The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-12
FALSE AND TRUE ISSUES.

FROM ue N. 4. IT10une.
1t is quite apparent that the Democratic
party hopes to be able to wage the coming
canvass in this State in some of its most i'm
portant aspects, according to methods which
have become chronic with it in spite of their
repeated failure-that is, by avoiding real
issues and parading false ones. It's besetting
weakness is that it suffers itself to be led by
men who regard one moiety of the people as
void of intelligence and the other of principle.
Such classification is but poor compli-
ment to its own party, and it is ibellous ap-
piled to the rest of the people of the State.
Acting in this belief, however, the organs of
the party put forth the most beseless and un-
candid statements, Notwithstanding the fact
that unimpeachable evidence of their true
character is within reach of all who can read
The mob of Paris grows restive, now and
then, under the false reports uttered by its
own Government; but the Democratic press
here perpetrates even more audacious frauds
upon its readers and escapes their censure.
Such as rely wholly upon that source for poll
tical information and advice, and especially
on the leading prints, cannot we'll have any
other idea than that the main issues to be
tried at the approaching election in this
State are such as whether Governor Holden
has administered the State Government of
North Carolina wisely; or whether Colonel
Kirk had properlyE or improperly aided the
civil by the military power9 Questions of this
sort, however pertinent to the people of that
State, are not to be decided by the result of
an election in New York. Moreover the
courts of the United States are even now en-
gagged in reviewing the transactions COM
planned of, and if error has been committed
it will be rectifed; if wrong has been done it
will be rerdessed by tribunals of competent
jurisdiction. If the people of this State
should mulct themselves In the cost of two
more years of Democratic rule, not Ku-
Klux would be indemnihed to the extent of a
penny Of the resulting plunder. Tammany
has tears and lies in profusion for the Turcos
and Spahis of its party in the South, but no
money. 1t robs and cheats for its own ac-
| count.
| 1t was not Gov Holden who issued a pro-
clamation, in advance, designed to mask the
very frauds by which he was himself to be
elected; it is another Governor who will be
tried for that performance. Neither was it
Gov. Holden who, when SO elected, signed
the Erie Railroad bill; it is another Governor
who will be required to answer for that too
No citizen OF this State can complain that he
has suffered in person or privilege at the
| hands of Col. Kirk or his subordinates. or
that he fears any such thing. The Republican
party of the State of New York will not per-
NIT itself to be arraigned at the inquest pro-
posed for alleged misdeeds of its party in
other aud distant States; nor will it hold
the Democratic party of those States to any
responsibility for the acts of its party in
this State. Nothing that has happened, or
may happen, in Georgia or Mississippi,
can have any bearing on the present CON
dition of the New York canals, or on the
policy which is rapidly transforming them
from sources of revenue into public burdens
1t is the Democratic party Of this State, not
of some other, whose administration is
chargeable with the grave misuse of power