The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-07
MONDAY, JUNE Z, 1869.
NE DELEGATE ELECTIONS.

VIZ print elsewhere q list OF the candidates
for the various city, county, and Legislative
oositions who are seeking nominations from
the Republican party. The delegate elections
are TO be held tomorrow evening, and the
nominating conventions are to convene on
the following day, so that the period is near
at hand when the horoscope of the coming
campaign is to be cast, and the Republican
organization is to be so strengthened as to re-
gain its ascendancy in Philadelphia, or so
weakened as to ensure another defeat.
We trust that good citizens will make earn
est efforts to ensure the formation of good
ticket; but as the millennium has not yet ar
rived, there is reason to fear that the delegate
elections and nominations will, as usual, be
controlled mainly, if not exclusively, by pro-
fessional politicians. If these men are wise
they will not ignore the popular demand for
unexceptionable nominations they will &C
knowledge the necessity for atoning for the
errors of the past, and they will present can
didates who can poll the full party strength
and something more The intriguing mana
gers are at best burdensome incubus upon
the public, and they richly deserve the con-
domination hurled against them by Swift, that
sthe man who can make two ears of corn, or
two blades of grass, grow on the spot where
only one grew before, would deserve better
of mankind and render more essential SER
vice to the country, than the whole race
of politicians put together" The only way
in which they can possibly render useful
service is by devising measures for strength
ening a useful party. When they labor for
this end they may claim to be a necessary
evil, and thus offer plausible excuse for the
prolongation of their existence. But when
they show themselves as deficient in sagacity
as they are in honesty and patriotism, by
breaking the back of the organization to
which they profess to be devoted with
crushing load of corruption and ignorance,
they yield up all their fiimsy pretensions to
public respect, and destroy the only decent
apology for their mischievous participation in
public affairs. If they their power to
make tickets only TO foist bad, weak, and
odious men upon the community, it will not
be strange if Republican voters freely resort
to the remedy of treating their nominations
with disdain, and burying their Objectionable
candidates in graves so deep that the hand of
resurrection can never reach them.
From present appearances various rings
have been so actively at work that they IN
scarcely fail in many instances to insure the
success of their nefarious plans, and there is
great danger that a number of the legislators
who disgraced themselves at Harrisburg last
winter will be renominated The usual rou-
tine is we fear, about to be repeated. The
politicians who, if they are ever to render any
real and honest service, should exert them
selves in forming popular and strong tickets,
will consider mainly their sown sordid and
selfish interests and after they have put on
the party all the extra weight necessary to
serve their sinister purposes, they will cry out,
''You must support the ticket; it will never
do to endanger the success of noble organi-
zation. All personal feelings and animosities
must be sacrificed on the altar of the coun-
try" They forget, however, that this cry is
losing its potency; that intelligent voters are
determined to scan the character of the men
presented for their support, and their fitness
for the respective positions to which they
aspire, as well as their opinions on general
questions; and that Philadelphia can no
longer be carried by inferior men under the
pressure of great national necessity for
putting none but Republicans on guard
Republican journals and Republican voters
in this city will now and hereafter say to nomi-
mating conventions as the Israelites said to
their task-masters, ''If we are to make bricks,
you must give us straw" if we are to elect
your candidates, you must give us men worthy
of the honors which they seek; if we are to
ask our friends and neighbors to vote for
your tickets, we must feel a reasonable degree
of confidence that we will not subsequently,
feel disgraced and dishonored by the belief
that we have helped to put knavery or inca
pacity in Office.
In community which abounds with SC
many able and honest men, it is saddening tc
ruin over the lists which indicate that larg,
proportion of the applicants for office are
rather below than above the average STANDARD
of mental and moral qualification. If tn,
ingenuity of nominating conventions is to b,
exercised in picking out rather the worst thai
the best men of the city as the objects o
their favor, the whole system should sink int
such disrepute as to be more honored in tn
breach than in the observance.
COMPOUNDLNG A FELONY
The Directors of the Beneficial Savings Fun
Society, at the corner of Twelfth and Chesnu