St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-22
Strikers and Their Sympa-
thizers Shout at the Of
Tending Cowboys.
Labor Leaders and Others Adj
dress a Multitude From a
Housetop.
Emil Constants Scheme to
Make Trouble Nipped in
the Bud.

1ue street cars ran JuSC ABOUT as
usual yesterday, with their regular con-
tingent of police. The police, both
cavalry and infantry, patrolled the
streets i'll every direction, so that if any
disturbance arose it might be nipped
in the bud. The presence of so many
bluecoats cooled off any ardent spirits
who were out looking for blood. There
is no doubt that if the police had not
been out in force the rowdy element
would have caused trouble. But
Chief Clark and his officers are de-
termined that every citizen shall have
the protection allowed him by law, cost
what it may. Accordingly Capt. Bre-
settle and large squad patrolled the
neighborhOod of the Market restaurant,
where the present employees of the
street car company are feeding. Dur
ing the day large crowds gathered about
the spot, but as soon as they commenced
to make any noise or become too de-
+ strative they were quietly but firmly
moved on.
About 2 p. m. there must have been
5000 people at the Market restaurant
waiting to shout at the imported men.
AT other times the crowd was nearly as
large, but Capt. Bresette and his detail
prevented any disorder. When the
OmnibuSeS containing the men from
Cowboyville arrived the crowds Oh the
street amused themselves by hurting
opprobrious epithets and pretty pet
names at them. These did not seem
to cause much trouble to those at whom
they were hurled. and had much the
same effect that the cannon balls had
on Gargantua-merely stuck in their
whiSkerS. and were easily removed by
means of comb. Their appetite was
not affected, and they got away with
Just as much steak and potatoes as if
they had not been hooted at by the
passerS-by. The officers of the COM
pany thought there were so many men
idle sunday that it might be safer to
haul The cars off at noon. Accordingly.
this was done, and probably saved st.
Pau from witnessing disturbance SIM
liar to that which occurred in Minneap-
oils. There might not have been any
trouble, but it seemed brewing, and the
general opinion is that Col. Barr acted
very wisely in housing his cars at noon.
The
ATMOSPHERE sNiELT OF TROUBLE
at Seventh and Ramsey last evening.
thing of the kind, but Messrs. Cronin
and Burns nipped it just in time. Ash
was, had not Chief Clark and large
squad of police been on hand. the Ram
sey street barns would probably have
been used as a platform for
the eloquence of the speakers.
Constant wanted the whole crowd to
demand an interview with the cowboys.
He offered to guarantee that no violence
would be done; but had the crowd,
whose spirits had been quickened and
blood aroused by incendiary speeches,
surged up to the barn, Mr.. Constant,
when trying to prevent violence, would
have been in the same equivocal posi-
ton i'll which King Knut of England
found himself when commanding the
sea to come no further.
In response to the call issued at the
mass meeting Saturday night, large
crowd of people gathered at the Ramsey
street barn last evening. The crowd at
7:45 numbered about seven hundred,
but no speeches or demonstrations were
made. A large force of police, mounted
and in patrol wagons, arrived on the
scene about S and dispersed the
crowd, telling them they could
hold meeting on Seventh street
The crowd Surged down Ramsey street
and finding haif-built house at the
corner of Seventh street, piled some
boards across the walls, and Sec
rotary Cronin, of the X. of H., mounted
chair and addressed the multitude.
which soon numbered 1000. In short
speech he eXhOrted the men to fight it
out to a finish, not by means of physical
force, but by brains and intelligence
He gave Mr.. Lowry and the street car
management drastic dressing down
Which delighted the crowd. He told
them there was one man who was stand
ing in the way of the passage of the
bill now before the seuate. The crowd
recognized the allusi0D, and yelled
Bob SMITH in great glee. Mr.. Cronin
told them that if Mayor Smith defeated
the bill it was their duty to see to it
that he was never put in possession of
any official trust again.
James Johnson was the next speaker.
and he opened out by saying that this
was a question between the citizens of
st. Paul and Thomas Lowry, of Henne-
pin county. This was received with
yellS of delight. Mr.. johnson dwell at
length on the benefits of organization
both to the employers and to the en-
plOyed, and strongly maintained that it
was the right of every free citizen. He
protested against the importation of
scrubs, buns, loafers, criminals and
iaiibirds to run the cars-"cowboys,"
said he,
''WHO NEVER SAW COW
except when they looked in the looking
glass" Depravity and degradation
were written on the faces of these
workhOuse inmates. They were men
who were liable to rob any one, even
Mayor Smith, at any time. They were
disgrace even to Tom Lowry. Then
Mr.. Johnson proceeded to discussion
of the capital and labor problem, after
which he expressed the hope that no
such disorder would disgrace ST. Paul
as had disgraced Minneapolis. He said
the strikers were running buses on
the car lines, so that everyone could
give their nickels to the strikers.
Emil Constant then spoke, saying
that they must win the strike. He told
funny story about some pigs in illus
tration of Thomas Lowry's charity,
which seemed to tickle the crowd huge
ly. The time for talk had gone, he
maintained, and the time for work ar
rived. 1t was necessary to make a
practical attempt to get the cow
boys Off the cars. Ii the labor Or
CARNATIONS could not do that they must
forever cease work as labor organiZa-
tons. Men had been threatened with
arrest for talking to non-uniOn men. but
he insisted this was an unasSailable
right. He hauled the Pioneer Press
| over the Goals for saying that anarchiSm