The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-11

Democracy OF the Fourth ward. III was bad enough |
that the negro should be disenthraed, but when he
was made coequal politically with the law-abidng
and loyal denzens OF the Fourth, patience had
ceased to be virtue, and the breast Of each and
every Democrat swelled with righteous indignation
They vowed that at least I'm the Eighth precinct, no
ignoble son of Ham should have ghost OF a chance
No sooner, then, was the line formed than "Mully"
he of the valiant 'Moya'-paraded up and down
its length with an Alexander Selkrk look in his mild
would disrupt the line and a colored voter would
directly find himself in the street or at the ta-end
of the procession to the polls.
BILLY M'MULLIN WHIPPED.
'Mully," however, went too far. There was in the
line dusky freeman by the name OF Thomas Hall.
Muly grabbed him with, "Come out here, you -
Whereupon Hall made no verbal response, but
drawing back huge arm administered a smashing
blow to Mullys face, which keeled Billy the Great
upon the pavement.
MVliy jumped up, struck out wildly with his left,
and again was persuaded to return to dust by an
equally forcibe blow.
Being however, overpowered, Hall was captured
and taken to the Fifth District Station. The effect
of the skirmish was salutary and thereafter more
disturbances occurred.
THE NOTORIOUS EIGHTH DIVISION OF THE FoUrrI
WARD
In this division, the abode Of McMullin the Great,
the election js passing Off in much the usual way,
with the accompaniments Of fight or similar trou-
bic every now and then by way OF variety. The
great Nc himself early in the day so far forgot him
self as to engage in personal encounter with
gentleman of color, as narrated above.
In this division the colored voters voted early in
the day, and by nine O'Clock scarcely a coored man
colored men was formed Immediately ON the open
ing Of the poll and the heaviest coored vote was
cot Sne hron9S this po G as well as at
all the others in the downtown wards, a large
poster was placed in conspicuous place. of which
the following is copy:-
"Beware of the
CoLoRED REPEATBRs!
They have been engaged to disranchise you. They
y VOTE EARLY AND OFTEN.
W THEMi
hey are the ignorant tools Of corrupt politicians"
tConSidering the source from which this poster
politcians is particularly good The line 'tVote early
and oftep" being in the largest characters, and vsl
pie at distance where the rest OF the poster conld
not be read, looked very much like command. The
total coored voting population In this division is 1884,
and this number was very nearly all in during the
first hour. The stickers around this poll seemed to
have been but little DISTURBED, nearly every one
voting straight ticket on either one side or the
other. The colored voters nearly all came prepared
with their votes in their pocket and did not depend
upon what they might obtain at the polls. BY this
means they satisfied their own minds that the whole
thing was right.
With the exception of the aldermanic affair, there
was but little fighting early in the day but from
present appearances, and Judging from the rate at
which old rye and the like was being imbibed, there
is a fair prospect of trouble before the day is well
over. One little colored damsel, playing with COM
panion on doorstep, was heard exutingy to re-
mark that it was "going to be terrible tonight.
Won't there be some fun, thought" Probably there
will for those who like it. There were but few
policemen at this poll.
When they showed themselves. which was at long
intervals they kept the other side Of the street.
Perhaps they thought that there were enough
friends already there to watch things and that their
presence was more needed at other points, as indeed
1t was. At other downtown polls a good police
force was In attendance during the entire morning.
The vote up to IL O'Clock was a strong Democratic
majority, which was to be expected, and Washing
ton Square was the favorite site almost to a man.
This, however, was the case in all the lower dvi-
sions.
In the Ninth DIVISION another Democratic strong
whatever The .colored voting population here is
100, and this, as in the Eighth division, was nearly
all in during the first hour. The colored line was vas
6S bSstnren. a but - went in with them the to
at this place. on being interviewed, expressed great
sorrow to see these "hulkiug nIggers standing in
line with white men, just as if they were as good
:, sit does, indeed: II we're Republican I'd turn
right round and vote @ the DemoeTatlc S ticket IN
where white and colored men were standing
side by side taking their bitters. No one here ap
peared to think OF the ncongruity of the two races
being in the same line If it Is ali right in the one
instance, why may it not be in the othe?
A WOMAN IN TROUBLE.
In the Third division of the Fifth ward colored
man was arrested, on the charge Of voting twice.
The officer who arrested him, starting to take the
man to the station, was assaulted by eoored
woman, who collared the officer and attempted to
| rescue the man.
With the help of other officers both parties were
taken In charge, and THIS woman was doubled up In
a sheet and carried to the station The officer whom
the woman colared had his shirt severely damaged
by the ASSAULT
AT this division the colored line during the whole
merning was enormous the number of colored
voters being so great. white man here was the
| off, waiting for the colored men to get through
| when they also intend TO go in and perhaps win.
| They have had pretty long wait.
The Twelfth Ward.
In most OF the precincts OF the above ward the
vote is light compared with that OF last year. Very
little excitement prevails and, indeed, both Demo-
Gratis and Republicans manifest little activity In
the Fifth division there about 65 colored voters
registered. This morning 55 Of them marched to the
poll and deposited the straight Republican ticket
| not scratch among them. Although the vote Il
light the Republicans are, up to IL A. M doing well
MT Myers Is receiving good support, aud the re
pubcans expect to return for that candidate fail
| majority.
Contrary to general expectation, there was very
| little scratching done MIR. Bum has fallen very
| little behind his ticket and the same is true OF
| Messrs. Leeds and Lynd. Among the Democrats
pre- vailed throughout the ward there not being
single disturbance. In the vote for the site OF the
| new public buildings Penn Square has heavy ma
| jorfty.
| The indications up TO ~ O'Clock to-day are that
the vote OF the above ward will be SMALL when the
| increased registration is taken into consideration
In the Sixth and Thirteenth precincts the balotng
| compared with last year, was very weak. In the
Second division, however, in which section there
are 140 ooored voters, the Republicans, OF course
made very handsome advance ON their Demo
| cratic friends. A good vote is being polled fol
| the Congressional candidates, and Genera
Thomas is receiving much better support than was
anticipated, but the ballOting so far Is not calcu
lated 10 affect materially the prospects of Judge
| Kelley. General Thomas is not receiving as many
| Democratic votes as he expected aud the cutting
| OF Mr.. Kelley by Republicans has not been as eX
| tensive many were disposed TO imagine. All the
Republican candidates are receiving excellent sup
port The utmost good order prevailed. The vote
for the site OF the new public buildings was abou
ahree to one in favor OF Penn Square.
sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nine
| IeenIh Wards.