Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-12-05
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Lo~pox. Dec z-Tss rolics yesterday
| afternoon mustered strong force abcat
| Trafalgar sararr. IN the stran1. in Geek
| sper street and in Whitehall. whils NJ
/ serves were stationed In Regent street.
| Waterloo plaer. ChsriBg Cross road,
\ Northum herlsnd avenue and on the en-
Il hankment.
Ore wouid have imagined that this dis
| rfay Of police forcs would have deferred
| the anarchists from making any demon
/ stratiou, but they were evidently prepare
! 70 do their utmost to carry cut the threat
| 70 meet for they bryan to muster 1t .
| O'Clock, though the sous sides Of the square
/ were black with police, mounted and ca
] foot The display Of force caused many
I thousands Of people IN hcek TO the leigh
/ borhocd.
TIE gathering 81 these crowds was just
| what the anarchists wanted, and il en-
| sb1ai them 70 do more towards spreading
\ their fiery Ii,erature, and thereby yentilat-
/ log their dynamite doctrines, than any
meeting which they could have held upon
| the square would have done. Male and
| female anarchists mixed among the
| thousands of people assembled aboat the
! square anil bcgan hawking anarchist liter
/ ature. which, owing TO the novelty OF the
| situation f,Hrd a ready sale.
Z Copies Of The Commonweal. the organ
/ OF the anarchists OF London. were sold liz
| large numbers. its frontispiece being an
! illustration Of Labor as Samson. pulling
I down the pillars Of church and state. RI
| also contained an article headed Bombs. -
/ In which the writer welcomed the BARGE
4. . = h..
J great and good act - and gloried IL Tho
( fset that 20 people weT. killed and 50 in
Z jnred by dynamite tonibs thrown into the
I audience Anarchists and socialists mani
/ festos were also distributed broadcast.
{ Gradually the number of socialists and
anar; hi, Is gathered about the square was
SO augmented that they gained courage
enough To push towards the CENTER which
( place they had previously fought shy of.
! owing 10 the large number Of policemen
( stationed around Finally large and
( exerted crowd Of anarchists and socialists
! collected in i'd the square. Among them
were noticed men OF the lower classes OF
I foreigners, French, Germans, Russians,
| SpanIards aud Italians, mauy of them
wearing slouch hats and red neckties.
a Grand Rush.
| At $40, as il by prearrsnged signal, u
] Dumner of anarchists male rnsh for the
| steps at the feet If the Gordon statue, and
| one Of their number Immediately began to
make wild address 10 those who had
| rushed up To the steps with him, but the
anarchist orator had hardly uttered his
| first sentence before number of police
| men CHARGED up to the spot and dislodged
! the re is from he steps. scattering them
| IN all directions 10 the most lively manner.
| amid the cheers of the vast majority of
| the crowds.
| This attempt of the anarchists to hold a
meeting was followed by other and similar
attempts. which resulted ia number Of
| lively brushes with the police, who for a
| tine were kept very busy hustling the
anarchists from cle point and another.
During the dispensing of the anarchist
groups ru7 Der OF the reds were pretty
| roughly bandei by the policemen, VIII
threw them neck and crop from the steps
Eventually tina anarchists bee ime so
demonstrative that further detachment
o - pole men was seat to the SOU re,
srti,iu,. there at 3:l5 ?. m. and with the
| officers already there they formed double
| Gordon around the Nelson monument.
| Su denly an anarchist rushed through
| the lines If police, scaled a monument and
1abeean To address the crowd around him,
but he had only uttered a few words when
| Il policeman seized him and threw him
bodily into the crowd.
As IN anarchist still tried to speak he
W. Sc d by two policeman and hustl 81,
off to the nearest police station, follow
by n shouting crowd composed OF severed
HUNDRED of thosa in sympathy with the
prisoner as we'll as BIZ a number who
joined in the procession simply for the ex