St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-03
BUCHANAN'S BLAST.
Arthur Denounced by Prominent
Labor AgitatOr.

Special to the Globe.
CHICAGO, March 2.-The individuals
who, on Wednesday night, were prophe-
sying that within twenty-four hours the
Burlington strike would come to an
end, and who last night cOnjured up
visions of white-winged angels of peace
fitting through the fog and mist be-
tween the big building and the Grand
Pacific, are realizing this evening that
it is not always safe to depend on i'm
agination for facts. The truth is that
the fifth day of the strike closes with
the existing conditions, as well as the
outlook, precisely in the shape that has
been outlined from day to day in these
dispatches. The opportunity of the
angels, if they ever had one, has passed.
The struggle, If the leaders on both
sides say what they mean, has resolved
itself into an issue of strength, or OF
strategy.
NO SURRENDER
is the motto of the railroad, and the
policy of the brotherhood is precisely
the same. Between the two there is no
middle ground. The deal between
Chief Arthur and the representatives Of
the Reading knights, and which was
the direct result of overtureS made by
the former, had a tendency toward max
ing the local strikers unusually buoy
ant this morning They looked upon it
as being practically the beginning OF
the end of the fight, and as placing the
Burlington at their mercy and they
waited all day for the news that the be-
hest had been obeyed by the brother
hood men now in the Reading roads
employ. But the news didn't come, and
revulsion of feeling was only pre-
vented by word from the Grand Pacific
that the persons charged with the pro-
mitigation of order the had not yet
reached their deStinations,an and that moth
ing definite was expected by Chief Ar
thur till the morning. ltdld not occur to
them and the ggeStiOnWhen preached,
was Indignantly repealed, that perhaps
Master Workman Gleason, OF Phlladel-
phia, and Secretary Cahill, of Reading,
who represented the knights in the
deal, might not be able to carry out
their part of the programme. But it
did so occur to Grand Secretary DebS,of
| the Firemen's Brotherhood. and that is
why he found himself in the Office of
| his old time enemy, Joseph Buchanan,
| this afternoon. Buchanan is editor of
the Labor Enquirer and the head and
chief of the anti-Powderly element in
the knights. The Reading men are a
| portion of that particular element,
| hence it was natural that Buchanan,
although he has kept in the background
during the week, should have been
sought out and his advice asked by
many of the Reading men who had
been brought out here. TO one
and all. however, he had said,
that knowing all the circumstances they
! ought to act upon their own judgment
| But Mr.. DebS was of the opinion that if
| Buchanan would come out squarely in
favor of the deal there would be an eX-
odus back to Pennsylvania, and in say
| inc as much, he asked the editor to meet
| Chief Arthur in conference tonight or
| tomorrow. Between these two men
| the most bitter spirit has existed for
many years, and Buchanan therefore
replied that while he did not seek Chief
Arthur's company he would, in case he
met him, treat him like gentleman
should be treated. As to the question
at issue, he had nothing to say. But
when his visitor was gone, he sat down
and wrote an editorial, which will
appear in the Enquirer tomorrow, side
by side with column article, entitled,
"a BIT OF HISTORY"
In the latter the action of the brother
| hood in the Missouri Pacific and Read
| lliS ollihoo 10 i0fiG" ~ ee iehS.h' s'iiN' !.
goes on to say: ''In the strikes referred
to Mr.. Arthur went so far as to publicly
and privately deride and denounce the
Knights of Labor and other labor Or
CARNATIONS. and to point with gusto to
the superiority of the brotherhood
members, through which superiority,
he said, we are enabled to avoid strikes
and the other ungentlemanly and UNI
American, lawless acts of labor organic
atiOns.' Dare Arthur deny this? Dare
he deny that he made just such state
ments from the public platform in Den
yer, and that he lacked the courage To
meet the writer in open discussion on
the relative merits OF tie knights oi