The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-09
The Campaign in Pennsylvania.

from the ~. II. w0TGd.
The canvass in the Keystone State is per-
haps the warmest ever known. Both parties
appreciate the prodigious moral effect of the
result, and both are exerting themselves with
strenuous energy corresponding to their
estimate of the influence of victory on the
Presidential election. We learn from we'll
informed sources that the success of the
Democratic ticket is so well assured that the
radicals are in despair, and are resorting to
the most desperate tricks. The Philadelphia
police are accomplices in all kinds of dis
graceful cheats. In the extra assessments"
as they are called, for revising the poll lists,
in ward where both the Assessors were
Republicans, the police guarded the doors
and permitted only Republican voters to
enter. A Democrat who, by some means,
found his way in was hustled out by the
police in style that could not have been
Outdone if they had been under the
control of our Superintendent Kennedy. In
another case they arrested drunken mau
named Devine, pretending to have found
upon his person large number of fraudu-
lent naturalization papers. The radicals
raised great howl, but it soon appeared
that those false papers had been got up by
rogues of their own party, and given to the
Republican police to have this use made Of
them.
The Soldiers Convention at Philadelphia
last week, got up by the Republicans at a
great outlay of money, recoiled against them
in manner they did not count on. While
they were parading the streets and making a
noisy show, the Democrats were at work with
quiet vigilance hunting up voters that had
not been registered so that in the extra as
sessment we have put on two names to their
one in spite of the activity of the police in
some of the wards. On Friday the TELEGRAPH,
a Loyal League organ, in an article headed
"The City in Danger" said, "There is great
danger that the Republicans will not carry
the City of Philadelphia on next Tuesday
week. There is at present strong pos
sibility that we will be defeated The
Morning Post, radical organ, came out
the next morning with an article in the same
respondent strain. These notes of alarm
close on the heels of the snowy parade of the
"B0ys in Blue" destroyed whatever effect
that gathering might have had. Attorney
General Brewster is reported to have
said that, leaving out Philadel lphia, the
Republicans would carry the State by 5000
majority. Their expectations being at that
low ebb, the Republicans are certain to bt
badly whipped In 1866, with a full vote
Geary was elected Governor by majority o
IL, l78. Last year the Democrats carried thu
State by 9l2, but the aggregate vote was 81, 90(
less than in the preceding year. Governor
Bigler thinks our majority in the State mex
week will reach 20 900; but some good judge
think this sanguine estimate. For our part
We shall be we'll satisfied If the Democrat
carry the State by a majority Of 5000, although
few Democrats in the State are willing Il
accept anything less than 10000. We sup
pose that at least 700, 900 votes will be polleC
In the State, so that with majority of 10, 00(
the contest would be very close. Our ability
to reach that figure depends upon vigorous
work for the few remaining days. We ar,
certain to carry the city of Philadelphia by
majority of from 5000 to 5000, which insure
MS the State even II the vote elsewhere should
be more evenly divided than there is any pre-
sent reason to fear.
We shall make great gains of Congressmei
carrying twelve at least Of the twenty-fou
districts. Instead OF the six we carried in 1866
Those respecting which our friends entertain
no doubt are the First, Third, Fifth, Sixth
Eighth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Fifteenth