The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-16
THE sON-IN-LAW's CATTLE.
an Episode Of the Railroad war.

1 AN EE1lSOuG OF the Railroad WAR
From the Chicago Tribune.l
The correspondence between Blu,
Jeans Williams and the President dur
ing the recent strike shows the butter
| nut breeched Governor Of Indiana to be
polite man. When railroad travel il
Indiana was completely suspended ano
everything was in possession of the mob
when the freight of Western merchants
and the produce Of Illinois, Iowa, Wis
consin and Minnesota was forcibly de-
tanned at Terre Haute, Fort Wayne, In
dlanapolis, and other important railroad
centers, by rioters with whom Blue
Jeans was in sympathy, and the commu-
nifty began to demand that the embargo
should be raised, and that freight and
passengers should be allowed transit
through the State, the crafty mobocrat
and riot-sympathizer sought to do a
double stroke of business first, in ST.
lencing the popular demand, and sec
ond, In making a point against the Gen
eral Government for future reference.
On the Goth of July he sent the follow
ing dispatch to the President:
INDIANAPOLIS, md, July 26.
TO the President Washington. D. c.:
In view of the threatened domestic violence
growing out of the railroad strike, request
that authority be at once given to the COM
mandant of the arsenal to render me all the aid
possible in preserving the public peace.
JAMES d. WILLIAMS,
Governor of Indiana.
Of course the animus of the crafty Blue
Jeans in sending this informal dispatch
was to commit the administration to the
charge of sending United States troops
into Indiana without the authority for
SO doing that is conferred upon the adj
ADMINISTRATION by the constitution, and
then making political capital out of it as
q gross violation of constitutional pro-
visions and Of the rights OF States. The
President referred the document to the
Secretary Of War, who quietly threw it
into the waste basket, and then admins
tered fguratiye kick to Blue Jeans in
the following dispatch:
WASHINGTON, D. c., July rs.
Gov. James D. Williams, Indianapolis, Ind:
In the absence of a formal call upon the
President, under the constitution and statutes,
for military aid in suppressing domestic yio-
lence, the Federal troops can only be used in
protecting the property of the United States
and enforcing the process of Federal courts.
GEORGE W. MCCRARY,
Secretary of War.
There is a little episode in this affair
that should not be lost. Blue Jeans has
a son-in-law, and at the time OF the
strike the son-in-law had train-load of
cattle road-bound near Indianapolis by
Blue Jeans friends. Alarmed for the
safety of his cargo, the son-in-law APP
prised Blue Jeans, who at once, like q
dutiful father-in-law, gave him paper
certifying that he was his son-ln-law, and
expressing the affectionate hope that the
strikers would allow him to take his cattle
to st. Louis. Armed with this document,
MS son-in- law waited upon the ringlead-
ers, who at once allowed him to go on
with his cattle. From this it appears
that Blue Jeans had no scrupIes in de-
tanning the whole traffic and travelling
public Of the West that go through In
diana, provided his son-in-l laws business
was not interfered with. Having laid
himself under obligations to the mob, of
course he could not turn and show his
ingratitude by ordering out the militia to
protect public property which was consid-
cred by them as fair plumber, from which
it appears that he was not ayerse to sell
ing himself out for train-load of CATTLE
The son-in-law must be provided for,
even if the whole interests of the West
had to suffer and it's merchants lose
thousands upon thousands of dollars.
Even the sovereign rights of the State
Of Indiana may be invaded, but his SON
in-law's cattle must go through to ST.
Louis Millions for the Blue-J cans cat-
tie train, but not one cent for the
merchants of the West. Men, women,
and children eager to get to their homes
may be forcibly held in Indianapolis by
a mob, but the son-in-law's cattle must
go through. For all this there must
come q day Of reckoning. When that
time comes, the people of Indiana will
remember how in the time Of danger
and disaster this pusillanimous sympa-
thizer with rioters interposed no protest
against the destruction of property, the
detention of travel, the waste Of produce
belonging to Western merchants the
menace to society, the invasion of per-
sonal rights. They will remember that
in all that time he interposed no obiec-
ton to the action of the rioters after
they had allowed his son-in-law's cattle
to go on undisturbed. Chicago I3'j6-
u91e.
The Mississippi Democracy.
There is something almost sublime in
the composure with which the Demo-