Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1859-11-05
The RaitIInore Election.

The election in Maryland took place on welnesday-
In Baltimore there disgracefu riots outrage. and
blood hed. On tie dsS Of the election the Baltimore
Patriot said, as follows
The conflict inauguraei 10y the Reform party we
are sorry saw VAS opened with unusual violence tb
morning. ia several Of the wards they undertook IN
take possession Of Tie polls bv force bnt wherever This
was attempted II successfully resisted The accounts
We have received place the responsibility of these out
breaks upon the shoulders OF the RcOrner. in every
In the attempt to seize upon the fifteenth ward poll.
we regret TO hear that Mr. \ b. Kyle Jr and brother
0i his were seriously wounded the former il "a feared
fatally We learn from several sources that in this case
Nj. \ b. KYLE fired the first shot and sounded A boy
very 7erousiy la the fourteenth ward James johnson
slas Sonny White, member OF the American Marty VAS
-hot while IN the hands Of the police. by Michael Duffy
porter st the Eutaw House who vas PROMPTLY arrest
ed bat until after he had been wounded in the hin
IL u thought that White cannot survive Some one fired
a. an American IN the seventeenth ward but the ball
missing its object, killed boy la the outbreak AZ the
fourteenth ward number of pistols fired by both
parties and among the wounded H. Starr W Stiles.
j. Zimmerman, N. Daily and a hos named IIarrs-none
OF them dangerously. At the eleventh ward before the
pod were opened, an American named Nay wa sabi,-
ed by Mr. Sullivan. While resisting the attempt to
b,eas down the harcadc7 at these polls learn that
Mr. I. T. Morris and Mr. L. Cuttings were arrested for an
sault upon one of the parties thus engaged and mt
under bonds to keep the peace. Ia the ninth ward we
regret to learn that Dr. John Morris city
severely beaten. la the tenth Waru the Rsormcrs et
cosiy repulscd not however without the firing Of So
vcra pistols both sides hut was injured but
three Americans"
The Baltimore Clipper Of yesterday says-"The whole
American party Of the cit, grossly and nfamon.ly
nsulted and abused \ meeting Of fifteen thousand of
our voting population siigmased as "conglomerat-
Ell ruifanism. fyery conceivable means was employed
to niiame and eNasperac the pvpuace Could any rea.
sonabe man expect election, held under such circu-
stances In be quiet? II quiet ATTEMPTS were
made in several wards AZ the very first opening of the
polls to carry out the bloody programme Of this ocoTo
co reform organization. Collisions in which deadly
weapons freely used, we're the inevitable cousc
quruce. Several men on both sides were wounded some
slightly, some seriously, and three mortay This
was the Only result ofa the inceDdarisn OF the Reform
organs and the Reform speakers for the twenty out OF
the thirty thousand voters Of the city" were found Oh
posed to their insidious and mischieyOus movement
Tho tale wonf 60 down that twenty thousand voter.
were driven away from the poll by miserable minority
IL has been told over aud again for years Il ha.
been said too often TO be believed
These are accounts from organs Of the dominant par
~ in the city The journals on the other side issnet
yesterday morning, throw the blame entitry upon the
opponents and give many details 80 support their asser
tous.