Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-07-11
woskmen will be carried out only in the
face Of determined opposition from the
leaders.
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strain Of excitement and expected attack TO
which the strikers have been subjected for
the past week, is beginning TO tell on the
men. until the anxiety has reached such a
tension tha, renewal of hostiti,ies would
he a positive relief. Alarm after alarm has
swept over the town and the men have so
often responded to ramors that a scramble
Of telegraph boy through the street is all
most sufficient for call to arms.
At various times last night and during
the early hours of the morning reports
were circulated that the pinkcrtons were At
the city's outskirts anl the scramble thai,
succeeded these announcements would have
been luqhcroas, but for the gravity
of the situation Men rushed To their homes
and prepared themselves for the impending
battle, only to be apprised an hour later
that the report was false. So often has the
cry of wolf gone out that there is danger
that when the true alarm does come il may
fall ON unheeding ears, aud the enemy be
within the city limits before the call to bat
tie is sounded.
There is-no doubt of settled conviction
in the minds of the strikers that another
battle is inevitable. They have received at
least a dozen kilograms from various points
stating that Pinkertons are mobhhxiag de
tachments at ss many points, preparatory to
grand movcmen, of this private army
upon Homestead. and the leaders Of the
strikers have accepted most of this informa-
ton as authentic, and concluded that the
decisive struggle is not far distant.
Estimates of the strength of this Pinkcr-
ton army Is, by mysterious unanimi,y of
opinion, fixed ut 500 men. and the strikers
feel confident that with arms at their com-
mand, and their strength from 5000 to 5000
able bodied men, they can easily repulse
this force. of one thing there can be no
doubt, another invasion of Pinkertons will
be followed by another battle, more san
culinary, more terrible, more decisive than
the first.
The strikers are perfeciing their organ
iza,ion today and appear 10 he gaining
strength in every way, except with the
press. The prominent newspapers of the
country, of which copies are being received
here, appear 10 be resen,ful of the cspion-
age and restrictions imposed on their repre-
sentativcs, and leaders of the mill workers
now realize that the effort to exercise u cen
sorship over press dispatches has been scri-
Gus error. Everything that can be done by
Hugh O'Donnell to protect newspaper men
from harassing interference has been done,
II is safe to say that as long as he is the
dominant spirit no more reporters will be
ordered out of town.
But Mr.. O'Donncll is in advance of his fel-
lows, and the spirit of ,olcra,.on he evinces
is not shared by many of the rank aud file,
The great majority of s-."kcrs are s..ll dis
posed to regard newspaper men as inter
lopers, and half dozen new arrivals today
were promptly approached by a self consti-
tutcd committee and marched on to the
strikers headquarters, where they were
forced to remain an hour or two until they
had satisfied the men as to their identity.
There are representatives of the press IN
this city who maintain that fear OF vista
tions by the irate committee impcls them to
an excess of caution in preparing news dis
patches. II is only when tcmerity out
weighs discretion that correspondents here
exercise perfect freedom of news express
sion which would characterize their dis
patches At any other point
The advisory committee of the strikers is
no longer in official existence, Practically
the same men who composed Z are again
performing the functions witch dovolvcd
upon the committee. II is evident TO any
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