The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-09-18
WHO'S To Be Cheatedg

ir, the eleotion of Judge Sharswood. AS a
sneoipoeu of the style Of argument being used
20 seduce Republicans into the support Of this
judicial aspirant, the paper is worthy of mo-
ment's notice. 1t assumes that Judge Shars-
wood does not endorse the platform upon |
which he is running, and which is put forth to |
the world as the formal declaration of prinoi- |
ples of the party which has made him its |
standard-bearer! 1t says:-"We do not hold |
him. (Sharswood) "answerable for the folly |
or the faults of their platform. He did not |
write it. He does not adopt it; he is not bound
by it either actually or constructively; and he,
therefore, ought not to be affected by it. ~
he endorsed the principles announced by this Con-
vention, Swallowing all like a fre-eater, no honest
man should Uote for him. For heavens sake,
save us from the curse of party political
Judge. He has, however, nothing to do with
it, and it has nothing to do with him."
This is certainly very strange position to
assume. Somebody is evidently to be grossly
deceived. The Democrats have nominated
Judge sharswoOd upon certain platform,
platform adopted for this specific nomination;
he has accepted the nomination, without dis
senting in the least from single expression
contained in the platform; and his party sup
porters are therefore fully justified in believing
that he does accept and endorse it to the fullest
extent. But if the assertion of this electioneer-
ing document be true, the Democrats are being
''sold" in the most wholesale manner. Judge
Sharswood 'does not adopt" the platform, and
'is not bound by it either actually or con-
struotively," and 'has nothing to do with
It'll"
On the other hand, if he really does indorse
the platform, as we have no doubt he does,
then all Republicans who may be deluded into
giving him their votes by such false appeals
as this now before us, will be taken in and
done for in the most thorough manner. They
will have voted for man accepting ap1 .epre-
senting principles at deadly war with all their
convictions of right and justice-one whom, in
the language Of this address, "No honest man
should vote t6r.'' AS we have said, therefore,
somebody is being cheated. Who is it Are
the Democrats deceived in their man? Are
they supporting, and straining every nerve to
elect, man who does not believe as they do?
who refuses to indorse their platform and does
ing false position and playing double part :
Is he allowing himself to be represented in
one light to the Democratic party to get their
votes, and in another to Republicans to get
theirs If he is, then he is not fit man for
Judge, and no honest man of either party
should vote for him. Much as we despise the
Democratic platform, and dangerous as we re-
gard its doctrines, we would much rather sup
port candidate standing squarely upon it,
than one occupying such position as in this
document is ascribed to Judge Sharswood.
Give us at any time man who knows where
he is and what he believes, in preference to a
trickster and fencs-straddler.
But in justice to Judge Sharswood, we must
say that there is not the slightest ground to
suppose that he occupies the position ascribed
to him in this electioneering document. In
accepting the nomination, as he has done,
without the slightest protest against the plat
form upon which he was nominated, he has
given the best possible evidence that he in
dorses that platform - evidence which
is universally accepted as conclusive by all
parties. If he did not indorse it, if he were
not willing to accept it as an authoritative
exposition of his views upon the points
covered by it, he would be bound, as an
honest man, to say so in some public manner
This he has never done; and therefore he is
Justly to be held as adopting and standing
on the platform of the party whose candi
date he is. Were additional evidence neoes
sary, it might be found in the long expressed
and entertained political views of Judg
Sharswood-views which could hardly hav
found more fitting expression than is con
tanned in the Democratic platform. TIL
platform is fitted to the candid ate and tn
candidate to the platform.
We may, therefore, justly denounce thi
attempt to represent Judge Sharswood as no
endorsing the platform, as piece of politica
demagOguism of no ordinary atrooity-no
thing less, in fact, than an endeavor to oh
tain votes under false pretenses. Every Repub
ioan who feels inclined, on personal, or othe
grounds, to vote for him, may rest assure
that his ballot, if SO given, will be taken i
Pennsylvania and elsewhere as vote for tn
abhorrent and accursed doctrines of til
Democratic platform. Not only that, but
will be taken as a vote to uphold that ba
man in the Presidential ohair-whom Heavel
for our sins, has imposed as sore judgmeI
upon us--in his high-handed course Of usurp
It. - 5;,,o,,ord of the Constitution, Sue