The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-30
COLOR linz DRAWN AGAN
POLICE CONSPIRACY TO INTIM-
IDATE VOTERS OF THE
BLACK RACE
"swEATED" AT THE STATION
They Were Released, However, for
They Knew Their Rights and
VIII BE Protected
There1n.

The efforts of q would-be chief Of de-
| tectives. who realizes his inability to give
the police protection he is paid to insure
the citizens Of st. Paul, to ingratiate him
self into favor with the Republican can
didate for mayor by seeking to turn a
few paltry votes through his malicious in
reference with voters under pretext of
preventing election Irregularities, has
aroused a storm Of public Indignation.
Not content with throwing innocent cit
izens in jail whose proclivities may be
Democratic, Chief McIntire in the reali-
cation that the entire colored vote is lost
to Chet Smith, has set on foot persecu-
ton of negro citizens that he hopes will
keep some of them away from the polls,
but he will find his plans foiled If he
or his henchmen attempt any high-handed
proceedings when these citizens go to cast
| their votes. The colored citizens know
their rights, and that, having complied
with the registration laws, they will be
protected, they propose TO cast their bal
| lots, and all of the Stadtfe!d- -McIntire-
Christensen combination the central sta
ton can produce cannot stop them in the
exercise of Lheir legal rights.
publican nominee, who might as well bepe
for corner lot In Zion as to expect a
negro to vote for him, Chief McIntfre has
set about trying to intimidate the co-or-
ed voters, believing he can scare some
of them into staying away from the
booths tomorrow. With this end in view
he sent tiny Johnnie Christensen out Sat
urday and had three colored citizens ar
rested, upon no charge whatever, but sim
ply to intimidate them. 1t was pure
case of bluff and failed, as has every
thing else, bluff or 9th rwise, that any
of the Clique now feeding at the central
station crib has undertaken.
The prisoners were Henry Malone, Will
liam Moore and Ed Buclner, all legally
registered in the Fourth ward With the
aid of Chief of Police Getchell, in the lat
ter's Office Chief McIntire and Christen-
son tried an hour Of browbeating, to get
the unlaWfully detained citizens to prom
ise that they would not vote. They were
threatened with all manner of things If
they persisted in voting for Robert Smith,
and told that there was evidence to con-
vict them of violating the election law.
This the colored men knew to be false,
and so stood their ground. During the
sweating Chief McIntire declared that
if those whom he had arrested would go
out and throw a scare" into the other
colored voters, there would be no more
trouble for them.
Moore was allowed to go, as was also
Buckner, but because it was almost posi-
lively known that Henry Malone intend
ed voting for Robert A. Smith this col
ored citizen was hustled off upstairs and
kept behind the bars an might. No
change was prefenred against him, nor
was he suspected of amy uffense, but such
are the HIig,hlhanded and unlawfm tao
tics of the present central station gang
in the effIats to peTpetlate themselves in
office that the rights coI all Others are
ruthlessly aranIpled under foot i'm amy
Instance where 1T is supposed that the ag-
grfewed person may not have powerful
friends ito rescue him. But Malone had
friends, and they made 1T so hot for the
conspirators that they were fouoed to re-
lease him yesterday morning.
Indignation ran high In every 'colored
citizens breast when he heard of the out
rage yesterday, and more strenuous eff
forts than ever viii be made to have
every eOlorsd resident cast his vote for
good government tomorrow. And the
colored voters have the assurance of ev-
cry lawzabififng white resident that they
wifi be protected IN their nights.
No wonder q street fakir addressing a
| large crowd ON Seventh street the either
evening said:
Remember the McIntire vag law"