The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-17
PHILADELPHIA MAYORALTY.
New Feature In Municipal CAM
paigninG-Cartoons and Reform Les-
sons-CaIc ulating tho Chances tho
Night Before the Battle.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. I6, !

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. I6, 1874.
BY the time this reaches the eye OF the reader
the citizens of Philadelphia will be engaged In
casting votes to conclude municipal contest such
never before has agitated the city. 1t ID i'm
possible to describe the degree OF excitement
which pervades the community everywhere or
the intense turmoil OF the prominent pOliti-
clans. About the Mayors otnce and Police
Headquarters, in front OF the Chamber
OF Councils and along the great breadth OF side
walk reaching down from the old State
House, the pavement is absolutely crammed
and damned with people, and every lace
seems to signify a hundred unwritten
1orsak en- their business and their homes that they
may meet in the sunshine oil this beautiful day and
tue issue People tell me here that the last Pres-
dental campaign was nothing In point OF excite
ment to this, aud that even tue immense meetings
called at the outbreak Of the war were really not
large as those held In this campaign. This
morning the papers OF both parties lairly burned
with political iervor and heat while there Is
scarcely loot OF space anywhere about the
suburbs that Is not covered with campaign pa
card. Along the main thoroughares large bulletin
boards have been placed and most Oh them are COW
cred with
These cartoons are q very new feature Of p0itt>
cal wlre-pulling anu must nave cost a very large
sum of money. One bulletin board, for instance,
carpetbagger another represents one OF the can
didates graspng the other at gambling table
policy men, into Moyamensing Prlson An
other represents a prominent politician at
tempting to blackmall, In which act he
whose well known face is noticed cautiously peep
ing out from behind a door post. Another shows
one candidate looking through pair OF large field
glasses, In order to ascertain his majority, and
portrays his extreme disgust as he beh0.ds away
Oh In the distance 10000 for the other side. An
other portrays q ''greasy old hummer" reelinG
home late at night, with soiled garments, crushed
hat and black eye, while underneath the picture
Is the folowlng:-
ie) have (nicl been to thic) one Of them reform
Shcl meetings and really lhlel feel very much an i'm
iormeo,
Another cartoon still shows so-called reformer
before election, clothed in white ana adorned WIN
snowy pniOns Its counterpart represents the
time after election, when the drapery Is torn on,
and when the same individual, with awIul lace
and horribly contorted LIMBS Is hysng ZOE Sait
River.
in the stores and at almost every snop winoow.
Amateur artists have tried their hands at the
business also and one sees in almost all the drink
ing saloons rough sketches Ia clay or In Charcoal.
" CALCULATING THE CHANCES.
There have been no new developments to-day
sufcient TO enable any one to predict the result Of
much divided and democrats, republicans ana re-
formers are very strangely mixed. One may learn
T Se 70 Ur
but at the next step ne may meet two repub-
leans who viii tell him that they are going
say that by giving Mcclure two-tnirds OF the re-
formers votes which he cannot possibly secure,
and by allowing hun twice IS many republican
votes as they allow democratic votes for Stokey,
the latter Will still win the contest by majority OF
5000. TINS calculation, however, may be Ike
many others OF political stamp which are obliged
to depend for fulnlment upon white mems uncer-
tainty. The next forty-elght hours win decide the
matter and subdue. 1t IL hoped, the wild excite.
ment now raging IN every part OF the town.
Repeaters are arriving by every train from New
which your correspondent Ia stopping several
crooked gentlemen are quartered, one half Of
ment, twenty tax receipts. In order to make his
own receipt OF valid nature, such as wound
enable him TO VOTE he WAS obliged 10 ask she clerk
to write hia name for him.