Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-13
HAS NOT DONE HIS DUTY.
The Troops Are Tired Of Staying to
Watch Homestead Strikers.
MARTIAL LAW WILL BE DECLARED
II the Civil Authorities Alone Cannot
Preserve Peace.
HOMESTEAD MEN HOLD A MEETING

Adiutant General Greenland, Brigadier
General Wiley, Colonel William J. HUI
ings, Captain Harry Hall and Lieutenant
Colonel w. s. Horton, of the Sixteenth
Regiment, held a long and earnest confer
ence at the Seventh Avenue Hotel yester-
day afternoon, and before the meeting
adjourned they decided to secure at once a
positive understanding with Sheriff Nc
Cleary in regard to the management of
affairs at Homestead.
General Wiley was authorized to confer
matter, and unless the Sheriff agrees to go
to Homestead and personally superintend
his deputies on duty there, General Wiley
will promptly notify the Adiutsnt General
and the troops will be recalled this week.
After the conference General Greenland and
his party visited the Exposition where they
spent nearly two hours
Want TO Send tho Troops Home.
1--WE are decidedly anxious to get the
troops away from Homestead" General
Greenland said last night just before taking
his train for Harrisburg ''The troops seem
to be serving poor purpose there. They
are constantly subjected to insults and out
RACES, yet they are not allowed to even de-
fend themselves unless so ordered by one of
the deputy sheriffs on duty there"
'How do you propose to remedy the
evil?" was asked.
"Tbat is just what we were considering at
our conference to-day" the General re-
piled. s'The troops were first ordered to
Homestead at the request of Sheriff Nc
Cleary, who assured the Governor that he
had exhausted his authority and was incom-
petent to cope with the conditions that
existed there. AS result the troops were
ordered out to support the Sheriff, who has
ever since the first outbreak up there evil
denced incompetency.
The Sheriff Must Take a Hand.
'Tnstead of going there himself to per-
sonally superintend his underlings, and
while he contends the troops are necessary,
he still keeps the soldiers subject to the or
ders of the deputies. While the civil laws
are being broken and outraged the militia
must stand idly BY without authority to
act unless called upon by one or more of
the Sheriff's deputies.
eve cannot longer support the Sheriff
unless the Sheriff makes some effort to sup
port himself 1 had a conference with him
week ago and he then said pos
itively that he would promptly
inaugurate new policy and would arrest
and punish the disturbing element at
Homestead whether they be men, women
or children. Now, we have decided that
he must act at once. We must insist upon
his disposing of the disturbing element by
arresting them.
Must Go to Homestead in Person.
"We must insist upon his going to Home
stead in person. He is the authority that
we are there to support. If it is then found
that the Sheriff power is not strong enough
we will assist him by surrounding Home
stead with martial law, after which
we will assume all response
bility for good order and quiet.
''In my judgment Sheriff McCleary could
select 25 deputies that would, under his
own personal direction, preserve the peace
at Homestead.
do you contemplate any trouble at
Homestead"
''No. am confident that even a showing
of authority on the part of the Sheriff would
guarantee good order We have enough
troops on the ground now to preserve the
peace IN the event the Sheriff failed"
''Do you seriously think of Withdrawing
the troops from Homestead?"
Troops Anxious to Get Away.
"We are very anxious to get the troops
away from there and the troops are Just as
anxious to get away, but we will wait now
until we see what the Sheriff proposes do
ing. The trouble should have been settled
long before this time"
Captain Hall said that while on provost
duty the other day he saw a committee of
the locked out men approach sew
eral deputies and almost forcibly
take one of their number to the Amalga-
ted headquarters. After the man had been
taken away the other deputies rushed to
him and asked him to order out his men
and rescue the deputy frem the A malga-
mated people. 1 refused to act in the mat
ter then, Captain Hall said, "because their
several deputies had authority to act for
themselves and they refused to make
move when the commit ee took one of their
number away. For my own part" Captain
Hall concluded, 81 am getting tired sup
porting that kind of deputies -