Antero Pietila: Disorderly elections are a Baltimore tradition

Published November 6, 2006 5:00am ET



Whatever will happen tomorrow, this year?s election won?t be as bloody as in 1895.

In keeping with political tradition that had earned Baltimore the nickname “Mobtown,” Democrats 111 years ago imported “hundreds of rough-looking strangers” to commit election fraud, according to newspapers of the day.

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