The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-07-12
How Pennsylvania National
Guard Will Make Their
Entrance Into Home
stead To-Day.
THEY WILL BE RECEIVED BY THE
WORKERS WITH CHEERS IN
STEAD OF BULLETS.
STRIKERS AND CITIZENS TO MARCH
OUT TO MEET THEM.

the Eastern Part of the State are
Hundreds of Miles Away, While Those
from the Western Part Are to be at
Homestead Where They Have Friends.
One Train Passes Through the Town
and the strikers Shook Hands with
the soldiers-The Color Question May
Be Injected Into the Trouble-The
Matter of Returning the Pinkertons'
Arms Causes Some Uneasiness-Scenes
at the Departure of the Troops from
Philadelphia Recall the Sights of the
Sixties.
HOMESTEAD, July 12.-It is difficult to
reduce the feeling of the people of Home
stead to words
From daybreak the town has been in a
state bordering on that doubt beneath
which smolders a flame that only needs
some reckless one to fan it into conda-
grafton.
The troops are not here yet.
They are expected about noon.
Acting under the counsel of their lead
the military will be received by the people
with banners flying and bands playing.
This action is concession by the work
men who disclaimed most vehemently the
idea that it is in any sense a submission.
The feeling is 30 deep here since the
battle of Wednesday that no temporary
truce is safe. Arbitration or war seems to
be the only natural heir to the situation.
Numbers may cover and quiet for the
moment, but an adjustment of the differ
ences in some way seems to be imperatively
demanded by the circumstances.
This is not the case of strike in a
large city, where the disaffected may seek
other scenes, and where, in the multi
plicity Of events crowding one fast upon
another their woes or their grievances
meet with passing comment,
This is the case of whole town being
on strike, of men whose all is treasured
up on this hillside, of fathers of families,
who have put the savings of a lifetime
into comfortable little cottages.
They have cast their lot here for good
or for i'll, and it is for themselves and
for their homes they are fighting.
That is what makes the case so pitiable
TO ne who comes here, and which seems
to appeal so strongly to the moral inhu-
ences of the larger world outside for ar
bitration.
The men are naturally law-abiding,
thrifty, honest, skillful and industrious.
According to the latest reports received
here there are forty carloads of troops at
Fort Perry a couple of miles up the river,
and the others are assembling at Blairs-
vile intersection.
Two carloads of guns and ammunition
are at Brinton and the first brigade is
under arms at Mt. Gretna
There is some comment here upon the
fact that the troops from the eastern part
of the State are ordered in reserve 250
miles away and the troops coming here
are from the western part of the State and
many of them from towns so near here
that the militiamen are friends of the
strikers.
A train on the Pittsburg, McKeesport &
Youghiogheny road passed through here
last night with a number of National
| Guardsmen.
The strikers surrounded the cars and
addressed the soldiers familiarly and
shook hands with them.
Latest advices are that the entry of the
soldiers will be made with much ceremony
and pomp about noon.
A committee of citizens will escort them
TO the township limits, and then they will
be met by the procession.