The sun., 1900-11-06


town. and by G. l.. Swain the "Regu-
lar" Republican legislative candidate 1T
BridGevillr, and they immediately wired
back 10 Mr.. Chrrchman who 1T once
branded the tclrgrnms MS forgcrcS. The
telegram was aS follows:
f0DH Frank G75
Wilmington, Del, B-x Operator at
Wilmington.
Carnelius II. Swain
Candidate HUM has come out
with statement that he is an avowed
cordingly.
Signed, Philip Q. Churchman.
Inquiry was ut once started to locate
the sender of the telegrams. The Wes-
tern Union office ut this city knew moth
ing of them. and declared that no such
kilograms had been sent from this city,
and inquiry over the lines has so far
failed to locate the office from which
they were sent aud it is surmiscd that
the wires had been tapped somewhere
south of this city for The purpose of Gle
| forgery.
Wires Had Been Cut.
| In an interview with Il representative
| of The Sun last night, Mr.. Churchlnan
said:
| Il brand this aS Il forgery and with
ont il particle Of truth | sent no such
telegram | stand for Mckinley, llunn
and lhr whole State ticket and advise
! and request every Republican in the
! State 10 follow thr organization and
: vote the state ticket as ! shall do. and
tas every member Of our organization
i will do.
Il Shall take Immediate steps to apple-
I lhrml The perpetrators uf this shameful
outrage ana hnyc offered Il reward Of
$500 for information that will Head 10 the
arrest aud conviction Of til" culprit.
! | have also tclogiAplrd ID nll tho l"pub-
lican leaders in the State that the tclc-
gram is u forgery ;ind 10 Stick by John
lIunn and the whole Republican State
ticket.
Fake Prize Fight Scheme.
4 scheme which is said to have been
concoctcd ut the meeting of the twelve
colorGd men in the old ear in the rear of
/ Enoch .Iciferson'S house on Union street
between Second and Third. Friday night,
at which Magistrate Daley and Tony
Siannalr are said 10 have attended, was
I'LL ready to be sprung last night but
it WAS frustrated by vgilani ltcpubli-
| cams.
The scheme was to have fake prize
fight ut the hall of the Liberty Engine
House between Jack Burnett Of Wash
ington nnd lack Farrell of this city.
Tickets were sold 1T 80 cents mt col
Orrd voters got free tickets. The fight
was supposed Ia he for twenty-five
rounds hut il was the intention to stop
the fight after few rounds. declare il
Il draw ANA make hrts "a fight il 10 II tin
ish on the river where the law could not
stop it.
The steamer Sylvan Glen. onp of
Billy Thompsons Washington Park
boats. had been chartered and was to he
ready to take the crowd of colorcd voters
At the fight down the river. The scheme
WAS to forcinbly keep them away till
the polls closed today The boat ar
rived at Bush'S wharf on the Delaware
river III $50 o'clock last night and Il
furniture wagon loaded with many bar
rclS of hcrr and two barrels of sand
wichcs drove up to the wharf and I'M
loaded the refreshments.
Rtwccn so and 100 co.0rcd prople had
hrrn lurcd out to the wharf and many
commenced To drink beer, having been
invited to.
By tbs time yiglant Republicans in
South Wilmington had gotten on to the
scheme ana hurried to the wharf The
colorrd people upon being told of the
scheme quickly lrft. The news spread
like wild fire. The managers of the
scheme abandoned the fight III the engine
house ut once.
: They still had hopes of carrying the
other scheme into effect up 10 3 o'clock,
when they gave up the game. The beer
was taken off the Sylvan Glen and she
steamed away empty.
1t was feared that the Mary w
Gilkens. Il boat living nj the Merchants
Transportation Co.'S wharf and which
] Iplys between Philadelphia and Lebanon
| was engaged to carry away colored
4 voters.
senator Webster Blakely who boarded
I ber was told by her captain that thi'
:. was 10: trin. pu'iae tara ny G"nrg;