Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1892 — MILITIA ON THE MARCH. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MILITIA ON THE MARCH.

STATE TROOPS ORDERED TO HOMESTEAD. The Entire Force, About 8,000 Men, Hurried to the Beene or Action—Homestead Wild with Excitement on Keceipt of the News. May Bo a Fight. The entire division of the National Guard of Pennsylvania, about 8,000

men, has been ordered to Home s t e a d to support Sheriff McCleary in suppressing tho riots at that place. This action of the Governor was taken ton receipt.of a dispatch from Sheriff McCleary saying that he was utterly unable to raise a posse of sufficient size to cope

with the strikers. On- receipt of this request from the sheriff, Governor Partison, as Commander-in-chief of the National Guard, at onee issued the following order: George K. Snowden, Major Goneral, Commandin'! National Guard of Pennsylvania: Put the division un *er arms and move at once, with animunliion. to tho support of the Sheriff of Allegheny County, at Homestead. Maintain the pcaca Protect all persons in their rights under tho constitution and laws of the State. Communicate with me. RorEifT E. Pattison, Governor. To Sheriff McCleary the following telegram was sent: Will.am H. MeOleary, Sheriff of ALoiheny 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. Roukrt E. Pattisox. Governor. Gen. Snowden, with the Adjutant General and Quartermaster General, at once proceedod to formulate the ordors for the mobilization of the guard. The News 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 tho strikers had gone home. Those who remained on the streets' hastily gathered together and discussed

the meaning of the new move. “Will the soldiers protect the ‘black sheep’ if Carnegie tries to start up with non-union men?” was tho 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 nigh*. 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 tho Pinkerton guards—had been obliged to confess defeat and give up the battle.

SHERIFF M CLEARY

GOV. PATTISON.