The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-10-13

The local reports, in this paper, respecting the
incidents of the Election of yesterday will present
to our readers the complete details of what by
parcel is no doubt familiar to most of them
While the decided success of the Reform movement,
in many of the wards, affords most gratifying
augury of the complete triumph which awaits the
persistent energy and more thorough organization
of the Reormers it cannot be denied, that, on the
whole, the Election has furnished the most over
whelming and indisputable evidence of ineffciency
and bad faith on the part of the Municipal author
ties At many of the polls, it is beyond denial
that large numbers of voters were disfranchised,
bv intimidation and violence, and although it is
true that the demonstrations of outrage were for
the most part less overt and scandalous than on
previous occasions, it is equally true that they were
in many wards as successful as ever, in prevent
ing the fair and free exercise of the right
of suffrage. In but few of the wards
was there an honest and complete dis
charge of duty the part of the police, WHILE at
the same time, there was, every where a sufficient
demonstration of their perfect ability to preserve
the peace of the city and the freedom of the polls,
and of the disposition of the most of them to
fulfil their obligations, they held thereto,
with anything like the right spirit, by those whom
the law has placed above them. 1t. is likewise
made clear, beyond peradventure, by the proceed
ings of yesterday, that if the MAYOR had adopted,
as became him, the suggestions of the Reform Town
Meeting, and had brought in aid of his police the
cooperation of respectable private citizens, Sc
lected and commissioned by him for the oc-
casion, the public tranquility would no where
have been violated, and the rights of no
voter trodden under foot. To the citizens
who participated in the Reform movement, yester-
days Election bears an especial moral, in one Of
the most decided facts which it developed-we
mean the fact, that wherever the citizens were
best organized, the police most efficient, and
he Election was most quiet and successful
While, therefore, yet another demonstration of
Mr.. SwANN's official imbecility or faithlessness,
has satisfied ad nauseam, the few who remained
in doubt, after so many similar previous demon
STATIONS, it has happily shown at the same time,
that the people have the remedy in their own
hands, if they have the courage and the persever-
ance to adopt it. In exact proportion, as we have
said, to the frmness Of their purpose and the
thoroughneSs of their organization, has been
everywhere the measure of the success which has
met them, ana they have, therefore, only to con-
tinue firm and to persevere in their organization
to make their success complete We trust that
no man, who has taken even one step, will halt
In the good work Let the community make ND
its mind not to waste time in tri1ing with Mayors
and SHERFFs any more. Let the citizens, DELHI
erately, peacefully, and resolutey, make their
lawful preparations for the next Election, and be
present in their strength at the polls, determined
to carry those arrangements out. The experience
of yesterday demonstrates that they will then find
no lack of official efficiency, or that if they do
they can manage to take care of themselves and
vindicate the right, without it,