The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-11-07
FOR SALE.
From the BcaUcr Radical.

From the Bearer Radical
The Democratic vote in the next Lepisla-
ture is up at auction. The best bidder can
take ii in a lump with all its paraphernalia
left over from the last three disastrous cam
paigns. Democratic legislators are Just now
being sent for to Harrisburg aud being coflled
together for delivery when the grand sale is
effected. Hon. Samuel Josephs will play
auctioneer, and his gentlemanly clerk, Mr..
Wallace, will deliver the live goods to the GUS
toners after the most approved fashion of the
slave marts! Going, going, gone" are all
of you-Messrs Buckalew, aud Purman, and
Broadhead, and Dill, and fifty others who,
like you, believe that they are honest men
and free agents in the Legislature, and your
infamy is blazoned to the people of the State
two months in advance of its consummation
by Mr.. Wallaces organ.
In plain English, the proposition is to de-
liver the organization of the Legislature and
the keys OF the State Treasury into the hands
of a sufficient number of boiling Republi-
cans, who, in turn, are to pass Democratic
apportionment bill. When such accursed
contracts were made last winter, it was in the
privacy Of Walace's chamber, and in the
darkness of midnight. That in the present
emergency the plot should be paraded pub
licly in the broad noon indicates that
Messrs. Josephs and Wallace are very
bold in the belief of success already
There are several difficulties In the way of
this bargain and sale, which must be gotten
rid of before the hammer of Josephs can fall
There may be lack of bidders. Ia our iudg-
ment there is but one Republican candidate
for Treasurer in Pennsylvania base enough
to sign the compact, and the late election has
left him etfectually H0PS de combat, and
screaming with the anguish of his wounds
And if another bidder could be found it is
Oofa IN, fl,ak ba nil l.
ing his share of the merchandise in the Re-
publican ranks Should MIR Mackey be a
candidate and fail in securing n caucus nomi-
nation, his friends will vote solidly for his
successful competitor, whomsoever he may
be. OF the gentlemen who last year were de-
ceived into boiling the Republican nomina-
ton, scarcely more than one or two will re-
peat the experiment, especially when warned
in advance that their course is to surrender
Pennsylvania to the Democracy for ten years
to come.
And the Democratic party will approach
the coalition this year with suspicion. Last
year the contract of the leaders of the bolt
was to surrender the seats of Scull and Watt
and defeat the Metropolitan Police bill
They got the Treasury and what was the re-
suit Finley received his seat from causes
which they could not control. The Metro
politan Police bill passed and the scattered
forces of the Democracy were compelled to
| rally on Geary TO secure it's defeat. Watt
holds his seat to-day and makes the Senate
Republican. And when these strange results
came to be investigated, it was found that the
high contracting parties on the side OF the bolt
had made an unauthorized use of the names of
their bankers in the Legislature, and, further
more, that they had made no special effort to
deliver the goods which they had actually in
possession. And, worst of all, it was discov-
cred that some of the most active of the
Democratic managers in the Legislature, who
were clamorous in their appeals to party
spirit, and touching in their devotion to Dia-
mond, had their pockets stuffed with good
hard cash in sums of from $1,000 TO $1,000
each, as the price of their action, and sthat
their party spirit and affection for Diamond
sensibiy waned after the Treasurer
was elected. And it was also whispered
about the Capitol at the close of the session
| that of those who we're not bought many
were sold, and the cash paid for their votes
| 1t is just possible that many Democrats will
| fell to perceive the distinction between
ihc'"q bought With an apportionment and