Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-05-30

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MAeRuDKR MEkrISe IN THE FOURTH WARD
LAST NlsHr.-Those citizens Of the Fourth w ard
IN favor OF the election Of DR.. MaQruder 10 the
MavoraIty, held meeting last evening in front
OF Wy SaY hali at which not less than 500 per-
Al tne hour designated for the commencement
OF the meeting, DR.. Magruder came forward and
l"toouced Mr. Frank r.. Spencer. who delivered
lew remarks, showing that Mr.. Berret was NOT
as alleged, the candidate of the democratic party
for Mayor EI-I- - f''
follows: ~ -
ADDRESS OF DR.. MAsRUpER
My friends and fellow-citizens About two
years ego mad the honor OF addressing You from
TINS s'ana. AT that time party lines had been
party, which was then in the poopt Of snccesS.
ful existence The day has now gone by how
ever when 1t can be said there is any party I'm
Wsshlngton, organized in opposition to the dem
ocrauG party The day has clearly gone by when
party lines should be so drawn as to exc ie a
man iIom his natural and proper rights in the
preliminary elections, and then read him out of
the democratic party because he does not choose
to submit to fraud and wrong. | know I have
been denounced at a meeting held by Mr. Ber-
retts Hlends, by men who not only do not know
me, gu, who doubtless never saw me, and who
DO no. Know anything Of the history Of our CITY
say nave been denounced by such men Is a
dlsorgenlzer. When ! bad control of the police
OF the city, in preliminary election for dele
ga'eS W compose Mayoralty Convention, every
man VINO chose to vote, and was legally entitled
TO do SO, voted and did freely and nntrammeIed
In snort twelve months afterwards, however in
thlsvefy Fourth Ward with all Mr. Berret's police,
VIII az MS power TO maintain the peace and the
quiet OF The city, you had to have three of four
meetings before you could nominate a democratic
candidate for Alderman, and finally didn't sue
coed Don't you all, fellow-citizens, Of the Fourth
Ward, remember the scenes then enacted that
disgracsd, not the city, but the police and these
who permitted the police to be so utterly inactive
that they could not secure peaceable meeting in
tas very centre OF the city! Now let us see he her
tAe intimation that have Just thrown out. that
this preliminary election was not fair one and
that the convention that nominated Mr. Berret
was not properly constituted party convention
can be sustained by facts as he claims to be a
party candidate fairly nominated
In the First Ward, where there was no sort of
necessity for fraud, unless ii was of SO s pendous
character as to overflow itself-where every
body knew that Mr.. Berrets friends Were not as
one to five-the managers of Mr.. Berret concocted
plan by which they inserted in each of the
tickets which they cast for him in some cases as
nigh as nfteen, IN little nests wrapped up cum
ningly aud devised with such ingenuity as a
spider does his web to catch insects in daughter
Numbers Of these little nests of tickets were put
in there with the vain and idle, and will saw
foolish, hope OF carrying the election there. All
the time that the people of the ward were voting
several OF Mr.. Berret's friends, his leaders there
in particular, were calling out to the tellers
"Shake the ballot boX;'' Shake the ballot box,n
Aud why did they want it shaken! In order to
prepared. Laughter and applause In the
Third Ward, my friend Mr. Spencer has stated
the scenes that happened there; about the excIu-
sion Of many of the Irish from the Dolls At the
primary election by the direct physical force of
the police. That they were not such scenes as the
people ought to sanction, is too plain for me to
attempt to show.
On the dsv of the primary election in this ward
one of the offices of the City Hall, devoted to the
us,s Of the city and the whole people, was con-
verted into GROCERY, lit was the room under
tue direction OF Mr.. Forsyth, the City Surveyor
and voters who were coming here TO vote for nv
ticket, were waylald and taken up there and per
sIsded TO vote for Berret. Mr. FORSYTH had pre-
viously declared that he could buy up the whole
OF Swamp-Poodle with five gallons Of whisky
Laughter. Yes, with five gallons of whisky,
Several voices-HNot bit of it'll Well tbese
were the means that were resorted to here On
the Island the police were in the room and the
evidences Of fraud and violence and Of improper
dealing We're SO palpable that large portion OF
the citizens retired from the room and refused
then and there, to submit to the doing of the
meeting or the result of its election. One of my
friends because he protested against the practices
being carried on in that room, was forcibly elected
from il by the police, while Mr.. Berret's friends
could say and do whatever they chose with inn
pr nifty. "A vOice-That's so So proverbially was
that the case on the Island, as that when it was
announced was to speak there my friends from
the First Ward were told ''if you get into any
trouble. just 'hurrah for Berret' and the police
VIII take care OF you" daughter Well, an
in the day time, under sworn commissioners
men of proper character and integrity IL the
Mayor, desiring reelection: intended to obtain
that reelection by fair means, why didn't he say
TO his friends conscious of his strenyth)-or WHY
did his f lends need prompting at all-why didn't
they go to the polls upon that day and put their
votes in as men Ought TO have done and thus car
ried their ticket Of delegates II they were able 70
do III They knew that in fair ex preston Of the
sentiments OF the people Of that ward that they
could not elect a ticket of delegates in favor Of
md fhar
election where everybody could enjoy that ines
Unable right of elective franchise "A voice
I'VE could have beat them two to one ~ They
are very well aware Of what the result of that
election, fairly conducted, would be- The votes
pOlled at MI BeTret's indoor meeting in a close
little room, in one short night, more than all the
democratic votes of the ward numbes ILaugh-
ter. More than all that, they made pretpXt
that my friends had voted in that indoor meet
ing; and therefore they counted some fifty odd
when | believe II can be demonstrated that there
were not two votes cast in the room for the ticket
that was to represent me and my interest in the
Mayoralty convention.
They tell you, my friends, that ! am dlsor-
organizer because won't submit TO this wrong.
Now, what Is democracy? IL is government Of
the people And can you have a government of
the people when they are not allowed 10 govern
themselves because ''drilled police are Brought
to the polls TO shoulder strike everybody who
don't happen to vote their sentiments, laugh
ter Is that government Of the people! Is that
the democratic party? If that be the democratic
pirty, in the name Of God, my friends, get up some
other party that shall represent the sentiments OF
the American people, tcheers. and that will let
every body vote who has ght to vote, no matter
where they may come from, for whom they
vote. Cheers In the Seventh Ward the other
night, after had concluded speaking an honest
lrshman, desiring to express his sentiments over
there, arose and commenced to speak. While
thus engaged, Lieut.. McHenry, Of the police,
stated he was damned Greek and oug hi to be
pulled down, aEd he had seen the time when be
would do it. This statement | am able to su b.
stantlate. he (MclIenry) continued talking for
some time. every sentence Of his onversation
being ricffS interlarded with oaths, for which il
was his duty to have arrested anybody elss who
uttered them In the streets
| know moreover that one Of his policemen Mr.
Gormly has been arresttd for violently aud cut
r4gcously assaulting woman. am informed by
respectfully gentleman In this city who Glanced
10 witness IL, that he informed the mayor of the
occurrence and the mayor said that If were proven
this officer should be Instantly dismissed Gormly
was indicted by the grand jury, tried by the
criminal court found guilty, severely re- ed
by the judge yet this Oicer has been on duty ever
since "a voice, "thats factn) Now this is one
of those policemen who belong to that party which
NV hugs the Irish to their bosom, and, as Genn
Scott used TO say, loves the soft Irish brogue [
will ask whether Mr.. Berret or his policemen hav
ever extended any indulgence to the poor Irish
women In Swampoodle as II is called, when their
hogs and geese have been caught ,yoinv ahout