The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-12-01

THE FIRST SENAT ORAL DISTRICT.
II is matter OF very great Importance that q
sound Republican should succeed to the
vacancy created by the death of Mr.. Watt,
for the Senate as it now stands is a tie, and
the election to take place on December goth
will determine whether the Republicans or
the Democrats shall have the ajority. In
this election is involved the choice of a
Speaker for the Senate, and consequently
the political complexion of the committees to
be appointed by him. AS the new ap-
portionment not only for State Senators
and Representatives but for Congressman will
be made by the Legislature this winter, it is a
matter Of the first Importance that Republi-
can influence should preponderate in the
committees, if the State is not to be gerry
wandered in such manner as to give the
Democrats an advantage to which they are
not entitled. Besides this, there are a great
number of important State and local interests
at stake that ought to induce the Republicans
of the First Senatorial district to select the
best man that can be obtained for their can
didate, and to put forth all their strength to
elect him. The Democrats are fully alive to
the Importance of the occasion, and they
have certainty made a first-class nomination.
Their candidate is one who commands the
respect and esteem of the best men
of all parties, and if The Republicans expect
to defeat him they will be obliged to follow
the example of their opponents and make
selection that will be certain to secure every
Republican vote. In spite of the interests at
stake, it will be much better to have a Demo-
orat who is known to be both able and honest
returned from the First Senatorial district
than some mere jobbing politician who
calls himself Republican merely because he
thinks it will pay to do SO, and who carries
his principles and his conscience in his
breeches pockets. Active exertions are now
being made by several of this class of men
to secure the Republican nomination, and if
either of them should do SO a Democratic
victory may be considered a certainty. One
of the individuals, especially, who is work
ing very energetically for the Republi-
can nomination, is as unfit a person
to have voice and vote in the State Senate
as could possibly be found within the limits
of the city of Philadelphia. He is a politi-
oal jobber of the very lowest class, and his
can party, especially beside the one the
Democrats have made. 1t is perfectly useless
to talk of party principles if such
men ss the one alluded to are allowed to be-
come the representatives of Repubicanism
in the most important public offices. We
have now more than enough members of the
Legislature of his particular stripe, and it
is time that there was a little more
honesty ind deceney in both the
Senate and the House of Representative, seven
if they can only be obtained by the election
of Democrats. We do not care to make any
direct personal illusions at the present time,
but we have said enough to indicate to the
men inside politics who we mean, and we
now give notice that if the individual in
question is nominated we will oppose him
from the start, and we will support the Demo
cratic candidate rather than a so-called Re-
publican who would disgrace any political
party to which he might attach himself.
The Republican voters of the First Sena-
torial district should remember that their
last chance of getting upon the Registry list
will be when the revision is made on next
Saturday afternoon, and if they are not
registered they should see to the matter at
onoe. The election for delegates to the Re-
publican nominating convention will be held
on Tuesday next, and we earnestly exhort all
the Republican voters to attend and vote for
q man that will do credit to the party and
that can be elected in opposition to the
strong candidate the Democrats have put up.