Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-11-01
MOB HOO7ED
BANNER DOWN.
Anarchist Rag Beside 'OId
Glory Caused Riot Was Put
Up By Tammany.

NEW YORK. Nov. 1.-Two thousand
shouting. cheering people tlronged
about Park row. swarmcd up the steps
ut city hail here. calling loudly for
Mayor Mcclellan 10 come out and hur-
raining for William X. Hearst, candi-
date FOR mayor of New York on the
Municipal Ownership platform.
The disturbance assumed the proper
tiOns OF Il 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 Il new
banner showing I'm American flag and
Il red rag" marked Anarchy, with the
caption Under Which Flagl' Il 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-
mnnded on the charge of disorderly
conduct.
The prisoner gave his name ut the
city han station as William Houston, Il
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 SEM for TO address
mn open air Hearst meeting TO protest
against what was termed dirty cam
paign methods th
While one of the speakers was dem
onstrtting for Il gathering of IL thou
sand or more how Tammany was de-
termined to win by mean fair or foul
the IIearstites became SO incensed that
they made Il rush toward the banner.
There were not more than half a
dozen police in the vicinity at the time.
and these were unabld to cope with the
angry crowd until Roundsman Martin
Conlin Of the city hall precinct came
on n run with his reserves. Blacksmith
Houston by this time had Skinned up
about fifteen feet of one of the poles
and had Il huge jackknife between his
teeth.
The crowd was then SO thick rs 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 90 get the blacksmith, and Il hun
bred voices shouted III chorus:
Let him alone. Let US do up Tam
many
Sullivan called to Houston to come
down. which the blacksmith reluctant
~ did. He was then placed under ar
rest, and the noisiest kind of Il cheer
ing. hooting crowd followed him to the
station house, where he was charged
With attempting TO tear down Il flag"
with collecting a crowd and with being
disorderly. He was subsequently re-
lelSeu Oh pdll, Which Was LuthiNuci ny
an admirer of William II. Hearst.
Later the banner was taken down
amid shouts from Il crowd which still
hung about it. c. H.. Murphy. the
Tammany leader, had issued the order,
and at the same time he gave out the
following statement:
'''rlere is no comment to make fur-
Their than to state that the banner
makers made Il mistake in the arrange
ment Of the tlag3."