The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-08
THE ELECTION ON TUESDA


THE ELECTION ON TUESDAY,
AFTER succession of deeply exciting politi-
cal campaigns, q. comparatively quiet contest
is now rapidly drawing to a close The fact
that this calm has succeeded the most turbu-
lent and dangerous period of our national his
tory however, is one of the best of reasons
for continuing the Republican party in power
1t indicates the true method of averting
future shocks, and of prolong-
ing the era of peace and prosperity
upon which the nation has happily entered
No man can tell how many mischievous re-
suits would have followed the triumph of the
opposition on any one of the leading
issues of the last ten years. but the whole
nation now knows that the success of Re-
publican principles has redounded,
in wonderful degree, to
the general welfare. The contentious
Southern States have been not only recon-
structed, but pacifed to an extent that
seemed impossible few years ago. They
are regaining wealth with unexampled
rapidity, and the day is not far distant when
the candid and unprejudiced portions of
their native population will confess that the
triumph of the old flag has redounded even
more to the advantage of the South than Of
the North Emancipation has already proved
in innumerable instances double blessing. 1t
has increased the real wealth of many of the
planters while it has raised their former
chattels to the dignity of manhood, and
spread the broad @gis of freedom over every
foot of American soil. The debt, that fear
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bugbear or source of serious oppression.
The credit of the nation has been proudly
maintained. large portion of the principal
has been discharged with a promptness un-
paralleled in financial history, and mean
while enormous reductions of taxation have
followed in quick succession. The last, which
went into operation on the 1st inst, will of
itself diminish the annual burdens of the Ame-
rican people from sixty to eighty millions of
dollars. These satisfactory results are due
in large measure to the increased efficiency
and honesty infused by the present admins
tration into the departments entrusted with
the collection of the public revenues, and to
the revival of a spirit of economy in appropri-
ations for the support of the National Govern
ment. At no time since the termination of
General Jackson's administration was the
annual expenditure, per capita, for national
objects exclusive of those appertaining to the
payment of the interest and principal of the
public debt, so small as it is at the present
moment. The Democratic administrations
of Van Buren, Polk, Pierce, and
Buchanan all imposed heavier taxes, per
capita, for the ordinary expenses of the
amt han thn
are imposing under the present laws, and
this fact speaks volumes in favor of the eco
nomicsl spirit now prevailing at Washington.
We have peace, order, liberty, public credit
prosperity, progression, patriotism, protec-
tion, and economy under the Republican ma
tional rule-is it wise or safe to risk the
danger of the loss of these blessings which
is involved in change of the complexion of
Congress? The voter who seriously ponders
this plain question will need no prompting
from us in regard to his duty on Tuesday
nex in reference to the Congressional tickets
So far as city politics are concerned, the
partial triumph of the Democracy here two
years ago, the subsequent exposure of the
means by which it was achieved, and the
standing admoniton furnished by Demo-
cratic misrule, rascality, corruption, and ex-
travagance in New York, clearly point out to
Philadelphians which party is most worthy of
their confidence. There is room for reform
here as elsewhere, but Republican manage
ment of municipal affairs in this city is q
model of purity and perfection when con-
trasted with the iniquitous proceedings of
the magnates of Tammany Hall.
There is really no good reason why any
member of the Republican party should fail
to support any of its candidates [save those
who are notoriously incompetent or corrupt
on Tuesday next, while the lessons and sue
cesses of the past Enthusiastically prove that
our future welfare can most safely be en-
T. usted to its guidance.