The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-21
indianapolis Herald, Aug %, 1873.
| THE GENESIS OF A PARDON.
Card from the Chairman of the Com
mittee Which Censured Hendricks.
The Merits of the Case from Trades Union
Standpoint.

| The following is from the report OF tne dele
gates from the Trades Assembly of this city Tin
dianapolis to the Industrial Congress of the
United States, held at Cleveland, O., in March,
1873" The report bears date indianapolis, Aug.
| IL, 1873:
| The congress adopted series of resolutions
ing Governor Hendricks of this State for pardoning
| VIM II. Buzan the murderer of Conrad Hartman,
union molder, of Evansville We believe that this &C
ton the part Governor Hendricks should be borne
| i'll mind by trades-union men, and if the time ever
| comes when they their influence against him
trust they will exhibit their condemnation of his
| course in an effective manner. E. IL. KIMBERLY
JOHN SCHLEY,
L JAMES HOPKINS.
/ [Note-Mr. Schley, whose name appears here,
| is candidate for the Legislature from this Ma
rion) county on the Democratic ticket
In Tuesday mornings issue Of the paper 1.-THE
Indianapolis Sentinel which recommends diet
of rats and rice as panacea for all the ills that
workingmen are heirs to, II party Of the name of
A. T. Whittlesey, who learn is confidential
clerk to Governor Hendricks attempts de-
Tense of the action of the executive in par
doning Lewis H. Buzan, "the murderer Of Con-
rad Hartman, the union molder of Evansville
speak advisedly, and maintain that there is far
more certainty that Buzan is tho murderer of
Hartman than that Mrs. Glenn is the murderer
of Jacob and Nancy Young Whittlesey en-
deavors to rdcule first "the body of gentlemen
aspiring to the dignity of an industrial congress-
| and next the ''three citizens of Indianapolis,
who, with undue haste, made reportof their ac-
ton as delegates to that congress- for the clerical
and typographical errors which combined to
| render the murderer's name perhaps half a
| dozen different ways-"Lewis II. Brujan" in
| the Cleveland papers, "William H. Brujan" in
the Chicago Workingmens Advocate, civilian
II
People, and civilian III. Buzan" il the Herald.
| MACK" of the ST. Louis Democrat, once said:
| ITO err is human, but to blunder egregiously is
| strictly typographical" and when gentlemen
| have gained little experience in newspaper
matters they are apt to learn that it is regarded
as an evidence of extreme simplicity to criticise
| typographical errors. If Mr. Whttlesey will
examine his Page of History closely he will
| discover some errors of his own quite as fragrant
as those committed by the signers of the report
which so excited his bile.
Under ordinary circumstances" says Mr.
Whittlesey, three honorable gentlemen, in
| appending their names to such q. recommends
| ton would first have been certain that
the statement made by them was true,
especially when it required no great effort
to learn the facts" The honorable gentlemen"
were perhaps better informed on the subject
than Mr.. Whittesey. AT all events, they did
not rely entirely upon ''the papers on file in the
Office of Secretary of State for their informa-
ton. Those papers were prepared by the friends
l OI DuHaQ TOT Jne purpose OIL making MS OHeQSeS
appear as light as possible and with view to OBJ
tanning pardon. An opinion formed from an
inspection of them must necessarily be one
/ sided. The statements made TO US by parties
who were fully cognizant of all the facts in the
case and of the reputation of the man, both dur
| ing his residence in Evansville, and before he
ever saw that city, although they were not
sworn statements, were fully as reliable as the
| contradictory testimony" upon which Governor
| Hendricks acted. We did not, as Whittlesey as
serts. take the assertions of the Evansville dele
| gates to be true knowing next to nothing
of the case at ALL nor did we even know what
statements had been made to the Congress by
tho Evansville delegates. The matter has been
a subject of discussion in trades union circles
ever since the pardon was granted and union
men generally understand all its features
| THE FACTS FROM UNION VIEW.
In many of the trades there are men who
make it business, whenever. they hear of
''strike' or lockout" to tender their services
and those of gang of men under their control,
to the bosses against whom the strike is directed
not permanently or from any desire to obtain
| employment, but for such length of time as
will enable the employer to procure other non
union hands. They are generally men who have
| been expelled from the union for diShouorable
| conduct. When a sufficient force has been pro-
cured to the office, shop or mill,
these traits, they are denominated by printers,
''scabs' by other trades land the name Isl not a.
character and nature betake themselves to their
headquarters to await future demands for their
| services. A notable instance of this kind among
| the printers of the West is George Atkins,
| whose headQuartersiare at the office of the Chi
cogo Times. Buzan belongs to this class of
men, and he has been the means of defeating
many strike, the purposes of which were laudt
| able and praiseworthy. In three instances-at
| Cincinnati, Louisville and Evansvle--as l am
assured by parties whom consider reliable, he
| has managed TO become embroiled in quarrels
| with Union men, whose passions We're inlamed
by the failure of their strike, because of the as
sistance given the employers by him and his
gang and in each instance he has shot and
either kiled5or wounded one more of his OPP
ponents, relying upon the influence of his. en-
! ployers, in whose interests, perhaps. at
whose tnstigation, he acted, to screen
him from punishment. and he has been
| singularly successful in escaping the STAGES
prison or the galows
About the LIST of last March strike occurred
at a foundryiin Evansville. 1t was more, of a
strike on the part of the propretors than. of the
union, however. The men employed went to
i the shop in the morning prepared to go to work
and were informed that their services were not
needed-that the proprietors had determined not
to employ union men in the future. l do not
| learn that there had been any previous trouble
in the shop beyond remonstrance against some
measures adopted by the propriotersa but which
had not boon considered of sufficient Importance
to cause a strike The places of the discharged
men were soon after filled by non
unionists. among whom was Buzans This
individual appears to have been a kind of
rght-hand man to his employer, with whom
he was frequently seen in saloons and on the
| streets. They were together on the day of the
| shooting of Hartman on Maine street They
were on a hunt for unienists four of whom they
found sitting at table in the saloon drinking
beers The non unionists three in number
| Buzan, Rocker and Willey-were armed with
| revolversss Tho unionists, four in number, were
unarmed Except" as Governor Hendricks says
one of them might possibly havehad beer
| glass in his hand"
He didn't have, but possibly he might have
| had, and If he had, he would have been a
| formidable Opponent for man who only had q