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SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
EDITORIAL OPINIONS OF THE LEADING JOURNALS
UPON CURRENT ToPICs-CoMPILED EVERY
DAY FOR THE EVENING TELEGRAPH.
The Work Still Needed.

From The N. Y. Tribune.
An immense majority of the American peo-
pie prefer and mean to have General Grant
for their next President. Mr.. Lincoln, in
1864, had about 400, 600 majority on the
popular vote; General Grants will exceed that
If the entire legal vote is polled, and that
only. His opponents know that he is the
peoples choice, and they are working despe-
rately to defeat that choice by illegal naturali-
zation and illegal votes.
We are holding many Grant meetin gs-most
of them very large ones. We are making
converts from the better portion of our ad
versaries; and these are most welcome, but
they are not essential. What we need is
simply to poll our own legal vote and pre-
vent the polling of illegal votes against us.
And this may be hindered rather than helped
by holding great mass meetings. II is not the
work still needed, though it may possibly
incite to having that work promptly and
thoroughly done.
Reader is there Grant Club in your town
ship, with an organization thai reaches every
corner thereofY II not, we entreat you to see
that one is organized within the next forty
eight hours. Call meeting yourself If no
one else will unite in calling it, and wait per-
sonally on your Republican neighbors, and
urge them to attend it. Don't let an hour be
lost, but get Grant Club organized and at
work Immediately.
q
club already in working order, be entreated to
send at once deputation therefrOm to any
and every township in your county that has
no clu6 organized, and get one Set in motion
forthwith. Lose not a day till you know that
this duty is performed.
Please comprehend that the first duty of
club is to make complete alphabetical list OF
all the legal voters in the township (or ward),
with separate list of those who may possibly
claim the right of suffrage. If you have not
already done this, let the members of the club
| residing in each school district Cor block, if
IN cily) make up list of the men who re-
slde IN that district, classifying them into
| legal voters and others. Condense these
district or block returns into one for each cleo
| tion district, and you are ready to go ahead,
Now appoint captain for each school dis-
trict Cor block)-a young, active. Jealous.
! popular Republcan-whose duty it shall bs
to see that every legal voter in that district ia
! duly registered Qf in State where registra-
tion is required), and that no name which ia
not that of legal voter is placed on the
registry of that district unless in defiance of
his most strenuous protest. If any names
shall be placed on the registry of persons not
really entitled to vote, let no lawful effort be
spared to preclude voting on any of those
names.
Let the captain Cor whatever he may be
caled) OF each election district choose lieu
tenant Cor alternately, who shall be pledged to
aid the former ia his proper work aud replace
him in case of sickness or other disability.
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Grant i'm Galena.

From The N. Y. World.
From letter to the Independence Belge we
derive more information about General Grant
and his political opinions than we have been
able to get from him, or from any of the Jour
mails who support him, since the commencs-
ment of the campaign. We are informed that
the General OF the Armies iubabits a pretty
cottage in Galena, "planted upon an eminenoe,
and above it floats the starry banner.' In
this delightful retreat the General cOnfesses
that he is 'getting lazy" that he loves the
country life; that lac appreciates the charms
of country air; that he would like always to
be far away from Cities that he reads the
Worid probably IN preference to the Tribune,
Independent, and other jourusls which call him
adIunkerd; and that he confidently expects to
be next President OF the United States.
AccOI ding to this correspondent, Gene
raj Grant is only taking a little
holiday before he becomes "a prisoner in
Washington during four long years, to date
from March next" Poor fellow should he
chance 10 be- elected he clearly foresees mis-
fate. lie is to be prisoner" tied hand and
foot and, above all, tongue-tied, while Butler,
Wade, Wendell Phillips, Kelley, FOrney, and
Others of that sort administer the Government.
Politically the General has expressed the OPT
nion that there is no danger at the South of a
war of races, which is exactly opposite to the
opinion he expressed to Senator Doolittle in
1865, that ii negro suffrage was forced upon
the South war OF races was inevitable. Other
wise, since the Chicago Convention, and
since he confessed that he "was never au
abot onist' aud that he aCaS douglas
Demo, rat" the General has learned few
pollpauot catch and cant phrases about
pas sionate Southerners" and Northern Cop
perheaos," which he introduced into little
political speech, the longest, however, which
has been attributed to him. AS public orator,
when General Grant gets beyond Good night"
and 81 am much obliged to you," he is CON
siderably beyond his depth; but his public
announcement that he is quite sure of sue
ceedipg to the next Presidency will be at least
consoliDg to the Tribune, which expresses the
gravest doubts on that very point. Grants
farewell to the correspondent-"In see you
again in hiugton''-irresistibly brings to
mind little failing of the late General Scott,
who had a weakness for inviting people at
some indefinite future time to call ON him sat
the White House, At last he had an oppor.
tunity to try for a residence in that building,
and, though he and the Tribune and the Herald
all predicted his election, he carried only four
States.
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Let both these be pledged to have every
Grant voter in their district at the polls on the
morning of election day-esrly, il possible;
before noon at the latest. Let each be prsvi-
ously supplied with ballots, 80 that he may
vote directly on reaching the poll.
Have fearless challengers at every poll
who know who are and who are not legal
voters, and whose knowledge of persons is 50
extensive and general that no vote can be
pOlled by one man in the name of another.
False personation-men voting on registered
names which are not theirs--is one of the
commonest frauds repeating or doubs voting
is often facilitated by it. Look sharp
Men and brethren, work
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What the North breads.
he N. Y. CommerclaI 4 dUertiSer.

From The ~. y. Commercial ADVERTISER
In his letter TO Wade Hampton and others,
accepting an invitation to address 'ten thou
sand people" at Columbia, S. c., John Q0incy
Adams, the Democratic candidate for Governor
of Massachusetts, wGites:-
"Tpe interest and, / doubt not, the convic.
tiOns oi the dominant party Will prevent any
dispgssionate consideration of your case until
aner the election. IL is declared, and, fear, it
is widely believed, that the spirit of secession
still fires the Southern heart, ana works through
the Democratic party. A mass uf honest men
are taught and believe that the success OF that
party means the political ree,tabishment OF
the genius ofrevolt, aud the elevation to power
OF INC sou'nnerh ieaoeis Ia 'l9 la'e var
"If the Democratic party is defeated in their
canvass 1t is because the people fear it's success
would jeopardlze the substantial results of the
war.
"These fears mipgle largely in the canvass,
ana will exert a strong inhuence In The result"
Mr. Adams here hits the nail on the head
exactly. The supporters Of the Union dread
the election Of Seymour and Blair because they
are ineyOoably pledged by their platform,
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The Germans.

from The National InteLLtgencer.
The adoption by the radicals ofodious sump-
tuary laws in States where they had over
whelming power, and were therefore deaf
dumb, and blind to all remonstrance from SO
quiet and unobtrusive men as is the German
population, has gone far to detach large masses
OF them from an unnatural alliance with q
party that, in reality, was their hateful op-
pressors in what related to their social life
An eminent publicist has suid that men are
less sOlicitous concerning their political status
than of their property; and less of either, or
both of those, than of their habits and
customs.
The leaders of the radical party in many
States so offended the Germans in the respect
last named that they were compelled not only
to repeal or modify their existing sumptuary
laws, but also 10 cease menace of still worse
ones. Even Mr.. Charles Sumner had to come
out and advocate the drinking of German
wines. And our own Mayor Bowen was
obliged TO promise the Germans that he would
not interfere with the sale of the beverages
(wine, beer, cOIdials, and, as to that matter,
brandy, etc. peculiar to them, and to be had
usually on Sabbath days at gardens aud pub.
lie houses. Outside of the great questions
now at issue between parties concerning civil
liberty in its various aspects, for which the
Germans, as a body, in other days were the
most strenuous advocates, the question sternly
arises whether the radicals, if again entrusted
with the Teins of government, will not find in
the fact of the vast strength of their position,
all things considered, q warrant for reimpOsing
the sumptuary laws.
The radicals boast that If they carry the
present Presidential election they have the
foundation stones laid for forty years of
supremacy. The abomination of desOlation
which would be the national character during
that period, and at the end of it, may be ina
gined by the great strides in political crime
OF that party in less than forty months (not
years) of the past, by a usurping, reyolu-
uonary, venal, mercenary, aud corrupt Con-
Congress.
We believe the German mind is profoundly
moved by the hideous aspect of public affairs
In general, as we'll as in the respect of the
particular dangers of renewal of the wretohed
sumptuary laws from whose CALLING oppres-
sion In the social life they have barely escaped
by the undoubted influence and acts OF the
Democracy.
This idea seems to be taking practical force
ana effect, from the fact of the vast number Of
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The Chest oil Revolution.

from We ~. L HoTtu
The radicals are making precious little by
their misrepresentation OF the ''war and revo-
luton programme" falsely attributed to General
BLAIR. In every speech which that gallant
soldier makes he exposes with new cOgency
the brazen effrontery of the radicals, who have
already revolutionized the Constitution out of
existence in ten States of the Unon, and with
a military despotism have lad the foundations
of negro supremacy from the centre to the
verge of the republic.
Nobody believes in the ghost of revolution
which the radicals labor in vain to coDjure up.
Even capital, proverbially timid, finds its eye
balls quite unseared by the horrid vision.
Meanwhile, the revolution already actually
wrought in the structure of the Government
by the Congressional usurpations of Executive
power, by Congressional gagging of the Judi
ciary, by the overthrow OF Republican self
government among eight millions OF people,
gIeatens hourly in all mems eyes.
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hackers, and mouthpieoes to a renewal Of the
turmoil and blOOdshed from which we have
Just escaped. They believe that the leaders of
the Southern Rebellion have become the leaders
OF the Democratic party; that whereas in 1850
they divided the party to secure secession aud
revolution, they have now united it for the
same purpose. They believe that ''the spirit
of secession still fires the Southern heart" and
permeates the Democratic organization.
Neither is it impossible 10 escape these con-
illusions. The whole tone, temper, and con-
duct of these party leaders during the past
four months can admit of no other construe-
tion. When the more cautious and far-seeing
endeavored to run the party into a conserva-
tive groove at the National Convention, they
were ignored, while those who endeavored to
occupy progressive ground were unceremOui-
eusly shoveled under. Hampton, Forrest,
Vance, It al, obtained complete control of the
Convention. They dictated the platfsrm and
candidates, and, fresh from the committee
room, proceeded South to inform the unre-
pentant Rebels that the ends for which they
fought were to be secured. From that day to
this the air has been filed with the mutter-
ipgs of revolution. Taking their cue
from Blairs Brodhead letter, Demo-
cratic orators and mouthpeces, North
as well as South, have boldly proclaimed
that, in the event OF success, they purposed
to tear Congressional laws into shreds,
and dlsperse Congress and the congressional
''usurpations' at the South with the bayonet.
The people thus clearly perceive that with
Seymour and Blair as President and Vice-Pre-
sident, another era of anarchy and discerd
would be forthwith naUgurated. In the out
RACES which are now being perpetrated all over
the late Confederacy, they have foretaste of
what would follow the success of the Demo-
cratic party. And it is because of this that
they are now rallying with such unanimity
and determination to the support of Grant,
who declares "let us have peace" We have
in this dread an explanation of the fact that
General Dix and all other leading Democrats
who did not sympathize with the Rebellion
are declaring for Grant regardless of party
ties. 1t explains why it is that the Demo-
cratic rank and file are deserting in shoals to
the Republican party.
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Look Out for Frauds.

From the ~ y. World.
We warn our friends in Pennsylvania, Ohio,
and Indiana against the frauds which the radi-
Gals hope to perpetrate next Tuesday. Last
week, at an expense Of folly $500, 900, they
imported lot of bogus "Boys in Blue' into
Philadelphia designing to retain enough of
them to cOunteract the handsome Democratic
majority which that city is expected to give on
the 18th inst. This game was blocked by the
vigilance OF the Democratic committee. Foiled
at this point, the radicals made wholesale
charges OF frauds in naturalization, and secured
the arrest OF one man on charge of having on
his person forged naturalization blanks. An
examination revealed the fact that the man OH
whom the papers was found was drunk; that
he had no such papers before he fell under
the influence OF liquor, whence it was clear
that the blanks were put in his pocket after
his arrest for drunkenness, and when he was
not sober What the radicals will attempt
next is known only to themselves. But the
Democrats must not relax their vigilance until
The polls close on election day; indeed, we
know they will not.
Private advices from Ohio and Indiana in
form us that in those States the radicals are
making strenuous exertions to win by the
corrupt use of money and colonization of
voters. Within few days $500, 900 were sent
to Indiana by Eastern radicals; Tor what pur-
poses one is at loss to divine. Our friends
in these States must be on their guard lest
they be chez ated of the honest fruits of their
labors during the past six months.
II is plain that the radicals are alarmed at
their prospects. II they felt sure of carrying
the States already named, we do them the
justice to believe that they would not resort
to foul means TO obtain by what fair means
may elude their crap. But watch them,
iTieIds
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The Southern Carnival of Murder.

fTofn the ~. 7. Iftou6e.
There are unfailing tests whereby any one
who honestly seeks may know who are re-
sponsible for the wholesale butcheries con-
tinually taking place at the South. Here are
some of them
l. In Brooklyn, few years ago, some
scores of unolending blacks were set upon,
beaten, mangled, and some of them nearly
killed, while they all narrowly escaped burn
ing to death, at the hands OF the present sup
porters of Seymour and Blair. They were not
claiming the right of suffrage, nor anything
else but the privilege of peaceably earning
their living in tobacco factory. f.
ii. In July, 1868, the Colored Orphan Asy-
lum in this city was burned to the ground by
a vast mob of Democratic sympathizers with
the slaveholdipg, negro-despising oligarchy
which miscalls itself 1.-The South" while every
black who could be found, whether at home or
in the streets, was hunted like wild beast,
and, If caught, mangled or murdered. One at
least was roasted as he hung, after he had
been caught and choked to death. Not one of
them was even suspected of any other offense
than his color.
Ill. In the winter of 1923, seeing a stout
young man in a country store near this city,
who was rigged out with gun, powder-horn,
shot-pouch, etc., for hunting excursion, the
writer casually said to him, "If l liked to
shoot, l would 60 down to Virginia" "Oh,"
ue reSpOuueu, IL were gong w virginia w
shoot, wouldn't shoot white men; should
shoot niggers." For what reason he would
shoot them, he did not indicate; nor was it
necessary that he should.
w. When Andrew Johnson was pressed to
favor impartial suffrage, before his apostacy
had become unequivocal, he responded, ''If
the blacks are enfranchised, there will be a
war OF races" or ''they will be killed." He
never dreamed that they would seek to kill
any one because of their enfranchisement; he
meant that the whites would kill them if they
were allowed to vote.
V. In no single instance of recent collision
between armed or partially armed parties at
the South have the blacks failed to be by far
the heavier sufferers. If they planned and in
stigated these wholesale butoheTies they would
evidently manage to be sometimes the stronger,
better armed party.
VI. The spirit aud language of the Rebel or
Democratic press through most of the South
continually implies that the blacks deserve
killing for presumiug TO vote for Grant and
Colfax. The speeches of Howell Cobb,
Toombs, b. IL. Hill, Wade Hampton, etc.,
imply that they have no right thus to vote
that they wrong their white neighbors by
seeking to do so. Even Hills last cautious
letter asserts that Seymour's election will be
understood as deciding that the new State
governments are not established; in other
words, that the blacks have no right to vote.
Men and brethren consider
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Germans ESTIMATED at 17,OOO) which formed
so notable portion of the vast proosssiod on
the occasion of the recent Democratic demou
stration for Seymour and Blair and for Hof
man, in the great central city Of the continent.
We yesterday published an account OF large
German gathering in Iowa, and of one particu-
larly striking aud important, on account ofits
numbers and the powerful influence of ths
speakers recently held in the city of Milwau.
kee, in Wisconsin. These premonitions of
German action at the polls are certainly very
encouraging.
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Voucher.

FREQ. MulHe0
200 Belgrade street
Lewis Luding
493 N. Third street
John Morrissy
1915 Cobart street
Antnony Campbell
Front and Peg stree's
John MCGOWAN
Chestnut and 3lst sts
james Casey
1iO7 Somerset street
John Ford
Michael T8rpey
1853 s. Twelfth st
John Jeffries
COG Belgrade street
Charles Il. SchOley
william Leonard
6l5 s. sixth street
Henry Nesper
2l2 n. juniper street
Charles Kelly
1918 Market street
j. q. Smith
John MvElhone
1924 Cad walader street
John Moore
$500 Darby road
George Johnson
1923 Christian street
Thomas Mulvihill
1866 Salmon street
John Thompson
7l5 Carpenter street
Henry Nc Jaughley
1916 Fi'zwa er street
Charles Heron
1917 Somer street
John Ford,
. Montgomery county
Arthur Clark, 53S Pine
Ed ward Fitzpatrick
1881 Brown street
Joun l.. Bray
Jacob Hummell
S. cor. Frontand South
Arthur Kelly
1902 Market street
Charles McGrath
1907 Howard street
Samuel Il. Kelley
440l Main street
John Eugle
SOB ST. John street
George Johnson
1922 Christian street
Francis Flemmiu
1850 s. Seventh street
Charles Moran,
1885 Barker street
Thomas Lyons,
No. IL N. Tenth street
Henry B. Cornog
Chester
Charles VoIgtsberger
1908 >. SiXJn street
c. McGinnis, $50 Cherry
NJ. Dunn, li3 Catharine
James Paradin
j. Cunningham, 30lS. 9th
George Hagau
JoNn Ford
. Montgomery county
James BrOUn
Jacob Laubeugrepp
Front end Moore SITS
T. D0naghy, GIL South ST
Peter Rein
j. Casey, 4l3 Catherine
John j Brent
90
John McGOvern
1912 Richmond street
Serrelie Cniquoine
1886 Clark street
John Linderman
Montgomery co
Martin Keating
l247 Wood street
Patrick Gill
1922 Edgmont street
Patrick Carroll
100 Otis street
Michael Larkey
Walter ClausenA
lis Poplar street
Geo. Moser. 742 Shippen
Edmund O'Day
Rear liz Edward st
Michael Moran
GIG $. Ninth street
Abrh ham Baer
F.. 730 South street
Rich'd Evans, Chester
James Hannah
10Th and Barker sts
Charles Stutzler
3. 1913 Vienna street
John Williams
,. Montgom cry county
John NJ cGovern
1912 Richmond street
j. +. Brant 2l0, Pine st
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Montgomery county
Dennis McCutlum,
20l7 Evergreen street
f. Mcbride, 1921 N. 4th
M. Dunn, 207 s. Front st
Alpnonse CuLaia
James McGlinsey
lltn and Wash. av.
+. Fritz, 40 s. Ninth st
C. Dunn, 10lS Filbert.
H. keenan,, 504 S. 10Th
j. Donlin, SOL Chippe wa
Thomas Lewis,
1903 South street.
Charles McGrath,
1907 Howard street
John Donlin,
SOL Chippewa street.
John Meir
Jam es Keegan
1925 Portland street.
Patrick O'Neill
Andrew Ebert
John Connor,
81 Christian street
James Casey
Somerset street.
Jacob Fees
235 Brown street
Jonn Gillespie, Del. CO
Michael Walsh
l7l9 Filler street
William Smith
1919 FEankford road
Christian snyder
BustleLOn
jacob GROSS 93l Noble
George ID. Shiller
Simon KillmiSsS
1900 Front street
Michael Carr
9J2 Vanilla street
John Moore
1900 Darby road
Carl Nuke
Thomas White
1877 Federal street
Il. q. Kinstrey, Bucks CO
John EOerwein
100 New Market st
John McGovern
3lsJ and Chestnut st
j. Casey, Somerset st
John McGoVern
1912 Richmond street
j. Franz, Olive street
Joseph McColllgan
Port Richmond
Thomas CrOntn
18th ana Ridge ave
Antonio Pala1ios
S22 Walnut street
james stewart
2l2 $. Front street
do
do
Michael Medallion
2l37 Lombard street
John Draw, 1910 .Filbert
Abraham Bear
730 South street
Patrick ClmDbell
1914 Button wood
John KreeVe
Frans kerrigan
Paul Muller
Il. Worfilows
Delaware county
George Johnson
1922 Christian
PhiliD Bellem
324 n Thirteenth 81
John Woods, 523 Al. 23d
Matthew Sullivan
John Scherolem
1916 N. Seventh st
Thomas IL. Morrison,
Ills Poplar
Frederick Reigraf
1868 N. Third street.
Patrick MeDonOu gh
905 Bedford street
James Mcintyre
Falls road
John O'Grady
III Lombard street
Jacob Repertuss
b. 1923 SepViya street