The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-11-10

cations about Rebellion. The Presidential
campaign for 1879, on the Democratic side,
is thus virtually opened with the declaration
that no concessions will be made to the senti-
ment in favor of protection which pervades
a large portion of the Democracy of Pennsyl-
vania. The overshadowing influence
of New York is to completely over
rule and override her on the
question in which her citizens of all classes
have such q deep interest. II plenty of i'm
ports come the Gothamite citadel of Demo-
cracy, the World cares not how many fur
naces and factories may be closed in the Key
stone State, nor how much woe and want may
be entailed upon benighted Democratic voters
in our mining and manufacturing districts.
The new Democratic gospel, ignoring war
issues and affirming free trade, can scarcely
be considered complete without the canoni-
zation of its leader and champion, William
NJ. Tweed, the one man who looms above all
others as its controlling spirit, together with
the crowd of minor thieves by whom he is
surrounded. These men have developed the
art of cheating at elections and of using
power unjustly gained for their personal en-
richment at the expense of plum
dered taxpayers into a science, and
their prominence is based on superlative
capacity for fraud and robbery. Little
knaves have been retail ballot-box suffers
and false counters, but the New York leaders
who now seek control of the entire Union
are wholesale operators, who create thou
sands of votes out of such airy nothings as
perjury, and, when this expedient fails, sum
up the ballots to suit their ends without regard
to the action of 6oHa-fde citizens at the polls.
In no age or country has power wickedly and
UNANIMOUSLY seized been 80 corruptly used.
Justice is openly bought and sold, and
judges decisions are staple articles of mer-
chandlse. Every department of the city
government is converted into an en-
gine of extortion, and the public
are compelled to pay to these leaders an enor-
nous tribute on every contract and for
every service. Since Hoffman's election in
1868 State legislation has been perverted to
similar purposes, and as a result of all these
operations the Democratic leaders of New
York count their plunderings by millions of
dollars. We read in the local columns of the
World of yesterday that, while they
were at the centres of intelligence
on election night anxiously scanning the re-
turns, their pr50Gte carriages were awaiting
them and when we remember that these car
riages conveyed back to palaces of princely
grandeur men who but a few years ago were
as penniless as they were brazen and unscru-
pulous, and who have done nothing since
but thwart the popular will at elections and
rob the people, we need no other index of the
true character of our proposed rulers. The
nation has survived the war; it is paying the
public debt rapidly; it can stamp out a Re-
bellion or contend successfully against any
foreign power; but there are two things it
cannot endure without ruin-free trade and
the dominance of the Tammany thieves at
Washington; and these two things the World
proposes to infict upon it in 1872.