Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-20

he pOiltltdl lellHpiIt rose " NuS On
plostve point In Baltimore when the
local elections of 1857 oc-
Riots in Cured, and in The Star of
October Is is a news ar
ticle telling OF sensational
happenings in that city the day before:
"Of course the city of Baltimore, where
none but Americans are on guard could
not hold an election, however insignia
cant. without boodshed, and nobody is
surprised to find the Baltimore papers of
this morning crammed with details of
shooting, rioting and of prompt sup
preston of the exercise of the (all in
your eye) right of suffrage. when at
tempted to be exercised by any but the
dominant party Wherever the 'Ameri-
cans had it all their own way Chat is,
mob possession OF the polls) they gra-
ciously were quiet. Thus We are told
by the Sun:
At an early hour in the morning It
was evident that there would be trouble
in some Of the wards, but that was
obvated by the withdrawal of some o.
the democratic candidates. In the first
ward there was but little opposition Of
fered to the majority and beside few
skirmishes there was no trouble. In the
second ward it was stated that the demo-
Gratis were excluded from the polls. but
there was not much violence. At half
past o'clock there was a cry for the
boys to rally and they gave pursuit to
man who ran up Canal street and finally
escaped by jumping through a cellar win
dow and going by way of Eden street.
The crowd In pursuit were armed with
new and bright barreied horse pisto,s,
most of which were fired at the party
running, without, however, reaching him.
In the third ward there was some fight
ing with fists at an early hour in the
morning, but afterward all was quiet
In the fifth ward a sanguinsry conflict
took place and Police officer Jourdan
was shot and soon after expired. after
the ARRAY the democratic candidate with
drew from the contest and the democratic
judge left TIE polls. Afterwad al was
quiet until the closing of the polls. In
the sixth ward the democratic voters
were excluded from the polls as soon as
the judges took their seats A man at
tempted to vote, but was hurt badly
about the head. Shortly after the demo-
cratic candidate withdrew and all be-
came quiet"
The country was steadily coming to
realize that hard times were in prospect
half a century ago, all
Hard signs pointing to a gener-
ally depressing effect of the
ies money stringency, which
had been growing tighter for several
weeks. In The Star of October &c. 1851,
is an editorial sn the subject, which. after
noting the fact that manufacturing estab
lishments In the north were laying off
their hands in considerable numbers, pro-
ceeds thus:
LAS they are located in consid erable
bodies In the northern cities and manu-
featuring towns and villages it is clear to
,t,.I ,tr,r To 70,
a series of bread riots in the course OF the
winter, certainly unparalleled in it's his
tory. II not in that Of Europe; riots
wherein the sympathy of all at a distance
must and will be with the unfortunate
helping themselves by violence to the
means of preserving life, because their
unfortunate situation will be by no means
the result of any wrong doing of their
own. 1t is utterly impossible that the
BUSINESS condition of the country can be
so changed as to afford work for these
people ere the opening of the spring; for
the effect of the panic, In preventing mer
chants and consumers from buying, can
not fail to last month, for every week
during which it may exist from first to
last. In New York the apprehended dan
ger of bread riots Is already 50 great that
many are preparing to carry their fami-
lies beyond the reach of danger from
them"
The business troubles appear to have
been early and severely felt by the print
ers of the north, as an ar
Migrant ticle in The Star of Oc
tober II, 1857. indicates:
We regret to say that
the current financial troubles bid fair to
fall with perhaps more disastrous weight
upon the printers than on any other
branch Of mechanics. Book publishing
everywhere in the north is coming fast to
a standstill In New York on Saturday
evening last seven hundred journeymen
printers lost their situations, and our
private advices say that tonight quite as
many more will be thrown out of en-
ployment there, while in Boston, Cincin-
natl, Philadelphia and Baltimore the book
publishing business will speedily be
brought to q close for the time being.
During the crash of 1887 the effect on the
interests of the craft was very similar,
and it did not recover from it for four
years That ephemeIal newspapers, too,
must stop in such times as we are about
to have Is very certain; for people will
not buy anything they can fairly do with
out 'or the time being. We shall in
Washington more palpabe evidence of
the condition of the times in the multi
tude of journeymen printers out OF work
flocking hither for employment in print
ing OHlCeS doliis SoNeI HliitHt Wolh IMAM
in all else besides. In the most prosper
Gus times they come hither to that end
in undue numbers for the interest of
their fellowcraftsmen. who rarely fail to
aid such of them pecuniarily as are in
want here In the numbers in which
they bid fair to flock to the federal me-
tropolis next winter to get work (under
the patronage of members of Congress-
they are likely. we fear, to seriously I'M
pair the circumstances of their fellow
craftsmen residing here. who. we pre-
sumo will feel called. on to share with
them their small means on hand, as