The Seattle Republican., 1901-04-05

10 o'clock on Saturday night, where
Cayton was run into a cell with a hobo
and all attempts of his attorneys anC
friends to see him were denied. Bail
which was fixed at $500, was offered
with some of the best sureties in Seat
tie, and refused, cash bail being de
manded by order of the chief and
some of the leading business men OF
the city, including the president of the
First National bank, were compelled
to peddle their checks around town in
the early Sunday morning to raise the
cash arbitrarily demanded by this mis-
fit official.
To say that wave of popular indig-
nation swept over Seattle when the
affair became public is drawing it mild
and we greatly mistake the Seattle
spirit if it does not quickly return the
chief to private life, from whence his
emergence appears to have been mis-
take. This case may serve to remind
other officials elsewhere that the swell
head always results disastrously, and
thus be the means of checking some in
cipient cases that are already discern
able at a closer distance than Seattle.
Aberdeen Herald
| Last Saturday night H. r. CaytOn,
editor of The Seattle Republican, was
| arrested at a late hour on warrant
issued on complaint of Chief of Police
| Meredith. Cayton asked for time to
see his wife or at least turn over his
two-mOnths-Old baby which he was
holding in his arms, but this request
was refused and he was taken to Jail
in charge of two detectives in patrol
| wagon. He asked to see his attorney,
but was refused this privilege Per-
sOnaI bail was refused, also the person
al check of reputable Seattle banker,
and not until $500 in cold cash was de-
/ posted with the chief did he allow
CaytOn his freedom.
1t does not seem possible that such
an abominable state of affairs as this
could exist in Seattle, notwithstanding
the awful reputation which she has
gained abroad through the incompe-
tency of her police force Meredith is
unfit for the place he occupies. 1t is
disgrace to a decent city to allow such
a man to serve at the head of it's po-
lice department Every citizens Iiie
and liberty is in peril with such a man
at the head of the department of JUS
tice
Mr.. Cayton is colored man, the edi-
tor of one of the brightest weeklies in
the state. He is a good, law-abiding
citizen, a gentleman of culture and re-
finement, but because of his color and
because he dared to criticise Mere
dith's official acts he was treated as a
felOn and and cast into a dungeon
with common hoboes. Certainly the
good people of Seattle will not suffer
this man Meredith to longer remain in
the position he now occupies.-WeekIy
(Olympia) Chronicle
H. R. Cayton, the colored editor of
The Seattle Weekly Republican, was
arrested for criminal libel on Chief of
Police William j. Meredith by two de-
tectives of the police department and
taken to the city Jail in the patrol
wagon like any common criminal.
Cayton runs a hot paper, in which he
keeps up a continuous fusilade on
prominent men in politics. The poll
ticians have made big mistake in
causing his arrest A political libel
.,
but doubles it's receipts.-Chinook OBJ
server.
The arrest of H. R. Cayton, editor of
The Seattle Republican, by the Seattle
police Saturday night, and their sub
sequent treatment of him is the worst
example yet brought to light of the
high-handed doings of a police system
xryhi oh hoIc al
wide latitude they take in enforcing
the laws. 1t makes one wonder
whether he is living in the twentieth
century or the days of the InQuisition.
The chief of police must be afflicted
with the hallucination that he is the
czar of all the Russias.-Sultan Jour
nal.
Editor Cayton, of The Seattle Re
publican, published in the interests of
the cOlOred voters of this state, ran up
hard against the powers that be in
that city Saturday night, and in con-
sequence spent the night in Jail, in
communicate. Not even his attorney
was admitted to see him, nor could his
! friends find out from the police upon
what charge he had been arrested. His
offene was the writing of an editorial
| Offering the suggestion that as Chief
| Meredith was in the business of rum
ming quack doctors and the like out of
town, that "he likewise run grating
policemen out of business; then, per-
| hap, the city of Seattle would be rid of
Meredith himself" Cayton was charg-
| ed with criminal libel, but the manner
Of his arrest caused a mighty howl. the
| echoes of which made Meredith's hair
| stand on end. Such high-handed pro-
| ceedings don't go in this state, even
when the victim Of them is a colored
| man. Meredith should lose his Job
| Everett News.
| Chief of Police Meredith, of Seattle,
| lost his temper last Saturday and ar
rested Editor Cayton of The Seattle
| Republican on a charge of libel 1t
| appears that Mr.. Cayton, who edits the
| only African paper in the state is not
| particular who he criticises, and in
| terred IN an article that the CHIEF was
4 CRATER" 1t also appears that The
| Republican delights in showing up
some of the imbecilic actions of the
present administration, and is cOnse-
Guently not in favor with some OF tna
present officials To get even with
him tor attacks previously made, and
especially for the charge of grating -
| Meredith caused his arrest at 10