Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-16
SLUMBERING.
The Spirit of Anarchy Not
Dead in Chicago.
BlOOdthirsty Reds Scattered All
Over the City.
Interviews With the Chief of
Police and Mayor,
WHO CLAIM TO HAVE UNEARTHED A
DARK CONSPIRACY
TO SLAUGHTER THE PEOPLE AND
BURN MANY BUILDINGS.

archists to Deal the City Deadly BLOW
by Creating the Impression That Lift
and Property Are Unsafe and Unpro
tected There, and Thus Make tn,
Worlds Fair a Failure or an ImPOssi
bility.
CHICAGO, Nov. 16.-Anarchy is moi
dead in Chicago by any means, accord
ing to Superintendent of Police Nc
Claughrey, who has had his eye upon the
Reds" for some time past.
A Meeting Raided.
Thursday night squad of one hun
dred policemen raided Grief's hall, at 81
West Lake street, and arrested about
thirty rabid anarchists. They made des.
perate resistance and were only cap,
tured by being outnumbered by the po-
lice. Some of them were booked for
carrying concealed weapons and Others
for making infammatory speeches cal
culated to incite riot.
MeClaughrey interviewed.
In an interview Friday night the SUI
perintendent of police said:
"The purpose of the anarchists was to
strike deadly blow at Chicago in max
ing the worlds fair an impossibilty by
creating for this city the reputation that
life and property are unsafe and unpro-
tected within her limits
''They desired thus to get even with
the community, which they blamed for
the death of their so-called martyrs
and the cause of anarchy ON the scaffold,
and proposed riot and bloodshed as the
means to that end. OF this plot the
most reliable evidence was placed in our
hands, and the action of Inspector Hub
bard, followed by the raid led by Inspec-
tor Lewis, were the first steps taken
toward the Illustration of this scheme.
The policy which the police depart
ment has decided upon is not only to
bring the instigators Of lawlessness and
riot to punishment, but to demonstrate
to the world that Chicago has police
force capable of suppressing both, and
that the lives and property of the guests
at the worlds fair as well as of her
citizens at all times, are properly pro-
tected and perfectly safe"
'By whom was this information un-
earthedY' was asked.
"By the secret service officers, of the
police force and o,AerS, on whom we
had perfect reliance. We had in our pos
ession long before the Hubbard episode
information that the anarchists and So
cialists of Chicago, who are in the main
honest in their convictions and their ef-
forts to get redress from what they con-
slider their grievances, were to be taken
in hand by lot of so-called leaders.
These fellows were to come from New
York and other points as well as from
Chicago, call meetings, make incendiary
speeches, counsel violence and bloodshed,
create bloody riots and incidentally kill
as many police as possible, who were to
be denounced as the direct murderers of
their brothers. When their work was
accomplished they relied on the published
accounts in the papers to have the desir-
ed effect. They felt confident that all
Europe, as well all America, would De
again startled with the news of anarch-
list disorder and tumult, perhaps blood
shed, in Chicago, and that European ma
tions and other states would be deferred
from coming here with their exhibits to
the worlds fair.
1.-The work was to begin on the ami
versary of the anarchists hanging and
was to proceed in stages. There was to
be series of meetings each one to be
bolder and more incendiary than the
one. These things all came
about just as we were led to believe
they would. The meeting last night
was a meeting of armed men. 1t was
held close to saloon where the men
were to be piled with drink and incen-
diary speeches, and then turned loose,
drunk, armed and their worst passions
excited. These people do not read, they
take the words of their so-called leaders,
and then they act The leaders, as a
rule, retire to place of safety. The
meeting of last night was to be followed
by others, and then secrecy was to be
abandoned. They would come out open
ly, mass meeting was to be held in
Battery d, and then no doubt trouble
would have followed
Now, the police determined from the |
start to take such measures as would |
show that we had our eye on those fell !
lows, and were able and ready to stamp |
them out. So long as they meet peace
ably and discuss in peaceable and law |
abiding manner their grievances they |
are guaranteed free speech, and their |
right in that direction will be respected. |
But when they meet for the purpose of |
declaring armed warfare upon our laws |
and institutions and upon the American |
flag, then they will find that the laws |
and the people will stamp them out. We |
decided to stamp this thing out in its in
cipiency. Those men went to Grief's !
hall last night with arms in their |
pockets, and they were in direct viola
ion of the law in doing so. Under these
the police were perfectly |
justified in acting as they did"
Mayor washburn's Views.
Mayor Washburn was seen by re-
porter and said:
II have the best reason TO suppose
that these fellows did not aim merely to |
destroy a few buildings and take few
ives here. They knew that would have
but comparatively trivial effect. My |
firm conviction is they wanted to strike
/ blow Of a more general character, a
blow at the good name Of Chicago and |
he community in general"
What will be your policy with
ihem?"
I'VE shall repress them in o. firm q
manner and with as little theatrical ef-
lect as possible"
Inspector Setback Talks.
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