The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-27
Voters Refused to be Intimidat-
ed by Dirty Methods.
Notices Sent to Colored Voters Indis
oriminately-Attempt to Keep
Them at Home.
TIE SCHEME FALLS FLAT.

The claim of the Democrats that
Republican voters, particularly color
ed voters, have registered contrary to
law is another campaign scheme to de.
ceive and intimidate. but it will fall
fiat. as the others have done. Fret 1t
was twenty five who were alleged to
have registered illegally, then 1t be-
came one hundred and thirty five, and
now IL has grown to three hundred.
As q token of their desperation the
Democrats have been sending out
notices indiscriminately to colored
voters with hope Of frightening them
into staying at home, and not try to
vote next Tuesday.
Their game has already been block.
ed. Republican campaign managers
TO whom these notices have been re-
ported and who have Investigated
them, report that in no case they
have investigated Is there the least
ground for such action ON the part of
the Democratic managers. IL is only
another OF the dirty methods being
employed by them to stave off the in.
evitable defeat they see staring them
in the face.
one man who got notice is color
ed minister who has been voting here
for ten years or more. Other cases Of
attempted intimidation are equally ms
pslpable. The skin-gam will prove
. fizzle, for nobody is fooled by the
notices being sent ont
There is now one colored voter
under arrest for alleged illegal regis
tration. and IL the Democrats had any
evidence of any others they would
treat them hkewise-arrest them all
Nothing would suit them better than
to trump no some charge against color
ed voters a. an excuse to put them in
jail until after the election. The fact
that they have made but one arrest
shows that they are trying to work
bluff game by having these notices
sent out. supplemented by notices in
the local Democratic organ that "any
ATTENTION on their part to vote next
week will mean their arrest and pros
ecution. and in all probability, terms
for the offenders in the penitentiary. "
If any one has registered illegally,
that in itself is sufficient for arrest
without waiting for an attempt to
vote"
The colored voters, at whom this
| intimidation IL aimed, are being put
next to the Democratic scheme, and
none OF them will be bluffed
The Yeiser crowd is getting more
desperate as the election approaches
and defeat is certain. The notices
being sent out to colored voters are
signed by Attorney James Campbell,
Jr., Mayor Yeiser's alleged "cam.
paign manager" and the notices are
being served by police officers who are
not paid to do such work, and have no
right to be doing il. 1t is clearly seen
that the whole thing is scheme Of
the Yeiser crowd to intimidate Repub-
lican voters, as the notices come from
the Yeiser clique, and Yeiser's police
men are out spending their time serv-
ing the notices. Chief of Police Grow
was asked by reporter this morning
II the police officers had any right to
20 about spending the time for which
the taxpayers pay them, serving no.
tices for Tire Yeiser crowd to try 30 in
timidate Republican voters, and he re-
piled that he did not know. The city
hall seems bad place to find out any
thing these DAYS
The police officers who are out doing
the work have even gone farther than
serving notices on colored voters, and
without particle of authority, or any
legal papers whatever, IL is alleged,
are su,nmoning negro women to ap.
pear at the court house IN the regis
tration cases, hoping. it 10 claimed, to
bluff the Den through the women, II
they cant do " any other wsy.
The people Of Paducah can clearly
&C q What extremitiss the gang hes