The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-11
CITY POLITICS.
Odds and Ends on the Eve of the EIectIon-Hov
the Political CaldrOn bubbles.

actively at work In the last closing days OF the
paign The quiet that has reigned with little dis
turbance as respects mass meetings and heteroge-
neous turn-outs OF the unterri6ed" has been some
pullers This morning the State House pavement
wears its usual anteelection look of old times, and
was well nigh impossible to ordinary pedestrians
Scattered under the trees and upon the steps of the
o1ces are numerous groups OF the frank and Hle,"
the men who at the various election precincts are
used to do what they are told and ask no questions
Certainly 1t is a curious question why the eve of
all elections such lots OF broad shouldered, beetled
browed, dirty, shabily-dressed hangers-on lounge
about the immediate yicinitysof Independence Hail.
Tomorrow not one Of these gentry will be seen in
that neghborhood; before that time as the poet SO
appropriately and yet 80 decatey puts it, they will
have
Folded their tents like the Arabs,
And as silently stole away.
1t is rumored asout town that our worthy police
guardians have been Of late in part relieved from
their arduous duties of ornamentng the street-cor-
ners semioccasionaly and OF switching stray little
spect as their digniied bearing demands. These
stalwart feeders on the public pap weTe it is as
serted ordered on duty in citizens dress at noon,
culars issued by the Independent Reform Mutual
Admiration Society, with instructions to slip these
under the doors of Republican voters. These circu
lars close as follows:-
"Note You can use the following ticket as ballot, if
Cut out the following ticket entire and paste on
SpF o h up as %e o as oq can the
and scratch out those that may not be covered up
on the back write the number OF your ward and division,
thus;-tirst ward, seventh vent . division , ,,,
Prothonotary of the District Courtwilliam o. Clag.
%,Giolk Of Quarter Sessions. Newton Poirce.
"Gty Gom1ssioneT nj TSomsaSsi I fniays hHis'Son
"City Treasurer-Robert England
Coroner George Gabel.n
On behalf of Mr.. b. e. Glenn, independent Re.
publican candidate for Select Council in the Fif-
the regular nominee, DR.. William w. Burnell. On
the one side it is declared that the Doctor was a
Democrat certainly until the close of the Rebellion,
and supported all their measures as an active part-
san: and the pertinent point Is made:-"But we are
told in 1869, five years after the event. that he is pre-
pared to produce dWddUtts that he voted for Pres-
dent Lincoln in November, 1861. In other words in
0fHea TO TO Obtain once ne is ready TO prove IT. that
Democratic friends, he was cheating them and was
In reply Dr. BurneI writes :-""Tis true did
visit Chicago as an admirer of General Mcclellan,
before the Presidential election of 1864 occurred. l
plainly saw the consequences of his election to the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Of greater importance to
the country at that time than would have been the
the Democratic party forever"
Certainly this explanation, 'ff It's true, 'tis passing
"a case rather muddled as far as the character
of the witnesses was concerned, was made as much
out,of for political capital as possible, on last Sdtur-
day Alderman Hurley had before him Christian
Lamb, Charles Houghnot, Albert Fields, and Henry
MITCHELL upon the charge of illegal voting, and of
inducing George Elliott John Reddng, and eight
others to commit perjury before the Legislative
! Committee examining into the alleged right of
William Bum to a seat in the Legislature The com
| mittee, it Will be remembered decided in favor of
| the contestant, Mr.. Bum, and Mr.. Witham, the
|
Elliott, Reddng, and eight other persons swore that
| they voted the Democratic ticket one hundred aud
fifty times-voted early and often in each precinct
! At the hearing on saturday last Elliott testified
that he and others had been priyy to various frauds
in the election last year at the instgatiOn OF these
Republicans, and had been bribed to give the former
evidence before the Legislative Committee. 1t was
rather a tough question for outsiders to know which
| time he committed Terury. The defendants, how
| ever were held i'll $1,000 bail each to answer the
charge.
ton to his particular identity IN print the sigma
! ture, Lewis Knox," looks very much alike each
time it is repeated, matter by whom it was written
before being transferred to the types, and hence,
| when read III the papers card signed Lewis
! Knox" we are in doubt as to whether it is the
genuine lewis or a bogus Lewis. In Sunday paper
| yesterday appeared such a card. 'Lewis Knox" re-
spoctiully informed the voters OF the Second ward
| Mr. Hagan-whoever Mr. Hagan may be-to the
| contrary Notwithstanding. "Lewls Knox then pro-
cceds to give Mr.. Hagan little sound advice, telling
him that he 'shOuld rely upon his knowledge OF how
to make and drink whisky, his magnificent style of
the position Of alderman instead OF resOrng to one
Of the mean cunning tricks taat gave MN
There's 5'''- richness, of verify; but
equally rich is , the closing sentence subscribed @
a liar; we could lock from a thief" And now again
doth "Lewis Knox put in an appearance before the
people, delivering himself IN the columns OF morn
notice appearing in the Sunday Mercury of yester-
day purporting TO be ISSUED and signed by me, is
| forgery, and evidently written by some one who
| knows from experience how liars act, and how
! thieves are treated had no knowledge whatever
! Of the publication until / saw il in print" few
| aflidavits might possibly clear up this business.
-'RObert Moore Eleventh ward" has given in at
last He has held out brayely as an independent
candidate for the Legislature from the Ninth district
in which Samuel D. Daley has heretofore ruled the
roast This morning, however, he rushes into print
with special notice marked zone time )" in which,
after promising that he is ''lOt a Democrat for GAIN
but through principle he states that he desires to
contemplate the success of the party tomorrow, and
with the view OF forwarding the prospects OF that
rather improbable spectacle, desires to withdraw
his name as a candidate for the Legislature" II will
be seen from this announcement that Mr.. Moore
fully appreciates the functions of legislator from
the modern standpoint. II he were "a Democrat for
| gain," he would not retire from the Contest-not
perhaps, That he loves plunder less but Democracy
| more.
Samuel Josephs starts ont special in all the
| papers, has represented or msrepresented' the
Third district during the past eight years. and then
recommends as a remedy the election of Lieutenant
| Colonel Christopher Klelnz, whose own personal
card expresses his entire subsection 'tO the decision
OF the conservative voters of the district SO it's
| nothing but little Democratic row.
| The following notices have been prominently
| advertised in a morning Journal
eB- MAJOR GENERAL JOHN w. GEARY is ex
peeted fd e be at ne Srest q tepian Bs all t2nIght &
| Ball tonight
Certainly the attractions offered above are superior
to those generally given to the admirers of "thC
| "cocks OF the walk might result in pretty pro
| msCuous interchange OF "dstcuils,' all lovers Of
peace doctrines and everybody who don't desire tC
have some one ''put head on him" had better stay
away. "Tis Jolly good chance for a free light al
In the Second Legislative district things look {
little animated. When the old Democratic slate was
cleaned up several weeks since George NlcGowar
was chalked down in the place of William c. Glling
ham. The latter gentleman, however, as the vulgar
phrase it, "cant see 1t IN that Light, aud appeals tC
that party as the regular nominee. Mr.. Gillingham
| certainly is an admirer OF the church rubrics thai
say 'Let all things be done decenty and in order; !;
and his near vicinity to the Fourth ward, where the
majorities are worked out on the principles of requ
arity and system, no doubt has had much TO do IN