The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-11-14


that there are some indications pointing that
way is no less clear. 49, -
THE REPEATERS AND THEIR BACKERS.
From th1 A. Y. Tribune.
How completely the Democratic party in
this city has chosen to identify itself with
fraudulent voting and false counting of
votes, those who do not habitually BAD their
journals can hardly realize. The recent acts
of Congress- which had no other object and
could have had no other effect than TO pre-
vent and punish illegal voting and mscount-
ing, have been fought by that party with des-
perate and untiring malignity. Day after day
have they heeu stgmatized, in connection
with the Presidents enforcement thereof, as
an invasion of State rights--a conspiracy to
subveIt the right of suffrege-the interposi-
ton of bayonets to drive the Democratic
voters from the polls etc., etc. Yet not for
years before have the legal electors of
our city enjoyed such facilities for polling
their votes as at the election of this week.
No ''negro troops" nor white troops, were
anywhere visible; none would in any case
have been employed unless in defense Of the
rights of legal voters against fraud and vio-
lence. It never before was so easy for q legal
voter to register as this fall; it never before
was so easy for q registered legal voter to
vote exactly as he saw fit. Never before
were ruffians and ruffianism more thoroughly
overawed; never before did legal electors so
generally exercise their right unmolested and
unintimidated. Up to this hour, not one of
our city's $1,000 legal voters has complained
that he was precluded from registering, or,
being duly registered, from voting as he
deemed best.
But, in spite of our Republican feuds and
quarrels, which impelled the nomination of
rival Republican candidates in several dis.
tricts and so paralyzed us that full quarter
| of our votes we're not polled, Hoffmau's ma
| ority in 1868 was reduced by no less than
| 17.00Ovotes. We believe he had as many legal
votes as in 1868; yet his aggregate in the city
| is cut down more than 25, 600 votes, in defiance
of the most desperate efforts and a lavish
expenditure of public money. There were
not less than ten thousand men receiving
pay from the city's treasury when our
! late election was held who would not
have been on the citys pay-rolls mad there
been no election this fall Boulsvards,
street-sweeping, street-opening, street-paving
with Nicolson or other devices, Central Park
Croton water-in short, everything munich
pal-were made to swell the long array OF
Tammany electioneers and voters. Aud yet
with all manner of drumming cannonading
rocket-iring, and immense outdoor meeting:
night after night, Hoffmans vote is reduced
from 112, 522 to not far from sc, 600.
The repeater is public enemy. He is q
felon and traitor-as dangerous as and
baser than any rebel armed to subvert by
bloodshed our republican liberties. He ought
to be hunted down like q wolf and made tc
realize that his crime is regarded with uni
versal detestation and adherence. Yet here
is great party, which hires cunning law
yers to pettifog the case of these villains
and exhaust every legal quibble in the hope
of screening them from justice. Is it not
| clear that thew who do this ara morally MS
guilty as the criminals they conspire tc
shield from punishment Who does not SET
that the party which thus makes itself the
accomplice and ''fence" of repeaters knows
right we'll that they are its useful servitors
and that it is their partner in guilt?