Testimony on the alleged election outrages in Texas Page: 38

                                
38         ALLEGED ELECTION OUTRAGES WI TEXAS.
Q. You say that in your testimony at the inquest you did not state
that these men were in disguise, and all the facts about it, because you
were afraid.-A. Yes, sir.
Q. Was there great excitement there ?-A. Yes, sir; I should think
there was.
Q. A good deal of talk about a nigger insurrection and a race war?A.
I could not state anything about that. There were too many guns
and six-shooters there for me.
Q. At the inquest ?-A. Yes, sir.
Q. Did you hear of other ballot-boxes being raided that day ?-A.
No, sir.
Q. Or that night at the time of that election ?-A. No, sir.
Q. Didn't you hear about the Graball box ?-A. No, sir.
By Mr. EUSTIS:
Q. Do you know whether Gilder and Lockett are Republicans or
not ?-A. No, sir; I do not.
Q. Do you not know they were working for the Republican ticket
that day ?-A. If they were, it was more than I knowed.
Q. You said you had one of the boxes in your hand at the time this
shooting commenced ?-A. Yes, sir.
Q. What did you do with it?-A. I set it on the table.
Q. What were these colored men who were not officers of the election
doing in that room at that time?-A. Well, just sitting down talking
and going on in a lawful, quiet way.
Q. How long had they been in there ?-A. They had been in there
ever since-in the evening we moved from where we had the election,
into Mr. Flewellen's dwelling house, and we moved at 6 o'clock and they
were in there with us from 6 o'clock up to that time.
TESTIMONY OF FELIX KINLAW.
FELIX KINLAW (colored), having been duly sworn, was interrogated
as follows:
By Mr. SPOONER:
Question. How old are you?-Answer. About twenty-four, as near as
I can guess.
Q. Where do you live ?-A. In Texas.
Q. In what county, Washington County ?-A. Yes, sir.
Q. How long have you lived there ?-A. Ever since I was born. I
was born right there.
Q. What do you do there for a living ?-A. I am farming.
Q. Have you a family?-A. Yes, sir.
Q. A wife and children --A. Yes, sir.
Q. Where do you vote there, at what polling place?-A. At Flewel,
len's.
Q. What are your politics; are you a Republican or a Democrat?-A.
I am a Republican.
Q. You had an election there last November ?-A. Yes, sir.
Q. On the 2d of November --A. Yes, sir.
Q. Were you there election day ?-A. Yes, sir.
Q. Were you there during the whole time at the polls t-A. Yessir.

Q. Which is in the majority there, the colored or the white men as
voters at that polling place--A. I could not really tell you.