Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 17, Decatur, Adams County, 15 July 1892 — Page 6

Irfche 'DECATUK, IND. WAOTTBURN, ■ - - Publish**. CLEVELAND AND STEVENSON. 0 0 Ww For Pre.ldent, GROVER CLEVELAND, OF NEW YORK. For Vice President* ADLAI E. STEVENSON, . OF ILLINOIS. • Benjamin can have the electoral ►oleos Behring’s Sea. Grandfather's hat is slowly but barely filling with soup. ■ vi . Benjamin Harrison—At home, to Indianapolis, after March 4, 1892. i.' As has been truly said “Hat and jpat” are the Republican entries for the great race of 1892. » ———— ■ r The Democratic platform: Reform , the tariff, reform the civil service, and reform the finances. Alas! I thought, says “Little Ben,’’ I That 1 had tumbled Into clover; And now, to quite destroy my peace, , The people spring upon me Grover. ft The Republican party thinks that Carnegie might have selected a more opportune time than this to scale the Wages of his employes. There is a rumor current that the typographical Union will declare all Sitorials urging the election of ■ hitclaw Reid double-price matter. —— p Chairman Clarkson retired from i ■the management of the National Committee at President Harrison's Jiint with a cheerfulness which can scarcely be adequately expressed Without profanity. ! St. Patil Globe: ft is true the Maniacs have swallowed the Harrison I ticket with fairly good grace, but then , there is that uncomfortable aphorism, i to the effect that the proof of the pudding is not so much in the eating ■s in the digesting. !’ The tariff plank has placed the party upon invincible grounds. A tariff for revenue only means something tangible. It is easily understood and those fine-drawn theories which incidental protection has heretofore interwoven. I Caught concocting a deliberate jiL Bod malicious falsehood, his ex-acci-Aency John M. Hamilton has shut up jfeike the proverbial clam. But John ■ . M will be heard from again—if any I Newspaper be sufficiently stupid to (print his reckless slanders. ■ It is now in order for the exchange •ditors of Republican papers to read Wearily through all the British exchanges in search of words of com ! pnendatron for the Democratic ticket. | When found make a note of and i pud it it invariably to the London Jfimes. Mr. Cleveland said truthfully in 1887: “The simple and plain duty which we owe the people is to reduce taxation to the necessary expenses of hn economical operation of the Gov- ' •rnment.” It was true then. It is 'fcrue now. The Reed Congress gave j ns increased taxation and increased i (Expenditure. We ought to have re-I ifeuced taxation and reduced expend!- [ sure. The only question is the | Means to be employed to attain that •nd. There is no danger that the people will mistake the purposes of the in this campaign. Moreover, the American people like plain ■peaking: they like positive opinions'; ( they like aggressive confidence on the [ - part of men who hold honest beliefs. The choice to be made by the people k Jbetwcen the weak and shuffling evaskm of the Minneapolis platform and the outspoken frankness of that put 4' forth at Chicago will be an easy one. ■ 1 I '■ "! ; The Republican Convention solemnly declared for thp party that It •believes in the achievement of the Manifest destiny of the republic in fete broadest sense.” He would be a (loo! who would decline to believe in a because if manifest has the evidence of his senses as fr to the fact of the destiny, but just Hk| ' What a manifest destiny is in its Broadest sense Mr. Foraker maybe ■ble to explain upon the stump. The I ordinary mind will incline to regard declaration as mere jumble of BUI Words. ' 3 ■ fc 1 Detroit Free Press: The most noticeable plank in the Republican platform is the demand for a force bill, not merely because the demand Will be sternly antagonized by the ‘ Dem&racy but because of the division to the Republican ranks on that

point The Mist of the document is very largely mere “buncombe* or platitudinous utterance concerning matters not tn issue. The tariff utterance was foreshadowed by McKinley’s speech, and the Democracy cannot be too grateful for the sharpness with which the line is drawn on this the predominant issue of the campaign—the issue on which the Republican party was turned down in the elections of 1890. The Republican managers will make a mistake if they underrate the strength of the DemocratlGcandidate. -Mr. Cleveland has a wonderful hold ’on public confidence. He may not be popular with the “boys,” but he is altogether solid with the business men and. the men who place patriotism above politics. The platform makes tariff reform, as it should be, the great predomin- | ant issue, and says in unmistakable words that “Tariff for Revenue” shall be the battle-cry. This is Democracy; this is what the Democratic party has been contending for; this is what caused the political tidal wave which swept over the nation in the last Congressional elections, and this is justice between man and man. “Mr. Cleveland is so respectable,” says Mr. Whitelaw Reid, “that I can hardly class him as a Democrat, but his excellence will make him very strong in certain sections of the country, and Republicans recognize in him an antagonist who will force them to exert their full power to elect their ticket.” Says Mr. Whitelaw Reid’ 8 paper: “The Democracy has set up a candidate for the Presidency who can be beaten more easily than any other rival.” Evidently there is a need that Mr. Reid should either spend more time in the Tribune office or talk less out of it. Instead of being an “American system,” this tariff is the same system of protection which reduced the highly endowed Spaniards from the first rank among industrial nations to the lowest. It is the system which Belgium, Holland and Switzerland have abandoned, along with England, because it is a ruthless pilferer of the earnings of labor and a clog to national development. For the oldest and most complete example of protectionist jealousy and exclusiveness it is necessary to go to China. All the rest, including the McKinley tariff, are more or less faithful imitations of the Chinese original. What a cheerful speech Brother Fassett made to the Republican committee that at the command of the President was about to make a sacrifice of his friend Clarkson!* They were to enter upon no holiday excursion. They were confronted by the appalling spectacle of Wisconsin and Hlinois in the list of doubtful States, with lowa by no means certain. The spectacle is not pleasing to the party, and it is rendered none the more cheerful by the fact that the men of experience havb been sent to the rear in order that the President’s suspicions of Blaine men may be allayed. The outlook for Republicanism is indeed gloomy. • Another bill has been reported to the House granting an American register to a foreign-built steamship The vessel is’called the China, her name suggesting that Chinese wall which has been maintained for the purpose of upbuilding an American merchant marine. The vessel is owned by a nominally British company whose stockholders are of the United States. There would be an outcry against this action were it not for the fact that shipbuilders in the home market secure a contract for building a new vessel for every one of foreign construction allowed to carry the American flag. The little matter of $140,000 a year granted by the billion-dollar Congress in subsidies to each of these vessels is to be paid out of the people’s strong box and is, therefore, not disturbing the patriotic shipbuilders. Flarper’s Weekly: The most remarkable sentence in the speech of President Harrison to the congratulating crowd after his nomination j was this: “I have felt great regret i that I was unable to tind a suitable I place for every deserving friend; but - I have insisted that I did not dispar- | age those 1 could not appoint to place.” This is a most naive remark i frofn a President, but it shows clear!ly Mr. Harrison's view of public office. It is a reward for his friends. He laments that there were not | spoils enough. The .qualification for public service is friendship for him. I“I am sorry.” bj'..says to hIS party j associates, ’’‘that 1 could not reward ! all of you.” Patriotism,. disinterested support of principles, the duty of an honest exercise pf the franchise, these are considerations that do not occur to him. H<- is x>rry only that he could not pay with a public salary those who voted for hi nr. A simpler and more child-like profession of faith in spoils as the mainspring of the duty of a citizen, we ’do- not te- | call, and the President clinches it , with the deprecation that he drw-s i not disparage those to whom he has ' nothing to give.

] A SCENE OF CARNAGE. DEADLY RIOT AT HOMESTEAD, PENNSYLVANIA. BMtl Having Pinkerton Men on Hoard Bombarded with Cannon—OU Poured on the Stream and Bargee Bet on Fire—Gov. Pattison Appealed To for Aid. Pinkerton Men Repulsed. Homestead (Pa) special: Carnegie’s managers, attempted to land Pinkerton men at the Homestead works on Wednesday morning. The attempt was resisted by the locked-out men, and a battle with guns ensued, in which thirty-eight men are reported to have been killed and many more Injured. Three hundred Pinkerton men armed with Winchesters were brought from

ANDREW CARNEOIE,

Pittsburg in barges in the light of the early morning. The strikers had been advised of their coming, and had gathered with their friends to the number of 5,000 on the landing when the barge arrived? The Pinkertons were advised from the shore not to attempt landing. They persisted, and as one of their number started down the gang plank he fired

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his gun. The shot was answered by the strikers, and a fusillade ensued which lasted for half an hour. After the first fusillade the boats withdrew from the shore, and desultory firing was kept up on both sides for several hours. During this time the strikers secured a cannon, and, planting it on the opposite side of the river, placed the guards between two fires. About 10 o’clock the men on the barges made another attempt to land, and a desperate battle followed, in which rifles in the hands of the strikers and Pinkerton men and the cannon did terrible execution. While this fight was in progress the strikers poured oil into the river above the barges and set it on fire. The boats were soon surrounded by flames, and caught fire in several places. The guards were unable to withstand this new element, and finally

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at 11 o’clock they were forced to withdraw and return to Pittsburg. HcMts Gather for Defense. “They come. Tbo Pinkertons are coming!" shouted a horseman riding at lightning speed as he dashed into Homestead at 1 o’clock in the morning and alarmed the leaders of the strikers at their headquarters. The secret signals, long ago planned and arranged, were set working and from both sides of the Monongahela River answering responses came. The story of the fall of Warsaw might be written again. “To arms to protect our homes!” cried 3,000 strikers and nearly as many men, women and children. Slowly came the steamer Little Bill towing two model barges loaded with 350 Pinkerton coal and iron police, Winchester rilles and in abundance of ammunition. The scene on shore was thrilling. The thousands of people were assembled on the bank of the river on the Homestead side. As the boat moved up the crowd followed. It arrived opposite the big Carnegie mills., passed up and then backed down toward the landing. Fearless stalwarts, used to hardship, knew that the vessels were approaching shore. . The dock was fenced in to the river’s edge;, the invaders must be stopped. One leader cried, "Follow me,7 and, rushing to a part of the fence back from the river, attacked it. In a twinkling a breach was made in "Fort Frick” and 2,500 people crowded through the property down to the river and stood waiting for the approaching’ boats. Before they penetrated the mist several volleys were fired, not at the vessels, but as a warning. Presently the dark hulls showed through the white veil of fog and swung into the landing. There was breathless silence. Like ants thousands of the sons of Vulcan swarmed thq bank to the water’s edge. Capt. Heinde, of the Pinkertons, raised a plank from the deck of the barge nearest the shore. One of hU men also grasped the big board, and one end was shoved ashore. Then there w»n a about as of Spartans at the Tiber. One man stepped on the plunk and went ashore. He was grabbed by the crowd and was seen no more. Captain Heinde followed. He had taken one step on .the plank when he fell with a shot in the leg. The men behind him turned their-Winchesters on the crowd and like a whirring of bees were the volleys which passed. Tw*nfy-thr<M Shot. Five Pinkerton men fall, one fatally

■« linn — shot through the head. The striker! lost six killed Ad twelve wounded, but the boats were repulsed and withdrew into mid-stream. It was all over so quickly that not until the boats returned to the shelter of the fog did. the strikers realize the damage done their fellows. Never more scintillating fire shot from the eyes of demons. Utterly reckless and frenzied the howitzers were ordered ready, and barrels of oil were loaded on a barge, to be fired and sent against the boats. Slowly the craft returned. The firing was renewed and returned from the boats, and again numbers of the strikers fell. Then name the grand coup of the strikers. The gun on the little yacht Edna was turned against the craft and one on shore belohed its fire upon its human freight. Blaklnn OU Sent Down Stream. Finally oil was liberated from the barrels above by the men and was fired. The fiery track was not broad enough, and with a little shirting the blazing stream passed harmlessly by. This failure to cause retreat added to the anger of the strikers, and, towing their scow into proper position, they broke in the heads of the barrels, fired the oil, and sent the craft down on the boats. The men now have complete possession of the works, and unless Gov. Pattison orders out troops they will continue in possession. First Victory for Striker*. The first battle occurred about 4:30, when a force of about 300 Pinkerton men attempted to land at the steel works. The strikers had been apprised of their departure from Pittsburg, and for two hours before the boats arrived between 5,000 and 6,000 persons awaited their coming on the river banks. The mills have a landing for boats within the inclosure of the fence, and at first it appeared that there would be no way to prevent the Pinkertons entering the mills. Shortly before the boats reached Homestead a horseman riding at full gallop spread the alarm that the Pinkertons were coming. As the boats steamed toward the landing it was impossible to longer restrain the crowd. With a whoop and a yell of derision an onslaught was made on the fence and 100 feet of the inclosure was torn away and 1,000 men were at the

landing. As the Pinkertons landed they opened fire and two workmen dropped in their tracks. This enraged the crotvd, and they bore down upon the Pinkertons with- resistless force, driving them back to the boats. A ten-pound cannon has been planted in the main entrance to the mill. The situation is now quiet, though the battle is likely to be renewed at any moment. Gov. Pattison has been appealed to for aid, and the State militia will probably be sent to the sedne at once. The Situation. Capital and labor are arrayed againsteach other at Homestead, and the outcome of the conflict will be awaited with interest by all who realize the importance of the social problems of the day. Because of the magnitude of the works where the issue is made and of the tens of thousands who will be at once affected, the press of the country is devoting special attention to the affair and its features are made clear enough to all. The Carnegie Steel Company offers to its employes a certain scale of wages. The scale offered is refused by the managers of the Amalgamated Association, the great trade union organization to which the workers belong, and operations of the company are virtually suspended. A fence surrounds the company’s property and inside this is placed a guard of those whom the company relies upon. In addition to this other barricades have been erected to resist the rioters. Meanwhile thousands of men, the workers who have rejected the scale of wages offered, have occupied the country about the mills and prevent all access to the property. Defense* at the Steel Works. About six weeks ago, in anticipation of the coming conflict between the Carnegie interests and the workmen, a stout board fence twelve feet high was built upon a foundation of slag three feet high, completely surrounding the steel works. This fence is three miles long. On the top are strung three strands of barbed wire, so connected that a current of electricity may be sent through them from the electric plant by the simple turning of a switch in the office. Portholes four inches in diameter have been bored along this fence at the height of a man’s eye. Trenches have been dug over all parts of the works to various points along the fence where hydrants are stationed. Connections have been I made so that either cold or boiling hot i water can be sent through these pipes I to the hydrants. ', | An additional fence has been built about the office, and a bridge forty feet high has been strung across the tracks, connecting the office with a building inside the works. A search light has been

MANAGER HENRY c. ERICK-

placed upon thia bridge, and aleo a ■ sentry box. On the river front the Carnegie steel launch Annie has beeh fitted out as a warship, with swivel guns; and several i flatboats have been equipped with small I howitzers and search lights. A student of Amherst College discovers by reading Thucydides that the grip was mqre violent and frequently I fatal In Greece 470 years B. C. than , among us to-day. The book describes i the symptoms minutely, arid mentions mental depression as one of its most characteristic features. ■ The Queen Regent of Spain refuses to touch a penny of the SIOO,OOO a year jointure to which, as the widow of the i lata King, shv is entitled.

THE SONS OF VETERANS. MEETING OF THE SIXTH ANNUAL ENCAMPMENT. Report* of Ofltror* Show the Order to Be in a Prosperous Condition—List of Officer* Elected for the Euanlng Year—The Boys Right Royally Entertained by Fort Wayne Cltlien*. A special from Fort Wayne says: The Sons of Veterans of this State held their sixth annual encampment at the Princess Rink in this city.

Jjifc JOHN W. NEWTON. Colonel Indiana Division.

There were 1,500 delegates present, Mayor C. A. Zollinger delivered the welcome to the boys, and tendered them the freedom of the city. Governor Chase and three members of his staff arrived In this city and reviewed a magnificent parade, participated in by the Sons of Veterans. G. A R., and almost every military and civil organization in the city. A camp-fire was held at Princess Rink at which Governor Chase, Hon. C. F. Griffin, Colonel Newton, Colonel E. S. Walker and others delivered addresses.

E. H. BOOKWALTER, Chief Mustering Officer, Indiana Division.

Some interesting information was furnished in the annual report of the Commander. J. W. Newton, who retires after having served two terms in that capacity. This year there had been a gain of 1,570 members by muster and of 1,796 by re-enlistment, but at the same time there had been losses by death, honorable discharge, tranfers, and disbanding of camps, until the membership was now 3,484. There were sixtvfive camps in the process of organization. About 6,000 pieces ot mail had been forwarded from division headquarters during the year, and the commander answered about 1,500 letters personally. The retiring commander advised the Sons of Veterans to observe. Decoration day ana allow no grave of a soldier to be missed. He advised the Sons of Veterans to aid the G. A. R. in the enterprise of establishing an old soldiers’ home. There were no court martials during the year. He advised that the ritual of the order be extended ■I. ■’ I. -— Jt 11 ■ - ■

' Wa* In MgSssgg? Zj -- •■ COU E. 8. WALKER, Past Department Commander. <•;- '<f-' ■ ’ '

from one degree, as at present, to three degreea The following officers were elected to serve for the ensuing year: Commander—Newton J. McGu>e of Winchester Senior Vice Commander—Otis Green of Union City. Junior Vice Commander—Harry Altell of Bloomington. Delegate at Large -to the National Encampment at Helena, Mont. —Past Division Chaplain Drake of Rensselaer. Delegates to National Encampment— E. H. Bookwaiter, Fort Wayne; Charles A. Beesou, Winchester; J, W. Noll, Star City. Torre Haute was selected as the place

for holding the next State Encampment The Ladies’ Aid Society of Indiana was also in session here. Miss Pearl Wills of Clayton, President of the society, delivered an address. The following officers were elected: President—Miss Pearl Wills oi Clayton. Vice President —Miss Georgia Duncan of Laketon. Division Council —Mrs. Laura Rentz of Laketon, Miss Blanche Barnhart of Roann, and Miss Grace Pierce of South Bend.

REV. H. G. OGDEN, Div. Chaplain.

■ 1 MILITIA ON THE MARCH.' STATE TROOPS ORDERED TOHOMESTEAD. The Entire Ferae, About H.OOO Men, Hurried to the Boene of Action—Home■tend Wild with Exolteinout on Receipt of the New*. May Be a Fight. The entire division of the National Guard of Pennsylvania, about 8,000

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with the strikers. On receipt of this request from the sheriff, Governor Pattison, as Commander-in-chief of the National Guard, at once issued the following order: George K. Snowden. Major General, Commanding National Guard of Pennsylvania: Put the division under arms and move at once, with ammunition, to the support of the Sheriff of Allegheny County, at Homestead. Maintain the peace. Protect all penons in their rights under the constitution and laws of the State, Communicate with me Robert E. Pattison, Governor. To Sheriff McCleary the following telegram was sent: William H. McCleary, Sheriff of Allegheny County. Pittsburg: Have ordered Maj. Gen. George R. Snowden with a division of National Guard of Pennsylvania to your support at once. Put yourself in communication with him. Communicate to me further particulars. Robert E. Pattison. Governor. Gen. Snowden, with the Adjutant General and Quartermaster General, at once proceeded to formulate the orders for the mobilization of the guard. The New* at Homestead. The news that the Governor had ordered out the State troops created great excitement at Homestead. It was not received until 11 o’clock at night, and most of the strikers had gone home. Those who remained on the streets hastily gathered together and discussed

GOV. PATTISON.

the meaning of the new move. “Will the soldiers protect the ‘black sheep’ if Carnegie tries to start up with non-union men?” was the chief question. Many of the men who lingered on the streets refused to believe that the troops had been called out and said that it was like all of the wild rumors that had been circulated every night. The hot-headed strikers were at first disposed to be a little defiant, and there were occasional declarations that even the militia would be opposed, but when it was learned that the division ordered out numbered 8,000 men, the declarations promptly gave way to, “Oh, well, we have beat the Pinkertons,any way; they did not dare to come, ’’ and thus consolation is found in the reflection that the most hated enemy of organized labor — the Pinkerton guards—had been obliged to confess de? feat and give up the battle. THE LOSS AT ST. JOHN’S. One-Half the Entire Town In Ashes and 10,000 People In Tents. « A stable at.the head of Long's hill in St. John’s, N. F., caught tire. The wind was blowing a strong gale from the west and rain had not fallen for three weeks. Tie adjoining houses rapidly caught and in a few minutes Long’s hill was a sea of flames. Flying embers ignited houses hundreds of yards to the leeward, and so rapid was the work of destruction that there was no time to haul down a sufficient number of houses to break the march of the fire. The Market House, the Commercial Bank, the Athenaeum Building, St. Andrew’s Church, the Temple Club House, the Chamber of Commerce Building, the Telegram Building, the Anglican Cathedral (cost $500,000), the Methodist College, the Masonic Temple and St. Patrick’s Hall all fell before the flames. The waterside mercantile premises were attacked, and the shipping began to get out from the piers to the middle of the harbor. The Anglo-American telegraph office became untenable, and communication With the outside world was out off. The sea of Are which swept Water street rendered all attempts at saving property futile. A few hundred people who had the temerity to remain indoors were compelled to flee to the rear and make their escape from piers aboard vessels that were waiting,swinging to theirlines ready to drop out of danger. The buildjings on Water street were built of ston'e and brick, but those buildings fell almost as quickly as the wooden structures in other streets. Having expended its fury to the eastward, where there was nothing more to destroy, the fire began to edge northward up the slope on which, the town was built. Cochrane street, leading from the Government house to the harbor, the town’s handsomest thoroughfare, fell a victim, only a few dwellings at the top escaping. The Methodist church on this street escaped, but not so St. Patrick’s hall. Successful efforts were made to prevent the Are from creeping across to the Mercy convent, but the Congregational Church in this neighborhood could not be saved. Two-thirds of the business part of the town and one-half of the entire town—three-fourths of the value of the town—has been destroyed. Nearly 10,000 persons are sheltered in the Parliament house and under sheds and tents in Bannerman’s park and other open places. The town is enveloped in a dense smoke from the surrounding woods, which seem to be all on Are. The Kilbrldge Catholic Church, three miles but toward Bay Bulls, was totally destroyed. _______ Masculinities. The Emperor of Ch’na has ten men to do nothing but carry his umbrella. Sweet-meets—Two fond lovers in a first embrace. Deep thinkers—Visitors in a coal mine wondering whether they will get outlive. Eveby mln who has money is abused tor not buying the things other peopla want to get rid of. ‘ ■

men, has been ordered to Home st ea dto support Sheriff McCleary in |> suppressing the i riots at that place. This action of the GovMernor was taken Won receipt of a dispatch from Sheriff McCleary saying that he was utterly unable to raise a posse of sufficient size to cope