The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-04-18
THEFACrIONS FOUGHf.
BLOODY ENCOUNTER AT THE EELEC-
TIONlN KANAS CITY.
The American Protective Association and
These Opposed Arrayed Agsiast Each
Othsr-The Firing Was Like Regiment
Shooting, SO Rapid Was 1t.

Shooting, SO Rapid Was 1t.
KANSAS CITY, April Excitement
has not yet abated over the election riot
between the American Protective asso-
ciation aud the anti element. and re-
suits are worse than was at first re-
ported. The lines we're strictly drawn
and IN the encounter which followed
the clash, one man was killed instantly.
Three others fatally wounded and Two
were seriously hurt.
The two antago1istic elements were
solid.Y divided in their choice Of candi-
dates for mayor and the election was in
progress. The aggressive support that
each side gave to its candidates during
enc OF the hottest campaigns ever known
in this city engendered strong senti-
ment Of bigotry. It was, therefore, IN
no aniable mood that the workers of
the respective factions came togthers at
the different polling places in the city,
and that they came expecting trouble is
apparent from the number Of deadly
weapons that were drawn wLcc 10
firing was started. There we're a num-
Der or less serious sf'ra7s in o.her parts
Of the city earlier in the day,
The fatal riot occurred on the South
west boulevard, IL the Fifth ward, very
close to police station No. 3. Those who
took part in it had been heated to the
fighting temper by reports tha bad been
hourly arriving al the statiy1 Of the
oraHls at other polling places. OalY
one hour before, John Cooley, ssoue
mason, was shot in the forehead and
back by William Henry Walker at
voting place at the cornor of Fifth and
Campbell streets in row growing out
of fiery debate between the two men
regarding the principles of the American
Protectine association, to which Cooley
was violently opposed. That Cooley
was not instantly killed was due to the
fact that the pistol used was mere toy
Of % callbre.
The American Protective ASSOCIATION
men who supported Wooster Davis, the
Repu5l candidate for mayor, had
their own workers at the different poll
ing places, aad they distributed in some
precincts their own tickets bearing their
candidates name and decorated with the
American flag.
jim Pryor, a Fifth ward politician.
an agonistic to the American Protective
association, who supported Frank John.
ston, the labor aud faction Democratic
candidate, was active at the heal of SO
constables, whom he had got Justice
LatshaW to appoint. It was said By
some that these constables were, many
of them, irresponsible characters and
were solely the cause Of the trouble.
There 1ere loud threa.s OF mobbing them
before they could get to the headquar.
ters after the bloody RIO was over.
1t is claimed that one of Pryor's fol.
lowers fired thu first shot. That one
was Nike Callahan, and he was dead
man the next moment. Then the battle
began. The deputy coastables at this
polling booth sad the workers of all the
political factions crowded together in
!! solid masses, fully 100 strong, and every
one itbem seemed to be armed.
For rliSce> or two the discharge of
Teapons sounded tskess.a discharge Of
musketry by regiment. HSeaaseds Of
citizens gathered etevery poinE OF Vad-'
tage to witness the battle, WHICH, how
ever, was Of short duration. Many of
the residents along the boulevard added
to the excitmeat by leaning from their
windows and shouting and gestlculatiug.
10 less than five minutes from the time
the first shot was fired policemen had
appeared upon the scene and q1ieted the
disturbance. With their first approach
the fighting political workers ceased
hostilities and began tc hide their Wea-
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