, 1872-10-14
THE FRAUDS IN PHILADELPHIA.

Philadelphia <oe 10y G@55ssp.de''es gss Of The t 2''
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 10.--The greatest outrage
ever perpetrated upon the ballof-bo1, throwing
into the shade even the gigantic frauds Of
which Tatnmany was guilty in 1863, was conl-
pleted to-day by the so-ealled official canvass Of
the Return Judges OF Philadelphia. Hartranfts
minority, after having been reported at "a, 900,
and then reduced to about IT in order to make
the cheating little less apparent, has been
fnallay fixed at 20, 437 to save the wages Of the
Ring, who had male bets that the Penitentiary
candidate would run ahead Of his ticket, and
that he would have more than 20, 600 majority in
this city. To say that this result has been hon.
estly obtained would be to insult the common
sense Of every one who knows anything about
Philadelphia politics, and the worst Of it all Is
ers Of the Quaker City, to whom the people look
as examples Of honor and integrity, not only
know how the will Of the people has been sub
verted, but their sense Of political morality has
subscribed their money to help accomplish it.
Nobody in this city pretends that the election
on Tuesday Was honestly or fairly conducted, or
that the ballots were rightly counted. The evl-
dence of fraud is found In the very returns them
selves. II there was q weak man on the Grant
Cameron ticket, it Was he whose name was at it's
head, while great part Of the strength OF the
Liberal ticket was given to it by the name OF
Buckalew. think it needs no argument to
prove TINT honest Democrats, whatever they
vention, and however they might intend to vote
in November, could have no motive for desert
ing Buckalew and voting for Hartranft.
It is superstition that shocks the COM
mon sense ; , F. The easetar case hhd I'd been been
proved to be as bad as H2rtranfts; if it had
been necessary to pardon q Penitentiary convict
in order to get Witness to prove his honesty,
and even if that witness had refused to swear to
the statement to which he put his name, while
3,;- had liant hiu1Ea1f thrnnrf1
long years Of public service, and earned the
reputation Of being an honest man and states
man, we might have expected to Sec his political
f5s9ds IDS ohsT asssraa sage h sna eodnS dS
Lis own party. Three formidable organizations
that have heretofore acted with the Republican
party refused to vote for him-the Liberal Re-
publicans, led by Colonel Mcclure the honest
the Municipal Reform Association. These all
supported Buckalew, and two of them e1erted
their influence for tue election Of Mercur, to be
Supreme Court Judge, and yet, in spite Of these
facts, Hartranft is reported as running ahead of
the remainder Of the ticket-ahead even Of Mer-
cur, who has the respect and confidence Of all
honest members Of his party
Need tell you how this was done? The whole
nefarious plan was spread before the country
city already printed have given some Of the par
ticulars III the first place, repeating and ballot
box stuhing WAS never 60 boldly and openly car
ried on before, even in this city. Gangs Of re-
peaters from New York and other States, and
from certain wards in this city, we're regularly
organized, and went from poll to poll, voting
during the day from ten to fifty times they
we're protected by the police and United States
Deputy Marfha1s, and sometimes led by the
former in citizens dress. They voted early in
morning On the names Of weu known
citizens, who, later in the day, were hustled
away from the polls, and Threatened with arrest
for repeating if they insisted on their right to
vote. learned, to-day, Of one case in the Nine
teenth Ward. An old merchant, personally
known to every one Of the election officers, and
q Republican, who intended to scratch Hart
ranft's name from his ticket, found that lis
name had been voted on BY a repeater; he in
sisted On his right to vote, and went to the City
Hall to get the opinion of the State District-At-
torney and Of one of the Judges Armed with
these, which we're favorable to his claim, he re-
turned to the poll, and found that
during his abBence second repeater had
voted on his name. There was not
in the whole city. probably, q single
precinct in which this faleo personation was not
carried on to q greater or less extent, and III
some wards the fraudulent votes thus cost
amounted to thousands. Men were bought aE
taeg never were before. There nre, in erery
party, men OF easy morals always in the market
and for sale. The Democratic organization in
The campaign now closed Was less compact than
it mas generally been. and thQVaannds OF '}epc~