The Portland daily press., 1893-11-10
M'KANE'S KINGDOM.
How the Supervisor of Grave send Dealt
with Election Watchers.

Bacon's story of his attempt to serve
an injunction upon Supervisor John Y.
McKane at Gravesend on election day as
follows
AT 10 o'clock yesterday morning,
said Col. Bacon, volunteers to watch
the election in Gravesend met at William
j. Gaynor's Office. They were among the
best men in the city. There were such
men as the Rev. Robert J. Kent DIR.
Joseph Marshall, E. NJ. circuit, of Mr..
Gaynor's firm; Michael E. Moore, man
ufacturer of bronze goods; DR.. Crawford
D. Beasley; Charles II. Hyde, Mr.. Gay
nor's clerk; Peter Rosenbach, a printer;
Ulrich Palmedo, member of the New
York Stock Exchange, and William A.
Whitney, clothier.
ave were all given papers certifying
that we were regularly appoi nted watch.
ers. 1t was agreed that two of us should
be on the inside of each election booth.
| One was to remain on watch outside.
Three OF four of us lawyers were in the
party to give legal advice in case of
| emergency
Az 4. ~ ILLS IlOIAllS WE II1SV ebo ILL .
| Gaynor's house and took carriages for
| Gravesend. When we got just outside
| the town it was nearly $50. We stopped
| for while and fixed our plans, then
| drove on, entering the town by different
| ways.
Gas we neared the polling places we saw
tremendous crowd in the street. l got
| out of the carriage when we were about
| $50 feet from the booths. was confront
| ed by policemen, who formed in line all
| about our carriage. With them was
| John Y. McKane. The other carriages
| had not yet come up.
| 81 said good morning to McKane, told
| him we were watchers appointed under
thenzelection law, and demanded his pro
| lection.
"'Ah, yes he answered. we were
looking Tor you, Mr.. Bacon. You get
OUT
II replied: Mr.. McKane, we IRE here
under the authority OF the law, and,
moreover, we hayespapers from he Su-
prema Court to serve on you. These
papers protect us fully. Moreover, the
of the election
'Injunctions don't &C. here, he re-
piled.
L won't take any papers, he contin-
| ued. He turned his back, and l said:
You will. You've got to take them,
| whether you want TO or not.
| Then McKane, turning to policeman,
| said: Hustle this man OFT.
9TH re were twenty or thirty policemen
right there, and they set upon me all at
| once. Back of them came the mob of
| 400 or 500 persons. Policemen grabbed
me from all sides.
| "tGet outside the $50 feet limit, yelled
the policemen; You have no right in
here.' 1t was then quite while before
| the polls were opened.
"Theysbegan to hurry me along, clubb-
| ing me and shaking me 6ercely. | was
| knocked down twice. Once Twas tripped
by a policeman and fell. | could make
no resistance at all.
"The mob crowded up, and several
of them struck me. The police never
offered any objection. When we reached
| the railroad station was just thrown
| over the platform. | was pushed along
and dragged along. Half the time was
not on my feet at ALL
"McKane followed the mob. They had
| rushed me about 300 feet, when Mckane
| said Arrest that man.
al was seized this time more fercely
than ever and was fairly dragged into a
van, which had been waiting close by
all the time
81 sat there few minutes under
guard, when Messrs. Hughes, Moore,
Whiting and Wardner, who had come in
the cartilage with me, were dragged into
the van.
II asked policeman his number. 1
won't tell you. YOU'RE drunk and dis
orderly never drank a drop OF liquor
in my life.
"They drove us to the station house.
was taken before the desk and searched.
Everything | had, including the injunc-
ton, was taken from me.
"Then was put into cell, the filthiest
place / ever saw. The Others who had
been arrested withsme were taken up
stairs and before Judge Newton.
I was kept in the cell until s o'clock.
Then I was taken before Judge Newton.
I was charged with breach of the peace
and melting to riot.
BY this time Messrs. MNore, Whiting
and Hughes had been released on bail
for a hearing tomorrow on the same
charge on which l was held.
Judge Newton was evidently scared
when he saw what class of men McKane
had sent before him. He took our own
recognizances and fixed bail for each of
us at 800. The cases will be called to-
morrow. Mine is to be presented to the
Grand Jury.
peter Rosenbach had been arrested
in the meanwhile. He was the most
abused man I have EN- in many a year.
He did not have whole piece of clothing
on. and his face and clothes were bloody.
Nobody had made q complaint against
him, and he could not be released. I
gave him advice and then went and tele-
phoned to Mr.. Gaynor.
l asked him to get writ OF habeas
c orpus and have Rosenbach released. .
"McKane's action was the most outrag
eous ever heard of. The Gar of Russia
could not have done worse. Why, they
were all prepared for u.s. They intended
TO heat us and arrest us.
"McKane, though, was not as smart
as he thinks he was.
"He says he is not in contempt of
court, because he did not take the injunc-
ton. Tt was served on him. [ touched
him with it and that is enough
"He can get the severest Kind of pun
ishment for his acts, and the vote of
Gravesend can be thrown out. lie got
us out of the way just so that he could
carry out his frauds.
ave will not let this matter rest here,
though. We will find out just what the
insulted justica of the State will do to
punish this deliberate villainy."
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