The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-06
TIE REREPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR
SHERIFF.

SOME of the enemies of the Republican can
didate for Sheriff, William r. Leeds, finding
that his uublemished official record furnishes
no point of attack are assailing him on the
ground that he has for years devoted his best
energies to the advancement of the interests
of the Republican party. The fact that he has
been an unfaltering partisan worker, that he
has labored zealously to detect Democratic
frauds, TO rally the supporters of the Union
cause to the polls, and to infuse vigor and sue
cess into active political campaigns, is tortured
into crime instead of virtue by his assail-
ants, and Republicans are asked to withhold
from him their support because he has strug-
gled too zealously for the triumph of their
great principles. 1t is not pretended that he
has committed any dishonest or illegal act
if he had, his adversaries would speedily
trumpet it to the world. The main point of
their objections is in that instead of regard
ing the struggle on which the welfare of the
nation was dependent with feeling of philo-
sophie indifference, he was the hardest of the
hard workers for the Republican party, and
the keenest of the keen detectives of the
frauds by which its adversaries sought to win
illegal triumphs.
This objection carries on its face its
own answer. If a party does not bestow a
fair proportion of its lucrative rewards upon
men who serve it faithfully, and who combine
irrepreachable personal character with re-
markable partisan activity, it will fare as
badly as an army in which unfaltering resolu-
tion and courage fail to win promotion, and
it will speedily be annihilated by foe which
possesses sufficient co.nmon sense to employ
proper incentives to vigorous effort. 1t is no
h",Iuo, business to organize and vitalize the
forces on either side in our city campaigns.
There is bewildering succession of caucuses,
delegate elections, conventions, registrations,
etc, ETC., all of which have to be attended
to vigilantly by somebody to ensure
success; and when the men most familiar
with all these operations select, as they have
in tn case of MIR. Leeds, nominee on the
ground that he has been the useful agent,
par excellence, in organizing victory and in
bs fling the fraudulent schemes of the foes
of the great party of the Union, he gains the
strongest claim to the support of every mem
Der of that organization. If we had picked
our nominee for Sheriff from the drones, we
could have found thousands of men qualified
well enough to discharge the duties of the
office. but there would have been no good
reason for choosing any one of them in
preference to any other; while, by nomi-
mating man who unites all the qualifications
of faithful and excellent officer with gallant,
continuous, and efficient partisan service, we
not only bestow reward where it has been
earned, but prompt thousands of the rank
and file to do good share of hard work in
the present and future campaigns, by the
hope that their zeal will not go unrewarded
When the Republican party gets ready to die,
it can rapidly hasten its dissolution by turn
ing a cold shoulder upon the men who work
for it in sunshine and in storm; if it wishes
to live, it must recognize and reward their