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

In the result. II any Of them do not relish the
Idea Of running 10 fires under Mr.. Downey's
leadership, let them withdraw from the GER
vice. There will be quite enough remaining
to extiDguish all the fires that break out In a
legitimate way.
But II appears that some Of the adherents OF
the late Chief Engineer are not disposed to
accept the situation. He is member OF the
Moyamensing Hose Company, and that asso-
citation in particular seems intent upon giving
the new administration all the trouble and
vexation that is possible. The most damaging
charge-ndeed, the only one that can be
brought against Mr.. McCusker-is his con-
nection with this disreputable company. The
list of respectable persons belonging to 1t does
not exceed a half-dozen. OF the remaining
members the ntt,rious Alderman McMul-
lin and Councilman William H. p.
Barnes are fair specimens, and their
names have long been q terror to all
reputable people residing in the neighborhood
of the hose house. The persistent refusal of
the Fire Association to admit the company
into its organization shows the low estimation
in which 1t is held by the best class Of our
firemen. Since the election of Mr.. Downey,
the MoyamensiDg Hose has been more ram
pant than ever before, and our streets have,
on several different occasions of late, been dis
graced by distur Dances in which its members
and hapgers-on have figured as the meters
and leaders. The wrath of these desperate
rowdies has been directed principally against
the companies which took prominent stand
in favor of the election Of Mr.. Downey, and
several members of the letter have been
shamefully beaten.
For this disgraceful state Of affairs there is
but one remedy, and that is the most sum-
mary that can be devised. The company is
now out of service voluntarily, for what rea-
son they themselves best know. Councils
should carry the work still further, and
proceed to disband the organization
without any delay. Temporary sus-
pension will no longer avail to check their
innate propensity for mischief If the fremen
as a class are to be relieved from the standing
disgrace which is inflicted upon them by the
Moyamensing Hose Company, it can be done
only by the annihilation of the latter.
THE DIFFICULTIES OF THE DEMocRAcY.-A
Southern journal has ably and pithily OK
posed the weakness of the present position
OF the party, and the cause of it. 1t up
holds the Brodhead letter as the true fighting
ground of the Democracy and as document
embracing a doctrine for which the country
was prepared, but it confesses that by some
egregious blunder false move at the be-
ginning Of the game has utterly spoiled it.
southern fanatical politicians, with ill-timed
haste and ill-considered enthusiasm, rushed
''to the 'front.' with such vehement utterance
of the intentions Of the party as to compel
their Northern brethren to become the apollo
gists of position only tenable by offensive
tactics. If the General Boums of the
C. S. A" had been only prudent and
patient enough to preserve the magnificent
and impregnable attitude offered to them by
the Northern Democracy; if they had so
conducted themselves that their friends might
have called on the world to admire them as
the martyrs and victims of tyranny, -as the
silent sufferers of holy cause; in fact, if they
had displayed themselves as 'ill-used" and
'down-trodden," the eloquence of their North
ern friends might have rung out boldly in
their defense, but by proclaiming war to the
knife, and upholding it by organized systems
of arson and murder, and all the fendish
tactics of the K. K. K, they have destroyed
their own hopes by deranging the WELDON
trived scheme for their defense, and thus ami
hilatipg the only means by which their tri-
umph could have been assured.