Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1859-10-17
Baltimore Rowdyism.
In Thursday spaper we published Telegraph
c dispatch. which read as follows:


In Thursday spaper we published Telegraph
ic dispatch which read As Swallows:
BALsisonr. Dot 1.-THE municipal election
for the City Council IL going on to-day. There is
q large turn out Of rowdics Us well o. voters. Al
many Of the Ward polling places, the windows
arc blocked By rowdies. and Intmidation. und
even violence. il resorted 10. The police. with
very few exec, tons, fail 70 do their duty, or to
carry out the instructions Of the Mayor. 1t sstill
hoped, however, that some of the club nominees
will be defeated. The Mayors ofdcc Is throngcd
with delegations Of rsiormers. making complaints Of
the inef6oiency of the police.
At the time Of publication. wn expressed our
doubts % to its truthfulness and the next day rub
li,hed an extract from the Rtrioi. printed Il,
late hour Of the afternoon Of the day Of election,
which very clearly disprossd tho Locoloco eonard
above given.
The Patriot of Friday explains the modns ope-
randi by which this Democratic Roorback came to
be .eegrsphed to all parts ct the country. II mp.
pears that Mr.. Fulton; an at,achce ii The Ameri-
can Office. and one Of the chief actors in the
ternptible abortion christened the "Rei,rm Move
men,," is the agent Of the Associated Press Mt
Baltimore, and in virtue Of his position proStitu
ted the teegraphic wires to the propagate Of L'co
foco defamation, Of the city wherein he gets tho
bread he eats in his capacity rs editor or report
or, Mr.. r. doubtless has the right to make such
use of his columns ~ he may deem proper, but
we think he rather transcribed the bounds ut
proprety, when he takes advantage Of hs position
as telegraph agent, to disseminate through that
channel ISLANDERS on the city authorities aad Amor
can party Of Baltimore. II the Telegraph is to be
prosttuted to the uses of the Locofoco party. and
Wing publishers compelled to pay for snch lying
stuff the sooner the fact Is Published. the better it
will be for oil parties concerned. In these Inter
days. when Locofoco defeat is announced by tel
egraph, the news is usually accompanied by some
statement of like character with the above pre-
cious fabrcstion That party having obta ned pos
session Of all the offices in the lund and having
succeeded in filing their pockets. at tho publicox
pensc. ought we think, to be satisfied for the PIC
sent, at least, and not attempt to substitute tho
useful invention Of Morse The Patriot in 70.
marking on the election, uses the following Ian.
guage:
That the police did their duty was the uni, crsal
expression all day yesterday. There were, it is
true, here and there, o fault finder who would
complain, no matter what happeied. lat as ges-
eral thing very few sufkcieut sauses Of complaint
occurred Indeed we heard more complaints
great deal, from the Americans than from tho Re
formers, because in some of tho wards, the police
arrested, as they aver, the Americans without
good aud sufficient cause.
The Clipper in referring to the same subject,
says: "
There has not been witnessed in Baltimore for
aquarter 81 a century y more peaccable aud quiet
election than that of yesterday. In certain wards
which the democratic. disguised MS ReIormers
hoped TO carry. they formed crowd around tho
polls and afforded every opportunity for an cleo
tion riot, but nothing more serious than "undue
GROWING" aud threatening language has becn
reported. except in one or two instances, in which
the prosocations were probably intcnIcd u pr,-
duce disturbance The police did their whole
duty. They were intent upon manifesting
their discrimination to keep the peace in spite Of
political nfknities, that in many instances where
alterations occurred, they arrested only these Of
the American party Nothing was left andone
that conld be done Tor the complete preservation
of the peace and of The perfect freedom If election
We confidently challenge the record of US quiet
and fair election in any other city u eqnal pop
nlaton, in which popular excitement existed to
similar extent.
Various paerile conplaints were made to the
Mayor Of ''crowding" at particular polls and Of
pins being stuck into men who rendered them
selves prominently obnoxious, ard Of supposed
attempts to take the polls away from the IRE
formers: 10 all oil these Complaints the Mayer
personally RESPONDED, and whenever the .harces
assumed gravity hc went in person to correct the
.alless wrongs
1t cannot be gansaid that it was quiet election
throughout the city. and the result demonstrates
as has been depenstrated bef;,re, that Baltimore
is nm American city with qr without q perfectly
peaceful election.
After onr own comments were written and in
type, ~ fasn& ~ sahjeissd paragraph at the
head n ~ pInnf n TIE Nsw York
Tribune; $50. Y. .s4
.Ths tssrzsrAsc sspss3es IL tie Asaociatsd
Press u i l1i1ors doe ,a0t lem q sunderland
that kSisesployeA y collect and tsaassrit facts,
not make orations. IIis dispatch concerning Yes
terday- Charter Election in tl,at city is y sadei
of misplaced partisan-hip. We pay him to send
us the news. not hisown partisan speculations or
HlanW thereon"