The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-10-17
The Result f,l the State.

/. As long as the infamous Philadel-.
phia registry law is unrepealed, the
Radical State ticket will be counted
in by majorities large enough in that
city to nullify and defeat the Demo-
cratic vote in the balance of the State
Fraud on the ballot-box is reduced
to such perfect system by the Ring
that any majority agreed upon be-
forehand can be reported as having
actually been given. 1t is gross
mockery of the elective franchise, and
all efforts to change or modify the
law so as to insure an honest election
have been defeated by Radical Leg
islature. The following remarks, taken
from the Age of Wednesday, will give
our readers some insight into the dark
and crooked ways Of Philadelphia
election.
Another farce was enacted in Philadel-
phia yesterday under the name of an cleo
ton. The elective franchise was outraged
The ballot-bo was debauChed. Rounders
piled their trade unmolested. Repeaters s
practiced their calling in all the wards
Gangs of men were piloted from division
to division, in one instance by a ''Ring'
candidate for the Legislature, and voted
upon names given them by their employ
ers. WelLknown citizens were personated
by loafers and vagabCnds, and when that
fact was pointed out to the ffRing" officers,
they disregarded the information and in
suited those who sought to prevent Illegal
votes from being polled. All day in all
parts of the city this disreputable game
was carried out by the ''Ring" officials.
They had been instructed how to act, and
promised immunity from all consequences
by those i'll authority. Thus emboldened
they first stuffed the ballot-box, and then
falsified the returns to make them run in
the same dirty corrupt ruts. This is no
political defamation. The farce is over,
and we state facts known to all intelligent
men in this city, no matter what their po-
litical opinions. They know the vote and
returns of yesterday do not represent the
true division of parties in this city. That
fact is apparent AS the sun at midday. All
this work was accomplished under the op-
erations of the Registry act, a measure
concocted by the ''Ripg" for the purpose
of robbing the people of their votes, and
which they refused to annul when petit
toned to do so by scores of the respectable
men of their own party. Elliot and his
on election day. They tested it yesterday
to the utmost, and the result is the return
of the whole Ring city and county tick
ct by heavy majority. The ''Ring" can
didates for Judge of the Supreme Court
and State Treasurer were also returned ar
having large majorities in the city.
What do sober, thinking men Of Phfla-
delphia, men who have something at stake
in its local government, think of the farces
of yesterday?
1t is now demonstrated that the ballot is
mockery that elections have no meaning
in this city. They are part Of the 'Ring"
machinery, and managed as all other
movements of that corrupt body are, to
suit few men, And upon this system
depend the property and personal rights of
citizens of Philadelphia. They have no
voice in the management of local affairs.
They are set aside at the polls. They are
not allowed to declare who shall rule the
city Are they content? That is all we
have to say at this time in reference to the
'.Ring'' farce in this city yesterday.
We judge that Mackey's majority
in the State will be between twenty
and thirty thousand, and that Cor
don's majority over Ludlow will fall
| ten thousand below Mackey's.