The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-18

mocraoy by a majority OF 80, 900, the whole Of
which as secured in the cities OF Nav York
and Brooklyn; and the principal incentive to
the solid movement of the foreign element at
that time was the offensive fanaucal legjsla-
tion OF the Republican party in regard TO
liquor, lager and the Sabbath. But the De-
mooTats who were elected last year by the
Irish and German votes cheated their friends
and proved false to all the pledges they made
before they got into power. The radicals ori-
ginally passed the Metropolitan Excise law, it
is true; but the democrats, by refusing last
year to amend it or in any manner to change
it's Odious features, became its parent by adDp-
tion; and its unjust and exc bitant fees, its
detestahle spy sy ystem its blue light Sunday
regulations, which they failed to alter when
they had the power to do so, are now to be-
laid at the doors OF the Tammany Democracy.
The liquor question is not the sole induce
ment with citizens OF Irish birth or parentags
to support the Republican ticket this fall in
preference to that Of the Democratic party.
Two years ago the Irish Fenian vote beat Hoh-
man for Governor and elected Fenton, on the
ground that the Republican State Govern
ment by refusing to interfere with the raids
upon the Canada border, had done more to
practically help the hereditary enemies OF
Great Britain than had ever been done by the
Democrats, with all their professions of sym
pathy with the Irish. 1t is well known that
General Grant, as an American soldier, wOnld
have no objection to a war with England
during his term of Office, and would, at all
events, evince no disposition to allow the Bri-
tish Government to trille with us upon any of
the important international questions aisiug
out of the war of the Rebellion. General
Grant, who fought that war through to a sue
cessful termination, would not be very likely
to mince matters with the nation that sympa-
tbized with the Rebels from first to last and
went as far as their courage permitted them
in aid of the Confederate cause.
These considerations, joined with the fact
that Grant is a firm believer in free liquor,
good liqdor, and plenty of it, and that Girls
wold is perfect King Gambrinus in regard to
lager, which he deals out with liberal hand
to his army of employees, will he very likely To
turn the Irish and German vote over to the
Republicans as sodly as last year it was cast
for the Democrats, and to give the State to
Grant and Griswold by fifty thousand majority.
Seymour and Hoffman, the Tammany caudi-
cate for Governor, are both Puritanicsl 10
their notions and live upon cold water and
weak tea Hoffman, we believe, did attempt
q glass of lager at a German meeting
during the campaign of 1866, but was com
PEELED after drinking it to go home to bed
and send for his family physician. Grant
on the other hand would scOrn to drink water
without something in it, and when Griswold
built the monitor for the Government in the
early part of the war, he succeeded in push
ing forward the work to a speedy conclusion
by distributing free lager in unlimited guam
titles among his men. The Irish and Ger
mans naturally sympathize with the men who
fought out the war for the Union, and as the
Republicans have now presented to them a
liberal liquor and lager ticket for their sup
port, free from all the offensive characteristics
of straight-laced, New England rsdicalism, it
is very likely that the entire naturalzed vote
in New York will turn over to that side, and
by eecting Grant and GriswOld viii forever
wipe out of the Republican party Fourerism,
free love, and fanaticism of every sort and de-
scIiptiOn,