Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 5, 1876, Page 4

‘'HE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1876—SIXTEEN of Commissioners, We invite attention to PAGES. gether, is there anything in them that will heart by meditation, the it ob @hye Tribwe, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. PATABLE IN ADVANCE—POSTAGE PREPAID AT THIS OPFICE. ‘Dafly Editfon, postpatd. 1 B e PPl ] Halled to sny sadress four Iw Sunday Edition: Literary and Rteligious Do Eheet . vy 3.00 Tri-Wed 0.7 a0 Parts of & year, per mont WEEKLY EDITION, POSTPAID. Specimen copies sent free. To prevent delay and mistakes, be sure and give Post- Offce sdress 1n full, including Staze and County. ‘Remittances may be made efther by draft, express, Post-Office order, or in registered letters, at our riik. YERMS TO CITY SUBSCRIBERS. Datly, delirered, Sunday excepted, 25 cents per week. Datly, delivered, Sunday included, 30 cents per week Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madison and Dearborn-sts... Chicago, il — SOCIETY MEETINGS. No. 503, A F. and A M.—The e s masatod to et 5 el odgs FO0m OB Bundsy st 3 p, m. sharp. 1 adend the funerals er- ‘vice of our 1até brother, L v, Pareons. "FAVOLETE. immmkue. $08. NICOLES, AER GRAND LODGE OF PERFEC- S8pecial Assembly on Thund.‘lBy A;m next. 'or] IR AR LR P G 2 ED. GOODALE, Gr. Sec. E LODGE, No. 739, A. F. mdA.‘!‘lr-.cokA;t geh, T e e E"f:xé'g_““'fl ?fiff‘i;%‘f; i extended 1o Vis- By order of 1 35, W, CROFT, Sec. WAUBANSIA LODGE, No. 100, A F. and A M.— ‘Lodge lligence held under the “There will be & ot Intgligence held on E. T.—Atten- CEICAGO COMMANDERY, Xo. 18. tion, Stated Conclaye ‘evening, liov.sgfzn !fi;'f:im gwnx;;;.“\;‘llnfl;n;c 4 Enights conrteonaly 1o . TROWDLIDGE, Recorder. X0. 2, R. A. M.—Hall, 72 PR e S ek 't o] 23 ov. 6, a8 o'clock, for worl ’!N. er ot SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1876. . At the New York Gold Exchange on Sat- urdsy greenbacks ranged at 91@91% cents. ——ee The Republican Central Committee has nominated Mr. Jaues Morgax s candidate for the State Board' of Equalization, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the declination of the Hon. Jomk WexTworre. Mr. MorGaw is a heavy tarpsyer, thoroughly identified with the business interests of the city, and is m every way thoroughly qualified to repre- _ent the important interests of Cook County on the State Board of Equalization. We renew the suggestion that all the stores and manufacturing establishments where numbers of men are employed be either wholly closed, or closed after 12 o'clock, on election-day. This plan will be genersl throughont the United States, and there is no reason why Chicago should be an exception. It is also proposed that where builders have large numbers of mechanics and lsborers employed, work be suspended at noon, so that every man entitled to vote may have an opportunity to do so. Can it be thet the Democratic Committees are not aware that one ot least of their can- didates for the State Legislature is named on the records of the Criminal Court of this county as a convict? He was one of the old-style Justices of the Peace, and an ex- amination of the records will show that he was convicted of fraud, or extortion, or bribery, before Judge McArrisTER, and sen- tenced by that officer, who accompanied the sentence by some observations which the Democratic Committees might read with great propriety and profit. The Republican Campaign Committee ought to see to it that, at every voting pre- cinct, there isa large placard posted con- spicuously, containing in clear type, so that he who runs may read, the names of the Haves and Wazerer Electors in this State, Probably there is not one voter in ten who is familiar with the names of the Electors, and there is nodoubt fraud will be attempted by printing tickets purporting to be Hayes and Woeerze tickets which will reslly have the names of the Truoex Electors. Thisisa precaution that ought not to be neglected. In the Second Legislative District the Re- publican candidate for Senator is Mr. Basa, who is opposed by & large number of Repub- licans on personal grounds. The Municipal Reform Association have mnominated Mr. Mourey Nersos. This makes three candi- dates, and, though tho district is largely Re- publican, it cannot support two Republicans without meking the election of Apaws, the Democratic nominee, pretty certain. This difficulty ought to be settled by the with- drawal of one of the candidates. If this is not possible, then the Republicans should unite upon a single candidate, and waste no votes on the other. Col. Mossy splits the last stale lie of the Democracy squarely in half. He has been held up by the TILDEN gang as an office- holder under GraXNT'S Administration, and the Rebel papers from Maine to Georgia have dwelt with unction upon his supposed elevation to emolument aud influence by the Republican party. The letter of the ex- Confederate, which we print this morning, is & smashing blow in the eyes of the un- reconstructed Tildenites. It stamps the story as a lie, and asttribotes its invention to the boughtup organs of the TiLoEN-Tween-MoRressEr —party, which it contendshave pursued Mossy be- cause of the claims their candidate has upon him for the messages of sympathy that can- didate sent to him during the unhappy period when he was fighting to overthrow the Government of the Union. It is unfor- tunate that the *‘messages of sympathy” are not given in the letter, but they can bs supplied by any student of Trioex's career, or they msy yet-appear in some speech, “ prepared for the public, but never de- livered.” ‘We are informed about a million of times 8 dsy by the Tildenites that “Reform is necessary.” Hereure some samples of the article a8 understood by the disciples of Re- form: For Governor, the profane, illiterate vulgarian, StEwARD, who is playing double, pretending to be a Perer Coores Green- backer to one class of voters, and a Ssx Tooex bullionist to another class. For Congress, the mendacious boor and cor- ruptionist, Hoxte, who bought his nomina- tion, cheating Barver Cavrrrzp out of it, ard who tells Republicans that he never was a Democrat, and tells Democrats that he is “‘ons of them,” but who is really a frand, though a professional Reformer. For Board of Equalization, Srriiry, of the Lemont stone-quarries, and Niemorr, ward-bummer. These men to represent Chicago on the State Board of Equslization as * reformers!” After these we have such *‘reformers” as Jaxrpson for State’s-Attorney, Commseey for Recorder, Frrzazravrp and Lrszex for County Commissioners, and a miserable lot of ward scalawags and bummers for the Legislature ; and all those creatures are thrust upon the people by the Trupex fuglemen as persons who are going to reform matters! It almost makes one despair of the perpetuity of free institutions when a great party, making lond pretenses of purity and reformation, force such trash upon the peopls for important public trusts. e ——— At a meeting of the Bar Association yes- terday afternoon, a resolution was introduced ‘providing for the sppointment of a Com- mittee of Thirteen to investigate the charges preferred by the ?ress and s great number of citizens sgninst Judge McAruister, consequent upon his rul- ings in the case of ALEXANDER SvzLivax, indicted for the murder of Fraxcrs HaNFoRD. The attendance was very large, and the mat- ter was discussed at great length for several hours. It was urged by msny that im- mediate sction might have an undue weight on the pending second trial of SurrIvax, and for that reason it was finally resolved to postpone the question indefinitely. A faull report of the discussion will be found in an- other column. A little too much importance has been given, perhaps, to the money and influence of the man Hoxre, who is the ¢ Reform” candidate for Congress in the First District. The fact is, that he is simply a local “‘boss” in the employ of the Michigan Southern Railroad. He is superintendent of loading freight-cars on the Stock-Yards section of the Michigan Southern, draws pay in proportion to the irresponsibility of the place and per- quisites in proportion to his own notions of honesty, and has .never risen above the dig- nity of a “section-boss” of a small number of day-lsborers. He has been put forward 8s the Congressional candidate by certain railroad interests, and it is said that the money that has been and is being used toim- port and buy votes for him which he could not get honestiy has been furnished by those who are interested in havinga tool in Con- gress. He is opposed by the most influen- tial men engaged in business at the Stock- Yards, because they know his personal un- fitness and are familiar with the disreputable means by which it is proposed to elect him. It is not probable, under the circumstances, that enough fraudulent votes can be polled to elect him, ‘We had almost forgotten that Mr. GrorGe H. Bowex is also a candidate for Congress in the First District (the Greenbackers’ candi- date) unt1l we were reminded of it by an ad- dress by the Greenback Association of South Chicago, which repudiates Mr. Bowen. We print this address, which was adopted by a unsnimous vote of the Association, and which sets forth the reason why the Repub- lican Greenbackers should not vote for Bow- N, They are in brief that all the Democrat- ic element of the Greenback faction will give its votes to the regular Democratic candi- dates, from President to Coroner, thus leav- ing BoweN merely a Democratic foil for the benefit of Hoxre. In fact, every vote for Bowex is & vote for Hoxre, and, if Mr. Bowex were disposed to act as fairly as some of his Greenback constituents, he would withdraw from the canvass, as the South Chicago As- sociation requests him to do. We advise every Republican with Greenback inclina- tions who lives in the First District to read this address; its merits and truthfulness cannot fail to be recognized. . The same ar- gument will apply largely to the Greenback candidate—we have forgotten his name—in the Second District. The United Siates Supervisors have been industriously at work going over and inspect- ing the lists of registration. We are in- formed that they have found a good many bad nests of fraudulent names, and many names of suspicious characters. They have active detectives out looking up the sus- picious characters and spotting them. It is expected that a large number of arrests will ‘be made at the polls of rascals attempting to getin fraudulent votes. By Monday night the officers expect to have a perfect list completed of the repeaters, where they live, and the different precincts where they in- tend to vote. They have discovered the most illegal registration in Bridgeport, the Sixth Ward, and the Town of Lake; but they also uncovered & good deal of villainy in the precincts of the Eighteenth Ward, and in parts of the Seventh and Eighth Wards. The ‘‘Reformers” will undoubtedly get in some fraudulent work on election-day, and some of them also will get into jail, but the amount of successful repeating and bogus voting will be vastly less than the engineers bad calculated upon. The United States law is found to be an excellent net for catching such catfish and eels. There is o special consideration which should prompt every Republican voter in Chicago to cast his ballot for the Republican nominee for Congress in his district. In ad- dition to . the fact that in each of the three Chicago districts the Republiean candidate is in everyway superior and preferable to his Democratic opponent, - it is not impossible that the election in these three districts may determine whether the majority in the next Congress shall be Republican or Democretic. The most carefal estimates that have been made on the political complexion of the next House of Representatives place the issue as closely as this, aud conclude that there will not be & majority of more than three or four either way. 'The three Chicago districts are unquestionably Republican on a full and fair vote. There are no local issues now which are detrimental to the Republicans, and the difference between the candidates is all in their favor. The National cause, therefore, is ‘entitled to expect a return of three Bepub- lican members from the Chicago districts ; and if every Republican votes for the party candidate (and there is no reason in any case why he should not), Chicago will do its full share in securing 8 Republican majority in the next National Legislature. The meeting at Farwell Hall last night, a foll report of which will be found in this igsue of Tae TRIBUNE, emphasizes the deep interest the solid men of Chicago feel in the result of the election next Tuesday, because of the éffect it must have upon the national credit, and through that upon all com- mercial and industrial enterprise. It was 8 demonstration that the work of - the Republican party in reduc- ing the debt, and thereby steadily strepgthening the public credit, is folly ap- preciated by our business men. It demon- strated also that the disastrous impairment of that credit which would follow the tri- umph of the party of war claims and of the Solid South is none the less fully appre- ciasted by .our business men. The resolutions adopted present forcibly the actusl sitnstion which # bzhooves every voter to carefully consider. ’J.'l}e speeches were in admirable temper, and will well repoy perusal. That of Jomx V. Fan- wey sums up the whole issue as intrusting the Administration to the Democracy of the Solid ‘Soath, with Tammany Hall, Credit- Mobilier, Railroad-Wrecker Tmoex in the Presidential chair. There was not much hurrah about this meeting, but there was much sober earnestness, and it had an effect that will be felt at the ballot-box on Tuesday. The Chicago produce markets were rather quiet Saturday and steadier, except in wheat. Mess pork closed steady, at $15.40@ 15.45 for November and $15.324@15.35 seller the year. TLard closed steady, at $9.50 for November and $9.373@9.40 seller the year. Meats were stendy, at Gic for new shoulders, boxed ; 81@83c for do short-ribs; and 8jc for do short-clears. Lake freights were active, at 3}c for corn to Buffalo. Highwines were unchanged, at $1.09 per gallon. Flour was dull and steady. Wheat closed ¢ higher, at $1.08 for November and $1.093for December. Corn closed }chigher,’ at 41jc for November and 42}c for Decem- ber. Oats closed $@3c higher, at 30§c cash and 32¢ for December. Rye was steady, at 59c. Barley closed j@1clower, at 77ic cash and 79¢ for December. Hogs were dull and easier, at $5.65@5.75 per 100 lbs. Cattle ‘were steady, at $2.50@4.75. Sheep wereun- changed. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $109.874 in greenbacks at the close. After looking over the ground, and allow- ing for the greater cost of supplying the ‘West Division with street-lamps, we conclud- ed that the offer made by the Bmrmves Company may have been fair after all, and advised the Council to accept it. Their re- fusal to do so has sent the West-Side Com- pany into the Courts, and an injunction has been applied for in the United States Court to restrain the city from infringing upon the existing contract with the Gas Company. If this injunction be granted, and made perma- nent after an argument on the merits, the city would have done better to accept Mr. Bmumes' terms, because it will then be forced to pay the old contract price of $3 per 1,000 feet, instead of $2 per 1,000 feet, which was Bruumves' offer. We presume it is too late to retract, and on some accounts it will be of value to have the question tested whether the rights of a municipal corpora- tion may be bonnd down for a long term .of years through the action of a Council that had s life of only one year. If they can, then Chieago must suffer the penslty of an unwise contract, and the same danger is im- minent 50 long as a new Council is chosen every year. THE CHICAGO CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS. ‘There is reason to hope and believe that the First, Second, and Third Congressional Districts, known as the Chicago Districts, will all return Republican members. They were carried by the Democrats in 1874 by a mere scratch,—partly owing to the compli- cations growing out of the ‘“People’s Party ” movement, and partly to the commission of frauds. The *““People’s Party” is no more, and the dissensions that grew out of it are obliterated and forgotten. Every one of these districts has a Republican majority of long standing. Arrangements have been mede, under the United States Iaw, to pre- vent the frandulent voting, and there is no doubt that it will at least be held in check. The people have every reason to regret their experience with the Democratic Congress- men, two of whom are candidates for re- election; and this circumstance will co- operate with the natural impetus of -2 Presi- dential election to restore the old-time Republican majorities in all three districts, The First District includes the First, Sec- ond, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Wards in the South Division, the Sixth Ward in the West Division, the southern part of Cook Couaty, including Hyde Park and Lake, and all of DuPsge County. CavnriELp was elected two years ago by 408 majority, but the Re- publicans elected Rick two years before by & majority of 5,599. The present candidates are Mr. Wrnrrayr Arpricy, Republican, and Jomx R. Hoxie, Democrat. Mr. Arprica is & man of superior intelligence, high stand- ing, and unimpeachable character, and he is thoroughly devoted to the best principles of politics and the purification of the public service. He will not only unite the entire Republican vote, but, owing to the low char- acter of his opponent, he will receive a very large Democratic vote. DuPage County, ‘which gave a Kepublican majority of only 200 two years ago, will give Mr. ArpricE from 800 to 1,000 majority. It is conceded on ell sides that Hoxre’s only hope of success lies in polling illegal votes; but, notwithstanding the extensive ar- rangement that are believed to have been mede to this end, they are apt to miscarry through the vigilence of Hoxre's opponents, who have been sufficiently warned of the proposed corruption of the ballot-boxes: ‘The voting-precinets which require particular watching and a Sufficient guard to resist as- saults are located on the line of Indiana ; in the Sixth Ward, where there is to be an ef- fort to vote some of the Second District vot- ers; and in Lake Township, where Hoxrx ex- pects valuable 2id from some of the Stock- Yards roughs. But Mr. Hoxxe will probably have to get in more fraudulent votes than have been arranged for in order to overcome the honest majority against him. Many of the most prominent and influential stock men, including Nersox Mornis and Sam Az~ LERTON, are opposing him because they know him intimately, and be will not have every- thing his' own way st the Stock-Yards, as he has fordly imagined he would. Hav- ing purchased his nomination, and hoping to securs the election by the same corrupt means, it would be a scandal and disgrace to permit him to succeed. It is, therefore, the duty of every good citizen to vote against him, in order that the honest majority for Mr. Arprica may be 5o large that the Hoxie colonies of aliens and repeaters may be outnumbered even if they succeed in getting in their bogus ballots, The Second Congressional District lies en. tirely within the city, and includes the *Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Wards, The candidates are Col. Georcx R. Davis, Republican, and Carren Harrisox, Demo- crat. HARRISON squeezed in two years 8go by a majority of about a dozen votes, more or less, and after a liberal expenditure of money. ‘There are two wards on the West Side which have almost an exclusively for- eign population, scd it was through the political combination of pretty much all the foreign vote two years ago that this district, which, two years before, had given & Republican majority of 3,309, elected HamrrsoN by a nominal majority. There is no such comhiaation this year, and there is reason to believe that the Germans and Scandinaviens who will vote the Repub- lican ticket will more than outnumber the Irish who will vote the Democratic ticket. Aside from this, the conduct of Cazrzr Haz- mIsoN as & Congressman has been so ln(]ii— crous and objectionsble that the large American wards will pile up greater Repub- lican majorities than ever before. Col Davis, who commands the First Regiment, gave an evidence of his strength and popu- larity by securing the nomination over sev- eral better-known contestants, and as a man of plack, energy, and good common-sense he is in every way preferable to Hammisox, who has not risen above the level of the buffoon since he was elected. Davis will not make himself the laughing-stock of Congress and neglect and misrepresent his constitu- ents, which is the sum of Harrson’s Con- gressional record. The Third District includes the North Division of the city, the northern and west- ern portions of Cook County, and all of Lake County. The candidates are LoRENZ BREN- Tax0 and Jorx V. Lz Moyse. This district has never been anything but Republican, notwithstanding Mr. Le MoyNe now holds the seat in Congress. In 1872 Mr. Fam- ‘WELL'S majority was 3,740; but two years 8go Le MovsE plucked up courage to try it again on the assurance that he would get the German vote, which had been largely alien- ated from the Republican party for the time being. Notwithstanding the disaffection, Lz Moy~e was again beaten, as a matter of fact, by 186 msjority for FArwerr. But his anxiety to get into Congress did not stop here. Counting upon the partisanship of a Democratic msjority in the House, he con- tested the election, and he was admitted by counting the paupers, idiots, insane, ‘and non-residents whom Gronce KrupErry voted for him from the County Poor-House. Since Le Moy~E actually got his seat it has been a mystery to everybody why he was ever thought of in connection with the place. He has not been heard of or heard from, and he was renominated simply be- cause there was mo available man on the North Side who would consent to be the Democratic candidate. Mr. BrenTano, the Republican candidate, is a man of culture and ability, versed in affairs, a student in political economy, and entirely committed to Gov. Haves’ ideas about reforming the Civil Service. He will get all the German vote which left the Republican party two years ago, and also that large semi-independent vote of certain North'Side citizens who for some years past have been conspicuously devoted to reforms in the public service. In Toke County, where FarweLL two years ago gotonly 56 majority, there is reason to believe that Mr. BrentaNo will receive from 600 to 700 majority. The indications that he will be elected are so strong, in fact, that the Democrats within 8 few days have been publishing and circulating the most desperately absurd false- hoods about his not being able to speak En- glish, etc. The people of his district have had abundant proofs of the falsity of these statements, so that they are not likely to do him much harm. The three Democratic Congressmen Chi- cago has had for two years were mere no- bodies. They had not a particle of influence, and could not even secure an appropriation for the continuation of the work on the Chi- cago Government building. They disgraced their constituents by acquiescing in the libels on the Chicago people put forth under the lead of the Rebel Beny Hrtr. One of them (Barxey Cavrrierp) was dropped by his par- ty, and an. illiterate and vulgar hog-driver nominated in his place; the other two are candidates for re-election. Certainly these circumstances are favorable to a revival of the old Republican majorities in the three Chicago districts, which will elect Arprics, Davis, and BRENTANO. DEMOCRATIC REFORM. The Democratic pretense of Reform is best illustrated, and to the people of Chicago most practically illustrated, by the character of the persons nominated for local .office. The Democratic party is one aggregate Tam- many Hall. Its nominations for office are of the same class everywhere. It is the same in Chicago that it is in New York, Philadel phia, Peoris, Buffalo, St. Louis, and every- where else. The ticket in one place, so far as the character and class of the men nomi- nated, exactly corresponds with the tickets everywhere else. Thisis a large city, the fourth in population in the United States; it is peculiarly a commercial city; it is also a ‘manufacturing city, and has immense inter- ests in the transportation business. In the ‘management of its affairs it requires. men of character and integrity, of ability, experi- ence, and personal fitness. This city has two Legislatures: that of the State, where laws are made, and to which body this city, at this time, has especial reagon to appeal for justice in the form of an amended revenue law; and the other is that of the County Board, which levies more taxes and expends more money annually than is levied by the State Legislature and expended for the sup- port of the whole State Government. For the first named of these two legislative bodies—both clothed with the power to levy taxes and to expend the proceeds—the Dem- ocratic party has nominated the following list of Reformers : = Buows, ., © - Stowe, ENZENBACHER, FERRIS, SHERIDAR, SnaxLET, Hicker, DELANEY, ScaNLAK, SEXTON, KEansey, SrELLY. It is not necessary to give the initials or to designate them by districts. These are the men selected to reform the Legislature of Hlinojs! They are of two kinds : one half of them are known to local fame, and the other half were never henrd of before: Those who are known are the the most objectiona- ble becsuse of what is known of them; ‘while taking, the others as likely to prove of the same standard, we have a delegation to represént this great commercinl city in the State Legislature that is, to speak the truth plainly, disgraceful and infamous. These men as a body have nothing to commend thero for the office they seek, and there are those who profess to be able to name several on this list who go to Springfield to sell their votes for cash. The election of a-United States Senator is regarded as promisinga large price for' votes, and, if the Democratic aspirants will not pay, it is generally under- _stood that this list can be mainly purchased by any Republicans who will pay for them. In the name of the Republican party, we pro- test against the election of Democratic mem- ‘bers of the Legislatare who go to Spring- field to sell their votes to any Republican candidate who will buy them. Republican primary meetings and Republican conven- tions hive been packed by Democrats for money; but we protest against the Demo- erats sending men to Springfield who will sell out their votes and probably control the election of a Republican Senator. Unless the Democratic committees are the veriest greenhorns that were ever victimized by con- fidence games, they can themselves pick ont a balf dozen men on that list who have slways been and always will be for sale, The same party has nominated the follow- ing persons to"* reform ” the County Board “they are going tc make money more the names : . . FirzoeRALD, HorpyaN, BraprEy, LINZEN. ‘We regret that the people of this city have not a personal acquaintance with these per- sons. We have too much respect for the mass of Democratic voters to believe that these candidates would have the remotest chance of election, if they were known, even by sight, to the gemeral public. Their strength is in their obscurity, which also hides their personal unfitness, their total want of intellectual qualification, and their want of experience and knowledge of public matters, It is enough to say that the elec- tion of these four men will place the public hopelessly and helplessly in the hands of the present raling faction in the Board. These are the * Reform” candidates. Ex- Alderman FirzGErALd is to ‘‘reform” the County Board, and Hicrey, and KrARNEY, and Sexron, and ENZENDACHER, and DELANEY are to reform the General Assembly of the State of Illinois! The Municipal Reform Association have afforded the people an opportunity to escape bad government in this County Board, by naming as candidates Messrs. Pxe, Mor- ToMeER, Newcoms, and HawrmsoN. The majority of these are also Republican candi- dates, but we do not understand that any citizen cares a button as to the politics of the Commissioners. What is wanted in that Board is personal integrity, and these four gentlemen” have that to recommend them. If the general voter will remember that this Board of fifteen members have the absolute, disposal of all the -money they can raise by- taxation or by the sale of county bonds, he will understand the great importance there is of electing competent men of integrity to that Board. No man of any party should hesitate to seratch the county ticket vigor- ously to defeat a corrupt or incompetent candidate. TILDEN'S DEMAGOGISM. Trpex, in his speech at New York on Friday night, was true to his instinctsas al demsgogue snd a sham. Addressing the torch-bearers, he exclaimed: *‘This is not a compliment to me; it is an expression of the popular will in behalf of Reform.” Now, the character of this declaration may be judged when it is known that all Demo- cratic torchlights in New York City pro- cessions are borne by men hired at so much per night per man, and the ** pageant ” which Trpex greeted as a popular outburst for Re- form he knew was paid for out of his own money, and was nothing more than a pro- cession of hired showmen. He followed this up by declaring that his ““success on Tuesday next means peace, reconciliation, and fraternity among all our people of every class and race.” When he uttered thishe knew that his supporters in the Solid South looked for * peace, recon- ciliation, and fraternity ” through the pay- ment of their claims, and, failing this, looked forward to an independent Confederacy, with slavery of the black race restored. ‘When he spoke of his election ns securing “ arestoration of national credit, a frugal administration, and an honest and just gov- ernment,” the question must have suggested itself, When did Tammany Hall provide a frugal administration or s just government? He had the boldness there at midnight to declare that his election would ensble the Government, to reduce the interest on its whole bonded debt to 4 per cent, and thus save the interest proposed to be paid on the 44 per cent bonds. This extraordinary state- ment was the most glaring piece of dema- gogism of the campaign. It was intended to offset tho great success of the Repub- licans in negotisting the 4} per cent loan. He had the hardihood and the effrontery to declare that, if he were elected, the Govern- ment would be able to borrow enough money to re-fund the whole bonded debt at 4 per cent. Mr. TmpeN was fally aware that he was stating what was not true, and that the whole financial and business community are at this moment dreading his election as fatal to the public credit. This speech, in which he declares that, in case he is elected, the Government credit will be so advanced as to borrow $2,000,000,000 at 4 per cent, wans pure bravado, but nevertheless characteristic of Trroen. The man’s desperation is evi- denced by the desperation of his talk, THE DUTY OF VOTERS. 1t is difficult to comprehend how any man of sense and intelligence, who is not a hide- bound partisan, can review the results of the Democratic campaign and vote for TmLoEs- and Henpricks. What has that campaign, now so near its close, developed? What have the Democrats given the country that can be accepted as a promise of change or an omen of bettering the existing condition of things ? ' From the time they constructed their platform until now, they have, parrot- like, repeated and rung the changes upon ¢ Reform,” but of what that Reform is to consist they have not told us. In examin- ing their arguments, speeches, documents, letters, bulletins, and pronunciamentos, which have been as thick as the leaves in Vallombrosa, the most that we can discover is that-the TrLpEN ides of Reform means the furnishing of offices for o mob of hungry Democratic and Confederate politicians, whosenational sins and crimes have kept them out of office for the lnst sixteen years. In all their multitudinons appeals they have shown us nothing which promises to make times better, to improve the finances, to re- duce taxation, or to retrench expenses. Not- withstanding their control of the last Con- gress, they failed to reduce the burden of taxation. If they have saved any money it must be applied, in case of their success, to the payment of the hungry Southern claim- ants,—the only assurrance that it will not be so0 applied being the tricky words of a des- perate candidate on the eve of election, the force of which is nullified by his own decla- ration in his letter of acceptance, that * ex- perience ‘has shown the futility of self-im- posed restrictions upon candidates.” In gll the development of their plans and purposes since last July, they have failed to show how lenty, what they are going to do with thé” green- backs, whether they are in favor of specie resumption or not, whether money is to be better, or poorer, or more, or less, Looking at the Northern side of the campaign, which is inspired and dominated by Tammany Hall, we do not see how any intelligent person can. receive as- surences of Reform, sinee plunder, theft, corruption, and the spoilssystem have al. ways been the policy of Tammany. Can any right-minded person see anything in the conduct of the Southern campaign, with its South Carolina and Mississippi plans, its violent outrages and murderous frays, itg terrorism, intimidation, and proseription, its Rifle Olubs, White Liners, and Ku-Klex Kians, to give assurance that' the Confed- erntes will inaugurate any reform if they obtain control of the Government? Taking the Northern and Southern campsigns to- justify o Republican in his right mind.in taking the risk of putting the administrative power, the patronage, the* army and navy, the credit, resources, aud income of this country into the hands of’ TnmmsnyHn!l and the Southern Confederates? Is it not safer to intrust them to 8 man of unspotted record like Gov. Haxes, backed by the most intelligent, honest, and law-abiding people of the conntry? Is it not safer to trust them to a good soldier who foug.ht for the Union, who has in her Gubernatorial office practically carried out the Civil-Service reform, who has not been connected with any tings or corrupt jobs, and who will go into office with his hands free snd unham- pered by any pledges, than to o man who publicly and boastfully announced he would oppose every effort of the Government to coerce the South into the Union, who has been the comnselor of Tammany Hall and engaged as a partner of TWeED in itscorrupt business, who has been the engineer of the Credit Mobilier and other infamous rings, and who publicly confesses his inability to withstand party pressure? If there is any msn who is gomg to vote the Demaocratic ticket because he thinks its suecess will in- sure Reform; let him look at home, for what the Democrats have done here they have done everywhere. Democratic methods are the same in all placesand times. Bourbons never learn or change anything. They com- menced by nominating a coarse, vulgar boor for Governor. They have followed it up by nominating Hoxre for Congress from the gkt important district in the State,—a cor- rupt man, corruptly nominated, and seeking: to secure his election by notoriously corrupt means. As we go down the list, the nomi- nations become worse and worse, and we find the members of the Legislature,—~the men who are to go to Springfield and make laws,—and the County Commissioners to be ward-bummers and scallawags, the mem- bers of the late Cosmopolitan Club, the very sweepings of the gutter. Is there any promise of Reform in Chicago and Cook County in the nomination of such men? If they are elected, it must be by Republican votes. Will any Republican of intelligence ‘be humbugged by this howling of bummers and scallawags for Reform into betraying his party and putting the vast interests of this Republican city, county, and State into Democratic hands? If there is any Republic- an who has been deluded by this specious outery of Reform, let him look at the real facts, and aualyza the prospects of Reform as between the two candiates, before he votes. THE CEINESE RELIGIONS. In previous issues of Tre Suxpay TRIBUNE we have examined two systems of Chinese religion,—Confucianism, the moral, which desls with ethics, good government, and the conscience ; and Buddhism, the metaphys- ical, which deals with transmigration and the future state. To-day we take up the next most important religion, Tauism, the . materialistic, which, in brief, may be summed up as the theory.of prolonging life, upon the basis that all matter is eternal. * Tauism originated with Lao-s, a philos- opher, born B. C. 604, contemporary with Conrucrus. His origin is somewhat unique. According to popular belief, Luo-1s existed as o principle anterior to the creation, Af- ter the evolutions of thousands of years, this principle was personified in a deity called the ‘ Holy Ruler of Wonderful Nonentity.” After innumerable ages and catastrophes, he appears as the “ Holy Ruler of Wonderfal Entity.” By another mysterious evolution, he turns up several thousand years after as the ‘“‘Holy Ruler of Chaotic Confusion.” After the creation of man, he appears upon this earth at various times in the form of Kings of different dynasties. His appeerance as Lao-1s, the philosopher, is the most remarkable. One day he slid down from the sky on a sunbeam in the form of a ball of variegated colors into the mouth of a sleeping virgin. After a period of eighty-one yenrs' gestation he was born of an immaculate conception, and, as at hisbirth his hair was alreedy white from sge, he was named Lao-ts, which, translated, signifies ¢ The Old Boy.” It will be noticed that, in this unique succession of experiences that happened to “The Old Boy,” we have the theory of evolution, the heathen Pantheism, and the Scriptural doctrine of a Trinity and the creation of matter out of nothing. The ali-pervading element of Tauism is material- ism, which, in its development, includes a professed science of alchemy and astrology. It regards matter as eternal. Its grosser forms tend downwards, constituting the solid material of the world; the more refined es- sences soar into the heavens and assume the formof stars. Applyingthe theoryto man, the body goes tothe earth and the soul reappears as a star. It composes the universe of five elements,—metal, wood, water, fire, and the body by certain physical €x and the elixir of life, which i3 a sort of witches’ stew boiled eighty. one days. Animals may even become i, and cats are particularly successful in the operation by drawing the vital principle from the bodies of men and'a revivifying Pprinciply from the rays of the moon when full, b3 will be observed that this is in very decideq contradistinction to the musical views en. tertained outside of China concerning feling moonlight gatherings. The temples of thy Tauists and Buddhists are almost identieal, The priests of Tauism are very few, butthei employments are the same as those of the Buddhists ; but, unlike the Buddhists, Women do not worship much at the temples, as they have nothing particular to gain by it. Tp, Tauistic literatare comprises many vol H among them the * Complete Mirror of Gods and Genii,” in four volumes, giving an . count of the history of more than three hundred SieNmv; the * Collection of a Thousand Magic Arts,” in six volumes, cop. taining a description of different kinds of magic, sorcery, and juggling; the “ Culfi. vation of Virtue,” which deters men from committing crimes; and the ‘ Graduateq Scale of Merit,” which gives the compara earth, the sublimated essences of which form five planets that can take the form of gods end descend to the earth upon their various benevolent missions. In connection with this system, slchemy investigates the essences of matter, and ages have been spent by the Tauists in searching for the elixir that will make life immortal and youth perpetual, and for the philosopher's stone that will transmute substances into gold, thus show- ing that the Chinese as well as other nations have their Poxce pe Leons and Fausts. Astrology, which. is also connected with Tauism, fulfills the same purposes in China as in other countries. Tauism hes numerous idols deposited in temples very similar to those of the Bud- dhists. The most important one is Lu-sy, the Goddess of Mercy, from whom the people beg prescriptions in time of sickness. Lok- Koxe and Lue-po are the Thunder-God and his' wife. Lyue-Kuxoe produces the thunder with a hammer and drum, and Lue-ro the lightning by the reflections of mir- rors attached to her hands and feet. The eight-handed TAu-au has the power of short- ening and prolonging life. SaN-Tsrve com- municates instruction to manking, and Say- EWAN rules heaven, earth, and sea. The familiar dragon of the Chinese is one of the gods of Tauism, and his domain embraces water in all its forms. The principal dragon is Har Luve Hwaxg, the Sea-Dragon King, who has a host of small dragons Attendin[:' upon him. The relative stations or dignities of these small mousters are determined bya competitive examination that shows the strong hold the system has upon the Chinese people. The examination is held every three years, the competitors being fish, crabs, mffles, lobsters, and snakes, and the test being :.lc jump over a high wall, Those who succeed are elevated, and those who fail killed. There is also the Tu-tr Poosaxm, B:i Earth-God, who, like comntry constablos bas the charge of small neighborhoods; and is found at every roadside. There are also the Stexrx, or genii, beings who, by certain pret?muom!, escape death, and, with ethereal bodies, enjoy an uninterrupted existence of drfmmx _happiness, to attain ‘which three _tbmgs &re necessary,—the cultivation of the tive amount of merit and demerit ‘belonging to different actions. It will readily be seen from this and the preceding articles that Confucianism is the art of making life moral and government perfect ; that Buddhism prepares the devoteg for a life to come where there is neither hell nor heaven; and that Tauism doeg nothing more than to teach methods of pro. longing life, in the practice of which the ay. erage Chinaman is no more successful than the old alchemists. In our next articlewe shall treat of national religious rites and be- iefs, in which the familiar Joss plays an im. portant role. THE SHRIEVALTY. ‘We print elsewhere, over the signature of ¢ Vindex,” a complete vindication of Mr, CroucH, Republican candidate for Sherif, sgainst the attacks of the Staats-Zeitung. Our correspondent deals with the charge in detail, and refutes them. There are some general points, however, which he does not touch upon, and which need notice to show the animus of the Staats-Zeitung in its onslaught upon Mr. CLovGe. The cause of Mr. HeurNG's assaults is his iden that it was the influence of Mr. CLoUGE in last fall's po litical campaign that defeated him for the office of County Treasurer. During thst campaign, Mr. CrovgE was Chairman of the Republican Campaign Committee, and it was his plain duty to do all that he could for the success of his ticket. He would have been derelict in his official duty if he had not strained every nerve to elect Mr. Hucg, the Republican candidate, and conducted the campaign against Mr. Hesmvg with all his skill and gbility. This, however, furnishes no reason why Mr. Hesivg should cherish any resentment against Mr. Croves. If he isin arevengeful mood, he should visit his revenge upon hig Irish allies, 8,000 of whom deserted him to vote for Kerrey. His con- duct in the present case is unfair, untruth- ful, and simply malicious and spiteful. It is time that Cook County had a first- class Sheriff ; and if Mr. Crovcs be elected he will prove the best Sheriff we have had for twenty years, not even excepting Mr. Hesmve himself. While we do not propose to abuse or vilify Mr. KzrN, no person, who is not a bigoted partisan, acquainted with the two candidates will hesitate in saying that Mr. Crovem is the mest competent and the most likely to discharge his duties faith- fally and to the satisfaction of the people of the county. In the management of the af- fairs of this county the Democrats have as much at stake as the Republicans, and, as the election of Sheriff hasno bearing upon national or party questions, it is their daty to vote for the best man of the two. Itis the duty of all men who are tired of the late Sheriffs, as well as of the Reform gentleman now filling the office, to vote for the best man of the two. They will then have no cause for regret, and they will know that they have acted as any pru- dent business man would have ~acted in filling a responsible position in his estab- lishment, which, after all, is the safe rule to adopt in local contests. Where one business man would appoint Mr. KerN to a position, one hundred would take Mr. CrLovcH, becauss he is more competent. 'Will any one tell s what qualification Mr, KzrN has for the office except that he has been an incorrigible seeker after it? It seems to be his heaven- born mission to run for Sheriff. From his assiduity it would appear that he came here from Indiana for no other purpose. He has lived for it, and done nothing else, and will* probably run for it as long as he lives, and godown to his grave with sorrow that he has never been elected. He is a chronic Sheriff-huntér, and yet there are a thonsand men in the Democratic party who are more competent than he. Because Mr. Kz has been irrepressibly importunate and boister- ous in bawling for this office for years, is it any resson that he should be elected, when there are so many less i}npartunau and more competent men? — The Tildenites South are puzsuing the policy of ostracism to an extent which threatenste drive outall Northern men from their communt ties, except dough-faces,and to prevent any far ther immigration of persons who have any desire to express their opinions upon political subjects, or to take any part as citizens in the Common- wealths where they may reside. The Demoeratic Clabs in Orangeburg and Barnwell Counties, South Carolina, have just adopted the follow- ing resolutions, and have sent them to all other counties in that State for adoption: Resolved, 1. That we will not rent land to any Radical leader, or any member of his family, or furnish 8 home or give employment fo avy such leader, or any member of his family. 2. That we will not furnish any such leader or any member of his family any supplies, such as provisions, farm implements, stock, ec., eXCept :: r{::du contracts for the present year are con- 8. That.we will not purchase anything any Radical leader or any of ‘b family may offer for eale, or sell any snch leader or any member of his ffllml,lv, anything whatever. <. That the names of such persons who may be considered leadera be farnished to this Club at the earllest date, and that a list of the same be fur- nished to each member of the Club. 5. That whenever any person Or persons who £hall be denominated Radicul leaders by a vote of this Club shall cease us such, these resolutions shall become null and void o far 28 such leader or leadern or any member of his or their families are concerned.. ‘We are frequently asked what chence HAYES has to carry Indiana, and reply that we have no secret ioformation or knowledge on the sub~ ject. Jiatters over there appear quiet; thers is alull after the recent storm, a rest after the great effort which fatigued and exhausted both sides. But the people will return again to the polls next Tuesday in fall force, and cast as’ Jarze a vote 2s on the 10th of October. Thad there will be changes cannot be donbted. Some of the 10,000 Republicaus who voted the Inde- pendent ticket will undoubtedly support Gov. Haxes; some of the 4,000 Democrats who sup ported that ticket will vote for Tipex and Tammany. If all those who threw away their votes:- on the' third ticket should vote for HAYES or TILDEN, the former would carry the State. It is believed in Republican