The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-10-11

polls than would have done but for Messrs.
Monroe and johnson.
The Republican party need not depend for its
victories on the persistent misbehavior of its
enemies, 1t is strong enough to rule By it's own
merits, independently of their tollies and crimes.
But to this end, 1t must frat complete promptly
the reconstruction of the Southern States on a
basis of blended justice and magDanlmity;
second systematically educate and enlighten
the people. The necessity and urgency of clos
ing up the wSrk of reconstruction on the broad
and safe basis OF universal amnestyand impair .ial
suffrage is now so clear that we will not dwell
upon 1t. Events are more COgent than argu-
ments. We will speak to-day only to the second
point.
If there were neither a newspaper nor a COM
mon school IN the country the Democratic party
would be far stronger than IL is. Neither ee-
mentaTy instruction nor knowledge of tran
spring events is needed to teach the, essential
articles OF the Democratic creed:-"Love rum
and hate nigeers.n The less one learns and
knows, the more certain he is to ''vote the
regular ticket IRON A TO Izzard.o
But Repubhcanism rests on a radically diff
ferent basis, and is sustained by wholly diverse
considerations. 1t lives by intelligence; il dies
in the murRy, sitting atmosphere of Ignorance.
Canvass almost any township in the land and
distinguish those who take from those who fail
to take newspaper, and you will find that two
thirds of those who take vote Republican,
while three-fourths of those who read nothing
but chance paper picked up for a few moments
in q bar-rOom, vote the Democratic ticket and
will not be persuaded to touch any other.
If every man in the country could read, and
did habitually read two good journals, one of
each party, we should have no more doubt of
electing Republican President next year than
of the rising of the sun. But every voter who
does not read is peril; and the multiplicity
of such voters subjects the results of our cleo
tiOns too much to the control of accident.
Fortune will not always favor us as she did in
1864 and 1866. We can be sure of victories only
by deserving them. And the duty now impera-
lively pressing upon us is to take care that every
voter who can read, and will read it, or who has
some in his family who can and will read it to
him, is seasonably supplied with good Repub-
lican journal for the whole year 1868.
We are not going to succeed so easily as
many have fondly calculated, and we rejoice
that we are not. If we let the contest go at
hap-hazard, and do not seasonably provide for
and deserve success, we may be beaten. But
If we begin now and by concerted, systematic
effort, put good Republican newspaper into
the hands of every voter who will read it, we
cannot be beaten.
Flooding the country with printed matter on
the eve of an election is desperate resort
better than nothing, and that is all. No oreliance
can be placed upon it; little good ordinarily
comes of it. But begin now, and systematically
insure that every man that has a vote shall
have a newspaper if he will take it, and all is
safe. Republicans resolve to see to it at once
HORACE GREELEY