The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-12
Pennsylvanians! TO the Rescue!


Pennsylvanians TO the Rescue!
From the NelO York Tribune.
Republicans of Pennsylvania Your ancient
foe halts at no danger and revolts at no crime
in his efforts to carry the State of Pennsylva-
mia by fraud for the Rebel ticket. Six thou
sand "ctlzens" have been manufactured in
Philadelphia alone, by a process which you
know to be without any safeguard against
frauds, and which majority OF the judges of
your Supreme Court declare illegal. The
Rebels of Maryland are gathering to invade
your State under the lead of Wade Hampton
and Blair, and renew at the polls the struggle
in which they once before invaded your State
under Wade Hampton and Lee. Your success
no longer depends upon meetings, speeches,
professions, bonfires, or barbecues. The time
for these is past. Your vote is ample to give
you a majority of twenty thousand on Tues
day next if every Republican votes, and if only
the minimum number of illegal votes are
polled against you. You must work to ex-
clude the fraudulent vote. The popularity of
your candidates and the justice of your prin-
eiples will avail nothing against the deliberate
conspiracy of the enemies of all freedom to de-
fraud the lawful voters of Pennsylvania of
their true verdict.
In 1856 the convictions of the people of
Pennsylvania were with the Republican party,
but the State was carried for Buchanan against
Fremont by the most stupendous system of
corruption ever practised in our political his
tory. In 1860, after a fiercely fought contest,
you guarded the polls with vigilance and
spirit, and in no small degree, by excluding
illegal votes, you carried the State by tre-
mendous majority. In 1864 you again, by
| hard work and patient watchfulness at the
polls, carried the State by 20, 0,075; in 1866, by
17,17S. In 1867, mainly through negligence,
you allowed Judge Sharswood to be elected by
922 majority, every vote of his majority, and
more, being frauds. You admitted the wooden
horse thinking it harmless. Now you find it
filled with armed men. The few hundred
fraudulent votes which carried the State for
sharswood last year are now clothed with the
| judicial power to let in as many fraudulent
votes as choose to apply. Turn every energy
to the great work of purging your State for
| ever of this instrument of villany. Why
should the lawful voters of Pennsylvania see
their rulers made for them by swindle, in
stead of electing them themselves by the
ballot Why becomes of true Democracy if
the people are cheated of their right to govern
by the traders in fraudulent votes {?
Complete your lists of lawful voters, show
ing who are native, who are foreign, and who
are naturalized. Investigate the case of every
newl -naturalized person in your ward. Find
out il his papers are obtained on facts or
falsehoods. If he has not been in the country
five years, confront him with proof of the fact
on the spot. If he still votes, arrest him for
perjury before he leaves the polls. One
prompt arrest of fraudulent voter will pre-
vent hundreds from making the effort.
Without unremitting toll in this direction, all
your meetings, speeches, and arguments are
futile. 1t is not pleasant work. You can find
twenty men willing to make speeches where
ten are willing to canvass their district or
bl ock, and do this more essential but less
snowy work. Herein lies your danger 1t
| ret ha
sylvania will be lost through fraud, and
sealed to new era of villainy. Earnestly,
urgently, and with deep sense of the su-
preme necessity of this advice, we appeal to
you, brethren in Pennsylvania, drop every
other business, and rest not until you have
shut down the tloodgates through which de-
pravity and crime are pouring to overw helm
your State. Now to the rescue!
Decentralization of the Demsc cracy and the
Unanimity of the Republicans.
From The ". Y. Times.
One of the peculiarities of the present poll.
tical canvass is the iutractability of prominent
Democrats to party management. 1t is a sure
presage of their defeat, since insubordination
on the part of the prominent men must natu.
rally demoralize the followers. 1t was not SC
in the GLORIOUS days" of Dean Richmond,
when his Albany Regency was a power thai
made states which the docile Democracy voted
for without a murmur of discomfort. Even
John Van Buren,, with all his faults and weak
nesses, would have managed things with more
tact, and held the refractory and dissatisfied
and disgusted members in better control thar
does Mr.. SeymOur's agents. General John
A. Dix, long a leading Democrat, utterly re-
pudiates the present radical and revolutionary
leaders of the Democracy; and he will with
out doubt carry with him to the support o
the Union candidates the tens of thousands o
conservative Democrats who followed him in
support of the war. The Democracy, urged
on by the radical Rebels of their party
at the South, clamored loudly for the remova
of Stanton and Grant, and the appointment o
that faithful Democrat, General Schofeld, tt
the War Office. They are hardly gratifed be
fore the General writes the letter which w
published on Friday, heartily endorsing Gene
raj Grant and the platform on which he il
running. They clamored as loudly for thu
return of General Mcclellan, believing tha
his presence here in support and endorsement
of their candidate would materially improve
his failing fortunes. But the little Genera
! writes a very equivocal letter, in which Ii,