The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-07-15
PENNSYLVANIA MILITARY IN
CAMP AT HOMESTEAD.
SOLDIERS CORDIALLY WELCOMED.
Net BY Brass Bands and School Children
Carrying FIOwers-The Mill Men VIII
Not Attempt to Resist the state
The Military Generally Very
Prompt to Respond to tho
G Call to Arms.

PITTsBURe, Pa, July 11.-Martia'
law has been proclaimed for the dis
turbed town of Homestead, and by to
morrow all the available militia of thu
state of Pennsylvania will be massed
at the center of the disturbance which
has resulted from the fierce conflict
between capital and labor
That the action of the governor can
not but produce good results is certain
Reports from Homestead this morning
are that all is quiet there and that the
strikers military law has already be-
come thing of the past.
For the most part the recent rioters
confined themselves to their homes to
day. The arrival of the morning trains
was followed by general rush for the
morning papers, and the perusal OF
the official correspondence therein
caused every man to realize that what
they last night dis credited wa:
but too true, and the Anal
gamated associations law was
indeed at an end. There was but lit
tie loud talk on the streets Of course
one encounters now and then u striker
who speaks mysteriously of the ''visi
tation" that possibly awaits the militia
of Pennsylvania, but such man il
usually foreigner who believes more
in the religion of secret codes and the
efficiency of dynamite than in the ma
jesty of the law and the power of
military organizations,
When the militia arrived in Home
stead it was met by four brass bands,
all the school children carrying flowers
the members of the advisory committee
and the burgess and citizens OF
the town. The reception was ar
ranged at the morning meeting at the
advisory committee, and the troops
found instead of Winchesters music
and speech making, and, as 0'Donnell
puts it, genuine oldfashioned Penn
sylvania welcome.
At mass meeting of the strikers it
was decided by the unanimous vote
that the programme of the advisory
council should be carried out.
1t was also resolved that any
striker who should hoot the militia
or otherwise show disrespect to the
states representatives should be
ducked in the river and a committee
was appointed for that purpose The
burgess was requested to invite all cti-
zens having no business in Homestead
to depart, as it was feared some unwise
and anarchistic sympathizers with the
strikers might seek to perpetrate trou-
BILE. All the leaders made speeches
and three brass bands of the city ten
dered their services.
Secretary Lovejoy of the Carnegie
company said to-day: We would not
receive the strikers when committee
of men at work as members
of the Amalgamated association
called to ask us to confer with
the Homestead strikers. We
declined to do it. The strikers have
taken possession of our property, and
have murdered our watchmen, for
which they will have to answer to the
district attorney. We will not see
them" These remarks of Secretary
Lovejoy show it to be the purpose of
the company to make the Home
stead men answer through the
courts for their actions, and explain if
explanation were really needed, WHY
the strikers have been extremely eau
tious in not admitting personal re-
sponsibility or responsibility Us an adj
visory committee.