The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-10
And Meets with No Opposition Worthy of
Note-Several Rough Encounters with P6.
lice Officers, but No One Seriously Hurt.
Lord Salisbury Defines England's Atti-
tude as to Egypt and Bulgaria.
Belgium's King Promises Reforms That Will
Improve the Condition of the Workingmen
miscellaneous News by the Cable.
LORD MAYORS DAY.
The Procession Moves Over the Usual Route
Salisbury Discusses Egypt and Bulgaria.

The procession Moves Over the Usual Route
Salisbury Discusses Egypt and Bulgaria.
LONDON, Nov. 9-Lord Mayors day opened
gloomy and dark. There were few signs in the
city to indicate that this was the day for the
Lord Mayors show. The display of bunting and
the decoration of buildings usually made on this
occasion was almost generally omitted, and the
authorities and populace seemed to be ilnbued
with sense of oppression. This condition was
due to anxiety for the result of the threatened
gathering of Socialists. The police had made
all the possible arrangements for resisting any
attempts at disorder.
At at early hour shoals of roughs began to
emerge from the slums and make their way
toward the section where the Socialists had ar
ranged to assemble. Battalions of police pro-
ceeding to different points, received hearty cheers
from the people. The streets of the city and the
West End presented remarkable appearance.
All the shutters of the shops were drawn and
barricaded, and the iron ratings were boarded
with stout timbers. Banks and other buildings
were secured in a similar manner These pre-
cautions were not confined to the buildings on
the route of the Lord Mayors procession, but
extended to streets far removed. The suburban
police and the reserves were posted at promi-
nent points, and large military force and all
the household troops were in readiness if their
assistance was needed.
At IL o'clock force of police occupied the
north SIDE OF Trafalgar square. The shops in
the vicinity were closed and the doors and win
dows of the jewelry establishments heavily
barred. Hundreds of students. armed with
sticks, gathered about the square. A crowd of
loafers arrived and were allowed to proceed to
the entrance of the square. There they were
met by double line of police and turned into
the Strand. Mounted police cleared the road
way The throng at Trafalgar square increased
to vast proportions, but the police were in ad-
mirable order. Sir Charles Warren, commits
soner of the Metropolitan police, visited the
square and indicated the positions to which the
policemen should be assigned.
A trifiing encounter occurred at Trafalgar
square aboutnoon. A mob of about 800 strong,
marching in body, were halted by the police
and separated. The police then cleared the
square and pushed sne crowd toward the Thames
Embankmenk There the mob halted and hooted,
and groaned at the officers Three hundred
medical students, marching five abreast and
armed with heavy bludgeons, proceeded along
the Strand to aid the police. The Life Guards
were drawn up and formed a Gordon across
WhitechaDel, shutting out the East End So
cialists. The Life Guards, in passing through
Victoria street, were greeted with groans by a
small knot of roughs, but the majority of the
collected crowd watched their progress in silence
Two Socialists called upon Sir Charles Warren
to-day and requested an answer to their letter of
yesterday, inquiring why the proposed Socialist
demonstration had been prohibited. Sir Charles
referred them to his proclamation, which, he
said, wouldIgive them the reasons.
The Lord Mayors procession started at the
usual hour, and proceeded over the assigned
route without anything happening beyond the
usual horse-play incident to the occasion
The police dispersed the medical students, and
refused to allow them to occupy Trafalgar
square. One thousand policemen were posted
at the square. The Scots Guards were mustered
in St Georges barracks, behind the National
Gallery. The crowd about Trafalgar square at
o'clock had grown colossal, the rough element
predominating, and accessions were constantly
arriving. Police lined the streets converging on
the square. They also surrounded the square,
and refused to permit any one to enter. Efforts
were made to keep the crowd moving as far as it
was possible.
When the procession passed Trafalgar square,
it met with no demonstration on the part of the
crowd except some unorganized cheering and
hooting the latter being especially directed at
the Lord Mayor After the show had gone by,
the mob at once surged over into the square and
soon formed a dense throng about the Nelson
monument A number of men mounted the
pedestal at different points. Some of these
waved red flags, and the square soon became
scene of excitement Recognized Socialist
leaders managed here and there to gather around
them groups of men ready and willing to listen
to speeches, and, although most of the har-
angues were inaudible at any distance from the
orators. yet expressions were caught by the
mob and used as topics of heated debate among
the auditors themselves. In this way the vast
crowd was soon divided up into numberless ex-
cited groups, each stirred by it's own spokesman
and all Independently noisy and excited The
police did not attempt to interfere with the rush
of the mob into the square, but formed strong
Gordon around it. Among the speakers who ad-
dressed the groups was Williams, the Socialist
leader. He spoke from the foot Of the Nelson
monument He declared that the populace
would show they could hold an orderly meeting
to let the public know the amount of distress
which at present existed among the workingmen
OF England. Another speaker said:
"All the power of the country was invoked to
prevent US from assembling in Trafalgar square.
Our reply to all this is, that are here. / do
not desire TO use rash language, but mean all /
say We want food, work and dwelling places
for all, and will have them The Socialists
pledged the unemployed of London that they
would make this demonstration to-day to con-
trast before the world the extreme poverty of
London's unemployed with the extreme wealth
and plenty OF the city's upper classes, and the