St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-02
Great Crowds and Great Con-
fusion, but no Outbreaks
Occur.
Some Excitement Occasioned
by the Finding Of a Bag
Of Dynamite.
A Too Fiery Anarchist Loses
His Coat, Waistcoat and
Shirt.
All the Demonstrations on the
Continent Pass OF With
~ out Friction.

Il LONDON, May This city has seen
today the greatest demonstration in IFS
history. The weather has been bright,
and from early dawn numberless pro-
cessionS of labor unions and socialistic
societies have thronged the streets i'll
the vicinity of Hyde park. All the
members brought out their wives and
children and ehOked the streets
from wall to wall. Almost every
organization had band with it,
and at noon the din and confusion
became terrific at the park entrances,
although everybody was gOod-natured,
and at 6 o'clock the police around the
park had made arrests only for drunk
enness and disorderly conduct in iso-
lated cases. But one incident of the
day betrayed the dangerous undereur-
rent of the demonstration. Shortly
after, noon a sentinel in the Woolwich
arsenal discovered at the entrance Of
guu factory bag containing eight can
listers loaded with dynamite, gun cot
ton and cartridges. He called in a pO-
hceman, and the bag was removed.
No Fuse Was Alta iaed
to the canisters, but detonator was
found at the bottom of the bag. The
plot was undoubtedly to destroy Eng
lands greatest arsenal, although there
by 1900 men would have been thrown
out of employment. 1t has been boast
of the war Offices that no anarchists or
socialists could be found in the arsenal.
The police have, however, although
exceedingly retieent, acknowledged
that the dynamite must have been
placed by all arsenal workman, as the
presence of a stranger would have been
remarked by the guards. No arrests
have been made. Excepting this
incident, nothing marred the peace
fulness of the demonstration. By 2
o'clock there were fully $4,000 people in
the park. Between then and the
crowd swelled to half a million. Scores
of meetings were held. Every advan-
tageous point was occupied by large
crowd. Among the speakers who went
from place to place addressing the null
titudes were County Councillor Burns,
Hyndman, the socialist, and Aveling
and Karl Marx. All of the meetings
were closed with resolutions in favor Of
political agitation for
The Eight-H0ur Day,
and most of the speakers confined them
selves to this question. Several small
anarchist meetings were held during
the afternoon. Violent speeches were
made, and the home office was savagely
denounced for the raid on the common
veal. Of the sixteen great platforms
but one was devoted to anarchists, and
here the only disturbance of the day oc-
Cured. An anarchist, speaking in
broken German, shouted at the
close of his speech: s'YOu are
worse than slaves. worse than Afri-
can slaves. You let your employers
suck your lives and seduee your wives
and daughters" The crowd began to
yell and NAVY near the platform
caught the anarchist by the leg and
pulled him to the ground. There the
anarchist was hustled around and pulled
and pushed until his coat, waiStcOat and
shirt were gone. Then he was gone.
Then he was thrown from the outskirts
of the meeting and disappeared. A
peculiar feature of the whole demon
stration in the park was the large num-
Der of well-dressed women present
They listened to the speeches and
helped the cheering.