The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-01
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1868.
The Canvass IN Pennsylvania.

The Democrats Of this State have ceased to
appeal to the reason or conscience Of their fei-
low citizens for support. The intelligent and
patriotic men who have heretofore acted with
their organization, deeply conscious Of the
fatal blunder perpetrated in the nomination OF
the shilly -shally Seymour and the bold, bad,
blundering Blair, give up the contest, acknow-
le6ging that the Democratic party does not
deserve success, and that its triumph would
be o national misfortune. In this strait the
desperate politicians who direct its movements
are initiating the infamous policy adopted by
Jefferson Davis when he discovered that the
triumphant march of the Union armies could
not be resisted by the arts Of honorable war
fare. He called to his counsels incendiaries,
pirates, assassins, and scoundrels like Wirz,
who were capable of starving thousands Of
Union prisoners. The Democratic plan Of the
Presidential campaign is equally discreditable,
and, in some particulars, not more humane
than the infamous tactics of the fendish chief
tain of the Confederacy. In Pennsylvania the
Chairman of the Democratic State Central
Committee is Unsuitable in his demands for
money, money, money
The rich Democrats Of New York have been
badgered for contributions as they were never
badgered before, and unmerciful assessments
have been levied upon Philadelphia contribu-
tors to the Democratic treasury. In reply to
the remonstrances Of the victims of these ex-
tortions there is but one explanaton-that
the means used to carry Pennsylvania in 1857,
by fraud, must be again employed in 1868
and that the old coffee pot naturalization system
must be reorganized on gigantic scale. This
is being done at this moment not only in
Philadelphia but at all favorable points
throughout the State. Nobody will accuse
ihe witless Wallace. who leads the Democratic
van, Of any special capacity for conducting
political campaign successfully on honorable
principles; but as an agent in inciting and ar
ranging frauds upon the ballot-box he cannot
be excelled. He can convert no voters, but
looking lovingly at his famous coffee-pot, he
can triumphantly exclaim, "No witch's cal
dron ever exercised SO potent an infu-
enoe over the affairs of mankind as this
humble utensil in my master hand !" The
Republicans must expect frauds to the right
of them, frauds to the left of them, frauds in
every county, and frauds in every precinct
where it is possible to perpetrate them. The
money wrupg from reluctant contributors is
being expended with lavish hand in securing
naturalization papers, by fair means or foul,
and in preparations to contest the majestic
demonstration of the sentiment of the State
which honest and patriotic citizens will give
on the second Tuesday of October, by shame
full display of the most infamous form of par
tisan chicanery.
In 1867 these frauds were naturally accom-
panied by the worst of crimes. They were
based on false oaths, and the criminals most
deeply implicated did not hesitate to attempt
to conceal their guilt by perpetrating one of
the most atrocous murders ever committed
within the boundaries Of this Commonwealth.
1t is surprising that any OF the Courts, which
are supposed to be the conservators of justice,
can be induced, either by acts of commission
or omission, to connive at the schemes to
fasten upon the State and nation odious and
obnoxious candidates. But we trust that
the popular indignation aroused by
the base acts of our political adversaries will
render all their schemes fruitless. Good citi-
zens of every shade of politics should COM
bine to rebuke the unprincipled tricksters
who tamper with the very foundations Of gov
eminent, and to demand that the nation shall
be ruled in the mode desired by a majority of
legal voters, and that the gravest questions
which affect the destiny Of the human race
shall not be decided by crimes and frauds that
no honest man can countenance.