The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-06-21
A FEW POINTS FOR REPUBLICAN,
VOTERS TO CONSIDER.

urged the Importance of making good nomi-
nations, but at the same time announced its
intention of supporting the regular ticket,
no matter what names were upon it. As
matter of course the wlre-pullers were not
frightened to any given extent, and the re-
gular Republican ticket, which, true to its
promise, our contemporary is now earn
estly advocating, is chiefly remarkable
for containing the names of but two or three
men who are at all worthy of the public con-
fdence. What value the arguments and ap-
peals of paper that has guaranteed in ad-
vance to support any nomination that might
be made can have with intelligent men, we
are unable to understand; and as the rank and
file of the Republican party have never yet
given their adhesion to the old Democratic
doctrine that it is the duty of every member
of the party to vote for the Devil if
he is the regular nominee, it is to
be hoped that they will not do
so at this late day. Scratching has always
been considered rather a virtue than
otherwise in the Republican ranks, and the
operations of the scratchers have done more
to preserve the purity of the party than any
other influence. Men who yield their indi
vidual Judgment, who permit themselves to
blindly follow wherever certain politicians
may choose to lead them, and who at every
election vote whatever ticket is placed in
their hands without inquiry as to the fitness
of the candidates, have about as much infu-
ence as SO many logs of wood, and logs of
wood are about as capable of appreciating
the responsibilities that devolve upon cti-
zenship. 1t is the independent voters who
make it a rule to scratch literally when there
is necessity for it, and who resolutely refuse
to vote for corrupt men, who really hold the
balance of power; and we sincerely hope that
the noble army of scratchers will be out in
force at the next election, unless some radical
changes are made in the Republican ticket
between now and October.
This morning our contemporary above
referred to offers to its readers a
number of reasons why the Republi-
can voters of Philadelphia should
vote for the whole ticket, and it suggests that
from complete harmony complete victory will
follow. We concur in this last propo-
sition, but there will be neither complete
harmony in the Republican party, nor will it
achieve complete victory, with ticket for the
most part made up of names of notoriously
corrupt and incompetent men. Before the
nominations were made we pointed out the
way to victory when we urged that the best
men of the Republican party should be put
up for the offices to be filed in October, and
if this had been done the triumph of the Re-
publican ticket would have been assured
Our contemporary asks, ''What good can
any Republican hope to accomplish by voting
against this ticket?" The answer to this
nai0e question is very easy-so easy, indeed,
that we wonder it did not occur to the writer
of the article in question. The answer is, that
by so doing they will probably prevent the
nomination of such a ticket next year, for
our contemporary is totally mistaken when it
states that the ticket represents the wishes of
forty thousand Republicans of all races and
classes. 1t is well-known fact that the nomi-
nations were set up inadvance, and that the
delegate elections were so manipulated that
there was absolutely no choice, and the men
who arranged the nominations on the you
Observation-Disclosures principle evil
IDENTIFY have very poor opinion of the intelli-
gence of the average Republican voter, or
they would be very shy of making any refer
ences to the manner in which the nomina-
tions were made.
Two other of the queries of our contempo-
rary contain suggestions of importance, and
they deserve to be looked into, as they can
tain the gist of the whole matter. They
are as follows:-
''DOes anybody expect to improve the fnan-
cial condition of Philadelphia by electing poll
ticians to take charge of the city government
who belong to the party that plunged the
nation into bankruptcy before the Rebellion,
and covered Pennsylvania with debt?
''Is there Republican in Philadelphia who
does not know that the defeat of the Repub-
lican party in the coming election will be to
give over this city to the imitators of Tam
many in New York, where the rights of per-
son and of property are openly defed?"
To the first of these questions we will
reply by asking one;-
''Does anybody expect to improve the
financial condition of Philadelphia by electing
politicians who are notoriously corrupt, aud
who only make ase of the machinery of the
Republican party to promote their own ad-
vancement and to secure opportunities for
plunder p
There are honest men outside of the Re-
publican organization, and if the Democrats
only have the wisdom to nominate such a