The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-10-28
AN ASTONISHING FORGERY.

We cannot now remember any outrage on
body of men, and an entire nation, which
quals or approaches the enormous fraud
that the MCCLELLAN -PENDLEToN party
has Just attempted on the rights and the will
of the New York soldiers now in the army. 1t
10 astounding, and when the first reports of its
discovery reached us yesterday, we were not
prepared to receive them as true. We could
realize that the so-called Democratic party
were in great distress at the prospect of their
defeat on the Sth of November, but 1t was
hard to believe that it would resort to such a
Wanton violation of all principle and of all
honor. Yet it has turned out true, and to-
day MCCLELLAN's friends stand before the
world branded with an infamy which shall
constitute their eternal disgrace.
Apprehending disaster to their cause, and
knowing that the soldiers from New York, as
from every other State, would give five votes
for Mr.. LINCOLN to one for MCCLELLAN, the
Democratic leaders in that State had agents
appointed to take the vote in the army, who
would enter heart and soul into the gigantic
fraud which they designed palming off upon
The country. According to the confession OF
M.tJ. FERRY, one OF these agents, the plan
was to fill up the printed blanks with the
names of officers and soldiers who had been
In the army, but 1oho iUere either deGd or no
longer connected NTH the serUice. In addi-
tion to this it is substantiated that they
forged the names OF soldiers in the army to
these blanks without asking them for whom
they wished to vote, thus giving thousands of
sufirages to MCCLELLAN and PENDLEroN
which would have been cast for the Union
candidates, LINCOLN and JOHNSON.
The magnitude and Nervousness of the fraud
Is appalling, and in the history of our country
at least, has no parallel; aud a party which
will stoop to such turpitude will not stop at
any crime. After this we are not surprised at
the threat made in yesterday NewY orl World
that "the times demanded something stronger
than words, and that the point where forbear-
ance ceases to be virtue is near at hand. If
the will of the people is that the present Admin
istration be reelected, then, 1t is foreshadoweI
by the World, something stronger" is to take
the place Of words with its party. What does
it mean, if this dark insinuation does not look
10 revolution and resistance to the Govern
mentP
Lie " OFtu mas CuuIdCLcI iOI pOlJlCdl
dishonesty and lack Of morality which is
already well established, but it should now
cease its twaddle about FRAUDS and turn its
attention to the shame blistering on its own
forehead, and talk of its very Immaculate
party. 1t viii have enough to do to salve this
hideous burn over between now and the Sth
Of next month.
Alas, for the ~young NAPoLEoNp This
development of the manner in which he was
TO be elected brings his prospects to a sudden
termination, and dashes all his aspirations to
,ne ground Thousands Of men who might
,-se voted his ticket win refuse TO soil their
b,as,- py touching thing so polluted, so
no lonoa, @'.A iaiany. In the army warriors win
sonso aS taa hesitate Soldiers have the correct
sense OF honor, and they viii spurp from them
the sneaking ioreera who have p1n son noln ',lo men
their rights, degrade their c,tlvens,,, 'So.,
insult the memories Of their deaa oa,s- 'p, '''iu
Let the people Of the country eons,ae.'..,.,,
how, ia this wilful effort to deprive their 'aI
Ian, defenders Of the right to vote for the men
Of their choice, this Democratic party is play