The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-07-24
WILMINGTON, DEL, FRIDAY, JULY "a, 1891.
MINERS DEMANDS.
The Result of a Conference at
Cedar Brook.
THE CONVICT LABoRER MUST 60.

They Submit Their Proposals to the
Governor, Who Refuses to Enter
tain Any Other Proposition Than
Strict Compliance with the Law.
Guards viii Not Be Molested.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, July "a. - The
miners meeting at Coal Creek to hear
the committees plan of compromise was
attended by about every man in the val
ley. Speeches were made by j. q. J.
Williams, of this city, a candidate be-
fore the Democratic convention for the
congress nomination, and one or two
miners. General Williams urged q
compromise. The meeting lasted some
time, and it was difficult for the miners
to agree upon conclusion. 1t should be
remembered that the governor says there
has been no proposition made by him
but that of sustaining the law. He was
willing, however, for citizens to see
what could be done to settle the diff
Guilty, as he is a warm supporter of
labor, but at the same time the execu-
tive.
The Miners Proposals..
Finally the miners agreed on course
of action and drew up resolutions con-
tanning proposition to the governor,
This is that the troops must be taken
home; the convicts can be returned to
Coal Creek for sixty days only, and the
legislature to meet and repeal the con-
vict law system. This, briefly, is the
proposition of the miners.
Another conference with the gov
ernoT held last night lasted three hours,
and ended without any visible result.
Governor buchanan declines to con-
slider the proposition for an armistice,
on the ground that it would be an i'm
piled compromise with violators of law
that might at the end of that time, in
case the legislature declined to comply
with the demands of the miners, be re-
newed with impunity.
The representatives of the miners dis
claimed any threat and proposed to ac-
company their proposition with an ex-
PLANTATION which would relieve it from
such construction. The governor was
firm, however, in his position and de-
clined to yield.
The Governor VIII Not Promise.
There is no longer any doubt but that
the governor will return the convicts to
the mines at Coal Creek and Briceville.
1t is now only a question of how it will
be done.
Tho miners present at the conference
express the opinion that if they are re-
turned with only such guards as are nee
essary to keep them in custody, not mi
htia, and placed in their stockades, there
will be no interference with them until
the legislature has been convened and
has acted upon the repeal of the lease
system.
The committee of miners is much de-
pressed. They say the governor would
do nothing at all. Mr.. Ingraham, the
man who has been most prominent in
the trouble in Coal Creek, says not q
soldier will be harmed if they go to Coal
Creek, not man hurt, but the conyicts
will be turned loose just as soon as they
leave. He says the miners are deter
mined that the convicts shall not be
worked in the mines. Several of the
committee men are very angry, but unite
in saying the troops will not be resisted
If they go.
The killing of convict of the name
of Harris yesterday by a guard has
caused great excitement among the con-
yicts. For time it was feared that the
prisoners would combine to ayenge the
death of their fellow, but extra guards
We're placed over them and the excite.
ment soon Subsided