The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-10-12
THE FRAUDS IN PHILADELPHIA.

THE FRAUDS INDEPENDENTLY
An Unparalleled Record Of viIIainy
Tho UnbiushtBg Process Of Radi
cal Repeatiug-HOw Hartranfi',
Majority was Manufactured.
Special Correspondence OF the Patriot
PHILADELPHIA, October 9, 1872.
The result OF the election has pro-
badly been surprise to you almost a,
great as to those here who though
themselves well posted. But the result
can be easily explained by those WHIT
were here and watched the voting.
Your correspondent, during the day
visited the precincts Of the Fourth
Fifth, Sixth, Seventh. Eighth, Ninth,
Tenth. Eleventh, Fourteenth and
Fifteenth wards, and in nearly every
one OF these, at two o'clock,
BUGKALEw HAD RUN LARGELY AHEAD
of his ticket, aud Hartranft had beer
badly scratched by his own party. In
the Eleventh ward a gang of twenty
four New York repesters visited precinct
after precinct and voted on the names
OF Democrats whose votes had not been
polled. In many cases, the Democratic
canvassers challenged them, but were
compelled to allow their votes to 90 in
under threat OF arrest, and closing of
the polls by the police.
The Fourth ward, Democratic
stronghold, was q mere market~place
the Republicans openly offering rom
IS to Sl5 for vote; the result is seen
in the Democratic majority being only
800, when it should have been at leas,
1000. 1t was, and now is, openly
charged that
ALDERMAN MMULLIN AND SAMUEL Jo-
SEPHS
had received large sum, and the par
don of one Of their gang, named Bob
Liseer, as a consideration for the sale Of
their men. to the Republicans. Nc
Mullin was attacked on the street and
barely escaped by aid of those whom he
paid to vote the Republican ticket.
Josephs, nominated on the Democratic
ticket, was, at the last moment, placed
on the Republican ticket, and received
the votes of that party and an election
to the Legislature as q consideration
for his services. And this, after
every Republican paper in Philadel-
phia had, over and over. denounced
him as a rascal, So in another case.
Captain Bach, an honest Republican,
was forced off the ticket, and Demo-
crat, John WEIGH, placed on it. WEIGH
was elected by large majority.
The law makes it compulsory upon
the election officers to read out the vote
every hour Not forty precincts in the
city did this, and after two o'clock not
ten did it. At that time, so far as could
be told,
HARrRANFT ONLY LED TwENTY~oNE HUN.
DRED IN THE CITY;
but at six O'Clock they had him $4,000.
1t is we'll known that the heavy Demo-
cratic vote is polled after two o'clock,
and at that hour bets could be obtained
that Hartrauit would not get 5000 in
the city.
The poll at Sixth and Lombard
showed
A FEARFULLY INCREASED NEGRO VOTE,
the polling being 125 to l, and no Dem
ocrat standing chance to get a vote,
the polls being almos. blockadrd. AS
| warned you in my letter on Monday,
the trouble would be, not in the voting,
but in the counting; and it is snsceptl~
bic Of proof that in precincts where the
Municipal Re iormers and Republicans
scratched Hartrantt to the extent OF
'orty votes. on the total count he led
the poll. 1t was known at Democratic
headquarters that our own inspection
officers had been tempered with, but 1t
was too late to change them.
To sum up, we were bought out by
the Ring, and sold out largely by our
own men. Il:
The following circular has been is
sued by Colonel A K. Mcclure, Chair
man OF the Pennsylvania Liberal Re-
publican Committee:
To the People of Pennsylvania:
The successful contamination OF a
measure Of fraud in this city, that must
appall alike the guilty authors and their
no less gailty respectable abettors, has
made Pennsylvania appear to give the
unexamp pied majority of over 2O,OOO IN
favor of continued corrupt rule in Penn
sylvania.
With everv channel Of power ready to
aid in executing the systematic defiance
Of the popular will; with debauched OF
pliant canvassers to register % OOl
FRAUDULENT names; with the most desper
ate reDeaters OF three cities to vote the
registry; with abundance OF money
plundered from the people, to pay them
with election officers selected expressly
to receive every vote offered in favor Of
the Ring; with a police force to pllo'
repeaters 20 their localities, and protect
them in polling illegal votes; with ON
GERS o. the law to guarantee their immu
nitv from punishment, and with large
preponderance of our citizens, who clam
to be the champions OF morality and re-
form, giving their unqualified Sanction
to what they knew to be deliberatel y
MANNED pollution OF the ballot ox-th'
result is but the logical result of the
rule that is now supremely enthroned IN
our city and State. ..
Nor was this gigantic system OF frauc
confined to Philadelphia alone. In th'
principal cities and towns througnou
r. S,ote tbousands OF illegal votes have