The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-07-04

bomb-thrower. Spies and other d.
recting minds, who saw plainly that
something must be done, and quickly.
Therefore, when his turn came Field
en- stepped boldly to the front, dis
carding all pretensions to mildness.
He electrified the rabble at once.
The crowd swayed excitedly back
ward and forward in the narrow,
shadowy comics of Desplaines street,
into which they had come from the
open square, and pressed eagerly
closer to the Pickering gas-lamp that
lighted the speakers shaggily bearded
face and powerful form. When he
tragically urged the wrought-up mob,
standing in plain view of police
station, to '.throttle and kill the law, "
the disguised officers in the crowd saw
the necessity of prompt action. and
word was passed to their commander.
Capt. Bonfeld, following the plain
directions of the State law covering
exactly such cases, gave orders to have
the meeting dispersed. Seven compa-
mes OF police, 175 men, led by him
self and Cap. Ward, marched in
platoons, extending from curb to curb
the short distance on Desplaines street
from the station to the speakers wa
gon. As the police approached Field
en- shouted to the crowd: Here
comes the blOodhounds. You do your
duty and I'll do mine" Capt. Ward,
in loud voice, called out: ''In the
name Of the people Of Illinois / COM
mand you to peaceable disperse."
Fielden stepping down from the
wagon, gave the "ruhe" exclamation
1--WE are peaceable.' Instantly the
bomb was thrown, the first in free
America, and the bloody work for
which the Anarchist leaders had
planned was completed.
THEIR ABsoLUTIoN.
The anarchists believed they had a
friend in John Peter Altgeld when he
was nominated for governor by the
corrupt Use of money in the hands of
Mike Mcdonald and his gang of Chi
cago toughs. Altgeld some years ago
had been nominated by the socialists
for one of the circuit judges in Cook
county. He accepted the nomination
and was elected by the aid of the dem
ocratic voters, who had no candidate
of their own. 1t was a case of ''any-
thing to beat the republicans" Alt
geld had written book seathin. with
with socialistic sentiments and he
was known to train with
the followers of Tommy Nor
gan. Why, then, should not the
anarchists or socialists, whichever
designation that rabble choose to af-
feet, feel well pleased with Altgeld's
They threw their entire
to his support and he achlev-
ed what was heralded abroad as a |
great democratic victory. But was
it?
While Judge Altgeld, himself, did
not vouch for his belief in sound |
he knowingly counte-
nanced it OF his friends and campaign |
managers who positively vouched for
his anti-socialistic views. and
also that he would not do the very
thing he has now done-liberate the
This was one of the
strongest campaign arguments against
Altgeld and he permitted, from the
same platform from which he spoke,
, positive denial to be made that he
such intentions.
The anarchists reckOned with their
hosts. John P. Altgeld has proven
himself not only an alien by birth but
IN alien in sympathies, and an enemy
o good government.
In pardoning Anarchists Fielden,
'chwab and Neebe, Anarchist Alt
.eld did not merely say "these men
ave suffered sufficiently" but he ar
aigns the law Of his state and the of.
cials that executed it and Whites