Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-11-10
GATHERS IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE YESTER-
DAY INA WILD MASS.
The Red Flag Flauntsd From the Foot Of Nelson's
Monument-Grsat Dismay in the Metropolis
Banks, Stores and Dwellings Barrieadsd-
Soldiers and Police DiSperSs hsMob.

| Win sense OF oppression. lnls condl-
tion is due to anxiety for the result of the
threatened gathering of Socialists to-day.
The police have made all possible arrange
ments for resisting any attempts at dis
order. At An early hour shoals of roughs
began to emerge from the Sums
and make their way towards the sections
where the Socialists have arranged to as
semble. Battalions Of police proceeding
to different points received hearty cheers
from the people.
STORES AND BANKS BARRICADED.
The streets of the city and in the West
End present a remarkable appearance.
All the shutters of the shops are drawn
and barricaded, and the iron riilings are
boarded with stout timber. Banks and
other buildings are secured in similar
manner. These precautions are not con-
fined to the buildings on the route of the
Lord Mayors procession, but extend to
streets far removed. The suburban police
and the reserves have been posted ut
prominent points, and large military
force and all the Household troops are in
readiness if their assistance is needed
AT TRAFALGAR SQUARE.
At II o'clock force of police occupied
the north side of Trafalgar square. The
shops in the vicinity are closed, and the
doors and windows of the jewelry estab-
Establishments are heavily barred. Hun
dreds of students, armed with sticks, have
gathered about the square. A crowd of
lOaiers arrived, and were allowed to pro-
Ceed te the entrance of the square. There
they were met by double line of police
men and turned into the strand. Mount
cd police cleared the roadway. The crowd
at Trafalgar Square kept increasing to vast
proportions, but the police maintained ad
mirable order. Sir Charles Warren, Com
missioner of the Metropolitan Police, Wis
tied the Square this morning and indicated
the positions to which the policemen
should be assigned.
POLICE SCATTER A MOB.
4 trihing occurrence occurred in Trafal-
gar Square at about noon. A mob about
three hundred strong, and marching in
body, was halted by the police and sepa-
rated. The police then cleared the square
and pushed the crowd towards the Thames
cmbankment 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 po-
lice. The Life Guards were drawn up and
formed 4 Gordon across White Chapel
shutting out the East End Socialists The
Life Guards in passing Victoria street
were saluted with grOans by small knot
of roughs, but the majority of the col
lected crowds 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 Socialists demonstration had been
prohibited. Sir Charles referred them to
his proclamation, which, he said, would
give them the reasons.
THE PROCESSION NOT MoLEsTED.
The 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 Ira
falgar Square One thousand policemen
were posted at the square. The Scots
Guards were mustered in st. Georges bar
racks, behind the National gallery. The
crowd about Trafalgar Square at one
o'clock had grown colossal, the rough ele-
ment prcdominating. 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 rs
it was possible.
THE RED FLAG.
5P. M.-When the Lord Mayors pro-
cesSiOn passed Trafalgar Square it met
with no demonstration on the part of the
crowds except some unOrganizen cheering
and hooting, the latter being especially di-
rected at the Lord Mayor. After the
show had gone by, however, the mob at
once surged over into the Square and soon
formed dense throng about the Nelson
Monument 4 number of men mounted
the pedestal different points. Some of
these waved red flags. The Square ssoon
became a scene of excitement. RecOg-
nized 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 harangues were
inaudible at any distance from the orators,
yet expressions and phrases were often
caught by the mob and used rs topics of
heated debate among the auditors them
selves. In this way the vast crowd was
soon divided into numberless excited
groups. each stirred up by its own spOkes-
man and all independent, noisy and eX-
cited. The police did not attempt to in
terfere with the lush Of the mob into
the square, but formed a strong Gordon
around it.
SPEECHES OF THE SOCIALISTS.
Among the speakers who addressed the
groups was Williams, the Socialist leader.
He spoke from the foot of the Nelson Mon
ument. He declared that the pOpulace
would show that they could hold an order
" meeting to let the public know the
amount ofdistress 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 we are here. do
not desire to use rash Language, but mean
all say. We want food, work and dwell
ing places for all, and will have them. The
Socialists pledged the unemployed of Lon
don that they would make this demon
stration to-day to contrast before the
worlds the extreme poverty Of LOndon's
unemployed with the extreme wealth and
plenty of the city's upper CLASSES, and the
Socialists have kept their word We have
given this answer to Sir Charles Warren.
Resolutions Of q proper kind will be
adopted and they will be sent to the Mar
quis of Salisbury and to Lord Randolph
Churchill and they will be compelled to
listen to them. The Socialists will con-
tinue their work until every vestage Of
tyrany shall be swept away. Our organi-
zation is the only one which dares to take
the proper position on behalf Of the poor
and Oppressed. We are not here to break
the peace We are here to agitate in a
peaceful manner for work for all and over
work for none"
Resolutions asking for Government to
pro-;Ia xu-orl- for the unarnrlova1 and IN