The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-08-24
hall the Republican Party be Sold out 2

1;sbed together with a new one, and meet
,uu of bis followers is to be held on Monday
Doy+ to formally put him on the track. We
bava no doubt that many ofthe signers of that
nIdoaII would now refuse to sanction the move
,oeut. and in any case would not support
Judue Ludlow as against the regular nominee
of the Republican party. The political stu
alton. as it has developed itself during the last
few months, and is now taking shape, proves
daily the imperious necessity that rests upon
all true Republicans to stand shoulder to
shoulder, and so keep up the discipline
and morale of the party. Public SEN
timent has changed since the call
upon Judge Ludlow was first issued.
Many Republicans who at that time felt dis
posed to support him as an Independent candi-
date. are now satisfied that it would be alto
gether unwise to do so. The bitter, unprinci-
pled, disgraceA personal warfare ,ohich is being
,Odoed upon Judge Williams, the Republican
nominee for the Supreme Bench, by the organs of
the Democratic party, has forfeited all claims
upon the generosity of the Republican party
,ohich Judge Ludlow or any other Democrat could
have. Forgery, fraud, inuendo, personal de-
traction, are the weapons which the Democrats
are using TO strike down one of the purest and
ablest men in this State; and yet these same
men turn round and ask Republicans to sup
port an open and avowed Democrat like
Judge ELudlow We consider this whole
movement, with all due respect to many esti-
mable gentlemen who have been drawn into
it, as nothing more nor less than device of
the Democratic leaders to secure the election
of one of their own partisans by the aid of
Republican votes. 1t is also calculated to
assist the Democrats in their canvass for Judge
Sharswood. They are trying the non-partisan
dodge in his case, and the Ludlow movement
Is to play into their hands by strengthening
that sentiment among Republicans. The
whole thing is, at the bottom, device of the
enemy; and we warn the Republican masses
to beware of it. We have the party strength
in this city, with the right kind of a nomina-
tion, to elect good sound Republican. Why
not do it2 Why give to the Democrats an
official position of great power and inhuenceH
Has the time for maintaining the Republican
organization gone by Look at the tre
mendous national contest which is looming
up before US, and say if, as Republicans, We
have any right to fritter away our strength
and impair the integrity and working power
of our organization 7 We say it, and say i
emphatically, that we would rather have mel
who at this day can support the Democratic
party any other official positonthan on the bench
In no other place can they do the country
and the cause of liberty and good government
such irreparable injury.
And since Judge Ludlow is to be forcec
upon Republicans as candidate worthy o
their support, let us ask what use did he max
of his official position and influence during ou
late great national struggle What did he d
for the Government and for the Union then
Where were his sympathies Let our reader
90 back and study his record made in tn
Boileau case, and ask themselves if such
record is one that ought to be indorSed by Re
publicans. If Republican support is to
claimed for this man, we want it should
bestowed intelligently.
The duty of the Republican Conventio
which is soon to assemble is plain, and that
to give us a good, sound, able Republican car
didate,-not a mere fgurehead or woode
man set up to be knocked down, and to pla
into the hands of Judge Ludlow, but
nominee that shall command the respect an
support of the party. Such man can
triumphantly elected, and his nomination wi
add strength to the entire Republican ticke
If we are sold out in this matter by the Coz
vention, it will cost us thousands of votes.
We are utterly and implacably opposed
this whole scheme of demoralizing the Repul
ican organization by going to the Democrac
for judicial or any other candidates. We al
in the midst of a great struggle for the PEI
manent triumph of principles which we hOl
to be essential to the perpetuity and well-bein
of the nation. 1t is struggle which has COS
us a vast expenditure of treasure and an al
palling sacrifice of precious human life. Hel
is this Ludlow, and this Sharswood, bot
OF whom are openly and bitterly oppose
to us, who do not believe as we do, and VIII
will use every particle of power and inhuenC
they may obtain in breaking down the ver
principles and policy which we are trying
establish What possible claim have the
upon our support We utterly scout IL
idea that the one is the only man in this Gil
At 10 be put on the bench as Associate Judg
and the other the only man in the State qual
fied TO 90 on the Supreme Bench. yud(
Williams is every way the peer OF Judl
Sharswood, and we have scores OF Republics
1-,ors In this CITY who are as well qualihe