Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-05-22

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eN MUNICIPAL PoLITIcs.-lt having been pub-
tcly announced that DR.. Magruder would last
evening, address the citizens Of the First Ward,
az Stous Hall, at the hour designated-s o,clock
quite large number of persons had assembled in
'front.' OF said building, and IL was not long before
We gseern g had become thousands occupying
tne whole OF the street Among the number were
great many ladies, who remained until DR. Ma
2fuder had concluded. A few minutes after 3
O'Clock, that gentleman appeared at one of the
windows Of the Hall on Twentieth street, and
CoRcVufse assembled.
He commenced by saying that II was one Of the
snost painful political positions Of his whole life
70 be placed in opposition to what was called In,
regular nomination of che party with which he
had heretofore acted. He would not have been
candidate bad IL not been for the solicitation of
Col Beret HIMSELF who had promised him his
earnest support.
After abiding to the frauds-the stuffng OF the
ballot bex with nests OF twenty Berret tickets in
one, Sc,-which were perpetreted by the Berret
men at the meeting held In that 1.-THE irst) ward
Tor the election of delegates to the MayoraIty Con
TentiOn, he saidS
In the Seventh Ward the same foul practises
YER no, cniy attempted, but they succeeded.
whe1 sworn affidavit to that fact was prod need
teere. the Pettifogging lawyer and manager for
tat berret put In the special plea that that sworn
dhdavlt had not signature 10 Il, though there
was the magistrates signature tina, 1t had been
sworn to before him. Now, would that certificate
have been better without an oath and with a sig
he was determined to take advantage of a little
quibeie, which would have done in court of
criminal jurisprudence, and he thought he was
IN one Laughter He thought that he us
trying his friend (Mr Berret and the nrsten.,ons
OF that convention TO a legal and fair existence,
and therefore he put in the bubble that that owl
uence ought not to be admitted in q criminal
court Had that testimony been admitted; had
the first election been fairly held In the Sew
eDth Ward, Mr. Berfet's delegates wonId bavs
Oeen nO Os 1eI daughter Had the same
wards and his police been kept out of the yrav
tlaughtesl and the people allowed to vote who are
entitled to vote and nobody else the nomin nation
OF That convention would have hsen q unjt I,
would all have been against him
VOW, my friends, You all remember four wears
ago, when another Individual held the Nave,
ATTY mat when primary election for Mayor.
ATTY Convention was about to be held that IN was
held In this city in one night and no buman
being living, not notified through the public
papers ana interested,-nO stranger coming into
TINS CITY would have known that an electio1 vvas
going on, everything was SO peaceabIe So orde,IT,
SO quiet, and so becoming a city governed Nv,
laws and impartial police. ICres of iGood y ana
cneers l hold my friends, and have main
alhed as well heretofore as now, and endeavored
70 impress those who were under my control with
the iact that whenever an individual accepts The
PosluOh OF policeman, he becomes an umpire
between his fellow-men, and in DOING So he Tn,
TENDERS all of his political rights excent tha ss
rlght TO vote. that he has no more business hejno
part san than he has Of interfering with the votes
no
and Interesting his feelings and interferi5s, n - '
discussions of others, for this or that cand idat
THAN be has in an open violation of law i'm anv
other way. 4" any
ana mas any knowledge of the facts that have ~.
Gently tranSpired in this city, knows verv yuaIl
that every police officer in this city, not cnly on
the day Of election, but since that nrim slc,i
ana before that primary election who chose 10 DO
50, was an active Pdrtizan; and that tbey had been
I n3l lnto hrget company [laughterl for no
JILL lesson man 10 BRING them closer together
every now and then, that they might have tbeii
political duties the more closely instilled into
their ears A Voice--"That's so NJ They have
oern betting upon elections; they have been bet
unS against this candidate and that candidate.
they have been allowed to talk when makin1
their Official reports, about who was likely To he
tne candidate, ana what was likely to be the con-
sequences Of this or that individuals election.
and with one observation have been particularIy
Impressed, and which seemed to be univerSa1
among them, and that was, that IL I was elected
theY Were all TO be dismissed Laughter and
applause ] They were made to nnderstand that
they were working for their bread: ICries of
That's so,n and cheers, and 1t has been incuI
Saleu upon tneh, as can prove, that the Mayor
was ieeding them, and that il was ungrateful for
them 70 oppose the election of that man from
whom they We're deriving so many benefits
great many harsh things have been said
about me In this canvass, and AMONGST them Ali I
have heard Of but one single truth And that
truth was, that If Were elected the police would
all be dismissed. daughter A voice That's
pretty good, oy Cd And that truth they hit
upon by accident, and thought they were Iying
when they said it. Laughter and cheers Nv
If1endS, have come here particularly 10 main
.aaa I'M, my own reputation: and my own character;
ana the nonor and Integrity Of my administration
OF the affairs Of the city In the first place il has
been claimed by Mayor Berret himself and his
friends that he established the order Of the CITY;
that his administration put down rowdyism
Now somebody, a assure you In all trutb and
honor do not know who,) has prepared a state
ment OF tue police expenditures of the last four
years ana published it In the Star newspaper
there You have them. I went into the Mayoralty
IA time OF greater political excitement than has
ever before existed in this city, believe nobody
VIII gainsay that, whether he is politically or
personally friend or foe. "a voice-"That's
SO , That not only in this CITY, but all over
this country, spirit Of lawlessness violence
and rioting had been engsndered. which had
kaown no parallel In the previous history Of this
A Voice.-That's Just what saw Laughter
ct II you Will look at that statement you will
ma that In the first year Of my term I spent less
money in the support Of police than any of my
predecessors, and five times less than nv inme
date successor did in his first year Laughter |
And yet that statement is all true. You will find
that IN The second year Of my Mayoralty rather
larger sum was expended; but II was because il
was found 10 he necessary to rake a determined
obstinate, and effective resistance not only To the
rowdyism OF our own city, but to certain i'm
ported rowdies, who had been brouyht here from
Baltimore 70 control the elections arm sorry t.
say, upon the Democratic side. Brought here
without any knowledge or agency OF mfne-In,
whom IL took more TO control than all the neonIs
Of Washington besde-men whom were fostered
q my own certain knowledge by individuals hi IA
In authority, attached to the Democratic party
not high in authority in the city government now
however. will say-and not in authority in the
city government then at all.
On my successors coming into Office although
the Jail was full Of certain individuals some Of
whom are now In the penitentiary; others Of whom
have expiated their crimes upon the gallows; al
though the city had been partially quiet for
months, the very first act of his ADM nistration
was to call upon the City Councils to very largely
increase the police force, and TO give him the
Chief Of Police at a salary Of two thousand dol
lars year, who was 70 do precisely what he
Mayor Magruder) had done, and who, how
ever, has failed ever 20 do IT, "A voice
That's SOL And In looking round In this
community for an Individual to I'LL this impor-
tant trust al this tme-of great public necessity
Is he proclaimed, when the sIfety Of mems lives
and property required an increase Of the police
who did he fall upon, An individual dismissed
from Office by Mayor Maury, the most amiable-
the noblest the most honest, the best man of all
men I ever saw who was a politician, the very
best Mayor MaurY never dismissed ANYBODY from
Office, except this very same John II. 6 GODDARD and
be had dismissed him, first from the chiefship of
the day police, and then from the chiefship Of the
night police. This man, who bad charge of the
police until II was so thoroughly corrupted that