The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-11-05
The MeXieanizing Radicals.
49, IN N Az 1Itn,I.I

Now that the election is over, and that New
York has neither been burned nor sacked nor
its citizens put to the sword, we desire to
impress upon the public mind Just and abd-
ing sense of the behavior of those persons
who being in authority among the radicals,
sought to use that authority for the purpose
OF Mexicanizing the politics of this metropolis.
The word is not complimentary word to
"our sister republic" but it is exactly expires,
sive, and we shall make no apologies for using
IT, therefore, to Juarez or Ortega or PorfiriO
Diaz, or anybody else who may happen Just
now to be in power in the halls of the Monte
zumas. None of our own politicians, not even
Charles Sumner or Horace Greeley, has the
trick of noble phrases more at his fingers ends
than the Mexican leaders. God and Liberty do
duty in their speeches as Humanity and
Equality (with large capitals) do in the Iri-
tune. But, like our own radical politicians,
the Mexican leaders recognize only two levers
for moving the popular action-the lever of
passion and the lever Of fear. OF course, the
natural result in Mexico is that every polti-
cal contest rapidly degenerates into an armed
conflict. What has resulted from the long
habits of Mexican politicians in Mexico is
threatened by the growing habit of radical
| leaders in this country. Daring the whole
canvass which ended with Tuesdays cleo
! tion the radical journals appealed to the pas
sions of the people. They urged the election
| OF UranL on Ine BIouuu IndL Ino VICTORIOUS
| North ought to impress its victory upon
the defeated South. They blew steadily
! upon the EN- bers of sectional hatred They
scattered broadcast through the land the
most atrociOus misrepresentation of Demo
! cratic principles and the vilest libels upon
| Democratic leaders. Their columns were filled
with a noise of trumpets aud OF drums. They
! circulated pictures meant to infsme the lust
OF vengeance in the popular heart, to keep
| alive the bitterest memories of the civil war
! TO madden the ignorant negroes into a fury of
! race against the whites. Their visible and
| concentrated purpose was to heat the popular
mind up to point at which reason and argu-
ment should be caught up and consumed, like
the siby lime oracles, in the whirl and flame OF
the furnace.
The journals having done their work thus
up to the eve of the election, the local leaders
and manipulators then took in hand the lever
OF fear.
The persons whom radicalism has charged
! with the duty of protecting the public peace
and the interests of order were foremost here.
| The Marshal of the United States for this dis
| trict, an official whose sole lawful business it
is to act as the minister OF the judicial author
ity of the Federal courts in this district
came conspicuously before the people as the
agent of a plot for importing the Fedora
power by terrorism into the local affairs ofNew
York city. In contempt not only of the prin-
ciples of free government but of his OWE
official oath and clear duty, this person
busted himself publicly in attempting to Gre
ate general panic as to intended riots or
election day. and to throw disoredit on the
constituted authorities of the city as unable
or indisposed to keep the city's peace.
In this scandalous work he was the tool OF
the employer or the associate, or all three by
turns, of the Police Commissioners whom
| radicalism at Albany has inflicted upon the