The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-16
ssPusll Things"
From the ~. Y. Tribune.

I7OTH LNe W. 7. ITIOuHG.
No intelligent citizen can have doubted,
what no intelligent European Liberal has
dreamed of doubling, that Ulysses S. Grant is
the decided choice of large majority of the
American people for next President. II there
had never been any political parties in this
country, such would have been their choice;
while, as between his politics and Seymour's,
the people decidedly prefer the former. His
election has been, from the hour of Seymour's
nomination. all but inevitable.
He could only be beaten by lulling the ma
jority into an apathy born of overweening
confidence, and then polling an enormous
fraudulent vote against him. Apathy there is
not, and will not be; so that his election is
practically assured. But if quarter of
million illegal votes can be polled against him
his majority may be SO reduced that he will
go into the White House embarrassed, enfee-
bled, paralyz zed, by them agnitude of the oppo-
sition. Nay, he may even be beaten in spite
of his popular majority; since change of
10000 votes in 1854 would have beaten Lin
coin. though it would have left him popular
majority OF over 100000.
We must stake a bond of fate" by in
creased vigilance and activity henceforth to
the election. And foremost among our duties
stands that of guarding against fraudulent
naturalizations and fraudulent votes.
The great majority Of our recent immigrants
from Europe see fit to ally themselves with the
enemies of impartial freedom-with the cham
pions of privilege and caste-of caste based
upon color. Why they do so is their own
concern; the fact is to be respected, and that is
our affair; they voted down impartial suffrage
in Connecticut; they have twice defeated it in
Minnesota they will generally vote against it
in Iowa, as they recently did in Wisconsin.
They form the only effective obstacle to its
triumph in this State.
If three hundred thousand persons shall vote
next month as naturalized when they legally
have not been, Grants popular majority will
thereby be reduced fully 250,000. We cannot
afford to have it thus reduced, and must meet
and battle the arts whereby the wholesale
fabrication of illegal voters has been reduced
to science. And this ia the remaining work
of the canvass, or the most of it. The people
have made up their minds to vote, and enough
of them will vote for Grant; what we have
mainly to do is to see that the legal are not
overborne by illegal votes.
We have just been badly cheated by frau
dulent naturalizatiOns and colonizations in
Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana, but not half
SO badly as we should have been but for our
enthusiasm, organization, and vigilance. We
have been cheated out of a few Congressman
and members of the Legislature; had there
been no Grant Clubs, we should have been
cheated out of States and a general triumph.
We are able to stand limited amount of fraud,
but not fraud without limits.
Republicans hold a meeting at once, and
call over the roll of all persons claiming right
to vote in your respective townships and cleo
tiOn districts, If you have not such list,
devote your first meeting to making and your
next to scrutinizing it. Let no man vote ille-
gally till you shall have exhausted all legal
methods of resistance thereto. Secure pure
election, and your triumph is certain