The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-01-10
Gen. Sherman Thinks Grants Friends
Will Look Out for Him.
TIE MINERS ENDORSE HoApLEY.
The Lot Wright Investigation Shows
Some Genuine Kentucky and Ohio
Rivalry ON the Matters Of
Fun and Fair Play.
THE PART THE COON PERFORMED
Lot wrlght's october Record.


CINCINNATI, Jan. 9.--The Springer in
vestigating committee had ex-Sheria
Hawkins as the first witness, but as he
had not procured q list of his deputy
sherlfls at the election, he was excused
till o-morrow.
K. Price, a contractor, testified that
one of his mon refused to go to vote be-
cause he had heard there was trouble at
the polls.
On cross-examination no said the
voting place was at Avondal9, a mile
away from where the men were at
work. All went except this one.
Alderman Duffy, OF the Eighth ward,
scenes at precinct in that
ward. He said the trouble began ats
o'clock, when colored voter was chal-
lenged and the judge proposed that he
be taken to the place he claimed as his
residence. The colored deputy marshals
Jumped from the curb to the street,
formed In line in the street, pulled their
revolvers, but did not shoot. Then the
boys of the ward got dray pins and 9TH
er clubs and all went to iooling, throw
ing their clubs up. Finally the boys got
| close to the negroes, when the negroes
opened fire on them. The shots sounded
like bunch OF shooting crackers. Sew
eral men were wounded. The negroes
were run oil. Early in the morning the
negroes had possession OF the
polls, and voted as they
pleased. He saw q good
deal of whispering going on between
Il otis, supervisor OF election, and the
"coons," just before the firing began.
| Witness created merriment by de-
scribing how tho supervisor, who was
in the house. whispered to the "coons"
on the sidewalk.
He said:, "Bstts Just leaned out OF
the. winder and pulled one OF 'coon's'
ears up TO him." later he "saw col
ored man walk politely toward crowd
at the polls, and when fifty feet away,
pull his pistol and lot her go, whes the
boys took after tho negro, and as he
supposed, put head on him."
Chairman Springer wrapL ed in vain
for order at this recital.
Barney Wicher, a resident of Coving-
ton, also described the same scene. He
said he did not vote Tor fear of trouble.
He explained that although he had
lived in Kentucky eight years, he had
always voted hero, AS his property
and business was here, and went TO Ken
lucky on account OF h wife's health.
On cross-eXamination he said he
stayed at the polls all day and
didn't vote for fear Of being challenged,
and that 1t would cause trouble.
Patrick Punch, city marshal of Mount
Sterling, Kentucky, testified that he
saw Rich, a foreman, and Samuels,
a cashier OF Mount Sterling,
here on election day, acting as deputy
mRrshals. lie was here himself to look
for negroes from Kentucky who might
offer to vote. lie found none such.
James Mernaugh, of Paris, Kentucky
testified he saw number OF govern
ment employees of Paris, Kentucky, here
on election day. He saw colored deputy
marshals rescue a prisoner from the
police.
W " Mhlllgan, a deputy marshal.
testified that he and others received re-.
lVolvers and that they were loaded.
EX Sheriff Hawkins re-appeared and
produced list of his deputies, as an.
proved by the judge OF the court.
A. o. Robertson, editor Of tho Fal-
mouth, Kentucky, n,ocrat, testified
/ s"at he organized a force of sixsy-two
men in eight counties In Kentucky, an
the instance of the Democratic com
mittee, to come TO Cincinnati and watch
for colored Kentuckians who might
come to vote. His men reported that
they had spotted twenty-seven Ken
lucky negroes and prevented them
from voting. Only one had actually
attempted TO vote and he was not prose-
cuted.
On cross-eXaminatlon witness said
that for week or more
before the election II was notorious that
many negroes were going TO Cincinnati.
Trains were well flied; hence the DEM
| Ocrats got Kentuckians who ware lik alv
10 know them TO come and preyent
them from voting. He could not name
one negro who came TO Cincinnati. He
was not very popular among the me-
gross and knew the names OF very few,
ho did not think a negro should vote In
his present condition, and he never
would ask a vote Of one for himself or
his friends.
Adjourned,