, 1873-12-22
PENNSYLVANIA.
Tho Adoption OF tho Now Constitution.
L,lt .1,Hfo F..1


PHILADELPHIA {Dec. 17).
It is anticipated that the majority for tho new
Constitution at the election yesterday il this
State will foot up to grand total Of $4,000. TO
form, alld even to the mombers Of the ring them
selves, this city, which was calculated to return
ut lcast 10, 900 againHt tho proposed orgnnio law
turned out Of the old well-worn ruts and gave 4
majority for tue Constitution, tho figures
amounting to nearly 27,ooo Gigantic arrange
mentB to conBum1nato fraud wero made.
Fifty employees OF the Custom Houao and
the Post -onico III Baltimore wero imported
into the city and quartorel Mt No. 205
South Broad street (Buntinga old taycrn) aud at
the Columbian Honso, ou tho samo Btroet, above
Atch. These men were paid $40 encll and oper-
atod extensively in the Tenth, Nlnth, and adja-
cent wards. They were "heelct" " by wcll-known
ronghs Of this city. Besides these foreign inn
wore deploycl and reMunelatetlto tho tuno Of
$40, and then corrupt Domocratic inspectors Of
Election wero purchased, and the entiro machine
Y dma tn oentg sos aud @ asG count nr
overcome the tight vote that was expected
from tho State, The Police Department. a
nost valuable adjunct, WAS used % an assistant.
and 1t was mutter Of impossibilfty for citizen
to hayo d repeater taken into custody. Orders
wore issuod 10 thiB effect. tho Fro Department,
which is another political machine, was employed
in tho work of fraud. Outragos woro common.
III tho city ut the polls before they could got in
a ballot for tho Constitution. Dool-holdors
having tho rogistry~lists Of tho Democracy were
cooliy lnockcd down by roughs. and their books
moro gang of repeatols made au attack upon NJ
advertising wagon Of the loforsn Club as 1t turned
into Raco street from Broad and demolished
tho concorn. firing upon the driver ind wound
ing ono OF the horaos. No arrests wore made,
tho police invariably at any violont domonstra-
ston, acting upon orders: Hocrotcd themselves
In tic Good Will Engino-houso in tue ilnmediato
vicinity. But the acme OF the fraud was per-
potratod in the very office Of Mayer stokloy.
Tho reporters assembled III the rooms for tile
purpose OF obtaining the toturns Of tho hourly
in the wards, which wore brought them by tho
police, tho figures were heIng. given out by
1Iealth onlcer Addrio1a and the newspaper
turns. Mayor stokoy at this point oamo
out OF hs private oilico and asked Ii the ro-
porters had secured tho l O'clock rptnrn-.
the correct snaesmaind soa,ind bsnE answered
my table aud wo will compare them with tho ori-
gna1 figures. want this vote to go out all
right. ! am not going to allow any man to put
mo ina holo 80 willsee that thoro u no n.auip-
Of ilguros, which wrought IN ontire TRANSFERRING
tion III tho roturu, which III oyery instance OF
change was In favor Of the Constitution. Inst
night tho City was jubilant. Bands Of muso
eaes aqs wo tad 5 h 3asycu tho 10
tic campaign for tho Constitution, while heavy
brazon bells, mounted Upon large wagons, wero
driven through tho town announcing through
their molten throats tho great victory that tic
people Ind achieved,
COMMENTS OF THE PHILADELPHIA PRESS.
From The ihtiade!nh,a Ledaer.
In tltB city the vote nj returned IL 81 ,778 for
tho new Constitution to 27,91i against"
showing majority OF 20,s04 In favor OF lilo
work OF tho Convention, out of ali aggregate
vote, aa returned, Of 82,0g2 We do not doubt
that the trno majority III much creator thai, thu,
but tho friends of fur elections will 10 agreoa.
bly surprised Tint 30 much Inns boen accorded.
TAe demonstration by Tho people was 10 oyor-
wliolming that tho usual practico OF fabricating
return6 was SOON found to DO unuyailing. It was
trictt In some quarters, but abandoned early In
tho day and it, gil but a few Of tho wards; aud
notably in tho Nineteenth, whore 1t took co,,plo
OF hours aitor tho polls cosed to reduce lie TO-
turns to something Hike decency from the acan
tlaious figures nportodln tho early OF the day
Tho voto In Philadelphia sllowa tint tho on,
ponontH OF tho now Constitution greatly misai,
pretended tito depth Of tho public feeling In
favor OF .nfranclliAoMoht from tho abuses I'LL
der which thoy Lave suffered so long mud 10
patiently. 1t exprcBheB tho doep dosiro OF tho
people Of Philadelphia to la rid at that most In
iqnitoun systom by which a few men,-a worry fow
-haye had tho power to pnt any mAu lato any