Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-11-04


The election in Maryland took place on
Wednesday. In Baltimore there were dis
graceful riots, outrages, and bloodshed. Tn
the day of the election the Baltimore Patriot
said, n follows
"The conflict inaugurated BY the Reform
party, We are sorry to say, was opened win
unusual violence this morning. In srvera!
OF the wards they undertook to take possession
Of the polls by force, but wherever tins was
attempted it was successfully resisted. The
accounts we have received place the respon-
sibilty Of these outbreaks upon the should
ers Of the Relormers in every case.
IN the attempt to seize upon the fifteenth
ward polls we regret TO hear that Mr. A. Is.
Kyle. ir., and brother Of his were seriously
wounded, the former it is feared, fatally. We
learn from several sources that, i'll this case,
Mr.. A. Il. Kyle fired the first shot, and
wounded a boy very seriously. In the four
teenth ward, James johnson, alias Sonny
White, member Of the American party. was
shot while in the hands OF the police. by Mich
ael Duffy. porter at the Eutaw House, VINO
was promptly arrested, but not untl! alter ne
had been wounded in the hip. 1t Sthought
that White cannot survive. Some one hired
M an American in the seventeenth ward, but
the ball, missing its object. killed a boy
In the outbreak ut the fourteenth ward q
number of pistols were fred by both parties,
and among the wounded are Henry Starr,
William Stiles, Joseph Zimmerman, Michael
Duffy, and boy named Harris-none OF
them dangerously. AT the eleventh ward,
before the polls were opened, an American
named Nally was stabbed by Mr.. Sullivan
While resisting the attempt to break down
the barricades at these polls, we learn that
Mr.. L. b. Morris and Mr.. L. Cuttings were
arrested for an assault upon one OF the par
ties thus engaged, and put under bonds TO
keep the peace. In the ninth ward, we re-
yret to learn that DR.. John Morris, city post
master, was severely beaten. In the tenth
ward, the Retormers attempted to take pos
session of the polls, but were successfully re-
pulsed, not however without the hring OF Sc
veral pistols on both sides, but no one was
Injured but three Americans"
The Baltimore Clipper ofyesterday says
"The whole American party Of the city was
grossly and UNANIMOUSLY insuted and abused.
"A meeting Of fifteen thousand Of our voting
population was stigmatized as ''conglomerated
ruifianism." Every conceivable means was
employed to inhame and exasperate the pop
Mace. Could any reasonable man expect An
election. held under such circumstances. to
be quiet! 1t was not quiet. Attempts
were made in several wards, at the very
first pening Of the polls, TO carry out the
bloody programme Of this locoioco reform
organization Collisions, in which deadly
weapons were freely used, were the new
table consequence. Several men on both
sides were wounded, some slightly, some Sc
riously, and two or three mortaily. This
was the only result Of all the incendiarsm OF
the Reform organs and the Reform speakers.
for the twenty out of the thirty thousand
voters Of the city" were found opposed to
their insidious and mischeyous movement.
The tale won't 70 down that twenty thou
sand voters were driven away from the polls
by miserable minority 1t has been told
over and over again for years. 1t has been
said too often to be believed
These are accounts from organs Of the
dominant party in the city. The journals
on the other side, issued yesterday morning
throw the blame entirely upon their oppo-
nents, and give many details to support their
assertions. The Baltimore American says:
The election yesterday can be Justly term
ed nothing but an outraSe-an outrage
against decency, against law and against all
rights, public and private. The city was
g;ven up 10 the control Of lawless rutianlsm,
snnnorted and encouraged by the police and
apnroyed Of and urged on by the recognized
leaders of the American party. Armed
bands of lawless characters held possession
of nearly all the polling places, the EFFORTS
which the friends of lair and legal cleo
ton made to preserve order were treated rs
acts Of riot, and the only arrest made by the
notice we're of respectable and well known
citizens whose whole lives are the guarantee
of their obedience 10 the laws. Every spe-
cies Of fraud, every degree OF ruihauisnl,
and every violation Of sworn duty, was USED
70 defeat the expression Of the will OF the
neonle Bands of men. whose looks bespoke
their character, rode III onnibuses and car
r;apes from one poll TO the other, voting
without check ut each. The accumulated
disgrace and shame of the sce2e was PAIN
ful to contemplate, and we can scarcely con-
troll our own feelings to write OF II With any
degree Of calmness.
"The Reformers made manly and deter
mined stand for their rights. hui II was against
such odds Of organized ruiiianism aud fraud,
AZ rendered the contest hopeless. launt'
cd insaited and abused, the slightest demon
stration they made t,ward self-protectlon was
treated as a breach Of the peace, and they
were ANONYMOUSLY dragged TO the police
stations. whilst their assailants were lett 10
renew their outrages. They might have con
tined the struggle TO the end, bat The resui'
could only have been the sacrifice OF yalna bic
lives. without accomplishing any ultimate
GOOD With number Of the wards IN toe
uncontrolled possession of their opponents
and fraudulent voting progressing without
check at all but the Eighth and the Eleventh !
the success of the ticket was an lmpossiDili,
ty. Prudence is well rs necessity dictateu
retirement from contest which was nope
less unless they descended TO the vile prac-
tces of their opponents.
"What course OF action II may hereafter be
advisable to adopt, it is perhaps scarcely pos
sible now to say, but We cannot believe that
such great wrongs rs were accomplished
Yesterday, will lie quietly submitted to. The
Courts should be appealed 10, to prevent the
consummation of the illegal election of some
GIFTS own officers, and the Legislature urged
40 reject from its body members whose certl-
Gcatss are stained with blood and are the
,,roduct Of unparalleled fraud and violence.