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MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1863.
The Sheriff vs. The Mayor.
Ocb city Las been very deeply agitated during
the past few days over the discussion of the
legal question whether the Mayor of the city
of Philadelphia or the Sheriff of the oounty ia
entitled to take precedence as conservator of
the publio peace. In the settlement of all suoh
questions of law as the one now before us, it
ia of the greatest importance that that law
offloer to whom the duty of deoiding in behalf
of the city all such differences of opinion is
entrusted should be consulted in the matter;
and his deoision, whether right or wrong,
should be aooepted by the officers of the city of
which he is the legal ad riser. The law offloer of
this Commonwealth to whom the duty of thus
instructing all other officials is given by statute
Is the Attorney General. It was, therefore,
eminently proper on the part of the Mayor of
the oity to at onoe oonsult Mr. Brewster in
regard to what were the relative functions of
himself and Sheriff Lyle. Mr. Brewster has
carefully examined the subject, and, acting in
bis official capacity, has announoed a decided
and unequivocal opinion. lie states that the
Sheriff is subordinate to the Mayor; that the
Sheriff has no right to anticipate a disturbance
merely because of the approach of an election;
and that he has no right to appoint deputies to
be present at the polls, either to protect
or overawe' the electors. By the
Consolidation aots of the oity it is made the
duty and the provinoe of the Mayor to thus
prevent any disturbance, and the Sheriff is
only authorized to act in the premises when
called upon by the Mayor. The high standing
of the Attorney-General both as a lawyer and
an offioial alike give weight to his opinion,
and by it all officers of the Commonwealth are
bound.
The opinion of any private counsellor, how
ever high his standing may be as a member of
the Bar, oannot be pleaded by the officer as a
justification for his disregard of the official
opinion of that official whose duty it is to ad
vise him.
Suchbeingthe law of the case, the oitizens of
Philadelphia may well view with concern and
indignation the aotion of Sheriff Lyle, as an
nounced in his proclamation this morning,
and his instructions t) his deputies. These
deputies are evidently to be sent to every
place of voting within the city of Pniladelphia
to assume the functions of keepers of the
publio peaoe. If they were entitled to suoh
powers, it is the duty of all, good oitizens to
obey the call of the Sheriff and respeot
his officers. If, however, the Sheriff or any
other offioial aots beyond his provinoe, he
ceases to have any logal claims to the aid or
even the attention of good citizens, and should
be treated both as an intruder and an impu
dent interloper in affairs which are not his
ooncern. These deputies, therefore who,
from all we can hear, are composed of the
very lowest olass of the community are not
entitled to the respect or the obedienoe of any
of the legal voters. They are nothing
more than armed ruffians, who attend
the polls ostensibly for the purpose of pro
tecting the eleotors, but really to overawe the
legal guardians of the publio peaoe in the
shape of the polioemen appointed by the
Mayor. If any of these parties attempt to
make an arrest they are guilty of assault and
battery, and can and will be both proseouted
and punished. If they make an arrest by
superior force they are guilt of false impri
sonment, and for that offense the laws
of the Commonwealth provide a punish
ment which will be most rigorously meted
out to them. These opinions are
but our own indivdual sentiments,
unbacked by the authority of offloers, but are
in conformity with the exposition of the law
as made by that officer whose duty it is to ex
pound it. When we consider this to be the
true aspeot of the case, the Infamous audaoity
of Lyle appears in Its proper light. His in
structions to his deputies, while seemingly
fair and honest, are really inciting to riot and
calculated to lead to breaches of the peace.
Thus, for instanoe, we find him stating that
no one can be arrested by any offioer on the
day of election unless a warrant is shown
charging the citizen with treason or felony, or
unless he openly commits a breach ef the
publio peace; and if any officer should attempt
to make suoh an arrest, it is the duty of these
so-called deputies to make no distinction what
soever between persons on aooount of their
political opinions or . official or personal posi
tions. Stripped of the legal veil with which this
Sentence Is drawn, we see that it means
merely this, that If a Baltimore rough pre
sents himself at the place of eleotlon, and
claims the right to votebe he notoriously
unentitled to such a privilege, and be his at'
tempt at fraud as clear as it may be
even after the judges of eleotlon have
refused his vote and pronounced his
sot illegal and in violation of law, a polioe
jnan dare not arrest this scoundrel without
subjecting himself to arrest on his part by
those so-called deputies. Had Mr. Lyle con
oelved of the best plan to luolte and provoke
a general riot throughout the oity of Philadel
phia, wa doubt if he could have seleoted one
more calculated to lead to that result.
Now, the law of the case, as expounded
both by the Attorney -General and the Judges
of the Court of Common Pleas, on Saturday,
is this: That the provision of the Con-tiiT-
tion which exempts an elector from arrest In
going to or returning from the polls, except
for treason, felony, or breaoh of the peaoe, ap
plies only to suoh persona as are legally quali
fied electors. That as soon as a judge of
election decides a man who has attempted to
vote as not being an elector, and pronounces
his act fraudulent, that man loses all the
additional safeguards guaranteed to eleotors,
and subjects himself to arrest upon the spot.
While, therefore, it is not the province of any
officer to arrest a man in line waiting his turn
to vote, yet the moment he has attempted to
vote and failed he is liable to arrest as guilty
of misdemeanor.
Again, the idea has gained prevalence,
through the statements of certain interested
parties, that if the judge of elections took
away from the fraudulent voter his certificate
of naturalization, and retained the same in his
possession, he would be guilty of a felony, and
as such be liable to arrest.
The judges of the Court of Common Pleas
unanimously the Democratic judge himself
concurring stated as their opinion that for
no acts committed during the hours of eleo
tlon could a judge or inspeotor of elections be
taken from the polls, that they had the right
to take up any paper which they deemed to
be fraudulent, and that for so doing they were
not guilty of felony.
It is, therefore, the privilege yes, we will
say the duty of every election judge to whom
any of the fraudulent or seemingly fraudu
lent papers of naturalization shall be pre
sented, to not only retain these papers in his
possession, but to oause the arrest of the
party presenting them.
In case of a oolllBion of forces taking plaoe
within our city a contingency which we do
not anticipate will oodur the responsibility
will rest on that offloer who has exoeeded his
authority, and for any excess of authority
be it either through ignorance or wilful deter
mination to provoke a riot he will be held to
the strictest accountability, official, civil, and
criminal.
Mr. Sheriff Lyle, in appointing these depu
ties in defiance of the legal opinion of the
Attorney-General, has ventured on a step
which will without doubt subject both him
and his sureties to prosecution for any wrong
ful step taken by any of these newly ap
pointed officers, and. we feel warranted in say
ing that not only will the $80,000 looked
up as security for his good behavior be made
responsible for his acts, but he will himself
be rigorously dealt with by the Common
wealth for any illegal aotion, and if any
grounds exist for his removal, he willl be re
moved from his office of Sheriff, and be held
personally responsible for any bloodshed or
destruction of property.
Our citizens need not, however, anticipate
any interference with their rights. The Sheriff
knows that he is liable, and will carefully in
struct his deputies not to plaoe him and his
sureties in the awkward position of defendants
in a suit; while the Mayor of the city has
taken every necessary and proper precaution
to see that the rights of none, be their politios
what they may, are infringed upon by roughs
whether they be imported from Baltimore or
sworn in as deputiea under the mask of pre
serving the publio peaoe.
Captain ltichard Donegan.
Umier a lithographed frank, the Honorable
Samuel J. Randall circulates a copy of an
address from certain parties in favor of the
opponent of Captain Donegan, as Prothono
tary of the Court of Common Pleas. The
signers of the oall are mercantile men. Shall
their opinion amount to a feather's weight in
forming a judgment as to the fitness of a can
didate for a legal office ? Captain Donegan's
long standing at the bar attests his fitness
and his services to the country merit suoh a
reward to a gallant soldier and good lawyer.
Onb of the points , made by Mr. Shars
wood in his stnmp speech in behalf of the
Hampton-Demooraoy, was to the effaot that
"it has been held in the Supreme Court of the
United States that the judgment of a Court
admitting an alien to become a oitizen is con
clusive that all the provisions of the law have
been complied with." This Is undoubtedly
good law; but what does it amount to when,
as three of the judges of the Supreme Court
of Pennsylvania declare, "the whole practical
part of naturalization is entrusted to two tip
staves?" Is the Supreme Court made up of a
Prothonotary, two tipstaves, and a seal ? Is
Judge Sharswood merely a figure-head, to
round out the proportions of our highest ju
dicial tribunal T If suoh be not the case, the
seven thousand pretended certificates of natu
ralization bearing the signature of James Ross
Snowden do not stand as reoords of the Su
preme Court, and are of no more worth than
so much waste paper. To render suoh docu
ments of any avail, it is necessary, as Judge
Read declares, that "the examination of the
applicant or vouoher should be conduoted by
the Judge himself." Under these circum
stances, will any deluded foreigner run the
risk of arrest and punishment by attempting
to vole upon papers which have received the
official sanction of tipstaves only f
Thb Twblvb Apostlbs op Dbmocbact
Timothy Donohue, Edward MoNulty, Hiram
Jacobs, George Palmer, Bernard Mullin,
Theodore Snyder, James A. Watson, Hugh
Brown, Thomas Evans, William Gross, John
H. Little, and John llartmann, who together
vouched for 3GG applicants out of 1473 one
fourth of the whole number who were
naturalized between the 14th and 21th
of September. James A. Watson sub
sequently betrayed the oause of De
mooracy by confessing himself to be a
wholesale perjurer, and Mr. George Shars
wood, Judge of the Supreme Court, stepped
into the apostolio vaoanoy, and vouohed for
the whole 7000 that have been naturalized in
his court since the first of September. The
votes of 7000 honest citizens will be required
to counteract this stupendous fraud, unless
the officers of the election do their whole duty
to morrow, and reject them, one by one, to
the seven thousandth.
It Hay Be."
Swcb the first of September about 7000 per
sons of foreign birth have been clothed
with all the rights, privileges, and Immu
nities of Amerioan citizenship by two
tipstaves of the Supreme Court of Pennsyl
vania, in defiance of the letter and spirit of
the law. In referenoe to them Mr. Shars
wood says: "It mat bb that among so mawt
CASKS TBKBB ABB INSTANCES OF FRAUP, PEBJUBT,
AND FAL8B MR80NATION I" When WO glaUOO
at the facts which have been developed during
the past ten days, this timid and hesitating
"may be" assumes the proportions of a down
right and positive certainty.
I. In examining the petitions on file in the
Prothonotary's office, we have enoountered
numerous cases in which the blank for the
voucher's attestation remainedjust as it came
from the printer's hand.
II. In this same examination we have en
countered cases in whloh two persons have
acted as vonohers for each other, one of them,
in swearing that he was a citizen, being guilty
of perjury by the plain and undisguised oon
fession of his signature and oath.
III. In this same examination, we have en
countered the name of James A. Watson, of
Germantown, as voucher for at least seventy
two persons, with not one of whom, aooording
to his subsequent confession under oath, was
he acquainted. Timothy Donohue and Ed
ward McNulty have each appeared in the
capacity of voucher more than forty times,
and' Hiram Jacobs, Bernard Mullin, George
Palmer, John Ward, and Hugh Brown more
than thirty-five times eaoh. '
IV. In this same examination we have dis
covered that nearly every applioant out o
3500 swears that he came to this country be.
fore attaining the age of eighteen years, and
in nine cases out of ten he has perjured him
self in so doing.
Y. On the 28th ot September, not less than
720 times did Colonel James Ross Snowde11
amx his signature to certificates of naturaliza
tion, accomplishing the work at the rate of 25
seconds to eaoh application, without presuming
to examine the papers, and without dreaming
re feting them to the Democratic judge who
sat behind him writing letters and reading
newspapers.
VI. On one oocasion we saw a person iu no
way connected with the Court pass beyond
the railing and place on the desk of Colonel
Snowden a naturalization certificate, which was
duly signed by the latter, and "no qaestlons
asked."
VII. Under oath before Alderman Beitler,
Colonel Snowden has admitted that he may
have attached his name to certificates "without
their having been sworn to."
VIII. One of the vouchers has been proven
to have said that he "could swear fifty times
for a glass of lager."
IX. Numerous persons have testified unler
oath that the men who vouched for them had
never seen them before the day on whioh they
went into court and swore they had known
them for years.
Certainly, with these faots in view Mr.
Sharswood could run no risk of "extra-judi
cial impropriety" by bringing discredit upon
the records of the court of which he is a mem.
ber, and confessing that "it may be there are
instances of fraud, perjury, and false persona
tion."
What is the remedy ? Let every man whose
sympathies are in favor of the purity of the
ballot-box and the cause of liberty and jus
tice, hasten to-morrow to exeroise the full
rights of his citizenship. Every honest vote
that is cast for Hartranft, Tyndale, and
Gibbons will counteract one fraudulent ballot,
if the judges of eleotion are so dereliot in the
discharge of their sworn duties as to permit
these fraudulent and Illegal votes to be polled.
The Judicial Champion of Democracy
"The personal Integrity of the respondent is
therefore fully vindicated." Stripped of all
its verbiage and speoial pleading, the deoision
rendered by Mr. Sharswood in the case of
the fraudulent naturalization certificates may
be summed up in the single sentence whioh we
have quoted. And with that, Mr. Shars
wood thinks that he has done his whole duty,
for, as soon as he had finished reading his deci
sion he ordered the Court to adjourn sine die,
thereby preventing the Attorney' General and
his associates from suggesting any sup
plemental action. The " personal in
tegrity" of Colonel Snowden was never
assailed by the proseoution. They went into
court for the purpose of calling the attention
of the Judge to a gross fraud upon the rights
of the people, perpetrated in the name of the
tribunal over which he presided. It was at
his suggestion, and not of their 'own mo
tion, that a rule against the Prothonotary was
granted. And when the proceedings thus in
augurated by Mr. Sharswood resulted,
as every one in advanoe felt
confident they would be made to
result, in the entire exculpation of the Pro
thonotary, the original object of the investiga
tionthe deteotion and punishment of the
guilty parties was defeated by the summary
adjournment of the Court. A more shameless
partisan trick than this was never resorted to
in the history of our State Judiolary. If Mr.
Sharswood had announoed at the outset his
settled determination to defeat the ends of
JuBtioe by preventing this Inquiry, he could
not have displayed a more studied purpose to
bolster up the soandalous frauds whioh have
been perpetrated before his very faoe, and
through his connivance, during the past
month.
But this was not sufficient. Mr. Shars
wood, having vindicated the honor and in
tegrity of the Prothonotary, next direoted his
attention to John Devine, and attempted the
same kind office in his behalf. By a violent
stretch of the judiolal Imagination, he con
ceived the idea that this man Devine had
fallen among his enemies, and had by them
unwittingly and un willingly been put in pos
session of the forged certificates 1 He devotes
not less than three-quarters of a closely
printed column to the vindication of this man,
and then adjourns his court, for the purpose
of preventing any further investiga
tion Into the frauds committed in
his presenoe. Here again, his settled purpose
to contribute to the success of the Demooratio
ticket is evident. John Devine was but one of
the instruments employed by the leaders of
the party to pervert the will of the people.
Yet, if a full and searching investigation into
his proceedings had been permitted, the whole
monstrous fraud would have been disolosed,
and its consummation prevented. For this
manifest reason the latter-day Jeffreys oauie to
the rescue of desperate partisans, and so
manipulated the proceedings before him as to
screen in the most effectual manner all con
cerned in the wrong-doing.
Incidentally, Mr. Sharswood took oooa
sion to vindicate the tipstave process of natu
ralization, which he did in the most emphatio
manner. That he should belittle himself,
both as a Judge and a citizen, to this extent
was less a matter of surprise than of regret.
In Judge Read's masterly letter, the utter de
fiance of law by the Court presided over by
Mr. Sharswood has been fully exposed, aud
no mild words of depreoation from the Demo
cratic minority of the bench can avert the
ultimate result of the exposure. The irasoible
Chief Justice, in his response to Judge Read,
did not hesitate to question the truthfulness of
the latter in asserting that Judges Agnew aud
Williams coinoided in his view of the subject
of naturalization. But Judge Agnew hat
already settled the question of veracity by the
publication of a letter to Colonel Suowden, in
which he says:
In view of the manner In which you have
snCered your subordinates aud the tipstave of
l be court to rush the papers through In more
than a maelstrom current, how Is It ponnlble
tliat a single requisite of the law could bit co n
piled with T Such a custom, unwar
ranted as It Is In my Judgment, to delegate this
Important function of the court to the clerks
and tipstaves, cannot justify this pell-mull
speed, this absence of all tnoughtand examina
tion, and this disorderly haste with whloh you
have suffered your subordinates to drive the
papers through the court."
The drift of Mr. Sharswood's whole
Democratic harangue tends in this one direc
tion. He oooupies his seat upon the bench of
the Supreme Court solely by virtue of the
frauds perpetrated by the Demooratio party at
the election of last year; and now he appears
in the character of a thorough-going partisan,
determined to bolster up the oause of his
party by sustaining fraud and perjury when
ever and wherever they are committed. There
is but one present remedy, and that is for
every honest voter to go to the polls and de
posit his vote. If every Republican does his
whole duty to morrow, the oity will be saved.
The Story of Harper's Ferry.
Tub romanoe of nature and of history has boen
strangely gathered about this wild and glo
rious ravine, and the politios of our State and
city have been curiously linked to it by the
gallant deeds of Geary and of Tyndale. Har
per's Ferry, the marvel of the tourist, was
clothed by nature with a beauty and grandeur
that would have made it ever famous, even i'
varied interests of many other kinds had not
congregated around its majestio bluffs. In the
old peaoeful days It enjoyed a species of sen
timental renown as being a sort of Gretna
Green, to which runaway lovers from the
neighboring States fled for those bans that
were to prove the bane or bliss of the future.
When that strange old pioneer, John Brown,
stung to madness by the violence and sinful
aggression of the propagandists of slavery,
sought a stronghold for his insane venture, he
chose this mountain fastness. With a hand
ful of men he seized a single arsenal, and mo
mentarily delayed the progress of a single line
of travel. The action was in itself so trifling
that a street fight has often been more disas
trous to life, but the cause from whioh it
sprung and the aim at which it was intended
elevated it into what was considered a na
tional crime, and John Brown died the death
of a traitor to the laws of Virginia.
Two years had not rolled around before the
aggressions of the power against which he had
striven, and the treason of the very men who
had sentenced him for that hideous crime, had
inaugurated the most extensive, treason that
he would ever have beheld, and their evil deed
ended in rendering the wildest dream of that
ill-fated visionary into fact.
By a strange coincidence, one of the earliest
events of this struggle was a new seizure of
the grand old mountain gateway by another
"traitor." But the cause was changed, and
mad Southern fanatics strove to hold it as the
key to the capital of their endangered father
land. These first days of terror passed away, aud
again the grand old ferry was under a loyal
leader a man who, by the strange freak of
fate, had learned his lesson of fealty on the
bloody borderland of Kansas. And, to round
the story into poetio fullness, beside him, with
helping heart and band, was the brave sol lier
who saw in the mortal oonlliot of the battle
field but the realization of a battle that he
had himself fought with heart and ml ad.
Although reprobating the zealot'B ill-oonoeived
rebellion against the law, he had reoogniied
the courage and truth of the old man's heirt
by the high hope and dauntless faith stirring
in his own breast; and when, in the new war,
he led his aroused oountrymen against the
armed ranks of a traitorous host, the aotual
battle was but a dim reflex of that harder
conflict waged with his own oonsolenoe when,
under the dictate of an earnest conviotlon, he
had risked his life to bear Into safety the holy
of a oonvlct wrapped In all the opprobrium of
the gallows.
By the mysterious orderings of Providsnoe
the slave was enfranchised as a oonsequenoe
of the direot and wilful deed of Henry A. Wise
and his traitorous oomrades.
The mighty mountain gateway, the soene of
so many conflicts, now opens a peaoeful en
trance to a line of traflo. As if at the word of
command the lofty peaks stand back, veiling
their opposition to the work of nan, and at
their feet speeds, with a rapidity that rivals the
lightning-bolt playing around their summits,
that white-winged messenger of peaoe and
prosperity whioh will link the remotest
regions of our native land in the strong bonds
of mutual interest and brotherly harmony.
To Intelligent Democrats.
Tiiebb are many honest, intelligent, aud pitri
otio men in the Demooratio party, whose de
voted attachment to the Union no one can
doubt, for they proved it by their words and
actions during the darkest hours of the Re
bellion, when the ultimate suooess of the na
tional arms seemed most doubtful, but who,
nevertheless, from force of habit, education,
or prejudice, make it a matter of conscience to
vote the straight Demooratio tioket at every
eleotion and under all circumstances. Now
these men will be called upon to-morrow to
perform the highest duties of citizens, and we
appeal to them to reflect, before they deposit
their ballots, whether they will be doing
justice to themselves, their children, and
their country by allowing their prejudices of
education and association to influenoe them in
a matter of so muoh importance, and whloh
should be deolded by the same olear-headed
judgment that they bring to bear upon their
private business affairs.
The only reason that some men can give for
affiliation with the Demooratio party is, that
their fathers were Democrata before them.
Leaving out of the question the important faot
that things have changed, and that the issues
of to-day are not the same as those of tern
twenty, or thirty years ago, it is an absurdity
to suppose that the last generation was any
more competent to form opinions, or to decide
upon points of politioal polioy, than are the
men of our day, into whose hands have been
committed the safety, honor, and welfare ef
the nation. We therefore request the patriotio
and thinking men of the Demooratio party to
ask themselves candidly and dispassionately
whether the suooess of that party in the eleo
tion to come off to-morrow will really advanoe
the best interests not only of Philadelphia
and Pennsylvania, but of the whole nation.
Democrats as well as Republicans rushed to
arms when the Union was in peril, but the
Democratic party as a party was on the side of
the Rebels and traitors during the entire war,
and it was their encouragement whloh pro
longed the contest, desolated homes, and bur
dened the country with debt and taxation. . It
was the Democracy and not the Republicans
who delayed the reconstruction of the Rebel
States; and at the Convention in New York
the traitors who began and carried on the war
against the Union were not only reoei red with
open arms, but they were allowed to diotate
the platform and to nominate candidates who
would not be worthy of the support of intelli
gent men on any ticket. In that Convention
the Northern Demoorats, who really wished to
raise the party out of the depths into whioh it
had fallen, and make it worthy of the respeot
of respeotable people, were unceremoniously
thruBt on one side; their wise counsels were
disregarded, and the men who ruled the Con
vention did not hesitate boldly to announce
their intention to revolutionize the Govern
ment in case they suooeeded in electing their
candidates in November.
Do the intelligent and educated Demoorats
of Philadelphia oonsider it worth their while
to continue any longer in connection with this
party of lawlessness, treason, and revolution ?
It Is complained that the Republican party is
radical, and that it is ruled by extreme men.
Be this as it may, it is at least the party ot
progress, the party that subdued the Rebel
lion, and the party that has upheld and will
uphold the national honor at all times and
under all clroumstanoes. If the Republican
party is too radical, let those Demooratd
who cannot consistently and conscientiously
act any longer with their old politioal asso.
elates come into it, and act as a check on the
extreme views of extreme men with their con
servatism. The eleotion to-morrow will have
no little influenoe on the . Presidential oonte3t
next month, and the question for every honest
voter, whether he calls himself a Democrat or
a Republican, is, How ought that oontest to
be decided so that the happiness and pros
perity of the whole oountry will best be pro
moted f We can oonceive of but one au.
swer to this question, and that is by the eleo
tion of the Republican candidates.
Consider!
Tbfbb are times when honest, reflecting men,
who have no partisan ends to seoure, and who
only desire to obtain the best possible admin
istration of publio affairs, are undecided as to
how they ought to vote. Last year two
Demooratio judges were elected on the ground
that the judiolary should be lifted above party
politics, but the Demoorats eagerly paraded
the result as a viotory of their own winning
and an evidenoe that a reaotion had set in
against the .Republicans. At the eleotion
which is to come off to-merrow, no man need
hesitate for a moment; the Republican ticket
presents an unexceptionable list of oaadidates,
all of whom are entitled to the confidence and
support of our oitizens, independently of any
partisan considerations. They are men who
have proved their patriotism on many a hard
fought battle-field and by an unswerving de
votion to the Union cause when it seemed to
be in most imminent peril. The Judloial can
didates presented to tho people by the Repub
lican party are sound and able lawyers and
experienced Judges, who are entitled to re
election on the same grounds as were urged in
favor of Judges Sharswood and Ludlow last
year, if for no other reasons. We call the
attention of Impartial and thinking voters to
these considerations, and we invite a compari
son between eaoh and all of the candidates on
the Republican and Demooratio tlokets. '
The question of the personal qualifications
of the respective candidates, however, is, in
the present Instanoe, secondary to the
great issues at stake and. to be de
cided to-morrow. The influenoe of tk,
result of the October eleotlon on the grea
national oontest In November cannot be over
estimated, and no minor considerations shoult'
be allowed to stand in the way of a oomplet,
and deoisire victory for the Republican oaute-.'
the cause of national honor, national welfare
and human liberty. i
Let the undecided and hesitating voter pans
and oonsider what he is doing before he depo
sits his ballot for a single oandidate on thi
Demooratio ticket. All suoh votes will bi
oounted as so many in support of DemooratU;
principles, and the private reasons and perj
sonal friendship or regard for a particular
oandidate which may influence the voter wiB
be entirely ignored. A Demooratio Buooeas,!
however trivial, will prolong the present xm-
settled and unhappy state of the country,
while a strong, clear, and emphatio voloe from
Philadelphia and Pennsylvania in favor of the
party of liberty and progress will carry demo-J
ralization into the ranks of the Copperhead
and Rebels, who are now making a last despe-j
rate effort to regain their forfeited position in
the counoils of the nation and to prove the
war a failure and liberty a name of deriaion.1
A Demooratio victory to-morrow means tumult
discord, and outrage, while a Republican suo-l
oess will be prophetio of a new era of peaaej
prosperity, aud national greatness. "Let oV
have peace !"
The Duty of Voters. 1
Thb right of suffrage is the highest privilege of
a citizen; and it Is not only the duty of every
citizen to deposit his ballot, but also to vote
with a full understanding of what he is about
and a full appreciation of the important aothe
Is performing. It will not do for men to say,
"My vote will make no difference in the result,
and it is not a matter of any oonsequenoe
whioh side gets It." Every vote oounts, and
every citizen should go to the polls impressed
with the same sense of responsibility as he
would If he knew that the result defended en
tirely upon him. In this way alone oan the
voter properly perform the important duty
whioh devolves upon him, and the fraudulent
practices of the Democracy, which have re-
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ever necessary that every Republican vote I
should be counted to-morrow. The Republi- j
oan ticket is a good one in every resneot. and I
the "scratchers" will have no justification in
giving a single vote to the Democracy; and
the issues between the two parties are so well
defined that all may understand them without
argument or explanation. Let the Republican
voters turn out in force, and we will
win the day in spite of forged naturalization
papers, colonization, and other frauds
whioh the Democraoy hope will seoure
them a viotory they could never
achieve by honest means. A timely export
has been made of the means whioh the Demo
cratic leaders will use to acoomplish their
ends; and after the warning whioh has been
given, no Republican will have any excuse if
he negleots to do all in his power to defeat the
enemy. Vote a straight tioket yourself and
persuade your doubtful friends to do likewise,
and then you will have the satisfaction of
knowing that you have not given a grain of
comfort to the friends of Rebels and traitors,
and that, whatever the result of the eleotlon
may be, you have at any rate done your whole
duty in the premises.
The Receiver of Taxes.
By the re-election of Richard Peltz, the pre
sent Receiver of Taxas, our citizens will have
n opportunity to show their appreciation of
his fine business abilities, and to retain in an
important office a gentleman whose services
are particularly valuable to the publio on ac
count of his thorough acquaintance with alt
the details of his department. . It is one of the
misfortunes of our political system that when
we get a really competent offloer in a plaoe of
publio trust, he hardly becomes fully initiated
into the routine of business, so as to conduot
the affairs of his office with satisfaction to him
self and profit to the publio, before another
election renders him liable to be displaced by
a new man, who will be obliged to com
mence at the beginning and learn every
thing anew. Mr. Peltz had .eight
years experience as a clerk in the Reoeiver of
Taxes' office before he was himself eleoted
chief of the department, and he brought with
him every necessary qualification of eduoation
and business ability. He voluntarily con
sented to pay Into the city treasury the five
per cent, on the delinquent taxes, amounting
to $25,000 or more per annum, whioh former
Receivers considered themselves entitled to
appropriate to their own uses, and he has in
Btituted a number of other reforms in the
management of his offioe whioh save money
to the city treasury. How well Mr.
Peltz has filled the position of
Reoeiver of Taxes those of our oitizens who
have transacted business with his offioe are
well aware, and his re-eleotion to-morrow will
not only be a well-deserved compliment to a
faithful and efficient offioer, but also a positive
benefit to the taxpaying oitizens, who are
always Interested in having the pecuniary
affairs of the oity managed with ability ani
eoonomy. In urging the re-eleotion of Mr.
Peltz, we know that a better man for the offloa
whioh he has held for the last two years cannot
be found; he Is emphatically the right man in
the right plaoe, and as suoh he is entitled to
the support of voters of both parties.
Mb. Sharswood, in his Demooratio ha
rangue from the benoh of the Supreme Court,
delivered on Saturday morning, quoted the
following paragraph from "Starkle on Evi
dence:" "The seals of the courts of Justice
are of publio credit, are part of the constitu
tion of the courts, and supposed to be known to
all." And yet that very proper Democrat!
judge, James Thompson, declared under oath
that, although he had been on the benoh of
the Supreme Court for years, he did not know
the seal of his own court I What ia the dic
tum of suoh a partisan worth, when Ik
attempts to uphold a glgantio fraud upon the)
rights of honest voters f