The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-04-05
ORDER NO 80. WHICH SENT vANDERBURG AND sTRYcK TO THE
PENITENTIARY.

Just across the Mississippi River and
within the shadow of the great Worlds
Fair city there lies Il township wholly con-
trolled by negroes. and whore the popula-
Si6n is nine-tenths black. whose organiza-
tien, whose government. whose social life
IS according to negro principles and negro
standards. There are ~rniIlions Of dollars
worth of property In Sites Township. St.
Clair County. Illinois. and more wealth T.
being constantly. added 20 the life OF the
SECTION
When Fred T. Vanderburg. the negro
Mayor oE Brooklyn, and Thomas S~trycklin.
the negro Street Compissioner OF the same
municipality. were being taken TO the Pen
ittntiary At Chester TO serve sentences for
official misconduct, the legal phase OF the
charge being conspiracy" they received
an ovation at the Relay Depot in East St
Iouis from their sorTowfuI but enthusI-
astic friends from Brooklyn.
VanderbuiE was assured that when he
returned from Chester, free from trouble.
he would again be elected Mayor of the
only strictly negro municipal government
in the North. But this assurance was per
hap more enthusiastic than reasonable. for
there are indictments in the st. Clair Cir
cult Court charging the two more recent
citizens of Brooklyn. now within the walls
OF the Southern Illinois Penitentiary. with
forgery. false pretenses and mslteasance.
and when convection comes for the latter
OUGuEE. II Z 7 zoos. \ dTAfF Jul anu OAlENh-
lin will he barred forever from holding any
office in the State Of IliiEois.
STOCK YARDS M PACKING-HOUSE
DISTRICT.
The National StcCk Yards. the mar,s,t for
many OF the cattle and the stock of the
great Southwest. arc in the township, and
the emplo,es number many Of the people OF
Sites Township The Swift. Armour and
Nelson Morris packing-hOuse are located
In the township. as well as the Wabash
roundhousc. There Is being erected now by
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officers claim to he the largest rOGndhoiise
in the world, an institution which. with the
shops TO be connected, viii give employ
ment 10 more than 200 men and boys
At the annual spring elections IL ~ rare
that a white mans name Is found upon the
opposing citizens and Peoples tickets. In
the last eIertion Bob MunrGe. q former East
st. Louis police officer. was elected Town
ship Assessor. He is a white man. formerly
from Arkansas. and Is In the employ OF the
National stock Yards. He had been a can
didate the year before for the office 50 i'm
portant 10 the corporations owning the bulk
OF the property OF tho township ana was
defeated by Bert Washington. prOtege Of
Charles B.. Jones', the principal of the
Brooklyn schools.
Monroe joined hands and the triumph Of
Monroe was complete. and tc-iSy the prop
the corporations, whose officers dwell with
IN its ssvCry precincts. is assessed Ivy = ro-
bust white officer. who lives al the National
Hotel
WI - ] IN a 1 E4h-
The records disclose that not a negro in
Sites Township rr in its town OF Brooklyn
has ever paid "a cent of personal tax. The
same protection is afforded by the county
10 the people there that is afforded IN other
sections OF the county, the schools are pro-
y1ded for literally and the people are given
every indrcemeEt TO become really good and
useful cltlzens- But the precious right of
self-government and equal citizenship has
not appealed 20 these black people sufi-
gently TO make them ready and willing to
Dear some D1T1 CT the burden
From the time that John Watson and
Fred Archer. cid slaves from the South.
BE nucleus of the negro settlement OF
Brooklyn. the town has continued to at
tract negroes coed and bad. until It Is now
a OWE Of almost a thousand. representing
nearly the entire population of the town
hip Of Stiles. Thirty years ago the town
was Organized into a municipal govern
ment. sixty-siX votes being cast IN favor OF
the proposition and none against. From
that day the history OF Brooklyn has been
The Influence of men ike watson and
Archer was not so strong as that of the
strange negroes who came and sduatted up
on the land Of the corporations. paying
nothing at first for the occupancy and later
complying with 4 general rule for all oc-
cupants OF this land, secured from the peo-
Pie through an fndulZent Republican legis-
lature. the muniicent sum of a dollar an
acre.
EDUCATED NEGRO DEPosEs EvANS.
John Evans used TO be the king of
o.DoAIyH- out ne was depoSed by a negro
who came from Ohio. a graduate from
Obfrlin. Charles b. Jones rules Brooklyn
as no American city is ruled. This sable
huet pedagogue's word is law, and the pso-
pie obey IL without question. Ha was
reared at Urhana. o.. and went to Brook
Iyn many years ago. He talked lesrnedly,
and to the Brooklyn negroes he apepared to
be some powerful and mysterious force
come from far away to guide and rule them
and they yielded. Jones was Immediately
made the principal Of the school at 500 a
month.
In g decree Of Judge schaefer signed June
2 1888. the following language appears over
the courts signature:
The court further finds that the said
Board Of School Directors gave been dere-
nct m their duty in many particulars; that
they have contracted for large amounts of
unnecessary supplies and attempted to pur-
cnase upon credit and promised TO pay ex-
orDitant prices for work, labor and mate
naiS at times when there was no money to
the credit of the said school district in the
treasury; that the acts and doiags in this
respect were wholly unwarranted in law and
void, and that since the commencement of
this suit the said Fred f. Vanderburg and
isaac l. Cover have been removed from
Schools"
The decree restrained and en- Joined the
school officers perpetually from paying any
OF the school orders issued by Tanderburg
and company prior to the filing OF the suit,
except those excepted specifically in the
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