The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-05-03
ATTENTION.!

lican party of Philadelphia will hold Its delegate
elections for the purpose of selecting the con-
yentions by whom the delegates to the State
Convention will be chosen. Tomorrow after
noon, between the hours of and 8, the regis
tering officers of each division will meet at the
places of holding the delegate elections, for the
purpose of revising and correcting the registry.
1t is of the utmost Importance to every citizen
who intends or desires to vote the Republican
ticket next October, that he should see to it that
his name is placed on the list of the division in
which he resides. If his name be not already
enrolled and he neglect to supply the defect,
he will be unable to participate in the delegate
elections on the following Tuesday. 1t is on
that day that the real contest for the year is to
be fought. If the substantial members of the
party, the men who give it character and weight
before the world, the men whose money goes
towards supporting the necessary machinery,
the men upon whom fall the bur-
dens of taxation 49, if these men
neglect their duty tomorrow and on the follow
ing Tuesday, the delegate elections, the district
conventions, and the State Convention, inIturn
will fall into the hands of the political trcksters
and will be manipulated by them in their own
selfish and corrupt interests alone, without
any decent regard for the wishes or interests of
the mass of the party and the people. The sue
cess of this class of men in the past has involved
the party in ignOminious and needless defeat at
the polls; and even when their management
has not resulted in defeat, it has been instru-
mental in bringing about result still more dis
astrOus, by placing in power men of their own
class who have brought disgrace upon the party
in the halls of legislation and elsewhere. The
adjournment of the Legislature did not occur so
long ago as to permit the remembrance of its
iniquitous doings to be smothered in the minds
OF the people. With scarcely an exception, the
Republican members of this body were placed in
nomination without the participation of the
class of voters to whom we are now appealing
and almost without exception, their conduct at
Harrisburg was characterized by the most high
handed defiance of common decency and the
rights and wishes of the people whom they
falsely claimed to represent.
We need not remind the 10000 Republican
voters of Philadelphia that they hold in their
hands the power of remedying the shameless
abuses which have been perpetrated in the name
Of the Republican party of the State of Pennsyl-
Vania. A general attendance upon the delegate
elections will result in the selection of men who
will have some decent regard for the wishes of
their constituents, who will impart to the CON
vention in which they take their seats the conf
dence and respect of the people, and who will
place before the voters of the State candidates
for the highest offices within their control
against whom no breath of suspicion or reproach
can be raised. 1t is true that we do not have to
deal with the legislative candidates just yet, but
we are entrusted with the selection of candidates
for Governor and Judge of the Supreme Court;
aud if the people present bold and unassailabc
front on these questions the struggle over the
next Legislature will be vastly slmpifed, and the
triumph of justice and decency be brought within
our reach. Of one thing. the professional poll
tician can rest assured in this connection. The
Republican press of this city is no longer at their
back If they make another attempt to defy the
people, they will encounter every respectable
journal in Philadelphia face to face, and they
will find them determined and earnest in their
opposition to the nomination and election of
men whose sole actuating principle is reckless
and indiscriminate plunder Let every honest
and decent man in the party put his shoulder to
the wheel, and let him commence the work of
strengthening the Republican party tomorrow!