Arizona republican., 1917-04-02
PATRIOTIC OUTBURST
IN BALTIMORE ENDS
PACIFICTST MEETING
[Republican A. p. Leased wirel

BALIIMORE, April After an
enthusiastic patriotic demonstration,
several thousands persons stormed the
Academy of Music tonight. swept a
Gordon of police aside and routed a big
pacifist meeting. stopping DR.. David
Starr Jordan in the middle of a word
and refusing to allow the speaking to
continue.
Police reserves from all over the
CITY We're called out and broke up the
crowd with their clubs. Douglas G..
Ober was beaten so badly that he had
to be taken to a hospital. Carter G.
Osbourn. Jr.. Allison Muir, William
Upton and Louis Merryman, Cockeys
vile, Md, We're arrested
Just as DR.. Jordan was beginning
his plea. for peace. the crowd of anti
pacifists, composed of business men,
professors of schools and colleges in
the city, and students, made a sally
through the police lines, rushed down
the aisle of the theater to the stage
and demanded that the meeting cease.
+ In the front ranks were Professor
/ Robert w. Wood of Johns Hopkins
! University: Professor John II. Latanc
] of Johns Hopkins: Douglas Ober and
! GustaVus Ober, Jr.. Dr. J. II. Mason
Knox. Jacob France, Jr., Bartlett S
/ .lOtl4lSltll, Lancaster w lllldIQS, Md
/ ior Adams j. S. Crawford Frost and
other business men and members of
faculties of Johns Hopkins, University
Of Maryland, City College, Baltimore
I Polytechnic Institute and Mount St.
/ Joseph's College.
Three patromen seized the man who
had been leading the crowd carrying a
large United States flag With one
; officer holding each arm the third
PLAYED tattoo on his head. continuing
even after he had been carried to the
pavement. In other groups the same
scene was being repeated and in two
minutes the street was cleared, leav-
inc the police in possession of the field.
Onward Christian Soldiers" was
sung prior to the advance on the meet
ing and Jacob France. Jr., mounted
the edge OF the City College wall and
reciteGl a patriotic poem. The temper
Of the crowd became dangerous, but
the peaceful element was still in the
iascendency.
Al this juncture some one, speaking
of the purpose of the meeting inside.
asked if those around him would fol-
low the flag over the police into the
hall and put an end to the meeting.
The crowd roared assent and off they
started.
1Ntl FPdtneu IHt l4OOIS Oh lDe
academy, which open outward and
found them closed with ten patrolmen
in front of them. The northern door
was forced Immediately. the two po-
licemen in front of ii being tossed
aside. But help came from inside and
the door was pushed shut after only
handful had entered.
Hleaswhile the main action was
around the center door. The few
members of the crowd who had entered
at the side under the leadership of
Louis Merryman We're seized by the
police inside and taken to the middle
door where they were pushed down
the steps. Trouble was brewing at the
bottom of these steps. Nearly 1000
men were bowling, kissing and shak-
ing their fists at the police, who stood
at the top of the steps determined NOT
to allow an entrance to be forced. A
few tentative TuSheS were made, but
there was no concerted action behin6.
them and the police succeeded in re-
pulsing them:
Apparently the police were firmly
entrenched against all assaults and
probably would have held firm against
the attackers had it not been for a
dramatic incident in which the sight
Of the United States flag being seized
swept the crowd forward IN an lmpe-
tuous rush which overcame all OBJ
stacles- Osbourn had the flag at the
mead Of the crowd at the bottom of the
steps. He was pushed half way up
Just within reach of a police captain
who committed the tactical error of
seizing the emblem in an effort to
Wrest it from its bearer. His first at
tempt failed
Don't you touch that flag"
The warning was repeated from
hundreds of throats and the crowd
slrged forward. The captain per-
sisted. failing to, recognize the note of
menace in the crowds rapidly aug
menting shouts. AS the policeman
wrestled with Osbourn, he almost
wrested the flag from him, so that it
dipped out of sight of the crowd
That was enough. The crowd swept
forward into the building.