Morning journal and courier., 1888-11-13
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 testing An Election. BLAINE ON THE VICTORY. A Decision Against The Bell
 Telephone Co. CLEVELAND'S TREASURER TALKS. EX-SenatOr Barnum Much
 Better.
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 EIBrIdge J. JordOn and Ills Family
 of Children Driven From Durham, N. C.. By Democrats Who Adopted the old Ku-KIux Methods.- He Talked of COmIest1Rg Am Election, and Was Given 8 Hours To Leave Town.
 BOSTON, Mass. Nov. 12.-A family of ten persons arrived in Boston yesterday, having been driven from their home in North Caro- lima. ,Elbridge J. Jordon, about AT years old, and native of Freeport, Maine, enlist ed in the First Maine heavy artillery in 1889, was discharged in 1864 to unter the navy, in which branch he served until honorab1y dis charged, June 30, 1865. After the war, he went to Wisconsin and remained there until four years ago, then removed to North Caro- lima. Two years ago he went to Durham,
 N. C., where he has kept a small store for
 the sale of fruit, etc. Mir. Jordon, who has
 always been a Republican, makes the follow
 ing statement:
 Last Tuesday he was candidate for the office of constable. The men in charge of the polls challenged more than two hundred colored Yoters-some of whom had been
 known as voters for the last two years-and on account of this delay there were about
 hundred colored voters with Republican bal lots in their hands left standing in line when
 the polls closed; the whites and blacks de- posting their ballots in separate boxes. The votes were not counted until the next fore noon when it was announced that the Demo- cratic candidate was elected by ffty-two
 votes.
 HIS oFFENsE AND HIS FIRST WARNING. There was some talk about contesting the
 election and Wednesday at midnight MT. Jor-
 dan was awakened and called to his door, where he found seven or eight men, with handkerchiefs covering their faces, who or- dered him not to go from his house before o'clock in the morning, but to leave town on the 8 o'clock train. He declared he had done nothing wrong, but was ordered to leave town or he would be killed. He said he had no money to pay for travelling. The visitors said they would provide the money. An hour
 later they returned and said they would give him no money, but would provide for his family. At daylight MT. Jordan went to the house of @ friend and tried to borrow some cash. His friend said he could not get any until the bank opened at 9 o'clock. MORE FoRcIBLE WARNING. MT. Jordan did not succeed in obtaining money before the o'clock train started and an hour later, while he was in store three men entered the place, hurried him out to 8 carriage and drove off with the avowed in- tention of killing him. This act of violence was seen and some of the leading business men of the town, although Democrats, fear ing that a political murder would reflect severely upon the town took horses and over took the party mile from the town. By their influence the would-be murderers were persuaded to take Mir. Jordan back to his home, but they told him they could not con trol the worst elements among the Democrats sufficiently to protect him if he remained, and so leaving everything in the house and store, and taking almost nothing except the clothing they wore, the family left the town at noon, the men who had rescued Mir. Jor- I dan providing money to pay travelling ex- penses to Boston.
 They left Norfolk Friday afternoon on the steamer D. H. Miller and arrived in Boston ! on Sunday afternoon. Tonight they go by l boat to Portland, and from there to Freeport; ! money for this purpose having been given by 1 Boston man to whom they applied for aid. ! Mrs. Jordan is much disheartened by the ter rible experiences of the last few days, but E the children-four girls and four boys, rang- I ing in age from years to 19-look forward l to change of residence with apparent pleas Rte.