The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-29
Yeiser Mems Scheme Will Cost
Tax Payers Over 500.
Notices Sent Out For the Purpose Of
Striking Colored Voters Served
by Sheriff.
JUDGE LIGHTFOOT TALKS.

j The notices sent ont to between 800
.|Hud 400 coldI6d voters Of Paducah are
'Ireturnable tomorrow and Saturday in
the county court. 1t is not known ex-
actly how many of the notices have
been sent out. The Republican cam
paign committee. has been informed
that police officers served some, the
sheriff and deputies served some, and
others We're left under the doors of
residences.
Sheriff Potter says that he and dep
uties served between 800 and 400 Of
the notices. They were all, 10 seems,
signed by Attorney james Campbell,
Jr., whom County Judge Lightfoot
apparently authorized to sign them
for the county judge. Sheriff Potter
was in doubt as to whether or not his
duties required him to serve such pa
pers, but he was advised by attorneys
that it would be in line with his du-
ties, so he served them.
The whole thing is of course a con-
temphble scheme Of the Yeiser crowd
to intimidate and disfranchise colored
voters. They hope that out of the
three or four hundred voters thus noti-
fed to show cause why they should
not DO disfrancnised large per cent
will fail to answer the summons, and
their names will then be stricken.
They know, or could easily have found
out, that very few, il any, of the vot-
ers summoned have registered illegal
ly, especially as they had challengers
at all the polls on registration day
and challenged nearly every colored
voter, but they hope to have the names
Of two OF three hundred or more strick
en- tomorrow and SATURDAY. for failure
to answer.
The most amazing feature Of the
monumental gall exhibited by the Yei-
sci crowd, is that the service OF these
notices will have to be paid for by
the county-the taxpayers of the en-
tire county. The 1900 or 1000 Repub-
licans and independents in Paducsh,
as well as all the residents of the coun-
ty who have no interest in local poll
tics, must pay their proportion Of this
expense Of carrying through scheme
attempted by Mayor Yeiser's campaign
managers 70 defeat the will of the peo-
pie. The sheriff gets 25 cents each for
serving the notices, q total of 500 or
more for the whole lot and the county
J will have to pay it, according to Sher-
if Potter, VINO was asked this morn
ing on whom the expense falls. Thus
Mayor Yeiser's friends. who. number
$50 according to the recent Democratic
primary in Paducah. are trying to
make the 5000 or 5000 people OF Mo-
Cracker county pay for carrying out q
scheme designed solely to put into
office . crowd that the people do not
want.
The fact that these notices sent out
are simply one scheme for intimidat-
ing and striking from the registration
colored voters, 10 evidenced by the
fact that IL every man notified re-
spends. the 500 or 400 cases could not
} possibly be heard in the three DAYS,
|, Friday. Saturday and Monday. amt no
} lawyer or politician W ould think for .
: minute that they could. Each case
may bri ng out four witnesses, two ON
each side, or possibly eight hundred
witnesses to be heard in three days,
not counting the motions, arguments
and the usual wranRlinR II Is also
very. plain that IL there was the
slightest evidence that these 500 or
400 voters had really registered lille
pally, they would have boon arrested.
The only object is to keep as many
oolored voters ~ possible from voting.
County Judge r. T. Ligntfoot was
seen this morning BY reporter and
stated that IL those who scnt out
the NOTICES expect the county to
pay the sheriff for serving them.
they will be very much dissp-
pointed. He said hs did nos give any
authority TO have anything Of tbs k,nd