Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-29
GANG ENGAGED IN ARRANGING TO
PERPETRATE MORE FRAUDS.
INTEND TO STEAL ELECTION.
ED FINDLEY OFFERS TO BET ON HIS
FAyORITE CANDIDATES..
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Veteran Company 4 Is Not Taking nm
Active Part in PoIftfcs-The Sill
verpIated GoIdbuE Talks to
PopOcrats-Other Po-
lftical News.

At 6 o'clock last night the election COM
missioners finished their two days session
as board of inquiry. In that time, sew
enty-one of the eighty-six complaints of
fraud" made by gangsters We're acted up
on. These seventy-one appeared before the
board. Eleven of the seyenty-one names
were stricken from the registration lists.
LAS was designed by the pseudo-purifers.
fifteen of the cishty-siX men against whom
complaints were made failed to report to
establish their right to have their names
upon the rolls and SO lost their right to
vote. Most of these are working men, who
preferred to sacrifice their votes to losing
a days work; the remainder doubtless were
tntimidated.
Though compelled by the provisions of
the new election law to modify its tactics,
the gang has again employed its old meth
DDS of intimidation. and its effect was seen
in the failure of fifteen colored men to re-
port yesterday in response to notices. 1t
IS the purpose of the gang to cause the ar
rest of several colored men on trumped-up
charges within tire next few days. The
Inen-!nost of them negroes-win be jailed,
and will be detained until after election
day when they will be released. The cam
plants will be filed with justices Of the
peace who are friendly to the gang. so
there will be 10 slip. OF course, this
amounts to false imprisonment, but the
gang viii not hesitate at that. 1t was a
misdemeanor to make the seventy-five false
complaints against regularly registered
voters, but the danger for that has prac-
tically passed. the gang is encouraged to
fresh acts along the line of its intimidating
tactics. as practiced under the reign OF
Recorder of Voters Ows,ey.
Democratic "pluggers," henchmen of Joe
Shannon, had possession of the office OF
the election commissioners yesterday. The
enclosure behind the counter was crowded
with them. They were perched upon the
tables and window sills, and standing sc
thick in the narrow aisles between desks
that the commissioners and their clerks
had little room in which to work. 1t was
but another phase of the gangs campaign
of intimidation. 1t worked in some cases
as several who went to the city hall to
establish their right to vote, turned back
through fear of summary arrest The
scheme failed in one instance, however.
William Fields, colored, of 1881 Cherry
street, reported to prove his residence and
right to vote.
sWhere do you live?" demanded Deputy
Sheriff Charles Shannon, brother of the
gang boss who has charge of the city hal
division of the intimidation brigade.
'At 1881 Cherry" replied Fields.
mo, you don'tr' said Shannon. II was
tnere, anu tne peopie Sdiu lhcs hou Ae'e'
heard of you
You're a liarn' shouted Fields. shakins
his fist under Shannon's nose when yol
went to that house l was there, and
was the man who answered your ques
tionsr'
Shannon's face became a shade redder
if that be possible, and he muttered some
thing about .niggers" and liars" HI
did not crowd the conversation further
however and the check against William
Fields name was removed.
1t was learned that. in order to make
show of good faith, Charles Shannon an'
his lieutenants had presented themselve
at all the houses against whose tenants
was proposed to make complaints. The.
worked in the daytime when, as genera
thing, the women only were at home, an
here again the old-time intimidating tactic
We're brought into play. The purifiers
took pains to allow the women to see tn
stars they wore before inquiring for tn
suspected" male occupant. OF course. tn
women supposed the purifiers" were Off
GERS about to arrest their husband or othe
male relative, and they gave the kind o
answers the purifiers wanted. namely
that the man described did not live there
The following names were stricken fror
the registration yesterday:
Beverly Bird, 1l34 Beyidere; registere
from the wrong address.
John Lewis. $40 Lydia; had served
term in the penitentiary for murder.
J. II. Humphrey, 55i Cherry; had move
out of the ward.
two years in the penitentiary for gran
larceny.
J. ]. Jackson. 1914 Flora; couldn't estat
Nsh his residence.