Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-11-01
UNDER WHICH FLAG?|
Anarchist Rag" Beside "Old
 Glory" Caused a Riot.
RED BANNER TEEW YORK CITY HALL
Adherents of w. H. Hearst, MayoraIty Candidate, Made Raid on Ensign Displayed by Tammany Hall
 Politicians.

NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-Two thousand shouting, cheering people thronged about Park row, swarmed up the steps at city hall here, calling loudly for Mayor Mcclellan to come out and hur- rahing for William R. Hearst, candi. date for mayor of New York on the Municipal Ownership platform.
 The disturbance assumed the propor- tions of a riot, and it was only by strenuous and persistent work that the police succeeded in keeping the crowd under control.
 Enraged over the display of new banner showing an American flag and a red rag marked Anarchy, with the caption Under Which Flag" crowd of Hearst supporters attempted to haul down the objectionable banner.
 The reserves from the Third, Fifth and Sixth precincts had to be called out, and an alleged ringleader of the Hearst following was arrested and re- manded on the charge of disorderly conduct
 The prisoner gave his name at the city hall station as William Houston, a blacksmith. Nobody knows who is re- sponsible for flying the banner, but the supporters of Hearst declared that Tammany Hall knew all about it.
 The banner was strung across Park row in what is known as Printing House square, between the Benjamin Franklin monument and the driveway of the city hall.
 The banner when flung to the breeze created such intense excitement among the Hearst adherents that speakers were immediately sent for to address an open air Hearst meeting to protest \ against what was termed dirty cam | paign methods
 While one of the speakers was dem- onstrating for gathering of thou, sand or more how Tammany was de- termined to win by means fair or foul the Hearstites became so incensed that they made a rush toward the banner.
 There were not more than half a dozen police in the vicinity at the time, and these were unable to cope with the I angry crowd until Roundsman Martin Conlln of the city hall precinct came on run with his reserves. Blacksmith Houston by this time had shinned up about fifteen feet of one of the poles and had a huge. jackknife between his teeth
 The crowd was then so thick as to completely block the trolley car service along Park row, and the cheers that greeted the blacksmith urged him to hasten his intended work. Patrolman James Sullivan started to climb the pole to get the blacksmith, and hun dred voices shouted in chorus:
 Let him alone. Let us do up Tam hk maDgI" iDodp d5a
 Sullivan called to Houston to come down, which the blacksmith reluctant Iy did. He was then placed under ar rest, and the noisiest kind of cheer ing, hooting crowd followed him to the station house, where he was charged with attempting to "tear down flag, with collecting a crowd and with being disorderly. He was subsequently re leased on bail, which was furnished by an admlrer of William R. Hearst.
 Later the banner was taken dowr amid shouts from crowd which stil hung about it. c. E. Murphy, tho Tammany leader, had issued the order and at the same time he gave out thu following statement:
 There is no comment to make fur ther than to state that the banner makers made mistake in the arrange ment of the flags"