Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-11-15
SOUTHERN METHODS.
Real Reasons Why M. Jordan vas
DriFen From Home.
North Carolina Democrats Expel Him
fol Being Republican and MAiign
ais Character BY Newspaper
Despatchea-

BOSTON, NOV II
A fasorite southern method for coneealing
outrages was employed in sending Taesday
nlghI dispatch from Raleigh, y. C., To the
effect that klbridge u. JORDAN was required
10 leave Durham, \. C.. on account OF in
citing negroes to burn buildings 10 the place
fuesIay morning MIR. Jordan and family ar
rived here and he was interviewed. tie dis
claimed all knoH ledge Of a negro uprising in
the southern village from which he was
driven and gave all account OF outrages in-
nlc.ed upon him.
Dir. Elbridge u. Jordan is a native of
freeport. Me, and is Al years old. lie served
during the war IN the First Maine Artillery
aud also IN the navy, having honorable ds-
charges from bOlh, and possessing the right
to wear The badge Of a Grand Army ma1,
having joined tue order in Wisconsin. u
which state he moved after the war. -Four
years ago he moved To North Carolina, set
ding IN Durham. Mr. Jordan is a black
smith, but a northern man in Durham he
soon found had little show at the trade, anu
as his health Was failing he closed his shol
and opened a small slore for the sale of can
dies, peanuts, etc.
MF. Jordan, besides being a republican, is
a Knight OF Labor, and stood we'll in his
party He aud his family attended the Bap
tlst church, and he had no quarrels with the
people among whom he had settled. But,
at the last election, Southern methods were
brought iGto play, and 260 colored voters
were challen Sed, while 100 others were not
given an opportunity 10 vote. Mr.. Jordan
was running for the office of town constable,
and thinks the republicans would nave car
ried the elt etiOn II the contest bad been fair
ly conducted.
The next day these things were discussed,
and some OF the republicans proposed an in
yestigatiJn. OF course the talk created ex-
cttement. After the family had retired
Wednesday night, Mr. Jordsn's eldest daugh
ter, girl of nineteen, heard pistol shots
some distance from the house. AT shortly
before midnight, Mr. Jordan was called up
by seven or eight men wiki handkerchiefs
tied over their faces. The men told him
that the ue grOes were rising, and demanded
an account OF his whereabouts during the
night. Being tJld taat the family had at
tended church and come directly home they
went away. But an hour later they returned
and this time greeted the northerner with the
cheerful command to have town On the
eight O'Clock train in the mOr1ng or be
killed. When told that Jordan had no mon
ey they declared that they would raise the
necessary Iuluet uul al tIltt y
again returned. This time the leader sal
.'Damn YOU, we have notion of taking you
right now and hanging you, and would do Ii
II IT was not for your ilttle family" They
then said that they had decided To give bIm
no money, but would look out Tor his fam
ny
AT ) o clock Mr.. Jordan went to seek for
money in a store, three me1 entered the
place, hurried him out to u carriage aud
drove of with the ayowed intention OF killing
hIm. / his act of violence vas seen, and
some of the leading business men of the town
although democrats, fearing that a political
murder would reflect severely upon the town,
took horses aud drove after the party, over
I'd king it a mile aud a half from town. By
their influence the would-be murderers were
pursuaded to give up Mr.. Jordan, but they
told him they could not control the worst
elements of the democrats sufficiently to pro-
tect him if he remained; and 50, leaving
everything in the house and store, and tax
ing almost nothing except the clothing they
wore, the family left the town at noon, the
men ho rescued Mr. Jordan providing mOn-
~ to pay travelling expenses to Boston.