Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-04-26

senators 10 listen ana near Wna
| took place.
Questions. What is your business,
| Answer. Dry goods.
@. Where do you do business?
A. With A. T. Stewart & Co.
@. You are superintendent of the
uptown store of A. t. Stewart & Co.
A. Yes, sir; superintendent ofthe
retail store.
@. How long have you been the
superintendent of the store?
A. About ten years.
@. How many men have you un-
der your charge as superintendent
of that store
A. 1t ranges from five hundred to
one thousand people.
@. When did you come to Amer
lea?
A. In 1860.
Q. How old were you at that
time?
A. In the neighborhood of twenty
or twenty-one years.
@. When were you naturalized
A. In November, 1868.
@. Who was your witness
A. Alfred NJ. Weeks.
Q. Where is he employed?
a. In our store.
@. And he had been in the up
town store with you!
A. Yes, sir; all the time l was
there.
Q. Before what judge were you
naturalized in 1858?
A. / declared it my intention
some three years previously.
Q. Were you naturalized in the
regular way?
A. Yes, sir.
@. Were you naturalized in 1868 :?
A. Yes, sir.
@. After you were naturalized,
did you vote?
A. Yes, sir; right straight along.
@. Until 1878?
A. Yes, sir; until that time.
Ten years this man had been a
voter.
@. Tell the committee what hap
pened when you went to register.
Such occurrences as the following
took place there at the last election
in 1878, and this is only one speci-
men of them; and / read this be-
mark-such reign of terror scarce
ly ever prevailed over any city, GER
tainly not upon this continent. He
details what took place with him,
and when it could take place with
such a man what would be done
with a poor day laborer?
Question. Tell the committee
what happened when you went to
register.
Answer. l registered in the same
house that always did, in Fourth
avenue near Tenth I had been reg
istered there all along. have
lived at No. 81 East Ninth street
between six and seven years. The
last of October, / think about the
25th, | went to this same place that
I had always been registered and
offered my name, address, &C., which
was taken. AS was on the point
of leaving the gentleman there said
he would like to see my papers
That was one of these supervisors,
or some striker under him
and I gave them to him and waited
for him to return them. He said
he would not return them. / told
him, says /, "That is little sing
ular; won't you give ME some re-
eeipt for it ?'' No." says he,
do not want to do anything what
ever"
@. On that occasion were you in
formed that your papers were ille-
gal in any way?
A. No. / tried to find out as to
that, but l did not get any positive
information.
@. What steps did you take after
that to find out if there was any
thing the matter with the papers I?
A. / referred the matter to the
lawyer of the house of A. t. Stewart
& Co., Mr.. HI. I'll. Rice. requested
him to get me duplicate, telling
him that if there was anything
wrong about it would like to know
it; and l believe he wrote to Mr..
O'Brien, the chief clerk of the elec-
tions in the city of New York, in
regard to it. Mr.. Rice received an
answer stating that he had no doubt
it would be all right, and at the
same time ! received duplicate of
my papers.
Q. On election day did you vote?
A. I went to vote. 1 walked out
of the store without any overcoat
on, the polling-place being right
next door. / went in and offered
my vote. The gentleman there
called to another person, who came
up and told me that / was arrested.
@. Did you have an opportunity
to vote?
A. o, no. They would not let
me vote. had my ballot already,
and presented it, but they would
not allow it.
@. Were you taken away?
A. Yes, sir; right off.
@. Where?
A. First of all down to Clinton
Place.
Q. From there where were you
taken?
A. Down to the city hall.
@. You mean the post-office build
ing, do you not.
x. Yes, sir; the United States
Court House and post-office build
ing.
O. Please state what took place
when you came down here.
A. The place was all in confusion.
There was an immense number of
men around. There was no getting
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