Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 206, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1915 — Uprising of Mexicans Frustrated By Police. [ARTICLE]

Uprising of Mexicans Frustrated By Police.

San Antonio, Tex., Aug. 30. With the arrest here of twenty-six Mexicans, twenty-three of whom were held late today, Chief of Police Lancaster and federal authorities announced that a plan to incite the Mexican population of San Antonio to deeds of violence had been frustrated. The order for a general arrest of all Mexican agitators was issued following a disturbance that was a sequel to a street meeting last night, during which one of the speakers declared that “it was no harm to kill a Gringo and an Allemarite,” meaning Americans and Germans, according to Chief Lancaster. The police charged the crowd and arrested three leaders after a fight, in "which one of the Mexicans shouted: “Now is the time to rise; let us kill the Gringoes.” A dragnet was then thrown out and suspects arrested today. Since the disturbances in the Brownsville district special agents of the United States department of justice, and police officers have been keeping a close watch to prevent a possible uprising in San Antonio. They learned several agitators were here but until last night’s meeting they did not attempt to create any disorders.