Year: 1868

An immense majority of the American People
prefer. and mean to have, Gen. Grant for their
next President. Mr.. Lincoln, in 1854, had about
100000 majority on the popular vote; Gen.
Grants will exceed that If the entire legal vote
is pOlled, and that only. His opponents know
that he is the Peoples choice, and they are
working desperately to defeat that cl3ice by
illegal naturazations and Illegal votess


We are holding many Grant meehngs-most
of them very large ones. We are making con-
verts from the better portion of our adycrSa-
ries; and these are most welcome, but they are
not essential. What We need is simply 10 poll
or o,en legal rofe and prcrept the polling Of
illegal Uotes against as. And this may be him
deTed rather than helped by holding great
mass meetings. 1t is not the work still needed,
though it may possibly inc'e TO having that
work promptly and thoroughly done.
Reader is there a Grant Club ia your town
ship, with an organization that reaches every
corner thorcofl If not, we cntreat You TO sec
that one is organized within the next forty
eight hours. Call a meeting yourself, If no one
else will unite in calling it, and wait personally
on your Republican neighboTs, and urge them
to attend it. Do Mt let an hour be lost but get
Grant Club organized and at work imme-
diately.


In the more common case, that yOn have n
Club already in working order, he cntrcatCd TO
send at once deputaton therefrom to any and
every township in your County that has 10
Club organized and get one set in motion forth
with. Lose not day till you know that this
duty is performed.


Please comprehend that the first duty of a
Club is to make a complete alphabetical list
of all the legal voters in the township (or
Ward), with q separate list of those who may
possibly claim the Right Of Suffrage. If you
have not already done this, let the members
of the Club residing in each school distric
(or block, if in city, make up list of the
men who reside in that district, classifying
them into legal voters and others. Condense
these district or block returns into one for
each election district, and you are ready TO 20
ahead.


Now appoint q captain for each school dis
trct (Or blOck)-a young, active, jealous, pop
ular Republcan--whose duty it shall be to see
that every legal voter in that district is duly
registered Cf in State where registration IL
required) and that no name which is not that
of legal voter is placed on the registry Of
that district unless in defiance Of his most
strenuous protest. If any names shall be placed
on the registry of persons not really entitled
to vote, let no lawful effort be spared TO pre-
cude voting OH any of those names.


Let the captain (or whatever he may be
called of each election district choose a lieu
tenant (0r alternately, who shall be pledged to
aid the former in his proper work and replace
him in case of sickness or other disability


Let both these be pledged to have every
Grant voter in their district ut the polls on
the morning Of election day-early if possible !;
before noon, at the latest. Let each be pre-
viously supplied with ballots, 80 that he may
vote directly on reaching the poll. "'-


Have fearless challengers at every poll who
know who are and who are not legal voters
and whose knowledge Of persons is SO ex-
tensive and general that no vote can he pOlcd
by one man in the name of another False
personation-men voting on registered names
which are not theirs-is one of the commonest
frauds-repeating or double voting is often
facilitated 10y it, Look sharp!


Men and brethren WORK!