The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-12
Will THE PEOPLE SUBMIT3

SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1853.
WILL THE PEOPLE SUBMIT!
THE vital issue presented to the Republican
party of this city Just now is set forth in this
query-Will the people quietly submit to the
perpetration of such outrages as those which
characterized the convention by the maj ority
of which John A. Houseman was declared the
Republican candidate for Recorder of Deeds?
Yesterday afternoon we published two COM
munications addressed by Samuel G. Perkins,
ESQ.,, to the City Executive Committee, from
perusal of which the public can form an
idea of the manner in which it was found ne
cessary to manipulate the convention, in
order to secure for Mr.. Houseman a nominal
majority. Mr. Perkins is well known to the
community as a lawyer of high standing,
man belonging to class which, unhappily,
seldom find their way into the nominating
conventions of either party. He was regu-
larly accredited as a member of the conven-
ton from the Eighth division of the Fifth
ward, having credentials made out in the
proper style and signed by all the election
officers of his division. He was admitted to
a seat in the convention, and was duly elected
Yet in spite of these facts, the Committee on
Credentials subsequently ousted Mr. Perkins
from his seat, and gave it to one George w.
Buckley, on the strength of the following pre-
tended certiicate:-
'Eaght Div 5th Ward
'Ths is to certify that an Election OF Republican
party at Regular place Of holding the Election and
Geo. w. Eickley was duly Elected this day June
the 9Th 1869 to represent this Div in the Convention
to nominate Candidate for Recorder of Deeds 1869.
''THOS. j. NEAL Judge,
''HARRIs HARRINGTON Insp.
"GEO. JENAY d"
This luminous document we have been per-
mitted to inspect Every word Of it is written
in the same style and by the same hand, sig
natures and ALL without any attempt at variety
in the latter. Moreover, the gentlemen whose
names are appended to it have signed paper
declaring that each and all of them know
nothing of the pretended certificate whatever;
that none of them acted or attempted to act
as officers of the election; and that their
names were affixed to it without their authority
or direction. Yet the Committee on Creden-
tials gave the seat to Buckley, without taking
the trouble even to go through all the forms
prescribed by the rules of the party organiza-
tion and despite the protests of some of the
gentlemen who served upon it, AS their re-
port was made final and conclusive by the
rules, there was no present redress for the
wrong so openly and fagrantly inflicted upon
MIR. Perkins and his constituents.
The manner in which one vote was thus
manufactured for Houseman is but sample
of the way in which a sufficient number were
fixed up to secure for him majority There
were about twenty contested seats, and the
presumption is that they were all disposed of
in the same outrageous and iniquitous fashion
On the third and final ballot, the vote stood
for Houseman 146 and for his four opponents
130, giving him a majority of 16 only. A
change of nine votes would therefore have
ensured his defeat. That there were at least
that many votes cast by men who had no
better right to participate in the proceedings
of the convention than the man in the moon,
is an unquestioned and unquestionable fact,
in the face of which Mr.. John A. H0WSene0R
cannot claim that lie has receiOed tie nOmiIla-
tton Of tie Republican party for Recorder Of
Deeds. His pretended nomination was
mere farce Worse than a farce, it was a
glaring outrage, perpetrated in open daylight,
upon the Republican voters of Philadelphia
by shameless, grasping, and tyrannical
Ring
Will the people submit to it? We answer
no d.! and we desire Mr. Houseman to compre-
hend the fact that our answer is not more en-
phatic now than will be found the response of
the people in October next. If his name re-
tains place on the Republican ticket, he is
certain of beingdefeated. If this We're the only
possible result, the case would not be so des-
perate. But if the Republican ticket is to be
headed by name placed upon it in the man
ner described, the success of the whole list is
imperilled. The Republican City Executive
Committee have had the matter placed fairly
and squarely before them. We trust that it
will receive their careful and impartial con-
sideration, and that their action will be guided
by desire to promote the strength and purity
of the organization at the head of which they
have been placed. 1t is quite time that such
disgraceful and outrageous proceedings as
characterized the Recorder of Deeds Conven-
tion were at an end. Let Mr. John A. House
man be taught the salutary lesson that no
Ring can trihe with the rights of the people
in the manner in which the Ring of which he
is a mere creature have attempted to do. If
the City Executive Committee do not see fit
to impart this lesson, the people themselves
will not fail to do so on the 10Th of October
next.
REVOL UTION4RY SIGNS IN Paris.
THR news from Paris published this morn