The Huntingdon Journal
.T. D. DURBORROW,
HUNTINGDON, PENN'A.
Wednesday Morning, Sept. 3, 1873,
Circulation LARGER than any other
Paper in the Juniata Valley.
REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS
SUPREME JUDGE
Hon. Isaac G. Gordon, of Jefferson .
STATE TREASURER
Hon. Robert W. Mackey, of Allegheny.
SENATOR
P. P. Dewees, of Cromwell.
[Subject to the decision of the District Conference.)
ASSEMBLY
William IL Burchinell, of Huntingdon
COUNTY TREASURER:
Thomas W. Montgomery, of West.
COUNTY COMMISSIONER
Charles R. McCarthy, of Clay,
DIRECTOR OF THE POOR
James H. Lee, of Jackson.
AUDITOR :
James H. Davis, of Morris.
JURY COMMISSIONER:
John G. Stewart, of Mt. Union.
CORONER:
John Laporte, of Franklin ,
meg. The prospects for the Governor
ship are not as good now as they wero be
fore the Wilksbarre Convention. Some
body's hand must have come down !
"The back pay members of Congress are
successively taking back seats.—Daily Graphic.
No reference t) Speer's fiasco at Wilkes
barre, we hope !
OW' "The King of France marched up the
hill
And, then, marched down again."
This old tune is now set to new music, and
entitled "Speer's March."
sa,.. The set-up job of Randall & Co.,
at Bedford Springs, was smashed effectu
ally, at Wilkesbarre. Poor Speer would
have given twice his back pay grab to have
been delivered from the house of his
friends. They slaughtered him fearfully.
War The League has been a source of
great profit, to a few leaders, for the last
few years. They have sold its followers
fer so much cash every election, and got
the money, but the fellows who did the
voting "got none." Hasn't this thing
about played out ?
an.. The Bolters are ignored by Guss
and a new election called for. The men
who elected him, in his estimation, are
not fit for delegates; and it is extremely
questionable whether the men who would
select such a Chairman are. We agree
with Gnss!
ws.. Some Democratic Congressmen
were stupid enough to suppose that the
Democratic Convention would sustain them
in taking $5,000 out of the Treasury with
out sharing the money with the Delegates.
Such folly ! If they had shelled out, there
might be a different tale to tell.
The Democratic State Convention meets in
Wilkesbarre to-morrow.—Globe of last week.
And Gus? proposition to sell his fol
lowers, at so much per head, was on hand.
It is said that Guss was there in person.
"How much a head do you say ? Who
bids ? Going ! Going! Gone ! R. Milton
Speer!"
ue„.. It has been suggested that we
should pay no further attention to "that
vile sheet, The Globe," but "treat it with
silent contempt." Well, 'tie a pity to
torture the "critter ;" but, in the language
of Prentis,
"Thiags have come to a de'il of a pass,
When a man can't whollop his own jackass."
la_ We are receiving, daily, additional
testimony in regard to the infamous man
ner in which A. L. Guss has conducted
the Cassville Soldiers' Orphan School.
This is as it should be. Send us the facts,
friends, and we will show up this piece of
iniquity. Mr. Wickersham may eventu
ally be induced to inquire into the com
plaints.
per. We are indebted to Hon. John M
Baily, for a copy of the proposed Consti
tution of Pennsylvania, as passed second
Reading. He will please accept our thanks
for the same. Owing to the "political
situation" we have been unable to give
this matter much attention, but we hope
after the breeze is over to devote consid
erable space to it.
A® r Every vote taken from the Repub
lican ticket, by Guss & Co.. is worth so
much money to the Democrats, and they
will hold themselves in readiness to pay it.
Guss & Co. expect to make the transfer.
They will get the money, and the dupes
who fullow them can suck their fingers.—
This has been the case heretofore and his
tory repeats itself.
WY' Several corner loungers were recent
ly overhead discussing the downfall of A.
L. Guss, the infamous, when one inquired :
"Why is it he is always abusing and villi
fying his betters--the best men in the
county ?" To which another replied,
"If he did not abuse and villify his
betters he would have no one to abuse and
villify in this or any other county !" A
truism.
Itie„. Alas, poor Woods ! He is com
pletely eclipsed by Guss. This fearless
instructor of the orphans has stolen all the
former's well-earned laurels. There is no
more Woods party—it is all Guss ! Tho
follower has become principal, and the
leader has been lost in the fog ! The
Goes party ! Oh, dear and has it fizzled
down to this? Goss! Guss !! Guss !!
gel. The editor of the Globe has au idea
that we desire to break down that paper.
Pshaw ! We care nothing about the Globe.
Business is business with us. We suppose
that there will always be some ass who will
try to run a third paper, by banging on
the outskirts and by black-mailing, and such
being our confirmed opinion, as a matter
of business we believe it to be worth one
thousand dollars more a year, to us, to
have the present ostensible owner to do so
than any other man. We have no desire
to injure our own business. No, sir'
THE WAGES OF SIN
Swift Retribution
Eprroß
A little more than one year has elapsed
since R. M. Speer was a candidate for re
nomination for Congress by the Democrats
of this District, and at the same time A.
L. Guss was professedly seeking the Re
publican nomination. When the Repub
lican Convention was about to assemble it
was considered very probable it would de
clare in favor of Hon. S. S. Blair as the
choice of this county. A delegate from
Hopewell township, who, in the absence
of his colleague, had the right to cast two
votes, and was known to be against Guss'
non.ination, was at this juncture approach
ed. According to the statement of that
Delegate made to several persons, R. M.
Speer paid him his check for one hundred
and fifty dollars, A. L. Guss paid him fifty
dollars, and W. H. Woods paid him fifty
dollars, making in all two hundred and
fifty dollars paid him by these three persons
to cast his votes for A. L. Guss. He did
so, and these votes bought with Speer's
money gave Guss the majority in a Repub
lican Convention, over lie's S. S. Blair, a
true and honest man After such a trans
action, argument is not needed to convince
any man that Guss was a candidate in
Speer's interest. Both using money
this act of political debauchery, the one
to corrupt a member of the party with
which he professed to act, the other to aid
the treachery of his confederate in the
scheme to put up a mock candidate or a
weak one to run against him, these asso
ciates in mercenary politics have since been
on common ground and have rapidly trav
eled to the goal to which sooner or later
all such transactions lead. These political
sins have been speedily rewarded with
their wages, and the close of August 1873,
brings to both that political death with
the seeds of which the sin of August 1872
was so fully laden.
Let us see if we overstate the results as to
either of them. Guss sought to have his
character vindicated in Court by prosecut
ing one of his competitors for libel in pub
lishing an affidavit made by one of the fe
male orphans in the Cassville school, of
which be was principal. The defendant
alleged the affidavit was true, the Court
told the Jury that if upon the evidence
they found it to be true they should ac
quit the defendant, and they did acquit
him. Convicted instead of vindicated, and
panting for revenge, be soon after bought
a newspaper, the Huntingdon Globe, and
still professing to be a Republican, he suc
ceeded through the County Committee in
having himself elected in February last to
the Republican State Convention which
met in August. Feeling elated by this be
opened and kept up in the columns of the
Globe a warfare disgracefully personal up
on all Republicans whom for any reason he
wished to injure, careful all the time to
compliment and caress Hon. R. Milton
Speer who appre'ciated and returned the
kindness of his ally, going so far as to ad
vise his friends to abanion the Monitor
and take the Globe.
. So successfully did he cultivate Repub
lican favor by his course, that when the
County Convention met upon the 12th of
August, it passed resolutions condemning
the Globe as unworthy the confidence or
support of the party; revoking the ap
pointment of its editor as delegate to the
I I State Convention, stigmatising him as a
disorganizer, and appointing a Republican
in his place. Bolting from the Conven
tion which thus disposed of him, he ap
peared at the State Convention to claim
his seat, and notwithstanding all his prof
fers of voting for everybody, his entreaties
and even his tears, he was turned away
from the Convention, from the recognized
Republican party of the State as not en
titled to recognition. And thus Guss got
the wages of his sin. His party refused to
have anything to do with him in either
County or State Conventions.
But Speer was elected to Congress. He
had served one session and been paid for
it. He went and served another, the short
one, and his first term was about to end.
The salary bill came before the House, and
right boldly did "our Representative" vote
against it : so boldly indeed that he must
have attracted the attention of the Speaker
by his earnestness, for it was his boast af
ter his return home that Mr. Blaine had
complimented him by saying, "Mr Speer I
could see that when you said No, you meant
it." But the bill passed and settlement
day came, and the recollection of the ex
penses of his co-partnership with Guss
and Woods in buying the Hopewell dele
gate, and the other little incidentals of
his campaign came thronging upon him.
The $5,000 temptation was too strong,
and if he "meant it" when he said
"No" he forgot it when be saw the
greenbacks; he "grabbed" the back pay
and kept it. This was in March, August
has come, the Huntingdon County Demo
cratic Convention met and tamely endors_
ed the course of "our Representative."
United in their political lives, Guss and
he were not to be in the manner of their
deaths divided, and like Cuss, Speer too
must go to the State Convention and ask
an endorsement. Not elected himself, he
got a substitution and appeared upon the
ground, and it went out from Wilkesbarre
upon the wings of the lightning that Hon.
R. Milton Speer, of Huntingdon, had no
opposition for Permenant President of the
Convention. That would be an indorse
ment. But "Oh what u fall was there my
countrymen !" Indeed, "The best laid
schemes of mice and men aft gang
aglee."
The Committee was appointed all right,
they reported his name as President, when
a plain blunt Democrat front York county,
Glatz, moved to non-concur in the report
because Speer was a salary grabber. Hero
was the crisis of his fate, and as no words
of ours could do justice to the mournful
occasion, we will give his own dying dec
larations, ar.d let his fellow Democrats
perform the last sad rites for him, in their
own language, taken from the fullest pub
lished reports of the proceedings we have
seen. "If you have tears to shed prepare
to sheu them now." After Glatz's motion.
lar. Speer replied: "As the person chiefly inter
ested in the charge which has been made, it may
not be improper for me to say that the honor of
being named as your presiding officer was not
sought by me. I came hero with the sincere and
single purpose of advancing the interests of the
party, and, through it, of the country. As a
member of Congress from the XVIIth Congres
sional District, which I bare carried more than
once against is majority of 1.000 votes, I ray to
the Democracy of Peonsy.vania that I believe yon
will not ucedle,sly plant a thorn in my breast.
and make me sad in the house of my friends. If
this Convention shall strike me down after the
Committee have decided in my favor, I must sub
mit, but it is not the way to make a party to
strike your friends. I point you to my record iu
Congress; if I have ever been influenced by gain
or the hope of gain in casting my vote, let it be
named. When I voted steadily against the bill to
increase the pay of Members of Congress, and
then took the money which was legally mine, did
I commit a wrong? I suppose some victim may be
needed to oppose the clamor of the people, but we
should rise above the spirit of demagoguaiste and
dare act as we believe right. The people of my
District have unanimously indorsed my course,
and why should you send me home with this
stigma upon my character? I seek no quarrel but
I decline none. I don't want the honors of this
Convention, and am not accountable to it if they
can so far forget what is duo me as to yield to the'
clamor of the hour and strike me clown. Let them
remember that every act of wrong has its hour of
regret."
To this Mr. Monaghan, of Chester, re•
plied :
Mr. Monaghan, of Chester Comity, said it was
the most unpleasant duty of his life to oppose the
nomination of his friend Mr. Speer. It was with
wounded feeling that he approached the question,
but with earnest seal for the success of his party
and a desire for Democratic supremacy. Back of
this Convention was a constituency of hard-working
men. Whether these members of Congress who
went to the Treasury and took from it more money
than the people who elected them hod said they
should have, were actuated by honest feelings or
not was a question. The indignant people did not
choose to ask questions. They say that they have
been wronged, and that those men who have
wronged them shall not again be placed in posi
tions of honor or trust. We find a general gloom
resting upon our people in the farming districts.
Heavy taxation, and this grab is a part of it, has
wrung from them their hard earnings until they
are poor. In my own county, men who have
worked hard since they left their cradles till now
that they are tottering into their graves, are being
sold out by the Sheriff. They turn to our servants
—for they are our servants and not our masters—
and find that they who were sent to Congress have
opened the public, treasury and helped themselves.
lon, sir, you, sir, Mr. Speer, and the rest of those
men, took 515,000 for a few months' - service, while
old men, your constituents, have not made so much
in a long life of honest toil. Shall this man come
here and ask as to advance him and outrage the
millions whom he has wronged ? [Many voices,
.No."] In God's name I answer,No! Asone who
loves the people and don't care much for office
holders, I have been notified by a member of Con
gress that I might make the most of this; that
they wero going to drive this thing through the
Convention. Let the issue come right here. I say
unless we stand straight on this record we will be
defeated most overwhelmingly. Let us tell the
people that we are on their side, and not on the
side of those who have robbed them. If this has
been the mistake of those men's lives, let them re
pent and take a back seat, and allow men who
have not sought office, or honor or money to be
brought forward ; let them allow some man who
has not touched this foul thing to preside over our
deliberation. I implore Mr. Speer to rise in his
place and magnanimously decline the honer.
•
Getz, of Reading, as the friend of
Speer and his fellow Congressmen, them
attempted to defend the taking of the Back
Pay but in the language of the report, 'he
was hissed from the floor."
Finding the waters were rising rapidly
about him and that he had but a few mo
ments of his political life to live, Mr.
Speer, held his head out long enough to
utter the following, and obeying Mona
ghan's invocation he went under and gave
up the ghost :
"There never was such an exhibition of dema
gogucism as that made by the body which met at
Harrisburg a little while ago. They denounced
the increase of salary, and they turned round and
praised Grant, who was responsible for it more
than any other man. Deeply as I have been
wronged, and long as I shall cherish the memory
of that wrong, I am willing to depart frolic Demo
cratic usage, and offer myself as a sacrifice to the
popular outcry. I move to substitute in the report
of the Committee the name of Mr. Nebinger, of
Philadelphia, for my own."
- -
And thus Speer got the wages of his
sin. His party repudiated him, "stabbed
him in the house of his friends," sacrificed
him to their wrath. Politically dead, the
high Priests of his party have not left him
without an epitaph. The New York
World commenting upon his taking off
says :
" In Wilkesbarre yesterday, a Congress
" man who merely drew the back pay
" which had been awarded to him by the
" iniquitus piece of legislation which But
" ler procurred to be passed, was on the
" sole ground that he had drawn it
'• promptly and peremptorily forbidden to
" preside over the Convention of the Dew
" ocrats of Pennsylvania. The Demoera
" cy of Pennsylvania has fairly cleared its
" skirts of 'the slime that sticks on filthy
" deeds.' "
And thus have these two conspirators,
who one year ago stifled the voice of the
Republicans of liuntingdon county with
money, been disposed of Let all others
who would do likewise take warning.
THE MODERN JEREMIAH ,
The two speeches of Hon. Robert Milton
Speer, interpreting and characterizing the
judgment which ho saw the Democratic
Convention, at Wilkesbarre, would pass
upon his receipt of Back Pay, when dives
ted of some filling in, reads about as fol
lows :
"You have planted a thorn in my breast."
"You have made me sad in the house of
my friends."
" You have struck me down."
" The law gave me the Back Pay and I
took it."
"Yon have convicted mo of committing
a wrong."
"You are giving voice to the clamor of
the people."
" You and they are demagogues, and
can't rise above that spirit."
" You dare not act as you believe to be
right."
"You send me home with a stigma upon
my character."
"You have wronged me, and I will long
cherish the memory of that wrong."
"I offer myself as a sacrifice to the pop
ular out cry."
The Miltonic vein is clearly discernable
in this mournful Jeremiad. Its plaintive
poesy is said to have drawn tears from eyes
unused to weep. It is indeed sad, very,
very sad. We hope it will not be lost to
posterity. Let it be reduced to measure
and set to music, mournful funeral music.
Let Guss line it out amid the sighing of
the dark pines, at Cassville, and let Ran
dall, Meyers and Getz be there to chant
it for the requiem of the Ron. Robert
Milton Speer, as with heavy hearts and
drooping heads they walk around the pro
lific thorn tree which the people have
planted upon his political grave, and froni
which they will take a sharp one to plant
in the heart of every other "Salary Grab
ber."
Da. A friend suggests that Speer's de
feat at Wilkesbarre reminded him of a
little yaller dog, in days agone, that vexed
his soul by barking at every passing train
of cars. While once too often thus enga
ged, a train, from an opposite direction,
cut off a bind leg and his candle append
age. Never, in the history of the world,
was such mortification pictured in the face
of a dog. He lowered the stump, hobbled
away and committed suicide! He thinks
Speer's, mortification was only second to
that of the dog's.
DELEGATE ELECTION AND RE
PUBLICAN COUNTY CONVEN
TION.
The Republicans of Huntingdon Count), who
arc opposed to the usurpations and outrages of the
Huntingdon Ring of politicians, as exhibited at
the recentso-called Republican Convention held,
at Yenter's Ilall, on Tuesday, August 12tb, and all
others who are in favor of the nomination of an
unexceptionable ticket composed of honest, moral
and temperate men, fresh from the ranks of the
people, and free from the control of unprincipled
political demagogues. are hereby requested to meet
at their several places of bolding delegate elections,
in each Borough and Township, on SATURDAY.
the Bth day of September, (Townships from 4 to 7
p. m., Boroughs from 7 t• 9 p. m.,) and select two
delegates from each, to repreeent them in a County
Convention to beheld at the Court Reuse, on SAT
URDAY, September 9th, 1873, for the purpose of
placing in nomination a ticket, to be supported by
them at the ensuing election, or of taking such
action in relation thereto as may be deemed most
advisable, after mutual consultation.
-- The Republican party of this county owes it to
itself, its time honored principles and usages, and
its true and faithful adherents, to rebuke the cor
rupt Ring of aristocratic demagogues of Hunting
don Borough, who now seek to either ruin the party
or control it for their own mercenary purposcs,and
the people at large owe it to theinsolves to place
upon such transactions the seal of their condemna
tion by nominating and electing none but honest
and competent men to fill the positions within their
bestowal. _ _ .
Let us then have a full representation and a fair
expression of the wishes of the people.
A. B. 01199,
Chirman Republican County Committee.
We copy the above call, fellow-Republi
cans of Huntingdon county, for the pur
pose of showing you the designs of those
who have placed themselves outside of the
party organization, and for the further pur
pose of ventilating the movement so thatall
honest men can see the shallowness of the
trick which is to bring about the election,
if possible, of the Democratic ticket.
The call starts out by requesting all Re
publicans "who are opposed to the usurpa
tions and outrages of the Huntingdon Ring
of politicians," &c., to assemble and elect
delegates. Who does this mean Who
comprise this Ring? What are its objects,
pray ? What has it accomplished ? Give us
categorical answers, please. We deny that
there is any such Ring, and we dare the
author of the above to produce a single sub
stantial reason for his statement. The
Republicans—thehonest, upright members
of the party—found it necessary to act
jointly to crush an infamous organization,
which took away all the rights of the peo
ple to be heard through their delegate
elections, and they struck out right and left
to slay the iniquitous cabal; and they did it
effectually. It was a concerted action,
brought about by its own infamous trans
actions. There was no necessity to form a
Ring ; the only ring it wanted was the
death knell of the League. The honest
masses elected their ablest men to repre
seut them in the Convention, and because
these men were above suspicion, they are
charged with being aristocratic. If there
had been a Ring, as is alleged, why is it
that it did not make nominations from its
numbers The League has al ways done this.
The ticket which is objected to is com
posed of as good men as the county can
afford, nevertheless these men, who now,
with a single exception, come before the
people for the first time, are denounced in
the address which accompanies this call, as
a "miserable ticket of ex-Democrats, intem
perate men, and old hackney politicians."
Is this true ? Can this be said of either
Capt. William K. Burchinell, Thos W.
Montgomery, Chas. R. McCarthy, James
H. Lee, James H. Davis or John Laporte?
Can this be said of any one of them ? There
is not an ex-Democrat, (who cannot plead
the statute of limitations,) not an intemper
ate man or an old hackney politician among
them. If there is any such we are not
aware of the fact. Why are they not
pointed out ? These men compose all that
portion of the ticket that can be effected by
another nomination. But a ticket of "hon
est, moral and temperate men, fresh from
the ranks of the people" is demanded. Are
not these men honest? Are they not mor
al ? The very idea of the creature who pro
mulgates this address talking about morali
ty ! And are they not temperate ? The
community knows these men and can an
swer the question. The inuendo that they
are dishonest, immoral and intemperate, is
a base slander. If they were as his inuen
do would imply, who is responsible for the
nomination of these men ? With twenty
five delegates at his back Guss could have
defeated every man on the ticket save Capt.
Burchinell, but he preferred going out of
the Convention, severing his connection
with the Republican party, and setting up an
arrangement which is to be sold out to the
Democrats for the largest figures that can be
obtained. It is well understood and alleged
by both Guss and Woods that they can
get more votes for a separate than for a
fusion ticket. They say that a large num
ber of their followers will not vote for a
Democrat, but that they will have little or no
trouble to get them to vote for a straight
League ticket, which, instead of counting
two votes for the Democrats, will only count
one. Is it possible that any Republican,
who does not desire to be thrust into the
Democratic party, will allow himself to be
used in voting for a third ticket ? Messrs.
Guss and Woods have no other object but
the election of the Democratic ticket, pro
vided, of course, that the Democrats will
pay them a sufficient price for their votes,
and those they can control. Of course
they will pocket the money, and their fol
lowers will never get a farthing. They sell
them, at so much per head, as so many cat
tle. This Mr. Woods has dune for the lase
three years.
The call then winds up with an exordi
um which is as devoid of truth as it possi
bly can be. There is not the first substan
tial reason given for the movement.—
What is alleged is as shallow and trans
parent as water. There is no Ring in
Huntingdon, the candidates aro honest,
moral and capable men, and we defy a
successful refutation of these facts. Take
away these accusations and the whole thing
falls to the ground.
Die' The Globe is very much worried
because the Chairman of the County COM
mittee refused to admit a promiscuous as
sembly to surround the Convention, on the
12th ult., and thinks the like was never
done before. In Bedford county the Re
publican Convention always sits with clo
sed doors, and it is tke only way to main
tain decorum ; _ The Republican Conven
tion which assembled in this place in 1871
was almost suffocated by the crowd; in
fact it reminded us of a car packed with
sheep, and it only succeeded in organi
zing by getting rid of the crowd. Goss
wanted some chance to defraud the dele
gates and he 'was foiled. Here is where
the sting comes in.
WHAT A WOODS MAN THINKS OF
ANOTHER CONVENTION.
LOWER END, Aug. 28, 1873.
MR. DURBORROW.—Dear Sir: I see
from the huit issue of the Globe, that the
Professor issues forth his call for another
County Convention. Now I did hope Mr.
Editor, when be was at Harrisburg the last
time, that his friends would have put him
in the Insane Asylum; I certainly think it
the most suitable place for such a man. If
he ever was a sane man (and I doubt it
mightily) with the treatment he would re
ceive there, his mind might be restored.
Now, Mr. Editor, that I have been labor
ing with the Woods wing of the Republi
can party up to the day of our County
Convention, I don't deny, but when a few
of our delegate; on that day bolted with
this crazy editor as their leader, I became
so disgusted that I determined, with a
number of others, to turn in with the Scott
wing of the party. I have for years been
trying to affect a union of the party. I am
a Republican from principle, and do not
feel like helping even a sane man,to break
down the Republican party. Now I want
my few Woods friends who did not come
over with me on the day of the Convention,
just to stop and consider what they are
doing. Remember the words of the wise
man, ''A prudent man foreseeth the evil,
and hideth himself; but the simplepass on
and are punished." Just read the last
Globe, and you will see that I have not
made much of a mistake in saying that its
Editor is crazy, and should be in the In
sane Assylum. What is our prospect in
the future, with such an organ as the Globe,
and with such a leader as its Editor? In
the name of the Prophet, who does this
Editor suppose will respond to his call for.
another Convention. I don't know a Woods
man that will have anything to do with it
they consider here that it would not only
be a disgrace to them, but to their chi].
dren after them. I don't feel at all ashamed
of the course I have pursued. I any going
to do all I can to elect the regular Repub
lican ticket, and I know that all, or nearly
all of the Woods men in this part of the
county are going to do the same thing, re
gardless of this crazy Editor and his call
, for another Convention.
I looked at both sides of this question
before I changed my base of operation, and
I know our only chance of success was to
fuse with the Democrats, which we had
done under much more favorable circum
stances last Fall and were defeated, and
with only twenty-seven delegates in the
Convention, all told we would be consid
ered disorganizers to attempt getting up a
ticket for ourselves.
A WOODS MAN.
BACK PAY.
How About McAteer ?
We understand some of the candidates,
on the Back Pay Platform, claim the priv
ilege of Gen. McClellan to accept the
nomination and spit upon the Platform.
You are all there, gentlemen. You got
your nominations from the men who en
dorsed Speer. You are in the same boat
with him, and the people will dispose of
you, as their Representatives did of Speer
last week at Wilkesbarre. ''lt is danger
ous to stand upon the Platform when the
cars are in motion," and your only salvation
is to decline and get off, before the elec
tion comes around.
But there is one of your number that
can't get away from it. He is one of the
builders of the Platform, one of the en
dorsers of "our Representative" and his
Back Pay. Henry J. McAteer was a del
egate to the Democratic Convention, which
passed the resolution endorsing Speer, and
as there were no votes against it, lie of
course voted for it.
Democrats of Huntingdon County, which
do you follow, the resolution of the County
Convention endorsing Speer, or that of the
Democratic State Convention which. re
pudiated Speer, hissed his advocates from
the floor, and condemned all salary grab
bers ? If you condemn the salary grab,
you cannot vote for McAteer. If you do,
and by any accident he should be elected,
you give him warrant to add fifty per cent.
to his salary at the end of the service.
U.. "Tho people of my Distriet have unani
mously endorsed my couree."—Speer's Speech at
Wilkeeloarre.
A gentleman who scatters over his dis
trict his virtuous homily on Judge Kelly
and the Credit Mobilier, should especially
in his dying declarations, stick to the
truth. To say nothing of the Republi
cans who are part of "the people of his
district" and who have by resolution con
demned the salary grab, here is the reso
lution of the Democratic Coudty Conven
tion of Blair county passed 25th August,
1873 :
That when a representative in congress or the
legislature agrees to serve the people at a fixed
salary, it is dishonest and frannulent in him to
vote to increase it daring the term, and we de
nounce as as unjust and unjustifiable either the
voting for or receiving any subh increase of sala
ry by any member, be he a Democrat or Republi
can.
Common people will think that another
"thorn" in Mr. Speer's heart instead of
of E n endorsement, and that his own little
$5,000 Credit Mobilier job needs some
virtuous denunciations.
t6y- A. L. Guss, editor of the Hunting
don Globe, signing himself Chairman of the
Republican County Committee, calls upon
a certain clique to meet in Convention on
the 9th day of September, to place in nom
ination another ticket opposed to the Re
publican one now in the field. As Mr
Goss thought the late Republican Conven
tion was good enough until he failed to get
what he wanted from it, we fail to see the
disinterestedness of the present movement.
If he had the good of the cause at heart,
he would consider that party priciples are
above personal suite, and so act. As it is
he makes of himself a stumbling block, and
advertises himself a sorehead and a dim.-
gan i zer.—Johnstoura Tribune.
Mir It seems to us that the Bureau, at
Washington, which cannot furnish a copy
of a few records inside of two months
wants a new head. This idea is respect
fully referred to the Commissioner of Pat
ents for his candid consideration. Uncle
Sam ought to be able to employ clerks
enough to keep up the business of the
Government without putting citizens to
embarrassing delays.
l EN . The question with Gass, is, "how
much a head will the Democrats pay for
the fellows who are willing to follow me ?"
Every vote is worth a certain sum in green
backs. If the Democrats want them they
must pay handsomely, but the sheep to be
sold will not receive a farthing. The lar
ger the number who follow the better it
will pay the leaders. Republicans, you
who have followed Woods and Gus; have
been sold like sheep in the shambles, for
the last three years, and you know wheth
er you received the money or not. If you
did not, others did. If you are to be sold
again we insist upon it that they share the
money with you, or if you allow them to
sell you again without doing so, you are
bigger fools than we supposed you to be.
am. A few days ago we heard of anoth
er young girl who refuses to return to the
Soldiers' Orphan School, on account of
improper conduct on the part of the man
who has been running the institution. It
is extremely doubtful whether there is a
single instance of a young girl leaving that
school, at the age of sixteen, that has not
been improperly approached. It is also ex
tremely doubtful whether there is another
community in the United States that
would tolerate such iniquity as has been
practiced at this place without suspending
the villain who practiced it to the nearest
bough.
i The Democratic convention of
L'untingdon county "renewed the expres-
sion of its confidence in the integrity and
capacity of Hon. it. M. Speer, and placed
upon record its endorsement of his course
as their representative." The Democratic
convention held at IVilkesbarre looked
upon Mr. Speer's record through another
and totally different pair of spectacles, and
placed upon it the seal of condemnation.
Which speaks as by authority in the mat
ter—the county convention, or the State?
—Daily Tribune.
vegf.. The Guss Republicans in Hunting
don county, through their Chairman, A.
L. Guss, Esq., of the Globe, have issued
a call for a convention to meet on the 9th
of September, "for the purpose of placing
" in nomination a ticket to be supported
" by them at the ensuing election, or of
" taking such action in relation thereto as
may be deemed most advisable, after
mutual consultation." It occurs to us
that that party ought to be harmonious.
Mr. Gum will scarcely fall out with him
self—Blair Co. Radical.
m, The Huntingdon county Demo
cratic Convention passed a resolution in
dorsing the course of Hon. R. M. Speer,
the Democratic member of Congress from
that district, who voted for and took the
back pay, and arraigned the Republican
county convention for "the boldest dema
goguism in condemning the passage by
Congress of the bill increasing the salaries"
of Congressmen. So we go. Plunder is
the vital force of modern Democracy.—
State Journal.
nigk. The Chairman of the League calls
for the election of delegates on next Sat
urday, the 6th, inst. From all we can
learn, none kilt the sworn members will
heed the call. We ask our friends, how
ever, in the townships and boroughs, to
send us an account of the proceedings
where it is attempted. The people want
to know how the thing is done. It will
be good reading now, and still better here
after, if these disorganizers should still
pretend to be Republicans.
Thal.. The editor of the Globe, after all,
is not devoid of gratitude. In Lis last
issue he splatters Hon. John J. Patterson,
of South Carolina, all over with praise,
because, some years ago, that gentleman
gave the said Guss five hundred dollars to
leave the county. He thereupon left it for
the county's good. When he leaves here
the esounty will very likely furnish him
with a body guard in the person of the
High Sheriff.
bar The democrats from Juniata county
have placed the following ticket in the field:
State Senator, Dr. D. M. Crawford (sub
ject to decision of district conference) ;
Assembly, Jerome Hetrick (subject to de
cision of district conference) ; Sheriff, Wm.
H. Knouse ; Register and Recorder, John
T. Milten ; County Treasurer, Samuel
Showers; County Commissioner, Alexan
der A. Crozier ; County Auditor, John
Fitzgerald; Jury Commissioner, David
Partner; Coroner, Joseph Middagh.
ts, The democrats of Mifflin county
have nominated the following ticket : State
Senator, Joseph S. Waream (subject to the
decision of the district
,conference); As
sembly, Henry P. Taylor, (subject to the
decision of the district conference); Treas
urer, David Watson ; Commissioners, Rich
ard Brindle and Jacob Stine, Sr.; Director
of the poor, John Preston ; Jury Commis
sioner, William M'Nabb ; Auditor, Vance
C. Aurand.
Xrar How many Republicans will follow
Guss ? Every one that does just increases
his stock in trade to that amount. He
says to the Democrats, "Hare is my force,
all told ; it is enough to elect the Demo
cratic ticket. I can use these fellows just
Its I please. If you want us you must
come down heavy. Sock up !" And the
Democrats do. The reoney is paid over.
Guss and Woods share it and their dupes
get "nary red." Will you permit this ?
ne.. Hon. Russel Errett, of Pittsburg,
has been re-appointed Chairman of the Re
publican State Central Committee for the
ensuing year. He has called a meeting of
the Committee, for organization, in the
Hall of the House of Representatives, at
Harrisburg, en Wednesday, Sept., 3d, (to
day) at 11:30 A. N. H. Clay Marshall is
the member of the Committee from this
county.
BM. "A. L. Guss, Chairman Republi
can Co. Convention." Well, here is rich
ness for you. Who made Goss Chairman ?
Why the Bolters, of course. Why didn't
the Bolters do the other little business
while they were at it ? If they had power
to elect Guss they had power to make a
ticket. But the Chairman is now greater
than the Convention itself. He has set
aside the old Bolters and ordered a new
Convention. Here is richness for you,
indeed !
DA. The Blair county Democratic con
vention inct in Hollidaysburg on Monday,
and nominated the fl 'flowing ticket; As
sembly, James Funk; Sheriff, John
Rockett; Commissioner, Oliver Haggerty;
Jury Commissioner, James M'Entosh ;
Poor House Director, Emanuel Clapper ;
Auditor, Robert L. Holiday; Coroner,
John Hickery.
The Wilkesbarre Convention•
A Regular Kilkenny Cat Fight,
Hilton Slur Slatiitorod!
He is Hissed and Hooted Down!
"Our Talented Young Congressman" Floored
WILK ESBARRE, August 27.—The Dem
ocratic State Convention met in the court
room and was called to order by Hon. Sam
uel J. Randall.
After the lists of delegates were called,
Dr. Andrew Nebinger was unanimously
elected temporary chairman.
At two o'clock the committee being
ready to report, the Convention was called
to order, and the chairman of the commit
tee, Colonel Robert Dechert, read the name
of Hon. R. Milton Speer, for permanent
chairman.
At this point A. Glatz, of York, inter
rupted the Convention and moved a non
concurrence of the Convention in the re
port of the committee, so far as read, giv
ing as his reason that Speer had, as a
member of Congress, taken back pay. The
motion and remarks of Mr. Glatz were re
ceived with great applause by a majority
of the Convention. Mr. Speer replied, de
fending his actions as a public man, and
pleading his services, and felty to the Dem
ocratic party, and asking the Convention
not to give way to the personal clamor of
the hour.
Ile stated that he had not sought the
honor of presiding over the convention,
but now, that the comniitteehad presented
his name, he hoped that he would not be
stabbed in the house of his friends.
Messrs. R. E. Monaghan and W. D.
Moore supported the mottion of Mr. Glatz,
and denounced the salary grab in severe
terms.
Messrs. C. W. Carrigan and J. Lawrence
Getz spoke in behalf of Mr. Speer. The
latter gentleman upheld the back pay bill
and was hissed from the floor. The sense
of the convention was almost unanimously
against Mr. Speer being the permanent
Chairman.
In a short speech he withdrew his name
and moved that the name of Dr. Andrew
Nebinger be substituted. This was carried
and the committee reported Vice Presi
dents from each district and number of
Secretaries.
Judge J. It. Ludlow, of Philadelphia,
was nominated for Supreme Judge, and F.
M. Hutchinson, of Allegheny, for State
Treasurer.
Special Notices
CENTAUR LINIMENT.
Then, Is no pain which the Centaur Liniment will not
relieve, no swelling it will not subdue, and no lameness
which it will not care. This is strong language, but it is
true. Where the parts are not gone, its effects are mar•
veloui. It has produced more cures of rlieunutt ism, neu
Wes, lock jaw, palsy, sprains, swellings, caked breasts,
scalds, burns, salt-rheum, car-ache, &c., upon the human
frame, and of strains, spavin, gall, &e., upon animals in
one year than have all other pretended remedies since the
world began. It is a counter-irritant, an all-healing pain
reliever. Cripples throw away their crutches, the lame
walk, poisonous bites are rendered harmless, and the
wounded are healed without a scar. It is no humbug. The
TLe recipe is published around each bottle. It is selling
as no article OW before sold, and it sells because it does
Just what It pretends to do. Those who now stiffer from
rheumatism, pain or swelling, deserve to suffer if they
will not me Centaur Liniment. More than 1000 certifl-
rates of remarkable cures, including frozen limbs, chron
ic rheumatism, gout, running tumors, kc., have been re
ceived. We will send a circular containg certificates, the
receipt, ke., gratis, to any one requesting it. One bottle
of the yellow wrapper Centaur Liniment is worth one
hundred dollars for spavined or sweenied horses and
males, or for screw-worm from sheep. Stock owners—this
Int meat is worth your attention. No family should be
without Cement Liniment. Price 50 cents a bottle, large
bottles $l.OO.
J. B. ROSE k CO.,
53 Broadway, New 'York.
CASTO:JA is more than a substitute for Castor Oil. It
is the only safe article in existence which is certain to
assimilate the food, regulate the bowels, cure wind-colic
and produce natural sleep. It contains neither minerals,
morphine or alcohol, and is pleasant to take. Children
need not cry and mothers may rest. [mch26-6mos.
E. F. KUNKEL'S BITTER WINE OF IRON.—Th ii
truly valuable tonic has been no thoroughly tested by al
classes of the community that It is now deemed indispen
sable as a Tonic medicine. It cost but little, purifies thes
blood and gives tone to the stomach, renovates the system
and prolongs life. Everybody should have it.
For the care of Weak Stomachs, General Debility, Indi
gestion, Disease of the Stomach, and for all classes regain.
infix
gis w i ne includes the most agreeable and efficient Salt
of Iron we possess—Citrate of Magnetic Oxide, combined
with the most energetic of vegetable tonics—Yellow Pe
ruvian Bark.
- Do 3 ,- .3ti;;lt something to strengthen you
Do you want a good appetite!
Do you want to get rid of nerconsuesg ?
Do jou want energy?
Do you want to elt 7 t. , p well?
Do you want to build up your constitution?
Do you want to fool well ?
Do you want a brisk and vigorous feeling?
If you do try KUNKEL'S BITTER WINE OF IRON.
I only ask a trial of this valuable tonic.
Beware of counterfeits, u Kunkel's Bitter Wine of Iron
is the only sure and effectual remedy in the known world
for the permanent cure of Dyspepsia and Debility, and as
there area number of imitation@ offered to the public, I
would caution the community to purchau none but the
genuine article, manufactured by E. F. Kunkel, and hav
ing his etatopon the cork of every bottle. The very fact
that others are attempting to imitate this valuable remedy
prives its worth and speaks volumes in its favor.
Sold only in $1 bottles. Sold by Druggists and dealers
everywhere.
August27-4t.
CHILDREN OFTEN LOOK PALE
and Sick from no other cause than having
worms in the stomach. BROWN'S VERMIFUGE
COMFITS will destroy Worms without injury to
the child, being perfectly WHITE, and free from
all coloring or other injurious ingredients usually
used in worm preparations.
CURTIS & BROWN, Proprietors,
No. 215 Fulton Street, New York.
Sold by Druggists and Chemists, and dealers in
Medicines at 25 cents a box.
Ju1y16,1873-Iy.
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THIRTY YEARS' EXPERIENCE
of an old Nurse. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup
is the prescription of one of the best Female
Physicians and Nurses in the United States, and
has been used for thirty years with never fail
ing safety and success by millions of motheis and
children, from the feeble infant of one week old to
the adult. It corrects acidity of the stomach, re
lieves wind colic, regulates the bowels, and gives
rest, health and comfort to mother andehild. We
believe it to be the Best and Surest Remedy in
World in all eases of Dysentery and Diarrhoea in
Children, whether it arises from Teething or from
any other cause. Full directions for using will
accompany each bottle. None Genuine unless the
fac-simile of CURTIS PERKINS is on the out
side wrapper. Sold by all Medicine Dealers.
Ju1y16,1873-Iy.
THE HOUSEHOLD PANACEA,
FAMILY LINIMENT
is the hest remedy in the world for the following
complaints, viz.: Cramps in the Limbs and Stom
ach, Pain in the Stomach, Bowels or Side, Rheu
matism in all its forms, Billions Colic, Neuralgia,
Cholera, Dysentery, Colds, Fresh Wounds, Borne,
Sore Throat, Spinal Complaints, Sprains and
Bruises, Chills and Fever. For internal and ex
ternal use.
Its operation is not only to relieve the patient,
but entirely removes the canoe of the complaint.
It penetrates and pervades the whole system, re
storing healthy action to all its parts, and quick
ening the blood.
The Household Panacea is purely Vegetable and
All lleali ng.
Prepared by CURTIS 1 BROWN,
No. 215 Fulton Street, New York.
For sale by all druggists.
Ju1y16,1873-Iy.'
AUGUST FLOWER
The most miserable beings in the world are
those suffering from Dyspepsia and Liver Coro
plaint. More than seventy-five per cent, of the
people in the United States are afflicted with these
two diseases and their effect, such as sour stem-
Special Notices,
aeb, sick headache, habitual costiveness, impure
blood, heartburn, waterbrash, gnawing and burn
ing pains at the pit of the stomach, yellow shin,
coated tongue and disagreeable taste in the mouth,
coming up of the food after eating, low spirits,
&e. do to the Drug Store of John Read & Sons,
Huntingdon, and get a 7.i cent bottle, or a sample
bottle free of charge. Try it.
Aug.20,1873-Iy.
LIVER COMPLAINT DYSPEPSIA.
Jaundice, Nervous Debility, and all diseases aris
ing from a disordered Liver or Stomach, such
as Constipation, Piles, Acidity of the Stom
ach, Nausea, Ileartburn, Fullness or Weight in
the Stomach, Sour Enntations,Sinking or Flutter
ing at the Pit of the Stomach, Swimming of the
Bead, Hurried and Difficult Breathing, Fluttering
of the Heart, Choking Sensation when lying down
Dimness of Vision Dots or Webs before the Sight,
Yellowness of the Skin and Eyes, Sudden Flushes
of Heat, and Great Depression of Spirits, are
speedily and permanently cured by "Iloofiand's
German Bitters." The old standard remedy of
thirty years experience, whose virtues are testi
fied to by hundreds of our most respectable citi
zens who have used it and been mired. Ask for
Hoolland's German Bitters," and take no other.
It is not alcoholic. They are sold by all Drug
gists. Proprietors, Johnston, Holloway A Co.,
602 Arch Street, Philadelphia.
July2,lB73eow7mos—No.3.
New To-Day.
D ISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OEFICE,
Hcsremno.v, Pe., August 23, 1873.
Notice is herby given, that I have this day ap
pointed J. Hall Musser, Deputy District Attorney.
All business pertining to said office should hereaf
ter be addressed to him.
H. CLAY MADDEN.
District Attorney of Huntingdon county, Pa.
August 27, 1873-Iy.
M 9 CLELL AN'S
INSTITUTE FOR BOYS
At West Chester, P. A beautiful and elevated situation,
22 mile. west of Philadelphia. Spacious play grounds,
Gymnasium. Students prepared for College, Polytechnic
Schools or liminess. Special provision made for very
young boys. Many students remain, as bonrders, during
Summer vacation. Seseion begin. September 10. Address
ROBERT M. M'CLELLAN. [aug.27-It.
D ISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP
Tho copartnership, heretofore existing be
tween the undersigned, under the name of Wagon
er dc Shaffner, has this day been dissolved by um
teal consent. The books and accounts of said firm
are in the hands of M. L. Shaffner, for settlement.
WILLIAM J. WAGONER.
M. L. SHAFFNER.
The business will be continued as heretofore by
the undersigned who will keep constantly on band
everything in his line.
M. L. SHAFFNER
August 27,1873-3 t.
AUDITOR'S NOTICE.
The undersigned appointed Auditor, by the
Court of Common Pleas of Huntingdon county,
to distribute among the persons legally entitled
thcreto,the funds in the hands of Theodore Cremer,
Assignee of Wm. A. Orbison, will attend to the
duties of his appointment, at his office, 302 Penn
street, Huntingdon, Pa., on Friday, September 12,
1873, at 10 o'clock, a. m., when and where all per
sons interested must attend, or be foreverdebarred
from making any claim on said fund.
J. SYLVANUS BLAIR,
Auditor.
Aug.274t.
AUDITOR'S NOTICE.
The undersigned appointed Auditor, by the
Court of Common Pleas, of Huntingdon county, to
distribute among the persons legally entitled there
to, the fund in the hands of Theodore Cremer, As
signee of the Enterprise Coal Company, will at
tend to the duties of his appointment at his office,
302 Penn street, Huntingdon, Pa., on Friday,
September 12, 1873, at 11 o'clock, a. m., when and
where all persons interested meet attend, er be de
barred from making any claims on said fund.
J. SEM - ANUS BLAIR,
Auditor.
Ang.27-3t.
TTEACHERS"EXAMINATIONS.
The annual examinations of Teachers fur
the present school year will be held as follows
Morrie, Wednesday, September 10, Shatereville.
Warriorernark, Thursday, September 11, Warrioremark.
Franklin. Friday, September 12, Franklinville.
Porter and Aloulndria, Saturday, September 13, Alexazi-
dries.
West, Monday, September 15, Shaver's Creek Bridge.
Barree, Tuesday, September 16, Manor Hill.
Jackson , Wednesday, September 17, 3PAlevey's Fort.
Oneida, Thursday, September 18, Donation S. H.
Henderson, Friday, September 19, Union S. IL
Mount Union, Monday, September t 2, Mount talon.
Mapleton, Tuesday, September 23, Mapleton.
Brady, Wednesday, September 24, Mill Creek.
Union, Thursday, September 25, Pine Grove S. 11.
0.8. and Cassville, Friday, September 26, assiville.
Tod, Saturday, September 27, Newberg.
Walker, Tuesday, September 30, M'Connellstown.
Juniata, Wednesday, October 1, Bell Crown S. H.
Penn, Thursday, October 2, Marklesburg.
Hopewell, Friday, October 3, Coffee Run.
Cafbon,Soalmont and Broad Top City, Saturday, October
4, Dtidley. . .. ~
Three Springs and Clay, Monday, October 6, Three Springs.
Springfield, Tne.day, October 7, Maddeneville.
Orbisouia and Cromwell, Wednesday October 8, °This.la.
Shirley and Shirleysburg, Thursday, October 9, Shirleys-
- .
bu.
Shade rg flap and Dublin, Saturday, October 11, Shade Gap.
Tell, Monday, October 13, Bolingertown.
Examinations will commence at 9 o'clock, a. M.
Teachers will not be admitted into the class unless pees
eulat the opening of the examination.
No certitir7ate can be granted to an applicant found en
tirely deficient to any of the branches named on the pre
visional certificate. The examination on Theory of Teach
ing and U.S. History will be more rigid thanpiest year.
Examination on Theory will be chiefly on School Economy.
Teachers will be examined where they are applicants for
schools. All persons expecting to teach must be examin
ed at the public examinations. I will grant no permits,
and will examine no one privately unlem he brings a
written request signed by at least three membem of a
board of Directors giving satisfactory• reasons for his non
attendance at the public examinations. Directors should
be present and select their teachers on the day of exam
ination.
R. M. MeNEAL,
County Superinteutl.t.
Aug.27,18734t.
HUNTINGDON
BOROUGH
WATER. LOAN.
8 PER CENT. TWENTY YEARS
COUPON BONDS.
REGISTERED OR MADE PAYABLE
TO BEARER AS INVESTORS
MAY DESIRE.
INTEREST PA TABLE SEMI-ANNUAL L }
JANUARY and JULY.
THIS LOAN IS AUTHORIZED BY
ACT OF ASSEMBLY, APPROVED
MARCH 10, 1871.
Bonds will be issued in denominations of
$lOO, $2OO, 8300,5400, $5OO, $6OO, $7OO,
$BOO, $9OO, $lOOO and $5OOO.
This Loan is free from County and Municipni
taxes.
Subscriptions will be received at the office of D.
Caldwell, Esq., No. 111, Third street.
J. 11. BORING,
Chief Burgess.
August2o,lB73-6mos.
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