Rountree then read a short statement: “It is the sense of this meeting that Mayor S. P. Wright and Chief of Police Jno. R. Melton, having demonstrated their utter incapacity to give the city a decent government and keep order therein, their continuance in office being a constant menace to the peace and welfare of this community, they ought forthwith to resign.”
That's fresh, when THEY started and perpetuated the disorder and violence as a key element of their WS campeign.
