The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-08-23

ASG0V. FLOWER SAYS.
Answering Criticisms as to Calling Out
Such a Large Force.
TRIBUTE TO THE STATE MILITIA.
An Outrage to Imperil Lives Which
Could be Possibly Avoided.
An Outrage to Imperil Lives Which
Could be Possibly Avoided.
EVERY MAN IN CONSTANT DAseEn.
Discussing Features OF the strike
Among Leaders OF Various Or
ganizations.

ALBANY, Aug. 23.-Some sharp criti-
cisms having been offered in regard to
the course pursued by Gov. Flower on
his action in sending so many troops to
the scene of the Buffalo strike, he ereplied,
in substance as follows: 'sThe militia
of the state of New York, is composed
of active, intelligent young men, com
ing from prosperous homes and shops
and business places. They devote their
energy, and relinquish part of their
liberty in the service of the state for pro-
lection in just such emergencies as the
present one., When the state calls on
them for service that has an element of
danger, the state is bound to use every
means at its command to minimize that
danger as far as possible. Certainly it
would be an outrage to place these young
men in a perilous position SO long as it
is possible to avoidit. When the proper
authorities at Buffalo informed me that
1000 militiamen of that locality We're
trying to protect property so vast that
it was necessary to place every man in
constant danger, and when asked for
more troops to lessen this danger to lives
as well as protect the property, the state
could do no less than to send enough
troops to prevent bloodshed. 1t was
due to the strikers as we'll assthe militia
and the owners of property in question,
that we gave ample protection to all;
for the strikers are not the ones from
whom serious trouble is feared that
comes from the lawless element, the
hangers-on who invariably gather at
such places, and find pleasure in
stirring up strike and causing wreck
and ruin. In city like Buffalo this
element numbers many thousands. 1
am sure the good people of the state find
no fault because the chief executive has
granted the request for sufficient troops
to prevent this breaking crowd from
committing any act that might lead to
further trouble" The fremen of the
local Organization have passed the point
where the enthusiasm of their sympathy
might take them on strike. Frank p.
Sargent, grand master of the Locomo-
tive Firemen, this morning said, in
emphatic language: eff / order strike
of Firemen, it will be in conjunction
with the Brotherhood of Locomotive
engineers, Railway Trainmen, Railway
Conductors and Railway Telegraphers
There will be no strike of the fremen
alone" Briefly, then, the strike If it
comes must be one involving the above
organizations, and the replies to
Sweeney will be, in brief. that no iso-
lated case will call a strike, but if the
time comes when labor must assert itself
and the other allied orders will come
out, Sargent is willing to place his men
in the same column.
Good wages.
Oregonian. Fourteen thousand dol
lars is the amount in wages that is due
the hunters and crew of the sealing
schooner San Diego, who will soon be
paid off in San Francisco. The sailors
before the mast have been working on a
lay, and have $414 apiece owing to-
fo,,r \ l.. 000