The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-11-25
The Cry Of iile Leanne.

From the n. y. WOrtd
The WAGNER with mis- wheel in the rut calls
upon Jupiter. The Tribune and the Union
League cry aloud to Congress- to help them
out of the scrape into which they have got
themselves oy theI fatuous attempt to make
the public accept h.lt-a dozen veteran pollti-
cal hacks and "pipe-leyer5" as an angelic
council OF revision upon the vote of the Em pire
state.
The Cry is very shrill cry, aud it is quite
likely that it may be- ueard aud answered
There are plenty OF radical Congressman who
will always bs found ready to form "com-
mittee OF investigation, with power 10 send for
persons and papers" ln behalf of mis- couu-
try even General Bntler, to whom the very
word ''investig gstiOn' is naturally enough
OdiOus, " was willing to serve on such ''GOm-
mittee," and cOndescended even to take his
committee" with him on a nice little revenue
steamer all the way down to Prince Edward
Island in the Indictment month of July. A
Congressional committee" appointed to Sin
vestigate' the history of the New York cleo
tions of 1868 coald hardly do less than come
on to the Astor House for the Christmas holt
days. Should it ever be constituted We hope
that the radical Speaker will have the common
decency and justice not to give all the places
upon it to Northern and Western Representa-
tives. 1t is only fair that our brethren of the
carpet-bag should be rewarded for their
many labors, dangers, and sutforngs at the
hands Of the Ku-Klux and the "Rebels" by
a chance to fill themselves with the good things
OF Mr.. Stetson's cuisine and to admire the
wonders of nature and art under the auspices
of Grau and Bateman at the expense of a CRATE
full and "trooly loil'' country. And really, if
any body can possibly bs better f,led to sin
vestigate" the mysteries of election frauds
than Mr.. Griunell, the father of "pipe-layers, ="
and MIR. Dodge, the friend Of GeOghegan aud
the Sabbath it should be the adventurous
men who have contrived to get themselves
sent to represent in Congress States in which
they have no interest, by constituents who
never voted for them.
But the tribune and the Union League may
SIS we'll understand at once that their account
with the public in this matter will not be set
tied by the appointment at Washington of a
partisan committee to dine and wine the mat
ter out OF sight and out Of mind at the AstOr
House. LiteTd Scri ptI mGnet The silly and
insoent manifesto OF the "UniOn League" is
now of record; the names of its signers are of
record; the past political history, the ''antsce-
DENTS" to use the popular phrase, of its
signers are of record. 1t is OF general noto-
riety, too, that the party which these persons
represent made the most open and audacious
attempts to beat down by fraud and terror
ism the legal msjorities of the city of New
York at the elections of the Sd OF November.
1t is OF general notOriety hat Governor Fen
ton, man whose 'antecedents" did not
prevent him tTom commanding the hearty
political support of the Tribune for the
highest Office in the State, and whose present
position with his party may well shed light
Of hope even upon CallcOtt in his CELL,
came down from Albany to New York to lend
the color of his official presence to schemes
the object of which was neither more nor less
than the snhjecting OF the metropolis to mar
tial law as means of stealing it's vote. 1t is
OF general nOtOriety that persons like Colonel
Daniel Z. Sckes were at work for weeks be-
fore the election in this city organizing the
necessary machinery for reducing it's natural
and Legitimate Democratic majorities. 1t is of
general nOtOriety that on tho day before the
election knot Of desperate and unprinciped
political gamblers, most Of them radical Office
holders in this city or in Brooklyn, assembled
at the Astor House in such a state of conf
dence as to the success of the con-
spiracy organized by their party for
| getting control of the Eapire State, that
they offered and took the heaviest bets,
on the most preposterous terms, that Grant
aud GIiswold would bs VIGOROUSLY retur ded
on the morrow. 1t is of general notoristy
that the most prominent or these political
gamblers are members of the Union Lsague
| Club, and that they are political friends aud
associates OF the members OF the Dodge