Daily Republican., 1879-09-03
FIRST EDITION.

| FIRST EDITION.
| THE ELECTION.
II wss Csnaasted-A stupsn-
s..s Fsree-sesne Of tho Police
Help Alssg the Rspeaters.
Tho election yesterday, Tuesday, was
ma Of those queer medley CONFORMS, 10
saicnlous al that to call It . fair one
,onld bs but . huge burlssqus. As
~ very we'll known there we're many
b.nnblicsns that took but little inter
n in the election, not being very anx-
ana even TO get possession Of the City
,onncil In the condition to which the
nsmocrsts had reduced 1t by financial
management.
There was also . total lack Of Ward
Ircsnisstion which is so essential to
u,cpss, while the Democrats were new
!, batter organised. 1t was we'll known
,ovsysr, that many Of the better class
i democrats had become dissatisfied
itb their party's management and
ould vote with the Republicans for =
h,nrs. This inspired the later with
oms hope Of success especially - II
H known that Messrs. Lichtenstein
nd Vincent were popular and were
p,king an active canvass for their re-
lection.
/, was not discovered, however, that
lucb farce WAS to be enacted, or they
IOuld probably have left the election
! BY defsult against them. In some
the wards the election Was conducted
uistly and with commendable fairness,
ut in many of the wards there was
csrcsly show Of fairness. s~' b.
This was most notably the case in
he Eighth and Ninth wards, and the
,sstern district Of the Third ward
hs violence at the Eighth ward polls
nd the effect to intimidate the colorcd
otsrs, aud 1t was apparent soon after
be- polls opened that no colored men
ould vote there. e ~ 4
Two colorsd men came up TO vote at
hess polls, having tax receipts paid
ithin the required time by law and in
very other respect were qualified vot-
rs, but the Democratic Inspector deci-
ed that because their names were not
b the assessment for the present year,
Ind 80 these colored men were deprived
their votes. .....-. ,lg-
Another oolorsd man who had re-
bovsd to the Eighth ward from New
|sstIs, on the twenty.ffth Of March,
Though his tax receipt was all right,
as refused his vote. This led to .
isturbance in which blows were freely
zchanged, and some pistols drawn
10 more colored men voted after that.
Several arrests we're made, the on
sr every time rushing in, being sure
haul ont q Republican. Democrats
pmmenced to vote here early in the
hsrnoon, and Mr.. McMenamin's coach
Jas kept busy, the old veteran Demo.
lat giving the movement in his behalf
is personal supervision. 1t seemed to
b generally understood that all who
Isrs refused votes in the Republican
Yards, where there were Republicans
nspectors, would have no trouble in
hs Eighth. '
Later in the day many Of the police
box an active hand in eleotioneering
|atrolman Dowlin being active in
Ringing in tagging Democrats to the
Vestern District of the Fifth Ward.
he Western districts Of the Third and
fifth Wards were favorite electioneer-
pg grounds for Sergeant Dolan.
The Sergeant raised quite a rumpus
I the Western District of the Third
Yard by swearing in repeater who he
|ad just brought down from the Fifth
Yard polls where he had before voted.
be more respectable Democrats were
Bhamed of the conduct Of the police
pd the leaders Of the party, and it
las the general expression that never
efers was such farce Of an election
eld in Wilmington.
Boys from 1S to 20 years of age had
trouble whatever in getting receipts
I'D their votes were taken without
hallenge. The reporters Of the RR-
rBLlcAS were ubiquitous in their Of
rts to collect news, and the following
10 few Of the incidents they Cleaned
their visits to the different voting
aces. ....-.4 49, - .,
FIRST WARD.
In the First Ward at four O'Clock
plngs were quiet. The interest mani
sted was slight, the vote being one
ded. -.......,
sECOND WARD.
Here 1t was little better. Quite a
lumber Of drunken and dissolute indi