The Seattle Republican., 1901-04-05

+ Finally, after an all-night hustle
bankers and business men managed tC
raise the cash and set him free in
early morning. Cayton, through his
paper, The Republican, has been
rather unfriendly to the Post-Intelli
gencer but when the paper learned OF
the treatment he had received, it
| turned loose a volume of dignified in
yective that would make a rhinOcer-
Gus finch. If Cayton slandered the
character of oeaItle's chief of police
he has grounds for action against the
P.-I. for numbering his reputation.
Seattle's police has touched off a vol
cano, and before they have finished
with the matter they will wish they
had never done it-Wilbur Register.
Editor Cayton, of The Seattle Re
publican, was arrested last Saturday
night at the instance of the chief of
police of that city on charge of libel.
According to reports the chief took
advantage of his official powers to give
Mr.. CaytOn taste of prison life, but
he may be made to regret his action.
When the case came to trial it was
pOOIpOuC0 anu MI. Ndy IOn WAS IGlGdSGu
on his own recogniZance, although it
took $500 cash to get him out of the
cell Sunday morning.-Big Bend En-
pire
Chief of Police Meredith, of Seattle,
swOre out a complaint against H. r.
CaytOn, editor of The Seattle Republi-
can, charging him with criminal libel.
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a desperate than that of a peaceable
citizen and the whole proceeding
smacks of revenge more than obtain
ing the ends of justice.-Davenpor
Tribune.
H. R. Cayton, the colored editor of
The Seattle Republican, was arrested
last Saturday night on a warrant
sworn out by Chief of Police Meredith
charging him with criminal libel. The
cause for the action was an article
which appeared in Cayton's paper that
week insinuating that Meredith was a
grating policeman"
The arrest in itself would not have
caused much commotion had the de-
fendant been treated in a manner
characteristic of civilized people; but
he was given treatment too severe for
criminal of the lowest type. He was
taken from his home at 9 o'clock at
night, while caring for his two-mOnths-
old baby and in the absence of his
wife, who was up town shopping; he
was lodged in Jail without being per-
mitted to see or telephone his friends,
and was refused intercourse with his
attorney; nothing but cash bail to the
amount of $500 would be accepted and
owing to the lateness of the hour that
could not be procured till about 3
o'clock the following morning, when
he was released.
The action of Chief Meredith is be-
ing deservedly criticised by nearly
every one acquainted with the facts in
the case. 1t was undoubtedly a per-
sOnal spite that prompted the harsh
treatment, and the action should meet
with the condemnation of every news
paper in the state. If matters are to
be carried on in this way it will not
be long before a newspaper will loose
its identity as such and be compelled
to submit in a humiliating manner to
every one who takes offense at the
editors views.-Ballard News.
Another fragrant outrage, which
serves to again direct public attention
TO the gross disagreement of Seattle
has been perpetrated. At a late hour
last Saturday evening H. R. Cayton,
the editor and proprietor of The Seat
tie Republican, was brutalIy arrested
at his home and hurried in
a patrol wagon to the city Jail
and thrust into a cell with a hobo, "
upon warrant issued by a justice of
the peace upon complaint of Chief of
Police Meredith, charging him with
criminal libel in having published in
his paper certain words tending to
provoke said Meredith to wrath, and tC
expose him to public hatred and de-
prive him of the benefits of public con.
fidence and social intercourse" Cay
ton was not released until $500 in gold
was put up by his friends as surety
for his appearance at his preliminary
hearing. The ordinary form of bond
with the names of influential and re
sponsible citizens as sureties, was re
fused, as was also the personal check
of the president of the First National
bank. From the reports of the affair
in the daily papers of Seattle it seems
unquestiOnably to have been a most
high-handed and outrageous proceed
ing. 1t happens that Mr. Cayton be
longs to the African race and that his
complexion is therefore somewhat
darker than Meredith's, but that fac
furnishes no warrant for persecution
and, according to Darwin's Origin o.
Species, cannot even be considered
evidence that his ancestors were hang
ing by their tails in the forest at any
more recent date than were those O.