The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-04-04
RELIGION AND POLITICS
PreCipitate a Fatal Election Riot
at Kansas City.
ONE KILLED, FOUR FATALLY HURT

| The Conflict Brought About by the Amt
mostly Existing Between Catholics and
the American Protective Association.
The Riot Suppressed by the Pslioe.
| KANSAS CITY, No, April 4.-The Amer
lean Protective association and the Cath
olics came together in bloody conflict at
the polls of this city yesterday. 1t cannot
be stated which side is responsible for the
affray, as the partisans of each loudly
charged the other with being the full
cause Of all the trouble. More than a
hundred shots were exchanged between
the combatants, in less than that many
seconds, and when the firing ceased the
following named were lying dead, dying
OF injured on the pavement;
| Killed--Mike Callahan, city sidewalk
Inspector shot through the right side.
Fatally Iniured-Harry Fowler, laborer,
shot through the back; Con Brosnahan,
| contractor, shot through the kidneys;
Jerry Pate, deputy constable shot in the
face
Wounded-Patrck Fleming, shot in the
left shoulders John McGovern, laborer,
shot through the right arm.
The riot was the elimination Of bitter
feeling which had been manifested by ac-
tion and words ever since the polls opened.
The two antagonistic elements were sol
idly divided in their choice Of candidates
for mayor, The aggressive support that
each side gave TO its candidates during
one of the hottest campaigns ever known
in this city engendered strong sentiment
OF rivalry. 1t was, therefore, in no amiable
mood that the workers of the respective
factions came together at the different
polling places throughout the city, and
that these workers came expecting trouble
to occur before the day wore away is sp-
parent from the number Of deadly weap-
ons that were drawn when the first shot
was fired.
The riot was the climax Of series of
smaller riots that took place at other
points earlier in the day between the same
opposing religious factions. This riot took
place on the southwest boulevard, in the
Fifth ward, very close to police station,
and those who took part in it had been
heated to the fighting temper by reports
that had been hourly arriving at the sta
tion of brawls at other polling places.
Only an hour before John Cooley, stone
mason, was shot in the back and forehead
, by William Henry Walker at a voting
, place at the corner of Fifth and Campbell
streets, and it was known that the row was
directly due TO fiery debate between the
two men regarding the principles of the
+ A. p. A, to which Cooley was violently
, opposed. That Cooley was not instantly
f. killed was due to the fact that the pistol
+ used was mere toy of twenty-five caliber.
a The A. p, A. which supported Webster
e Davis, the Republican candidate for mayor
v had their own workers at the different
$ polling places, and they distributed in
e some precincts their own tickets bearing
1 | their candidates. name, and decorated with
e the American flag. Jim Pryor, Fifth
l. ward politician; antagonistic to the A p
A., who supported Frank johnson, thu
labor and fractional Democratic candidate
was active at the head Of the fifty con
stables, which he got Justice Lattshaw t.
appoint Monday night. 1t was said by
some that these constables were many o
them, irresponsible characters, and wer
solely the cause Of the trouble.
Itis claimed that one Of Pryor's slfollow
ers fired the first shot. That one was Mix
Callahan, and he was a dead man the mex
| moment Then the battle began, and TO
a minute or two the discharge of weapon
sounded like the musketry of a regiment
in less than five minutes from the tim
the first shot was fired, however, police
men sppeared upon the scene and quiete
the disturbance With their first aI
proach the fighting political worker
ceased hostilities and made quick effor
TO hide their weapons.
Pryor's men are claiming that Callaha
was an innocent victim. They assert tina
it was Jerry n. Pate, an A. p. A. mar
who fired the first shot, and that was tn
shot that killed Callahan. Pate wa
serving as a constable having been al
pointed especially by q Westport oticit
n to serve warrant for the arrest Of JiI
it Pryor, John Pryor, his son, and BeI
le Pryor, for alleged felonious assault upo
Il citizen earlier in the day. He and Call
or han met, had some words, and either on
IT, or the other fired the shot that commence
lis the conflict.
tn Returns so far received indicate thu
ly Webster Davis, the straight Republics
of candidate for mayor, has been elected
as = good majority over all other tickets, ca
of rying with him the entire Republica
OF ticket.
er- Dispatches TO the Associated Press fro
at all over the state of Kansas and territoI
er of Oklahoma show that with but few e
Us ceptions, where party lines were distinct
OF drawn, the Republicans have elected the
hJ tickets