The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-01-22

According to the Chicago Disciples of the
sociaIistic Doctrine the Present Status of
AGairs VIII Change About May 1st--Chi-
cago q Magazine of Dynamite Bombs
with an Army of Bomb-ThrOwers--The
City Districted for Offensive Operations
--WInchesters for WOrkingmen.
CHICAGO, I'LL, January 15.-It win be
remembered that at the time an internal
machine was found on Judge Trees
premises in this city few weeks ago,
there was an immediate suggestion that
it had been placed there by Socialists,
and might be the opening move of des-
ultory dynamite warfare on weslthy
property owners, and when publicity was
given to the fact that a somewhat SINH
lar explosive had been left in the build
ing occupied by the Chicago, Burlington
Quincy Railroad Company's general
Offices, unthinking alarmists jumped to
the conclusion that this was intended to
be the second gun of the dynamite attack.
Much concern was manifested by many
citizens, notwithstanding the matter was
made little of by Well-informed
people, and with view to ascertaining
how much truth there was in the rumors,
a local paper instituted an investigation
into the character of the two suspicious
machines, and as to the present doings
of the little band Of Chicago Socialists.
So far, this inquiry has been productive
of most alarming givings out in the way
of revolutionary talk, and amost reassur-
ing paucity of facts to Justify fear that
the community is any more in danger
now from Socialists than it has been
in the last dozen years At the
outset, if was claimed that the
Socialists and trades unions had joine d
hands to carry by force the strike for the
eight-hour law on May lst. There is no
evidence of any such union, beyond the
fact that, week before last, the metal
workers voted funds to arm themselves,
and a week ago Tuesday the cabinet
makers set aside one-half of their entire
surplus for the purchase of Winchester
rifles. The Socialists boast that they have
over 9 200 bombs loaded and distributed
in the hands of trusty persons. The So
cialistic Brotherhood has the advantage
of possessing an organ printed in the Ger
man language, which, week after week,
disseminates incendiary ideas, while from
its job press go circulars, maps, etc, de-
scribing the streets, sewers and tunnels OF
the city, and giving instructions in street
warfare and in the practical use of ex-
plosives. Socialist leaders claim that
they have established depots for the fos-
tering of various bombs, but none were
found, and that they have lists of promi-
nent persons to be disposed of by dyna-
mite, but none were shown. They claim
that every Sunday morning for a year
bands of Socialists have been going to
the country to practice the throwing of
bombs, and that tests of their effective
ness and the manner of explosions have
been frequently made, but nobody has
seen or heard these experiments. One
thing the Investigation did go far to prove
the improbability that the Socialists
had anything to do with placing the in.
fernal machiues at Judge Trees house
or in the offices of the Chicago, Burling-
ton & Quincy Railroad Company. The
dissimilarity of these from each other, as
well as from the dynamite bomb manu-
factured for the Socialists, is very
marked. Besides the bombs men,
toned the SocialiStic leaders refer mys-
teriously to the possession of internal
machines which explode by Clock-wOrk
or electricity. They are intended for
guarding approaches, mining the streets
or for the destruction of property. When
properly placed two or three of them
would demolish building or so tear up
a street as to render it impossible. Un-
derstanding the effect of vagueness on
their followers, the Socialistic leaders
are very chary of facts in their replies to
pointed inquiries. They delight in little
hints of sanguinary preparations and
claim that since they were forbidden by
Governor Oglesby to arm with rifles and
publicly drill, they have resorted to
dynamite, and say that from being agita
tors they have become Nihilists. AS t6
the ramifcatiOns of their organization it
Is said to be divided into clubs of two.
Beyond this they are not supposed to be
known to each other, thus insuring them,
selves against betrayal.
The leaders profess to be in possession
of perfect plans of the underground sys-
tenn of Chicago and careful reports of the
ways by which the hOuse-tops at the vari-
Gus street corners can be readily reached.
From these reports, locations have been
selected for congregation and defense.
The principal ones are the Lake Front,
Market square and West Randolph street
between Desplaines and Halstead streets.
The plans are accompanied by sugges-
tions as to the principal street corners
which should be fortified and the way to
go about it. About the only man who
thinks that the Socialists may find an Op-
portunity for incendiary work through an
association with trades unions on May
1st, is Mr.. Joseph Greenhut, who is the
author of the eight-hour agitation. He
processes to think that the Socialists and
the labor organizations are a unit on the
question, and that the movement will
dwarf all previous ones in the labor sys-
TEN. He says that little dependence is to
be placed in the social orders, that the
men talk dynamite, treason and blood
shed.
"But there are men," says he, "cool,
collected thoughtful, laboTing men, in
the ranks of the Socialists, who will do
the work. They arc secretly banded to-
gether, and not by open organization.
Bombs are being made in considerable
numbers and distributed. The labor or
ganizations are arming with rifles, and,
while they are not permitted by law to
drill on the street, they drill in their lodge
rooms. think the great crisis viii come
on the 1st of May, or soon after. think"
he continued, "that the movement, if
properly opened here, will extend all over
the country, and of its success / have no
doubt. The Socialists are heartily in the
movement, and they have been talking
dynamite so long thai the trade win be
lost if not productive of something in this
issue"
Billed for Cheyenne.
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