Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-07-11


has the cry of wolf gone out that there
is danger that when the true alarm does
come in it may fall on unheeding ears
and the enemy be within the city limits.
before the call to battle is sounded.
There is no doubt of the settled convic-
tion in the minds of the strikers that
ANOTHER BATTLE IS INEVITABLE.
They have received at least dozen tel
egrams from various points stating that
the Plnkertons are mobilizing detach-
ments at as many points, preparatory
to a grand movement of this private
army upon the city Of Homestead, and
the leaders of the strikers have accepted
most of this information as authentic,
and concluded that the decisive strug-
gle is not far distant.
The estimates of the strength OF this
Pinkerton army Is by a mysterious una
nimity of opinion fixed at 500 men, and
the strikers feel confident that with the
arms at their command and their
strength of from 5000 to 5000 able
bodied men, they can easily repulse
this force. Or one thing there can De
no doubt-another invasion of the Pink
ertons will be followed by another bat
tie, more sanguinary, more terrible, but
more decisive than the first. When lts
smoke clears away the strikers will be
subdued and Carnegie once more the
king OF the iron region, or the power
of the PiDkertons will be forever
broken and the industrial army OF
Homestead militant organization,
which 40 force but the military OF the
State or Nation can subdue.
The strikers are
PERFECTING THEIR ORGANIZATION
to-day aud appear to be gaining strength
in every way, except with the press.
The prominent newspapers OF the coun-
try, of which copies are being received
in this city, appear to be resentful OF
espionage and restrictions imposed up
on their representatives that the lead
ers of the mill workers now realize that
the attempt to exercise censorship over
the press dispatches has been
MOST SERIOUS ERROR.
Everything that can be done by Hugh
O'Dounell to protect the newspaper
men from harrasSing interference has
been done and it is safe 10 say that so
long as he is the dominant spirit no
more newspaper reporters will be or
dered out of town. But Mr.. O'Donnell Is
in advance of his fellows, and the spirit
of liberation which he evinces is not
shared by many Of the rank and tle.
The great majority OF the strikers are
still disposed to regard the newspaper
men as iaterloperS, and half dozen
new arrivals to-day were promptly ap-
preached by a Self-constituted commit
tee and marched off to the strikers
headouarters, where they were forced
to remain an hour or two until they
had satisfied the men as to their
identity. OF course all this is irritating
to the newspaper men, and when the
strikers make their habitual assertion
that peace reigns at Homestead and
perfect freedom maintained on every
hand, the. victims of their martial law
methods wonder how, if that be true,
they should be forcibly marched away
by a strikers committee and deprived
of their liberty for an hour In violation
of the laws OF Pennsylvania and in deti-
ance of the constitutional liberty OF the
press. Indeed there are representatives
of the prsss in this city who maintain
that the fear of subsequent visitations
impelS them to an excess OF caution,
and that their news dis
patches suffer from the con-
sciousnesS that the morrow may bring
a reckoning from an irate committee
who know no code of ethics, and who
while clamoring to be released from the
oppression Of capital, do not show such
fine appreciation of liberty when an
others rights are to be observed. This
is the situation candidly expressed, and
the Associated Press but fultills its
functions when il says 1t is only when
temerity outweghs discretion that the
correspondents in this city exercise that
perfect freedom OF news expression
which would characterize their dis
patches from any other point, and which
even the gravity of the situation at
Homestead should not obscure.
THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
of the strikers is no longer in official
existence according to the statement OF
the strikers, who say that though II
was proposed TO reorganize 1t, this has
not been done; however, though it may
not have an official existence practi-
cally the same men who composed ii are
again performing the functions that
were devolved upon the committee and
while the locked-out men deny that
they have any organization ii is evident
10 any observer that directions are given
by certain men and that they act au-
thoritatively. The reason for this fail
ure to have an official organization for
the direction of affairs it seems likely
is found in caution and a
desire not to get involved, X possible,
in any court proceedings which
may hereafter be instituted. The lead
ers realize that othey are treading on
dangerous ground. and do not intend
officially to commit themselves TO any
action at law, but be free to disavow
responsibility for anything which can
not be personally placed upon them,
besides they are not the leaders OF a
force that is absolutely controllable,
Of an unorganized and large body which
may at any time break away and act as
mob on violation OF its in-
dividual members. No one Is
willing to assume responsibility and so
far as any control goes, ii Is now exer-
cised unofficially aud through separate
lodges, in which secret obligations hold
as we'll as through a committee. The
Advisory Committee consisted OF the
President and two members OF each
lodge. Their functions was TO direct
the men to see that duties were as
signed to them, that they kept sober
and orderly, that they acted as unit
aud generally to see that whatever was
done was to the interest of the men.
One reason for
ITS DISARMAMENT,