Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-07-14

HOMESTEAD, July 1.-THE mass-meet-
Ing at Homestead this afternoon was a
most significant one, anu its developments
were awaited with intense interest by the
scitizens on the outside. The meeting was
Y ATTENDED by about 5000 people, and in this
number was about everyone of the num-
her who shouldered Il musket and fought
the Pinkertons in the bloody battle Of last
!. week. The meeting was called to order by
< Hugh 0'Donnell, who. after stating that
Burgess McLuckie would preside, invited
the representatives Of the press to the
platform. They are the people" sqid he,
"who have created public sympathy for
us.ail over the United States. They have
been our friends" Applause.
The speech OF Burgess McLuckie, on as
tuming the chair, WINS a most significant
one. Although the burgess of Homestead.
he is one of the most prominent leaders of
the strikers, and shares with Hugh o. Dom
nell n great influence over these sturdy
iworkingmen. He said:
We want our people to a man--in fact
every man, woman and child in this town
ITO welcome the military people with open
arms. Brothers, just as true as we stand
here, pledge you my judgment that this
Is one of the best steps that could possibly
have been taken for our people--this call
ing out of the military / want to say to
you that | think this man, Governor Pat
tison, is acting wisely and judiciously. lie
understands our cause and lie understands
our position; so does the entire civilized
world.
He is Just man, and a man who will
not Cater to monopoly, man who will
+ not permit the troops of this state the
a servants of the people, the defenders of
+ the dignity of this commonwealth, which
y IL ours. and as near and dear to us as to
any human being that ever God let breathe
- Say Robert Il. Pattison will never per
init an outrage TO be perpotratcd upon n
people such as the people of Homestead
2 and this surrounding community. Great
applause.
y al am here to ask the citizens of this
" town to receive our friends with open arms
and to tender them one of the grandest re-
ceptions that las ever been rendered to
any people. Applause.l Go down with
the reputationthat you have already estab.
lishcd as the most generous, noble and
manly of men. Applause. do not want
the modified representatives that may put
in an appearance here to he insulcd' by
even u boot or a howl or the least indic,i-
ton of displeasltre.
II. for one, stand here and say that if
4 any man is indiscreet enough to do an act
! OF that kind in this emergency he should
b be taken to the river and be duckcd-and |
: will be one to help do it, ['Gool Good =
* and applause. You are not going to inter
: fere with our best interests, so our ducking
committee will scarcely be necessary to be
appointed at this meeting" Laughter. ]
,f8 A DUCKIHG COMMITTEE APPOINTED.
~ A brawny millworkcr jumped to his
feet, and with great seriousness moved that
any man who should be foolish enough to
offer any insult to the troops when they
come be Immediately thereafter taken to
3 the river and ducked. The motion pre-
vailed by reclamation, and the special
Y policemen were subsequently instructed to
4 carry 1t out TO the letter. 1t was also or
adhered that a committee should be appointed
10 inform all the millworkers not present
that such action had been taken.
g# FRANC Fugula made speech in his own
language to the Slavs, explaining all that
bad been done, and Jerry Dougherty made
n ringing appeal for order and sobriety
while the militia should be in the city.
Dan Harris, president of the New York
Cigarmakers Union spoke in much the
came vein. "You are the pioneers of a
movement that must eradicate from the
civilization of this United States u blot
upon its escutcheon-the Pinkerton de.
tectiye SYSTEM
Several other speeches, all counseling
order and sobriety, were made after which
the meeting adjourned amid much en-.
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