The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-11-14
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER IA, 1868.
MIR. G. IngersolI on Frauds.

he editors of the Philadelphia organ OF tue
Democracy on the subject of ELECTION
Frauds" We have read of how Smon the
Fre1 oh exeoutioner, when confined in prison,
deli hted to play with the axe with which he
had beheaded his victims, and which was
destined in turn to behead him. Mr.. Iugersoll
initiates that French sans cutotte, and has the
audsoity to play with the weapon which his
party have used in their illegal conduct of the
last campaign, and for the use OF which they
have been tried and will be executed. After
the facts as developed by the returns of the
election, after the proofs which have been ad-
duced and which are known to exist, it certainly
is sn exhibition Of il-timed valor, or rather
temerity, on the part of Mr. Ingersoll to touch
the subject of fraud. But he does so, and
writes letter Of column in length, which
oan be compressed into line without any diff
Guilty. He accuses the Republican party OF
securing the last election through the use of
money. That is the substance OF the entire
letter. The manner in which the charge is
made we will give Uerbaim. Blair recon-
mends perspicuity as an essential to elegaucs
~ literature. In that essential, Mr.. Iugersoll,
takes high rank in the world of letters. Shade
of Carlyle You have a rival worthy of your
steel, for construction if not for sense. Mr..
Ingersoll says:-
"But with money enough TO buy votes, boast.
ing themselves and In tTu tn being the money
power, but not that OF true wealth and lid
capital for they are neither the land, the la or.
nor the intellect of the country, the RepuD'i-
cans. the opposition to the Democratic party,
which, In some form, though with ever cnRnS
ing names, has always existed after long ex-
Nlnainn having N.
have made their minds up 10 Keep it, and set
ting suffrage at defiance, make minorlties ma
Jorities, by those ways anu means which money
can render available"
"Good Lud," as Mrs. Partington says,
s'what can the man mean?" Why, to read
that sentence one must hold his breath, and
gasp before the end is reached Not to be
critical, we would ask how it is that the De-
mocracy have all "the true wealth and solid
capital of the countryH" why it is that he says
in another part that they were too poor to meet
even the Legitimate expenses of the cam
paign ?" Surely the ''true wealth and solid
capital' must be sufficient to do that, if the
"fslse wealth and liquid capitar' could fur
nish 100000 to carry one State. To prove
what he says the writer tells US that
"The Republicans said to have expended
In obtaining their meagre msjorlty of about
by themselves, and slOO, 900 among their friends
in New York and Massachusetts, How muon
more more they had Is unknown; No man man would
honestly applied, and every reasoning man
must see they must needs be irresistible, wnen
the parties opposed 10 each other approaC u
anything like equality of numbers. To prevail
over majgrity 1t is not necessary 10 corrupt
them all. There are about three thousand pol
ing places or divisions for the upwards oil six
hundred thousand voters Of Pennsylvanta.
Now, could such a sum 100000 have b sen
an average of a Vote and half to each dtvi-
sion, which would be nine thousand in all?'
Now to this paragraph we have little COM
mon sense to apply. Does any sensible mau
suppose that the Republican party spent
500, 900, or 100000, in the October cam.
paignf Let partisan feeling be laid aside, and
let the question be considered. II they did,
where did they get it from? Not from the
offceholders, for they are against us. 1t must
have been from private citizens. And wha'
body Of private citizens could be induced to
give one-tenth Of seven hundred thousand
dollars to carry an electionf Such an idea is
preposterous. We do not understand very
distinctly the process of buying up one and a
half votes at every polling place, unless We
purchased a man and boy; but such, it
seems, according to the Ingersoll arithmetic,
was the painful operation gone through with
in three thousand places in Pennsylvania.
Such an anatomical performance is unchris-
tiap, if we can take it literally. Here an idea
ia suggested. The half referred to was a
doubling Democrat and hence we got him for
half price. But we cannot follow the remain.
der of the letter. 1t is the same idea more
broadly expressed.
We can only assure Mr.. Ipgersoll that his in.
formation from the Republican ranks is incor-
reot, and that not a tithe of his estimate was
ever spent by the Republicans of Pennsylvania
and what was spent was for the Legitimate
operations of the campaign. In all the letter
we find but ene sentiment which meets oul
heartiest concurrence, and, coming from 9
Democrat, it is frank confession, which We
did not expect from such a source. Mr.. In
gersoll says, 'It the right itself of suffrage Is
not threatened, at least, at the rate zoe go il
will soon cease to be worth having" Very
true, indeed At the rate you, sir, and YOU
party "go," the nestimable privileges of suf
frags are worth-well, not exactly nothing
hut about one dollar and fifty cents per GER
tifcate.
THE FINAL REsULT.-The following is
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