The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-14
After the Battle.

tailed elsewhere. We do not proposes to In
vestigate the minutie of the contest, but to
look at some general principles which admit
of no mistake. On the principle of the eptoure
who reserves the most savory dishes until the
feast ia commenced with the more common
portion of the bill of fare, we will look first
at the CITY of Philadelphia, keeping the State
and her sister Commonwealth for subsequent
consideration.
Philadelphia is ostensibly carried by the
Democracy by msjorities ranging from 700 to
1000. We say ostensibly, for We do not dream
for a moment that the figures given this mOrn-
ing are any other than the manufactured data
of perjured election officers, or the ofi,tal
record of wholesale fraud. We know it is
customary for the defeated party to accuse
their successful adversary of being fraudu-
lently elected. In many cases The statement
amounts to nothing; in some cases it
amounts to not a clustering declaration of
passion, but the calm conviction of reason
In the present case we write advisedly and
coolly, and without one iota of passion. We be-
lieve the returns which elect every member
of the Democratic ticket in Philadelphia are
the wilful fslsifcations of the truth, or the
record of gross frauds which the law will in
due time expose. And we propose to show
on what we base our reason for believing the
Republicans have honestly carried the entire
city ticket.
First. We knoU from o6icidl records that there
t0ere sir thousand Democratic Uoters naturaiized
By the tipStaves of the Supreme Court. This
many we are certain OF, as Mr.. Snowden stated
so himself. Now all of them were surely Demo-
Gratis. The Republicans naturalized exclu-
sively in the Quarter Sessions District Court,
and Court of Common Pleas. The field of the
Supreme Court was left entirely free to be
possessed by Mr.. Snowden's political friends.
Now, suppose that 1000 of these voters either
stayed away from the polls or
were rejected by the Republican judges
an estimate which would be extravagantly
large-there would still remain 1000 illegal
votes. We say illegal votes, for the Supreme
Court will decide, when it meets in Pittsburg,
that the process of crowding each other in the
court room, and of being looked at by the
tipstaves, does not constitute legal or judi
oial process of naturalization. Without any
other fraud being detected these 1000
will be enough to elect the lowest candidate
on our ticket by 1000 and our
Judges by over $500. This process of purity
ing the corruption, by Ousting the nominally
elected officers from their illgotten seats, will,
without doubt, be taken by the proper autho.
rites. And in connection with the subj .ot of
fraud, we may be permitted to indulge in
little self-oongratulstion. The EVENING TsLE-
Al. l..
has saved the Republican party five Thousand
votes in Philadelphia. There was deep-laid
scheme to keep the records of naturaz alton
concealed, hurrying through at least ten
thousand new voters, and flood the city
and State with the bogus votes. We heard of
this scheme, and determined to make space for
the names of these newly y-crested citizeus. We
were resisted, and we, through our counsel,
in the face Of Democratic crowd of roughs,
Of band of Democratic tipstaves, in the eyes
of Democratic Prothonotary, and before the
unwilling Chief Justice and Associate Justice,
demanded and compelled the production of these
records, and laid them before the public. By
this action we say, without fear of contra1io-
tion, that we checked this wholesale process
and deprived the Democracy of five Thousand
anticipated votes. The day the rule was
applied for the Chief Justice directed the resi-
denoes Of applicants to be put down in their
applications. The day the rule was applied
for there were seven hundred and twenty
paturalized next day they fell off to little
ever two hundred. We had frightened the
conspirators away from their nefarious work.
Second. In addition to the 5000 pa
pers thumbed by the tipstaves that
were voted yesterday, there were an
unknown and probably an enormous
number of papers which had not even
gone through that ennobling process We
have no definite data to go by, but have rea-
sons for believing that 5000 of these papers,
sealed and signed in blank, and issued from
that fabulous die with which Judge shars-
wood seeks to deaden his conscience, were
voted yesterday. These can be found out by
reference to our men and our window books,
and when found out will be carefully and
determinedly cast out of the calculation.
Third. There were imported into our city
bands of rufians, most of whom are known to
the detectives, who voted in several wards,
and by their attitude of defiance sought to
intimidate as well as defraud the legal voters.
They are all carefully noted, and not only
will their votes be cast out, but they be pur-
sured and placed where they belong, in the
Penitentiary.
For these reasons, we think that every one
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