Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-12
FIFTY YEARS Ago
IN THE STAR

1860 The count Of the
Eighth people that year showed
r.rs,,. total population Of 81
"'' 443.321. In The Star Of
June 4. 1860 is this paragraph:
THE census takers commenced their
work on Friday, the 1st of June. and
it is urged with great propriety by several
OF the newspapers that the people take
pains to afford all the information sought
In making up what is called the national
inventory our citizens are not the only
parties interested. 1t Is we'll to let the
world know the extent Of our resources
and the progress we are making in de-
veloping them. The questions to be ask
ed are numerous. but in view Of the
importance Of the information to be
ELECTED they should all be answered read
lily and with precision To some 1t NAV
seem an unnecessary investigation of
private affairs. but it should be recollect-
ed that the individual statistics never
come before the public. but only aid in
making up the great aggregates, which
Will be collated in tabular FORM
4 4
An election for mayor and members Of
the city councils Of Washington was held
on Monday. the 4th of
Election June, 1860. the candidates
for the mayoralty being
OoAIeSt. Dr. William B. Magruder.
James G. Berret and Richard Wallach.
The following paragraph appears In The
Star of June 5, 1860:
20 1.-The election yesterday was character
lied in the fourth ward by just such
scenes of murderous violence as charac-
terized the election in the same ward two
years ago. and the same parties who on
that occasion were permitted by the police
to rove over the city at night. shooting
citizens attacking houses with guns.
stones. etc. re-enacted those scenes over
again to the letter last night. At late
hour last night a nominal majority for
Berret of twentv-four wa; announced. At
an early hour this morning large crowd
assembled around the residence or Mr.
Wallach which had been the scene OF
murderous attack with weapons. and they
are there as We go to press. Already
proof has been rendered to him OF more
than a hundred votes fraudu1ent1y or IL
legally cast against him. or illegally ex-
cluded. the latter being votes OF his
friends.
"P S-As we go to press we hear that
the amended returns reduce the nominai
majority for Rerret to IA. some saw
others. to IL. There is no Dretense TODAY
that the eleven versions who voted in the
first precinct Of the seventh ward on
naturalization papers taken out since the
cfst Of December last were legal voters
at this election: vet the seventh ward
return of them The circuit court de-
clared such vote illegal long since. At
pm. to-day the Indications were that
by niehtfall Mr.. Wallach would COM
r,ence the contest before the circuit court
with proof Of quite 900 illegal or fraudu-
lent votes cast against him. and good
votes in his favor rejected"
In addition to the keen local IN
terest in the municipal election there was
much anxiety regard
Democratic ing the outcome of
,y.. the adjourned demo-
NonAAdIIoA. cratic convention at
Baltimore. In The Star OF June 6, $780,
the following is printed:
"If proof were wanted that the Douglas
managers here despair of the nomination
Of their chief at baltimore, it is palpable
indeed in their tone here and that of
their presses, with reference to the de-
termination of the southern delegates
who withdrew at Charleston 10 resume
their places in the adjourned convention
at Baltimore. We need hardly remark that
their protests against the readmission of
those gentlemen will prove futile; be-
cause it is already evident that the dele
cations from the north except those
numbering forty or fifty votes at most
personally welded to Mr.. DIS fortune,
will gladly welcome their return
y
In consequence Of the local election dis
orders Of 1860 a demand for reorgani-
cation Of the police force
Police arose from the citizens of
ne the capital. In The Star
A'AoA"' Of June Z, $780, appears
the following:
1--WE have been besieged since Monday
with earnest requests from prominent
citizens of all political parties to urge
upon Congress the propriety of passing,
ere the end of the current session. a law
entirely divesting the police of the fed
eral metropolis from connection with
politics. So general has the manifesto
ton of public opinion on this subject
been already that We may safely say that
with the exception of corporation en-
plOyes, who expect to profit directly or
indirectly by the acts Of the present po-
nee III alulnS ana aDettlng the numerous
gang Of rowdies who are permitted to
have their way here. whenever by SO do
ing a political purpose entertained by the
police may be thus assisted to success.
not single citizen of any party of the
slightest pretension to character fails to
approve the proposed change. That is,
that Congress shall enact for Washington
a police law Identical with the new police
law recently enacted by the democratic
legislature OF Maryland for the future
,l1&f Is l. ID
law takes from the mayor of Baltimore
the right of appointing and removing the
city's police and vests it In three COM
missioners, of whom he is one, who take
an oath to make no police appointments
upon political grounds and to keep no
partisan politician on the city's police
force
HE'S COMING HOME.