The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-12
Grenina Telearaph
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1a, 1870.
TIE ELECTION


continued ascendanoy of the Republican
party in the city, State, and nation is assured,
and the great commercial, manufacturing,
and monetary interests of the country are for
titled against revolutionary and disastrous
policy.
In Philadelphia nearly the entire Repub-
ican ticket is elected by a large majority.
There was, however, an unprecedented
amount of scratching, and the numerous evil
dences of the growing disposition to cut loose
from the trammels of party in local affairs
furnish q solemn and useful warning against
unpopular and disreputable nominations.
Thousands of Republicans yesterday "cut'
Republican candidates whom they deemed
unworthy of their confidence, and their pro-
tests afford good ground for the belief that
the day is near at hand when no party in our
midst will be strong enough to elect weak,
unworthy, or disgraceful candidates.
In the Second district, Hon. Charles
O'Neill, whom we advised some weeks ago to
withdraw, has been defeated; but as his oppo-
nent, Mr.. Creely, proclaimed himself from
the outset thorough Republican, the gene
raj interests of the party will not, we trust be
in any way injured by his election. Mr..
O'Neill's defeat affords striking instance of
the folly of setting at defiance such strong
and peculiar feeling of opposition within the
ranks of the Republican party as was devel-
oped in his district.
We rejoice in the selection of Hon. Leonard
Myers in the Third district, and the probable
election of Hon. Alfred G. Harmer in the Fifth
district, and it is a matter of special gratifca-
hat n Ka1Ia L. II
tanned over his irrepressible anti-coolie ad-
versary, General William B. Thomas, even a
larger majority than he received two years
ago. The people of the Fourth district owed
it to their own self-respect to rebuke the ar
rant demagogism displayed by Thomas in
soliciting their votes, and due regard for their
important industrial interests irresistibly
prompted them to return the Representative
who has served them with great zeal fidelity,
and ability; and they have nobly demonstrated
at the polls that they recognized the force of
both these motives.
The election of William r. Leeds as Sheriff,
by large majority, Notwithstanding the
popularity of his adversary, is deserved tri-
bute to his character as man. his fidelity as
an official, and his untiring zeal as working
member of the Republican party.
The probable defeat of James Lynd as the
Republican candidate for Judge of the Dis
trict Court, while Judge Paxson, candidate
on the same ticket, is elected by nearly eight
thousand majority, needs no other comment
than that this result rebounds to the credit of
the independent voters of Philadelphia, and
furnishes a warning which all future judicial
conventions should carefully heed.
The Row offices to be filed this year all
fall into the possession of the Republicans.
But it was the colored vote alone that has
saved dsome of the candidates, aud if nominating
conventions wish to secure triumphs hereaf-
ter, and to build up the party instead of
tearing it to pieces, they must remember the
army of ticket-scratchers is larger than ever,
and that public sentiment can no longer be
safely defed.
The result of the vote on the site for the
public buildings, deciding in favor of Penn
Square by an immense majority, is such an
emphatic expression of the judgment of dis
interested men that it will, we trust, settle
this vexed controversy for ever. The labo-
rious and continuous efforts of the friends of
Washington Square secured for their side of
the question much more available strength at
the polls than its inherent merits deserved,
but in the face of the fact that in every sec
ton of the city large vote has been polled
fDr Penn Square, and that in the aggregate
the preponderance in its favor is overwhelm-
ing, all further opposition should be forever
abandoned. The good sense and good judg-
ment of the citizens of Philadelphia were
strikingly displayed by their verdict in favor
of the locality pointed out alike by the in
terests of the city, the demand of the pre-
sent, and the requirements of the future,
and Councils, Building Commissioners, the
legislature, Washington Square newspapers
and ell concerned should accept this verdict
as final and conclusive.
THE GROANS OF THE WOUNDED.
WE publish below an article from the Age
of this morning which gives view of the
election yesterday rounding off the picture
that is SO grateful to Republican eyes. The
Democratic organ is irate, and long success
sion of defeats has failed to prepare it for re-
ceiying tidings of new local and general
Republican victories with equanimity. 1t
would be as we'll, however, if it took
some precautions against becoming blind
with rage, for it would then be able to avoid
such absurdities as the assertion that the
Democrats yesterday all voted for principle,
and the allegation that the Republicans are
the foes of the Union and of a republican
form of government. 1t would also refrain
from eulogizing the Democracy in one sem
tence for their courage in combating ''over-
powering numbers, while it complained of
their dafaat nv fraud in another IL Would