, 1880-10-31
MAYOR HARR1soN's APPEAL FOB v1o-
IENCE

OF the men who have held the Office or
Mayor of Chicago, there has been but one
who ever appealed to the public to resort
~ mob violence at an election, to break the
public peace, or destroy life and property.
We have already referred. to Mayor llarrl-
sons bulldozing the police into mere party
strikers or adjuncts Of the Democratic Com
mittee, and to lls appointn,ont of. force Of
600 special POLICEMEN, !" sail Democrats. :"
Mayor Harrison, whose sworn duty as the
Executive Of the city is to maintain the pub
lie peace, preserve ORDER; ;Tepress violence,
and maintain the laws, addressed a public
meeting at Maskeil hall .on Friday night,
which il reported in the morning Democratic
paper of Saturday. THE meeting is described
as the largest political meeting ever held in
the Ninth Ward,' and was called to hear
speeches from Mayor Harrison and Gen.
Farnsworth.' The report of Mayor Har-
rison's speech recites that
lie called upon his hearers to 60 enrly to the
polls on next Tuesday, and, If tno Hepubifca'i
Supervisors, Marshals, Depnty Sher,Hs, Judges,
hn!enEers, or any QUE c!se begun the bulldog
ing business on tlletn or their friends, and ut
tempted by intimidation " otherwise to dis
franchise them, tc,. to breu do1un the doors tcur
Ssa Sa" S aa @ he tas a II ;ssve ss& areat R 's and
loud cheering =.
This is the incendiary. language Of the
Mayor Of Chicago. Denis Kearney In his
widest moments never urged his deluded
followers in more intanmatory language.
Here was not only advice, but d direction,
from the Mayor Of the city to assault the
polling-places, "break down the. doors, tear
down the building, take the ballot-box, put
in their ballots, and run tile poll themselves" "
Was, there ever more mobocratic language
used by the vilest scoundrcl that ever sought
to incite mob to violence and crime7 Had
such language been used by an unofficial
person it would have been villainous enough;
but coming. from the Mayor Of the cit y, SUR
rounded with 1000 regular and special
armed policemen, it was doubly Infamous
and disgraceful. -
WHAT'S the pretended fear Of this man,
who has certainly becomes crazed? Has he
the ambition to put himself at the head OF
mob to break up the election and plunge this
city into general riot, bloodshed' and con-
aagratlon? !:
Here is the machinery Of the election:
l. Three judges Of election ut each poll,
one a Democrat, frequently two or thfee'
and in the nggregate mord than one-third be-
ing Democrats.
2. Two clerks at each p9ll, one a Democrat
.. Two challengers at each poll, one
Democrat. k
4. Two Supervisors at each poll, one a
Democrat,
S. One thousand policemen, regulars and
specials, all armed, and "all Democrats"
e. Three hundred sherif's Deputies nc:
publicans.: =, r.: =.
Tint is the official machinery distributed
among 145 voting precincts: VINO IS TO oo
the fighting? In the face of this overwhelm-
ing Democratic force this crazy man (for it's
charity to suppose he is crazed) appeals to
the Ignorant, vicious, and criminal among
his followers to permit no defeat Mt the polls,
but, if necessary, to break down, the doors VI
the polling-places tear down: the buildings,
seize the ballot-boxes, deposit the ballots, and
run the polls themselvesl Does any person
suppose that this advice-nay, absolute dlrec-
tlon-of the Mayor can be carried out without
resistance, without violence, without 4
struggle and bloodslled, which. once oe-
gun by order Of the Mayor. must
become general? Who ever before heard OF
a mob or riot with the Mayor at its head:
Here is this man, holding the authority OF
Mayor; telling this ward crowd oaat II tneS !
10 these things they do so by his auFlee as
Mayor, and that he, as Mayor VIII oeicho
,l,d protect them while they sack the pollhe-
,laces, seize the baliot-boxes, and run tne
oolls themselves. p
II there be riot and mob at any OF the
,olls on Tuesday next, the ignorant and de-
uded men who are. expected to perform TINS
,iolcnce will not be the really guilty criml-
lals. The responsibility for the crime VIII
,e on the man who officially. as Mayor OF the
;t,, odv;cod +ham tn vio}puce advised them |