The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-07-06

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Island men were unable to secure bonds
aud were sent back to Jail.
GOVERNOR ALrGELD's DEMAND.
He Calls Upon the President to Withdraw
the Government Troops.
WASHINGTON, July 6-President Cleve-
land last evening received long telegram
from Governor Altgeld, of Illinois, de-
mandiDg the withdrawal of United States
troops from active duty In Illinois. Gov
ernor Altgeld says in substance;
81 am advised that you have ordered
federal troops to go into service in the
state Of Illinois. Surely the facts have
not been correctly presented to you in this
case or you would not have taken this
step, for it is entirely unnecessary, and,
as it seems to me, unjustifiable. Waving
all questions of courtesy, | will say that
the state of Illinois is not only able to
take care of itself but its stands ready
today to furnish the federal government
any assistance it may need elsewhere,
$50 far as ! have been advised the local
officials have been able to handle the sit
uation. But if any assistance were neces-
sary the state stood ready to furnish 100
men for every man required, and stood
withstanding these facts the federal gov
ernment has been applied to by men who
had political and selfish motives for want
ing to ignore the state government. We
have just gone through a long coal strike,
more extensive here than in any other
state, because our soft coal field is larger
than that of any other state. We have
now had ten days of railroad strike, and
we have promptly furnished military aid
wherever the local oflici ais needed it,
"In two instances the United States
marshal for the southern district of Hi
nois applied for assistance to enable him
to enforce the processes of the United
States court, and troops were promptly
furnished him, and he was assisted in
every way he desired. The law has been
| thoroughly executed and every man guilty
| of violating it during the strike has beer
brought to justice, If the marshal for the
northern district of Illinois or the author
tiles Of Cook county needed military as
sistance they had but to ask for it in order
to get it from the state.
"At present some of our railroads are
paraly2ed, not by reason of distractions,
| but because they cannot get men to oper-
! ate their trains. For some reason they are
anxious to keep this fact from the public,
| and for this purpose are making an out
| cry about distractions in order to divert
attention. Some days ago l was advised
| that the business of one of our railroads
was obstruCted at two railroad centers.
! hat there was a condition bordering on
anarchy there, and l was asked to furnish
| protection so as to enable the employees of
| the road to operate the trains. Troops
were promptly ordered to both points.
"Then it transpired that the company
had not sufficient men on its line to Op-
crate one tram. All the old hands were
| orderly but refused to go to work The
company had large shops in which num-
ber of men worked who did not belong tt
the union, and who could run an engine
They were appealed to to run the train
but fatty refused We were obliged tC
hunt up soldiers who could run an engine
aid operate train.
again two days ago appeals which
were almost frantic, came from officials
of another road, stating that at an i'm
portant point on their lines trains wer,
forcibly obstructed and that there was
reign of anarchy at that place, and they
} asked for prot ection so that they coulC
move their trains. Troops were put OF
the ground in few hours time, when tn,
officer in command telegraphed me tina
! there was no trouble and had been nom
at that point, but that the road seemed t
have no men TO run trains and the sheriff
telegraphed ths7'he did not need troops
but would himself move every train i
the company would only furnish an en-
gineer.
at is true that in several instances
road made efforts to work a few greer
men and a crowd standing around in
suited them and tried TO drive them away
and in few other cases they cut off Pull
man sleepers from trains But all thes
troubles were local in character and coult
easily be handled by the state authorities
: Illinois has more railroad men than an,
other state in the union, but as a rul
/ hey are orderly and well behaved.
? ut is not soldiers that the railroad
: need so much as it is men to operate trains
, and that the conditions do not exist her
} which bring the case within the fedora
; statutes-a statute that was passed il
/ 1861, and was in reality a war measure.
ITO absolutely ignore a local govern
ment in matters of this kind when tn
3 local government is able to enforce tn
law not only insults the people of tn
state but is in violation of a basic priuc
: pie of our institutions The question O
federal supremacy is in no way involved
I No one disputes it for a moment, but IN
der our constitution federal supremac
70 and local self government must go han
4 in hand and TO ignore the latter is to d
| violence to the constitution. As goveruo
of the state Of Illinois | protest agains
p this, and ask the immediate withdrawal
of the federal troops from active duty j.
e this state"
To this the president telegraphed tn
s following reply:
r Federal troops were sent TO Chicago il
strict accordance with the consttutio
and laws of the United States upon th
1 demand of the postotlice department thu
obstruction of the mails should be ?,
4 moved, and upon the representations G
I the judicial officers of the United State
2 that process of the federal courts coul
p not be executed through the ordinar
means, and upon abundant proof tha
conspiracies existed against commerce bt
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