Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1894 — Hammond Citizens Protest. [ARTICLE]

Hammond Citizens Protest.

An enthusiastic meeting of the representative citizens of Ilammond was lield in the Sens of Veterans’ hall Friday night. The meeting was "largely attended, and it was notable from the fact that none of the strikers or their sympathizers were present. The meeting was addressed by H >n. Chas. F. Griffin, Rev. F. W. Herzberger and many others. Mr. Griffin said that it was high time loyal citizens of Hammond should let the outside world know that the resolutions passed at a citizens meeting last Monday night were not the sentiment of a majority of the citizens of this city; that that meeting had not been advertised so that anyone except those in sympathy with the strikers could know anything about it, and that it was the purpose of the persons who called that meeting to keep the loyal people away. Many speeches were made showing that at no lime during the present trouble had there been any great unloyal sentiment existing among representative citizens, but that it was almost as much as ones life was worth to show a feeling antagonistic to the interest of the strikers. Resolutions were passed condemning the work of the strikers and indorsing the action Of Governor Matthews, and condemning that of Gov. Altgeld, whom the previous meeting had so highly endorsed .