Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1880-10-18

Seventh Ward Republican club, whiCl
meets over the A. q. N. P. church, o,
Tenth street, near Shiplsy, was set fr'
10 by member Of one Of the campaign
clubs, and in @ few minutes it was all
ablaze and the window frame to which
/. was fastened also caught FRI. A hose
was attached to the plug In front Of tb'
Friendship engine house, and strHam
of water was directed RpoA the burning
window.
Just then q portion Of tho Martin
club with lighted torches marohsi uI
Market street, and discovering thu
crowd suddenly wheeled around and
proceeded ont Tenth street. As they
approached the fremsn a rush was
made and the hose was wrested from
their grasp.
The stream was Immediately diract-
ed at thu crowd and then pointed g.
tie A. U. n. P. church for the pur-
pose, 8 by-stander remarked, Of flood
ipg 1t out. The doors we're burst open
and bricks were thrown at the windows.
When the Hremen wers about 10 stop
of the water q number Of police officers
came running up and the members Of
the Martin club uncermoniously fed.
Owing 10 the persuasions of the police
men the crowd dispersed. The officers
then proceeded along Orange street to
Eleventh where crowd Of oolored men
armed with guns, had congregated.
They were ordered BY the colored men
10 halt, and the object Of their visit
was demanded. Only one policeman
was allowed 10 approach and offer an
explanation. This was done by Ser.
geant Lsgg, who explained matters
and afterwards the throng dispersed,
AK INcENDlAEY RPERcH.
About l o'clock Sunday morning, af-
ter the exciting scenes above chroni.
cled had taken place, the mob hsvinS
iB q measure quisted down, large
crowd gathered in front of the City
Hall. 1t was composed in large part
of the men who had taken active part
in the disturbances. Martin Farrell
the Democratic candidate for Levy
Court, terribly excited, mounted
the stone steps and proceeded to haran-
que the crowd in the most incendiary
manner. Those Of eur citizens, who
heard him address the workingmen's
meeting here some years ago, for which
he was 80 vigorously denounced BY the
Democratic papers, say that his address
was much more calculated to excite the
passions of his hearers than was the
harrangue at the gathering Of laborers
when Mayor Whiteley had to call in
the police and disperse the crowd. He
declared that the Democrats had met
the negroes on an equality, that they
hsd been villainously assaulted without
cause or provooation. He was in favor
of returning TO the attack and sweeping
them from the city-of meeting fire
with fre and wreakiug summary ven-
geauce upon the negroes.
He was going on in this manner as
only hs can, and the excited crowd of
desperate men was becoming complete
| " carried away by the infismmatory
sentiments, while curses deep and bit
ter mixed with threstsOf vengeance
were heard on all sides. At this point
he was pulled down by friends and
compelled to hush while the crowd dis
persed.
Farrell still endeavored to urge the
crowd TO return and burn all the ne
groes out, or they would beat them at
the polls in November. 1t was only
his friends who then hustled him
away that prevented a second riot.
Many persons are found who believe
the Democrats had previously made up
their minds TO
ATTACK THB EpGRoRe
at this point, and there Is ample
ground for such belief. A number of
trust worthy citizens heard the mem
bers of one or two OF the more riotous
clubs declare before the parade started
that they would tear ont" the hall.
And some Of the officers Of the parade
feared as much. Assistant Marshal
Kane, when he asked the Chief Mar
shal not 10 parade past Ninth and Wal
nut streets, said he was sure If the me-
groes did not attack the parade the
marching clubs would attack them.
A fact quite significant, in view OF
this, was the presence OF many men,
bsrs of the Hickory Club in the mob.
They could easily be distinguished by
the peculiar hickory clubs, constituting
a part Of their equipment, which they
carried. This club left the line of
parade at Front and Madison streets,
ostensibly to 60 to headquarters and
dispsrse. A large number Of them
simply donned citizens coats to prevent
observation, and went across town to
Ninth and Walnut streets, remaining
In the eighborhood until the balance
of the column came along and the fight
took place. II this elub was present,
as charged, and the fact that enc or two
of its members were shot In the melee
Riyes color to the suspicion that they
were, then it looks very much as II the
fight was precipitsted by the whites,
Tor this organic alton has been noted for
its riotous conduct, having assaulted
the last Republican parade and stoned
the Bird Guards two weeks ago IS they
came in from the Rockland dsmonstHa"
tion.
srArEMusrs ABOUT TEE CAUSE.
C. K. Montgomery and W. o'Connor,
Jr., OF the Young Mems Democratic
club say that the cause Of the riot was
a shot through their own transparency
and q brick through that Of the Blue
Hens Chickens. O'Connor says he
heard at 4 c'clOsk that afternoon that
the line was to be attacked al Ninth
aud Walnut streets. He and Mont
Romery say shot came from the windows
and roof OF the building.
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