The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-24

party. The unprinoipled revolutionary spirits
who control it have been bent upon obtNiutug
control of the Government at all hazards
Wnen Vermont and Maine pronounced against
them, and foreshadOwed the nations verdict
they conceived a stupeudous progrlm OF
fraud and chioanery with the deliberate pur-
pose OF cheating the people out of their victory
at the polls. Ohio and Indiana were overrun
with Kentucky repeaters. Prnnsylvauia was
likewise coonized, aud Philadelphia was
Hooded with tens of thousands of bogus natu-
ralzatiops.
Now that this monstrous scheme of iniquity
has ignOminiously failed, the Democracy ara
more maddened and desperate than ever, as
they cast wildly about them for some means to
avert their coming doom. While one faction
calls for the retirement of their standard
bearers as mode of achieving success, al
other has resorted TO threats to intimtdate
the people from voting as their sense of right
may dictate. If you dare to elect General
Grant President we will make way with him.
Such is their menace. "Hs will never leave
the Presidential mansion alive" General Blair
asserts 'lf " declares the New York Democrat,
''he does not receive a majority of three hun
dred and seventeen votes of the Electoral
College Oncludipg those of Virginia. Missis.
sippi and Texas), he dies before his term of
office shall one-tourth expire, and the party
that would unjustly elevate him to power shall
be straDgled in the blood it cries for" A
writer in the Staten Island Leader gives vent
to these alarming sentiments
"Now that Grant, the cold-blooded nshy-
hearted man of butchering memory, Is on the
real rebel side, and commands their black hosts
IL is only unity and determination, at this juuc:
Jure of national Danger, that will save this re
public. His election, which can be only by
fraud bribery, and blood letting, will result In
anarchy ana revolution. How devoutly it is
to be h0ped General Cromwell Dictator Grant
II self-appotnted or elected, VIII be reigiously
piude nj, not to go TO theatre on Good Friday
night, fearing that he may be cast for one of the
leading tragic parts, Julius Cesar for instance,
or first clown, Lincoln. We had one expensive
mock black Grape mourning sensation; may
God avert second unless republican liberty is
TO be sacrificed or saved!"
Mark, these are not the meuaces of ire
sponsible unrecogDized mouthpieces of the
Democratic party. General Blair is its candi-
date for Vice-President. The Democrat claims
for its weekly and daily issues circulation of
nearly $50, 600. The Staten Island Leader is
the recognized organ of Erastus Brooks fol-
lowers in Richmond county. 1t is mainly
owned and its columns are controlled by the
man whom these same Democrats have nomi-
mated to represent them in the State Assembly,
the man who stands at the head of their
county ticket. Furthermore, they have nomi-
mated for Congress an individual who for his
dis|oyalty was confined in Fort Lafayette
during the war, who rejoced over Union de-
feats, and elapsed his hands in glee whenever
the stars and stripes went down in humiliation
and disaster.
Elect Grant your President, and you shall
have another Booth, second hero, who with
the cry OF "StC Semper tyrdnn'S ~ shall again
overshadow your land with mourning aud
grief. And it is by such threats as these that
Democracy thinks to overawe and intimidate
the loyal voters of the land