Separately, twenty-five club members were assigned to spend Election Day as “observers” at each polling place in the city. For white wards, they were told to round up every white man they could find and escort him to the polls with instructions to vote Democratic. They were told to “never look a man square in the face, even if they knew that John Smith was voting as Willie James and the latter was dead and buried in Oakdale cemetery for lo many years.”
