Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1886-10-08
FROM ALL QUARTERS.
A Big LEAK SOMEWHERE
In The Knights Of Labor
Convention.
THE ANARCHISTS MUST HANG.
Hartford's Big DefauIters
At Ottawa.
A LETTER FROM OLIVER AMES.
The New Greed Rejected
At Des MOines.
A LETTER FROM OLIVER AMES.
LEAK IN THE CONVENTION.


Powderly and His associates Worked
Up Over the Way Secrets Get Out at
Observation-Disclosures Day Como and
No Report From the Committee en-
Credentfals-The Trouble Over the
Race Issue.
RICHMOND, Va, Oct. by dint of al
most continuous session from 9 a. m. to $50
o. m. to-day the knights of Labor accom-
plished some actual work. Organization
was practically effected. Late this after
noon SO much of the report of the committee
on credentials as was finally agreed upon
and recommended for action was formally
adopted. Although efforts were made to de-
feat the recommendation for the refusal of
recognition OF Delegate Morrison of District
Assembly No. 1876 he was rejected. The Gre
dentials committee retired to complete its re-
port and after rejecting Morrison the conven-
ton took up the subjects presented by a
number of districts having strikes on hand.
The strike of the Amsterdam, N.
Y, spinners was discussed at
length. The salient features of it
were presented by delegates from the
Amsterdam district. The convention en-
dorsed the action of the strikers and in
structed the board to assist them. The
question was turned over to the executive
board for formal action. This is considered
a triumph for the laborers so far as the or
ganization is concerned. Then the Augusta,
Ga, strike was taken up. AS Mr.. Powder
ly put this case, ''the people of Augusta
threaten to throw three thousand laborers
out of employment because twelve men
asked for an increase of wages to ninety
three cents day." The convention sus-
tanned the strikers and directed that they be
given moral and financial aid. These strik-
ers are in cotton mills. The case of the New
York plumbers Involving the apprentice
question: received similar treatment, as did
also the tanner strikers at Salem, Mass.
and the Illinois miners. It is the purpose of
the national body to strengthen the hands and
sustain the principles of all the strikers who
have moved regularly in order, as the votes
were decisive and the remarks terse. The
afternoon session adjourned to 7:30 this
evening, when the credentials committee, it
was expected, would report.
The general officers good deal per-
picked over the verbatim publication of some
proceedings and taking steps to detect
the delegates acting as correspondents and
representative Knights and if they are found
they will be expelled. A member of the ex-
ecutive board said to the United Press CORE
spondent o-night that trades unions and the
investigation of the Home club ordered at
Cleveland were likely to lead to the consump-
ton of the greatest time and arouse the most
heat of anything before the convention when
it gets fairly under way.
Mr. Powderly said there would be no
trouble over color line issues as Delegate
Terrell of 40 on his own notion had sured
him that he would not attend any place of
,,r1h1io I1DHnr cironm at
and that he would gratefully yield to all the
customs here relating to the colored race.
Mr.. Powderly and all members of the board
are much gratified at the outcome of this af-
fair.
A short time after the evening session
was called to order the committee on creden-
tials communicated the intelligence that it
would not be able to report tonight and
the convention adjourned until tomorrow
morning without transacting any business.
It is much easier now after the lapse of TWEEN
ty-four hours to realize the seriousness of the
situation here last night over the color ques-
ton than it was at the time the pressure was
on. It has been the chief topic of converse
ton all day and has been the most thorough
~ discussed question to night. It is con-
coded by the more conservative, including
the chief of police, that the slightest provo
cation would have resulted in wholesale
slaughter. The color line presents very
delicate issue and is one that cannot be safe
ly agitated. All day the whites had been
gibed about the intrusion of Delegate Fer
rell into the Academy and the threat that
the programme would be repeated at the
Richmond theater was a severe strain upon
their sensitive nerves. The great concourse
of the whites (there were very
few blacks to be SEEM that assem-
b1ed to resist the forty miners if they
demanded admission for their colored broth
er was very quiet. Scarcely a word was
spoken by many and few sounds above low
tones were uttered by anybody. The great
crowd stood almost speechless in the streets
waiting. When finally they depar ted for
their homes there was that quiet demeanor
that made their presence SO impressive.
Men who brag and bluster seldom act; but
no one who saw those hundreds of citizens
in front of the Richmond theater would
doubt their ability and determination to
strike at the given time.
In commenting on the color line issue this
evenings State says: ''The citizens of Rich
mond are among the most conservative and
peace-loving in the country, but they have
customs they will not suffer to be violated
Those who visit this city for business or
pleasure are always safe in our
midst and they always retain the resepct of
our people SO long as they show themselves
worthy of it. But when any of them attempt
to inaugurate a social revolution among US
tu0y Lc0u uOL Do IpElS0u IL tu0y quickly
arouse righteous popular indignation. The
customs of generations cannot be rudely
trampled under foot by few men who at
tempt arrogantly to exercise authority
wholly offensive in both its spirit and its OBJ
iect to the popular sense. There is never a
clash between the white and co1ored people
in this State save only when some intruding
outsider or some malcontent at home at
tempts to arouse race feeling and to provoke
antagonism between the two races. Self
respecting men of both races recognize the
fact that social equality is impossible and
that to attempt to force it upon any commu-
nifty can only result in most serious injury"
A number of communications are pub
lished in this evenings State from the pens
of old citizens and the temper of them all
can be seen by the following extract from
one of them: "Powderly inaugurated this
movement practically at his first appearance
before this general assembly by having him
self introduced by negro, and his speech on
that occasion was largely an appeal to the
visiting knights obtain they will in
time force this social question to a sue
cessful issue and have the negro and
white child educated under the same
roof and in the same room and break down
all social distinction. The inter marriage of
the races is the practical result This seems
to be one of their aims and it remains to be
seen how far it will be accepted by the white
men composing the order in the South. The
negro, poor fool, is elated beyond expression
at what has been done and yearns for the OBJ
liberation of all social barriers and distinc
tions, forgetting that God. not man, placed
the mark upon him in his creation. The
practical outcome of all this will be the dis
organization of society, riot and bloodshed
and as usual the negro is to be the sufferer. -
Extraordinary efforts will be put forth to
prevent recurrence of last nights excite
ment aud the possibility of bloodshed. In
this the officers of the knights of Labor have
promised to co operate. There is little dam
ger now of trouble growing out Of the recep-
ton, banquet and ball to be rendered to the
visitors. Daniel Bandman, who is playing
at the Academy of Music where the delegate
Terrell went with the 40 men on Tuesday
evening, tonight addressed communication
to the editor of the Wing in which he says:
"Allow me to make statement in reference
to the colored delegate who occupied an Or
chestra chair in the Academy of Music dur
ing the perfnrformanee of Hamlet
Tuesday night. I do not think it
right that others should be blamed
tor any action of mine. The delegate was
there upon my invitation alone and I am