The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-10-24
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Majority for ShaTswood ."............, ...... 922
oa6 thus Sp9eas f m sa tng lt t9la! 5o YQIe faSt a
total vote of 1867 falls short OF the vote of 1866
On an examination Of the details it further
appears that the decrease this year is AZ, ,7lO on
the Republican vote of 1896, and decrease OF
in other words, there were over $4,000 more
Republicans who did not go to the polls at the
are eight counties in the StRte-ViZ., Allegheny
Bradford Crawford, Erie, Lancaster, Phliaoeis
which more Republican voters remained at
home than We're required TO elect Judge
Philadelphia there were more than four times
as many absentees as were needed to give us
the State. In no county except Philadelphia
and Forest (the latter by change of boundary
line) did either party increase the vote OF last
year. ,-,-- o-,,, .--,p.
publicans the simple but important lesson that
mere numerical majority of voters viii not
carry an election, unless Jhey are at tne polls
and vote on election day. General apathy,
caused by an apparent failure to appreciate the
Importance OF the contest, is the primary cause
of our defeat. Besides this, we had local dith-
culiies and side issues 10 contend against, sufh.
votes In many places by reason of the legisla-
tion of last session, and on the apprehension OF
tion of city taxation, and what is known
as the Sunday car question, and by sundry
frauds. And worse than all these, our friends
acceptable to our people, mainly because IL mad
no soldiers upon II. The soldiers themselves,
10 their principles, and voted with us as hereto
fore, But large numbers of their friends would
not support the ticket; and in every Republican
precinct in the city there were from fifteen to
one hundred and fifty of our friends who re-
fused TO vote. Thus we lost Philadelphia, and
consequently the State.
The defeat of so worthy a candidate as Henry
w Williams is q humiliation to which our
friends who stayed at home should not have
subjected us. They have been untaiJhiul 10 the
great principles for which we have struggled
and suffered together during the last SIX years,
and they have imposed upon us addlJlonal
labors and trials for the future, Wnlch proper
discharge of duty now would have aVerteu. o.,
But let us "neYer despair OF the repuDhc. ,
Reconstruction, on the basis OF universal
liberty and impartial Justice, must yet pc &C.
compiished; and there can be no doubt the
Union Republican party is as strong to-day on
all great national issues, and as determlneu 10
accomplish its mission, as at any time during
the last six years. Our duty is plain, and Is
well stated in a recent private letter from our
standard bearer in the late contest, as follows;
-"Instead of being dispirited, we should gird
ND our loins and burnish our armor for next
YEARS Presidential contest, and make such use
Of this defeat as to secure decisive ana over
Whelming victory" IL, .,,
Many thanks to those who so nobly dld thelI
duty in the late canvass; and TO those VINO dld
not, the earnest hope Is INDUCED that they VIII
make ample amends hereafter
BY order OF the Committee. .,,-,-s
GEORGE w, HAMERsLY, Secretaries
]. RoBLEY DUNGLIsoN,