Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1914 — ORDERS FEDERAL TROOPS TO MINES [ARTICLE]

ORDERS FEDERAL TROOPS TO MINES

President Wilson Yields to Pleadings of Coloradians—One Killed and Two Wounded in Battle.

Washington, April 28.—President Wilson today extended the protecting arm -of the federal government to the state of Colorado. Torn asunder by riots and pitched battles between mine' guards and striking miners, Governor Ammons found the state militia unable to cope with the situation and asked tor help. , ' • It was one of the rare occurrences in American history when a state found itself impotent to assert its authority, but the -president in a telegram to the Colorado governor expressly stipulated that the federal troops would confine themselves to maintaing order only "until the state can reassert its authority and resume the enforcement thereof.”

The president issued a proclamation ordering all persons engaged in domestic violence to disperse and “retire peaceably to their abodes before April 30,” .Secretary Garrison, after a conference with the president, ordered three troops of the Fifth cavalry from Fore Leavenworth and two troops of the 12th cavalry from Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo., to Trinidad and Canon City, respectively. Colorado members of congress who have been following the situation closely, say the mere presence of federal troops will restore normal conditions. Efforts of the federal government to settle the strike thus far have failed. On this point the president made it clear that federal troops were being sent merely to preserve order and not to interfere in the strike controversy. “I shall not, by the use .of the troops,” wired the president to Governor Ammons today, “or by any attempt at jurisdiction, inject the power of the federal government into the controversy which had produced the presept situation. The Settlement of that controversy falls strictly within the field of state power.”