The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-10-06
Our New York Letter.
New YORK, Sept. 30.
TIE OCTOBER STATES.

Every scrap OF news that is received in this
city from the October States predicts Demo-
cratic victory. Not only have our own lead.
ers sent encouraging words, but the Repub-
cans have spoken with no faint voice
Kilpatrick's wall for "more money and
bloody shirt was heard throughout the land,
the latter, ifnot the former part of his request
was promptly complied with. The shrill
screams from Schurz startled the leaders of
his party in Ohio from their tranquil dozc of
confidence and thrust the horrd possibility
ola Democratic victory in their faces This
was more paralyzing, and made the blood run
colder than even sight of the carmine gar
ment. But when the whiskey thief Babcock
called for lngcrsoll to save Indiana from the
men who would put them all in prison, and
Jimmie Blaine of Maine sent his regrets to
the Philadelphia Committee and said he was
kept to save Ohio their CONSERVATION was
lively and their dismay solemn and soul stir
ring. If We may rely upon the testimony
of the Times and Tribune, both Indiana and
Ohio are lost to their party, and all that |
can infer from their statement is that the
clarion cries from fitzpatrick and Schurz
came too late. Their activity at this time
very forcibly reminds me of the antics of n
stuck pig" 1t will only last Il short while
and then the subject will silently sink, with
an occasional spasm, and die in November
The air is filled with all sorts of rumors of
threatened fraud. From Louisville comes
the assertion of colonization and attempted
bribery from Philadelphia the news that
Cameron, Mackey and Mann are preparing
schemes of ballot-boX stutfing, and have on
good authority that some three hundred I'M
scrupulous characters have left this city un-
der the leadership of Theodore Allen, a no.
torious rough, Republican politician and
gambler. Their plans are ingenious and
their method subtle. To accomplish the
fraud it requires all the deXterity of the pro-
fcssional card manipulation, and to detect it
person must ever be vigilant. 4 moments
remittance in tile aoatc1fulness on election day
aoW entlanger tie triumph Of the Democratic
party. One of the accomplished villains who
lave been sent to the West could "ring in"
or ring out" any giveE number of ballots
in "the twinkling ofan eye" but if the hon
est inspector is posted in the arts of trans
ferring these ballots, and is ever watchful,
there need be no fear, for knowledge of their
method will enable the officer to see at once
any movement that may be made by the
agents of Cameron and Chandler and he can
'nip it in the bud" as it were. There is but
one danger to anticipate, and that is that the
party and party managers in Ohio and India.
ma will treat this as an eastern scare" If
this should be the case the overwhelming
majority that is promised will be considera-
bly, cut down, and the election gained, as the
saying is, by the Skin of the teeth" How
ever, let all good honest men hope that
whatever fraud is attempted it will be speed
lily punished. If the offender is summarily
dealt with it will serve to warn others and
so prevent, through fear, any further at
tempt.
THE ISSUE.
This is year in which the most vita
principles are at stake, and no tampering
with ballot boxes Is to be tolerated, The
spirit of the American citizen is aroused
The fight against the corruption of the AID.
minstration is carried on with q patriotic
rather than party spirit. Men are not di.
vided upon party issues but upon the ques-
ton of honesty. A reform that shall bring
fair dealing the rule in Governmental action !;
q reform that shall wipe out the existing
corruption in all the departments of govern
ment; reform that shall put an honest,
straightforward man in the executive mansion
is the ground work upon which is built the
intense feeling and enthusiasm that is to
carry all before it in November, and is now
bringing the great Reformers of our country
to the support of Tilden and Hendricks
This city is aroused to the work before it,
Lust ulBuL lnc neIOTln CluD Helu announcer OF
their monster meetings at the Cooper Insti-
tute Speeches were made by Edward K
Apgar of this State, and Gen. MARI of Louis
lana, and q letter from Chas. Francis Adams
was read. The letter strikes the key note
of the Democratic canvass and | cannot re-
fran from using portion of it here. Mr..
Adams has been asked by many to take the
stump, and this letter was an answer to one
such request. Mr.. Adams says
"If were youngeri it would be an agrcea-
BILE duty to perform the task to which you
invite me. But have not done anything of
the kind for fifteen years, and am now in my
SEVENTEEN year. Should accept one invi-
tation should probably give rise to others
which would have an equal claim. My
judgment is that had better stay at home.
Yet think l fully appreciate the Importance
of this canvass. 1t is narrowing itself daily
more and more into struggle between the
people and the managers who hold the Off.
cial organization of the country for their own
exclusive benefit. From the days of the
Credit Mobilier down to the last exposures
made by the Investigations of the last Con.
gress, there is only one conclusion to be
drawn, and that is the prevalence of corrup-
ton almost everywhere in the Republican
organization. The honest men do indeed
make brave and sincere efforts to resist this
baleful influence, bnt they are too often de.
feated to raise any just hopes of ultimate
success"
On the same evening away up in Utica.
Horatio Seymour came forth from his retire.
ment to say few words about Reform
The papers tell us that the great leader of