Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1910 — STATE TROOPS IN CHARGE OF STRIKE [ARTICLE]

STATE TROOPS IN CHARGE OF STRIKE

Got. Harmon, in Person, Takes Hold of tlie Situatian. . ■ '■ ■ i . ■ Governor Harmon assumed charge of the car strike situation in Columbus. O. Wit:. ;ut consulting Mayor Marahall. or the states adjutant general, 1 he ordered a force of 1,000 state troops in the capital yard and a little after nightfall they were encamped there, including the First regiment of Cincinnati, pan of the Third regiment of Dayton and Troop B and Battery C, of Columbus. The governor is in charge of the troops and his adjutant general gives the orders. The troops were not placed about for patrol service, but held in the state house grounds. Bankers and business men have raised $12,500 to pay the special deputy sheriffs, but the authorities have been practically unable to enlist deputies or special police officers. The soldiers are provided with riot cartridges. Gov. Harmon issued a proclamation calling on al! peace loving citizens to rally to the standard of law and order and assist troops and local police force in putting down riot and disorder.

Last night the mayor suggested to the Columbus Railway and Light company that because of the rioting, no effort be made to run cars, but the company ignored the suggestion. C. S. Coach, of a detective agency, has arrived to take charge of the strikebreakers in the absence of John F. Brady, the leader who fled after shooting two women and a child. The city council has appointed a committee to propse to the car company and the union that the issues of the controversy be left to the council, sitting as a board of arbitration. There is little likelihood that the company will agree to this. Anticipating the possibility of efforts to wreck th® five trains bringing the ■ first regiment from Cincinnati, the state authorities had two pilot engines with details of soldiers covering stretches of Baltimore & Ohio railway track in the vicinity of Blanchester and Morgans station, where trestles ar» located It is evident that there may be frle- I tion when rhe militia authorities under I Gov. Harmon, and the police and dep-, nty sheriffs under Mayor Marshall meet to quetl rioting. The military officers are planning to assume charge of things when they are called out. To an Impartial observer, it looks as if the governor has about made up his mind to lift the management of the situation entirely out of the mayor’s

hands Predictions are made that In the event of serious trouble the governor will not hesitate to remove the mayor from office, ~i