READ AND REFLECT!| REMEMBER THE SHACKAMAXON BANK ROBBERY! AND VOTE AS YOU REMEMBER.| WERE YOU A DIRECTOR OR DEPOSITOR?| DID YOU PROFIT OR LOSE BY THE THIEVING?| DO NOT DEPOSIT YOUR BALLOTS AS YOU DID YOUR EARNINGS, BUT VOTE FOR AMBROSE F. FOW, AN HONEST MAN, FOR SELECT COUNCIL. [On verso: SHACKAMAXON BANK VS. THE PEOPLE.] THOMAS J. ROSE VS. AMBROSE F. FOW.| THE ABOVE CASES ARE IDENTICAL IN ALL RESPECTS, AND ARE TO BE TRIED BY THE PEOPLE AT THE POLLS TO-DAY. THOMAS J. ROSE REPRESENTS THE BANK AND AMBROSE F. FOW THE PEOPLE... WAS IT NOT SUFFICIENT TO ROB STOREKEEPERS AND WORKINGMEN OF THEIR MONEY? MUST THEY ALSO BE REPRESENTED IN COUNCILS BY THE MEN WHO, THROUGH THEIR WEALTHY RELATIVES WERE ALLOWED TO OVERDRAW THEIR ACCOUNTS? THE NINETEENTH WARD HAS BEEN REPRESENTED LONG ENOUGH IN SELECT COUNCILS BY A DUMMY. ...]

[Philadelphia, 1880. Broadsheet, 5.75" x 9". Two horizontal folds, light age toning with the top third slightly more toned and lightly dustsoiled. A few short closed tears along folds and at edges, a short closed tear in text [no text loss]. Some chipping to edges. Small slip of orange paper attached to verso, .5" x 2.5", cut into three strips with "Select Council - Ambrose F. Fow" printed on each strip [slip covers a few words of text]. Good+.

An ephemeral Philadelphia election broadsheet. Ambrose F. Fow owned D.J. Fow & Bro. of Philadelphia. Ambrose ran against Thomas J. Rose for Select Council of the 19th Ward after the Shackamaxon Bank fraud. He charged that Rose was in bed with officers of that Bank who were arrested on charges of fraud. "Was it not sufficient to rob storekeepers and workingmen of their money? Must they also be represented in Councils by the men who, through their wealthy relatives were allowed to overdraw their accounts?" ["Ex-Bank Officers Arrested.; The Ex-President of the Shackamaxon Bank Charged with Fraud." New York Times, July 4, 1885. Page 3.]. (Inventory #: 25645)