The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-24
Will KEEP Them OUT
The Missouri Miners Going to
LeaVenwOrth
To influence the Men There to
Strike.
THEYARE NOT WANTED
Will be Kept Out by Force if
Necessary.

LEAvENwoRrH. Kan, May 24.-The
Missouri miners at Kansas City, Kan,
destined for this city with view of
influencing the local miners to cease
operations are to be kept out of the
city at all hazards Law is to be
thrown aside and physical force used
to repel the invasion
For years Leavenworth has sung
the song of 'shom rule" and the in
reference of outside men wi tn the
operation of one of the leading indus
tries Of the city is to be repealed,
kindly, if possible, but by the free
flow of blood, if necessary
The people are aroused as they
never were before, and are bound to-
gether by one common tie-the vel
fare of the city-political affiliations
having been cast aside in the excite
ment of the hour
The presence of the camp of COM
monwealers on the reservation has
caused the masses To fe ar dire results
from the appeara nee here just at this
time of another disturbing element.
and had much to do with arOusing
public sentiment against the miners
now en- route here, for the avowed
purpose of persuading the Leaven-
worth miners to join in their strike.
Alarmed at the situation, a public
mass meeting was called in the city
council chamber at 4 o'clock yester-
day afternoon to discuss the matter
and formulate some plan to defeat
the approach of the Missouri mine
strikers.
Mayor Samuel Dodsworth presided,
and the leading citizens and business
men of the town participated in the
deliberations.
The speakers did not bubble with
words or legal technicalIties, and
physical force was more talked of
than anything else.
No less parsonage than Judge Rob
ert Crozier. who for over twenty
years filed the bench district
Judge, counseled physical resistance.
saying that the crisis demanded that
the matter should not be hampered
with the forms of law. He urged
an organization of citizens independ-
emit of the law, who should, by force
of arms, keep the strikers out of the
city limits.
the same line, counseling prompt
physical resistance. as did also E. W.
Snyder, w. H. Bond, Judge NJ L.
Hacker. United States Marshal Nicely,
Mr. John W. GRANGER and Frank
O'Donnell, president of the board of
police commissioners.
Sheriff j. III. ROthenberger also
spoke and asked for volunteers
saying that he would sec to it that
the striking miners should not enter
LeavenwOrth.
The citizens meeting was unani-
nous in judgment as to the absolute
necessity of keeping the striking
miners from entering LeavenwOrth,
and the following named were Sc
lected committee to proceed at
once to Kansas City, Kas., and notify
the miners en- route there that they
would not be allowed, under any cir
cumstances, to enter this city: Mayor
Samuel Dodsworth, United States
Marshal Nicely. Sheriff j. H. Rothen-
berger, City Marshal Joseph Gram
ston, Frank O'Donnell, DIR. Edic, o. b.
Taylor, NJ l.. Hacker and John w
GRANGER.
This committee left on a special
train for Kansas City, with directions
to inform the striking miners of the
public sentiment and to warn them
that they could not enter the city
der any circumstances whatever
The meeting then, by resolutions
and unanimous vote, formed an
organization with Sheriff J. III. Roth
enberger as the commander, which is
pledged to prevent, by physical
force" the coming of the strikers in to
this city's limits
1t was further ordered that Sheriff
Rothenberger swear in 500 deputy
sheriffs, or as many more as necessary
to carry this sentence into practical
effect.
1t was finally agreed that the stimuli
taneous ringing of the fire bell an d
the court house bell should be sig
nal for all citizens to asse mble in the
court house yard. The ringing of
these bells is to signalize the arrival
at this point of the strikers, and upon
Assem- bling AT the court house Sher-
iff Rothenberger will swear in hun
dreds of deputies and the physical
force procedure is to be instituted.
While only one or two of the speak
ers limited at firearms, there is tacit
understanding that when the fire bell
and court house bell ring, the people
shall repair to the court house pre-
pared for the emergency.