The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-04-12
STATE PRESS"
Still Talks of the Seattle Po-
lice Outrage.
PRACTICALLY A UNIT

New Age, PortlGnd-Colton News
letter Palouse Republic Talks -
Assotin Sentinel Criticises- In
dex Miner joins In-Kendrick
Echo Outspoken - Aberdeen
Bulletin Says, cit Was High
handed" Dissenting Opinions
Quite Scarce All Over the State
The manner in which Editor Cayton,
of The Seattle Republican, one of the
most influential weekly publications in
the state of Washington, was treated
by representatives of the chief of pO
Ices Office at his home in Seattle on
Monday night is outrageous III an eX
treme degree; and The New Age will
predict, without having full knowledge
of all the circumstances leading up to
and attending it, that it will be re
membered sorrowfully by those who so
brutally and vulgarly mistreated
man, although colored, of Mr.. Cayton's
prominence and popularity in the poll
tics of the state.-NeW Age.
H. R. Cayton, editor of The Seattle
Republican was arrested at his home at
a late hour Saturday evening, and
without opportunity to see any friends
or to consult his legal advisor, he was
locked into a foul cell in the city Jail;
here his friends and attorneys were de-
MED admission, and his bond of $500
was demanded in coin Of the realm,
some Of the best men of the city being
refused as bondsmen, and their checks
being declined by the police; and ali
this fuss on account of a pointed edi-
torial on the chief of police Chief
Meredith caused his arrest, and evil
IDENTIFY planned to keep him in Jail over
night. Friends raised the cash bond
required and released Mr. CaytOn at
O'Clock next morning.
Such in brief is the story of the worst
police deal that has come to our notice
for many day, and that, too, in the
largest city in this state Public SEN
timent, outside the mayor and police
is with the editor. The facts as reveal
ed show that Mr. Cayton did not tell
half as much as he ought to have told
about the chief Of police in that So
called criminal libel" We extend
sympathy, Brother Cayton, if that does
you any good, and advise you to camp
on Meredith's trail until you drive him
from Seattle.-COlton Newsletter.
The editor of The Seattle Republi-
can was arrested a few days ago on a
charge of criminal libel brought by the
chief of police of the virtuOus Sound
city. The editor was kept in Jail sew
eral hours, and not even allowed to
communicate with his friends. His
treatment was unjust and uncalled for,
and all because he mentioned unfavor-
ably city government so rotten in sin
and vice that it smells to high heaven.
-Palouse Republic.
The Seattle police seem to think that
they are the whole thing, Judging by
the way they handled Editor Cayton
last Saturday. Nothing has happened
in Seattle for many years that seems
to so thoroughly arouse the Seattle
people as the treatment Mr. Cayton re-
ceived. Because Cayton is a Negro is
no reason why he is not entitled to de-
cent treatment at the hands of those
administering the laws demands
AsOtin Sentinel.
Chief of Police Meredith, of Seattle
seems to have put his foot in it"
when he caused the arrest of H. R.
Cayton, editor of The Seattle Republi-
can on a charge of criminal libel and
put him in JAIL refusing to allow him
an interview with his attorneys, and
also refusing to release him on any
thing but cash ball. which he knew
would be very hard to obtain Saturday
night after 10 O'Clock, at which hour
the arrest was made. It seems as if
everybody in Seattle is taking the
matter up, and requests for the chiefs
resignation are quite numerous Index
Miner.
A Seattle editor was arrested at an
unseemly hour one night last week and
thrown into a cell with a lot of hoboes.
just because he dared to criticise the
police of that city. This is no doubt a
precedent calculated to muzzle the
press. But it won't work. The editor
IN question is now vicious in his at
tacks on the chief Of police. Other
papers in the city have taken the mat
ter up, and now the chief is sorry for
his rashness. Seattle is pictured by
her own papers as the worst governed
city in the United States. The police
are openly accused Of standing in with
gamblers, bawdy-house keepers thugs
thieves and all that is immoral and
unless the present chief is stripped of
| his authority pretty soon Seattle will
stand disgraced in the eyes of the
world. A corrupt police force is a
stencil in the nostrils of all decent peo-
pie, and it is a shame that city like
Seattle should be given over to lawless-
ness and debauchery simply because its
police force has been turned into a
corrupt political machine, manipulated
by men apparently devoid of all sem
blance of honor or decency.- -Kendrick
Echo.
| The city Of Seattle seems to be all
stirred up over the action of the chief
OF police in arresting the editor of The
Republican, who is colored gentle