
Act of Assembly,passed the 30th day of March, a. d. ISCC,
entitled "An Act regulating the manner of Voting at all
Elections, in the several counties of this Commonwealth.
'That the qualified voter. of the several counties of this
Commonwealth, et all general, township, borough and
special elections, are hereby, hereafter authorized and re
quired to vote, by ticket, printed or written, or partly
printed and partly written, severally classified as follows.
One ti ket shall embrace the names of all judges of coons
voted for, and be labelled outside ludiciary;" one ticket
shall embrace all the nom. of State officers voted for and
be labelled "State;" one ticket shall embrace the nemesia
all musty officers voted for, including office of Senate.
member and member. of Assembly, if voted for, and mein
hers it Congress, if voted for, and labelled "county."
Pursuant to the provisionscontained In the 67th section
of the act aforesaid, the judges of the aforesaid district
shall respectively take charge of the certificates or return
of the election of their re.pective driatricts, and produce
them at a meeting of one of the judges from each district
at the Court House, in the borough of fluntingdon, on the
third day after the day of election, being for the present
year on FRIDAY, the 11th 01 OCTOBER, then and there to
do and perform the duties required by law of mid judges.
Also, that where a judge by sickness or unavoidable acci
dent, is unable to attend such meeting of judges, then the
certificate or return aforesaid shall be taken in charge ty
one of the inspectors or clerks of the e ection of said dis
trict, and shall do and perform the duties required ofsald
judge noodle to attend.
CONSTI'fIITION AL CONTENTION.
A t the same time and places, aleo, an election will be
held for delegates to the convention to amend the Con
stitution of the S ate, in conformity with the Act. entitl
ed "An Act to provide for calling a convention to amend
the Con.titntion." approved April 11, 1072. As prescrib
ed by said act, the following rules and regulations shall
apply to said election, and the returns of the same:
First. At the general election to be held the second
Tuesday of October next, there shall be elected by the
qualified electors of this Commonwealth, delegates to a
convention to revise and amend the Constitution of this
S ate: the said convention shall omelet of one hundred
and thirty-three members, to be elected in the manner
following: Twenty-eight members thereof shall be elects.
ed in the State at large, as follows: Each voter of the
State shall vote for not more than fourteen candidates. and
the tigenty-eight different Senatorial dietricts of the
State, three delegates to be elected for each Senator
therefrom;
and in choosing all district delegates, each
voter shall be entitled to a vote for not more than two
of the members to be chosen from tale district, and the
three candidates highest in vote shall be declared, elec
ted, except in the conuty of Allegheny, forming the
Twenty-third Senatorial District, where no voter shall
vote for more than tin candidates, and the nine highest
in vote shall be elected, and in the counties of Lurarne,
Monroe and Pike, forming the Thirteenth Senatorial
District, where no voter shall vote for more than four
candidates. and the six nighest In vote shall be elected,
and six additioad delegates :shall be chosen from the
city of Philadelphia, by a vote at large in said city,
and in their election no voter shall vote for more than
three candidates, and the nix highest in vote shall be
declared elected.
Second. The Judges and Inspectors for each election
district shall provide two suitable boxes for each poll,
one in which to deposite the tickets voted for Delegates
at large, and tho other in which to deposite the tickets
voted for District Delegates; which boxee shall be la
belled respectively, "Delegates at large" and "District
Delegates and in each district in the city of Phila
delphia an additional box shall be provided far each
poll in which to deposit the tickets voted for "City
Delegates;" and said Met mentioned boxes must each be
labelled "C ity Delegates. ' "
Third. The maid o.ection shaH be held and conducted
by the proper election officers of the general election
districts of the Commonwealth, and shall be governed
and regulated in all respects by the general election
laws of the Commonwealth, so far as the same shall be
applicable thereto, and not inconsistent with the pro
visions of said not.
Fourth. The tickets to be voted for members at largo
of the convention shall have on the outside the tin rds
"Delegates-at-Large" and on the inside the names of
the candidst. to be voted for, not exceeding fourteen
in number.
Fifth. The tickets to be voted for district members of
the convention shall have on the outside the words
"District I) legates," and on the inside the name or
names of the candidates voted for, not exceeding the
proper number limited as aforesaid; bet soy ticket
which shall contain a greater number of names than
the number for which the voter ehall be entitled to
vote, shall be rejected; and in case of the delegates to
be chosen et huge in Philadelphia. the words, "City
Delegates," shall be on the outside of the ticket.
Sixth. In the city of Philadelphia the return judges
shall meet in the State House, at ten o'clock on the
Thursday next following the election, and make out
the returns for said city, of the votes cast therein for
delegates at large and city and district delegates, tobe
members of the convention; the return judges of the
of the several election districts within rack aunty of the
State, excluding Philadelphia, shall meet on Friday
next following the election, at the usual place for the
meeting of the return judges of their county, and make
out full and accurate returns for the corny, of the
votes cast therein for members of the convention and for
district members of the same; and the proceedings of
the return judges of the said city of Philadelphia, and
of the several counties of the Commonwealth, in the
making of their returns, shall be the same as those pre
scribed for return judges in the case of an election for
Governor, except that returns transmitted to the Secre
tary of the Commonwealth, shall be addressed to that
officer alone and not to the Speaker of the Senate..,
F. JORDAN,
Secretary of the Conintonwealth.
EXECUTIVE CHAMBER,
HARM /M.O, PA., August 27, IHO.
To the County Comminioners and Sheriff of the County of
Huntingdon:
Wintnras, the 1 ifteenth Amendment of the Constitution
of the United States is as follows:
"Sac. 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote
tall not be denied or abridged by the United Staten, or by
ay State, on account of race, color, or previous condition
r servitude."
Sze. 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce thta
article by appropriate legislation."
And whereas, the Congress of the United States, on the
31st day of Ilarch,lB7o, passed an act, entitled “./in Act to
enforce Use rights of citizens of the United Slates to rote in
the !evens] States of this Union, and for other purposes,"
the first and second eections of which are as follows:
"Sec. 1. Bo it enacted by the Senate and House and ReT
resentatires of the roiled States of Americo in Congress
assembled, That all citizens of the United States, who are,
or shell be otherwise qualified by law to vote at auy elec
tion by the people, in coy State, Territory, district, coun
ty, city, parish, township, school district municipality or
other territorial sub-division, shall be entitled and allowed
to vote at all such elections, without distinction to race,
color, or previous condition of servitude; nny Constitution
law, custom, usage or regulation of any Territory, or by or
under its authority, to the contrary notwithstanding."
'lee. 2. And be alio - Vier enacted, That if, by, or under
the authority of the Constitution or laws of auy State, or
the laws of any Territory, any act is or shall be required to
be done as a prerequisite or qualification for voting, and
by such Constitution or law, persons or officers are er shall
be charged with the performance of duties in furnishing to
citizens on opportunity to perform such prerequisite, or to
become qualified to rote, it shall be the duty of every uncle
person and officer to give to all citizens of the United States
the saws and equal opportunity to perform such prerequi
site, and become qualified to vote without distinction of
race, color, or previous condition of servitude; and if any
such person or officer shall refuse or knowingly omit to
give full effect to this section, he shall, for every such of
fence, forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars to
the person aggrieved thereby, to be recovered by an action
ou the case, with full costs and such allowance for counsel
fees as the court shall deem just, and shall oleo, for every
such offence, be deemed guility of a misdemeanor, and shall
on conviction thereof, be fined not less than floe hundred
dollar, or be imprisoned not less than one month and not
more than one year, or both, at the discretion of the court.
And whereas, It us declared by the second section of the
Vlth article of the Constitution of the United States, that
"This Coned ration, and the laws of the United States which
shall be made in pursuance thereof, shall be the supreme
law of the lend • • • • anything in the
Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary not
withstanding."
..1 ad trlttieus, The Legislature of this Commonwealth.en
the 6th day of April, a. d. 1670, passed au act en hied, '•A
further supplement to the Act relating to elections in thin
Cottunonwealth," the tenth section of which pro gdoe as
follows: . .
"Stu. 10. That to much of every act of Assembly as pro
vides that only white freemen shall he entitled to vote or
be registered as voters, or as claiming to vale at any gen
eral or specill election of this Commonwealth, be and the
mmo is hereby repealed; and that hereafter all freemen,
wi hout distinction of color, shall be enrolled and register
ed according to the provision of the first eection of the act
approved 17th April, entitled •An Act further sup
plemental to the act relating to the elections of this C4nn
monirmilth," and when otherwise qualified under existi..g
laws, be entitled to vote at all general and special election
in this Commonwealth.v
And scherces, It is my constitutional and official duty to
'take care that the laws be faithfkilly excreted ;' and it
has come to my knowledge that sundry assessors and reg
isters of Totem hare refused, and are refusing to ass et s. and
register dicers colored male citizens of lawful age, and oth
erwise qualified as electors
. . .
Now inEnzrows, In consideration of the premises, the
county commissioners of said county are hereby notified
and directed to instruct the seveial assessors and regieters
of voters therein, to obey and conform to the requirements
of said constitutional amendment and laws; and the sheriff
of said county it hereby authorized and required to pub
lish in his election proclamation for tic next ensuing elec
tions, the herein recited constitutional amendment, act of
Congress, and act of the Legislature, to the end that the
same may be known, executed and obeyed by all assessors
registers of voters, election officers and others; and that tl.e
rights and privileges guaranteed thereby may be secured
to all the citizens of this Commonwealth entitled to the
SAM e.
al;e'; under my hand And the mat seal of the State at
Harrisburg, the itiy and year first above written.
JOILN W. GEARY.
i:JORDAN, Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Given under my hand, at Huntingdon, the 28th day of Au
-
gnat,
gnat, a. d. 1872, and of the independence of the United
States, the ninety-sixth
AMON HOUCK, Smarr,
Huntingdon, August 29tk, 11,72.