Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-11-04
baltimore CrlneI

POLITICAL SUCCESS BY FRAUD AND VIOLENCE
SHAMEFUL ourRAGEs ny THE RING G-BALTIMoRE
DELIVERED TO THE OUTLAWS FOR THE DAY.
baltimore, November3.
The following is the Anerican's leading edi-
torial article, this morning
HOW THE RING TnIUMPHED.
The second day OF November, 1876, will long
be remembered AZ dark and bloody day in the
history Of Baltimore Justice vacated her seat,
the law WAS thrown aside, and for twelve hours
ruilansm ruled the city, the legally constituted
authorities making no resistance In many of
the wards police officers encouraged and assisted
the thieves, bummers and murderers whom the
Ring had commissioned to do its work. Such
SHAMELESS PROSTITUTION OF OFFICIAL POSITION,
such utter disregard of the rights OF the citizen,
such absence of the commonest impulses OF hu-
manity never were paraeled in any civilized
land. Ii the city had been captured by hos
tile army there would have more regard for the
lives OF our people than was shown yesterday by
those who, through appointment of the Ring,
claim to be conservators Of the peace. In order
to afford the
MURDER0Us sCoUNDRELs WHOM THE RING
has enlisted in its service pretext for intmdat-
ing and assaulting the colored voters who VEN
tufed to approach the polls, it was given out in
advance that the city was filed with colored
repeaters," who had been brought here to vote
the Reform ticket. Every decent man in Balti-
more knew that the story WAS malicious lie in
vented by the Ring, and that it was pnt in crcu-
lation on Monday for the purpose OF giving the
bioodthirsty sconndrels, who had bargained with
the Ring managers to give their candidate for
Governor twenty thousand majority III the city,
All excuse for beginning an
oNsIAuoHT ON THE CoLoRED PEOPLE
ON the evening before the election, 30 AZ to in
timldate them and prevent them from coming to
V.ptt Tn. ,.s.t.. faa .H La1
made even to bring home such absent colored
citizens as were clearly entitled to vote they
had been entirely neglected in the new regstra-
ton, and thousands of those who had been en-
rolled in former years were wrongfnlly stricken
from the lists by the
CORRUPT TOOLS OF THE RING
who acted as Registers. The colored vote was
at its minimum; the Reformers had scarcely ta-
ken it into account in estimating their strength,
aud during the whole campaign the colored cti-
liens had taken no active part. Nevertheless the
Ring masters concluded that five thousand col
ored voters must be prevented from lvoting or
they would lose the city and the State in spite of
all that they could do in tho way of
''REPEATING" AND BAIIoT-Box sTUFF1No.
This work was entrusted to the Ring ruflans
OF the several wards, and with the assistance OF
the police they executed it thoroughly.
On Monday night every coored man that was
seen on the streets was called a repeater, and
morning the rntians appeared at the voting pre-
cincts to which they had been assigned, and with
the old cry of ''repeater" knocked down any col
ored voter that dared approach the polls. These
brutal and
MURDEIoUs ASSAULTS WERE KEPT uP
during the whole day in some Of the wards, the
police either remaining entirely inactive or as
sisting the rowdies Whenever any Considers
BILE body Of colored men got into line and at
tempted to reach the polling window in turn they
were assailed with pistols, clubs and stones, and
matter of course, they ran away, some OF
them seriously wounded and all OF them terri
bly, frightened In the afternoon the colored
people having ceased to attempt to vote,
THE RUrrIASs ORGANIZED INTO GANas,
aud marched from ward to ward trying to incte
riots, and beating all the negroes they chanceu
to meet.
But the hired ruliians OF the Ring did not ex-
pend all their malice on the colored voters.
Hundreds of white Reformers who dared to pro-
test against the frauds which were unblushingly
perpetrated by the mnions OF the ring were
knocked down and beaten, the police encourag-
ing rather than preventing the assaults. In the
lower wards Of the city the
nEroRMEns ABANDONED THE CONTEST
early in tho day, and the runians were left to
count the votes and fix the majority to suit
themselves. At some Of the precincts they re-
| turned twice as many votes as were actually
| cast for their candidates but they might nave
made the ma jorities five times as large wlthouI
encountering the least opposition. keformers
were afraid to be seen standing about the polls,
and they prudently went home.
| In our local columns will be found truthful
account OF such Of the dsgraceful incidents OF
the day as came under the personal notice OF
the reporters OF The american.
| TIE HISTORICAL "PLUd UdLIEs"
never were guilty of more brutal outrages o.
colossal frauds than were yesterday perpetrated
by the roughs of the Ring No doubt there are
| men in the city claiming TO be gentlemen WHO
will exut over the bloody exploits OF these uii,
tanned tigers, but every honorable man VIII
| hang his head in shame at the very mention oi
"Carrolls victory" The thrilling narrative
furnished by our reporters shows how the We,
tory" was won, and the returns from the seyera
wards contain in themselves conclusive evidence
Of the ballot-box stui1ing and " n cnmuiatlve n
counting" by which population of 3O0,O was
made to cast a vote OF 6O,O0O.