The morning call., 1894-07-05

iZations have openly exhibited their Oh
jeetions to a conflict with men in whose
fight their sympathies had been aroused
long before the militia of San Francisco
was ordered to this city. AS far as the
militia of the metropolis or of any other
city is concerned, the fight is practically
over. The strikers to-day showed them
selves superior and the militia inferior to
the occasion. The fault does not lie with
the officers of the regiments, battallons.
companies or squads. With the exception
OF the companies here and at Stockton the
milltlamen came to Sacramento to fulfill
an important duty. Yet several of the
companies OF this town openly announced,
and still announce, that they will not fight
the strikers. They are men in sympathy
with the cause of the strikers, and
naturally so. because they are men whose
employment and success depend upon a
successful issue of the strikers fight.
Company A of the Second Infantry was
dismissed from the service this afternoon,
and will be disbanded on this account.
Probably another of these organizations
will also be let out.
There was an inherent defect in the
management of the campaign to-day from
the very start This is not Individual
criticism. but is the generally accepted
fact Instead of proceeding as military
men should, those in charge of operations
sent half starved and well-nigh ex-
hausted body of men to scene of action
upon which their lives and the lives of
others depended. The regiments left San
Francisco after midnight this morning
without provisions, and without only
hasty meal in the middle of the afternoon.
Few OF them slept during the tedious ride
to this city, and several hours after arrival,
or at about 10 O'Clock this morning, these
men. who were intended to be ia fighting
trim, had to breakfast upon a cup of poor
co flee and dry bread served in the armory
here. An hour later these same men were
assembled and sent to the probable
scene of action. Instead of oper-
ating secretly. the line was formed
loaded in plain view of assembled strikers.
Delays were secured which gave the
strikers time TO gather, and then the
march was taken up direct to the depot.
Not alone this, the Sacramento and
Stockton companies, although known to
be in sympathy with the strikers. were
given the right of line and were supposed
to begin the attack, while the first. strong
est and stanchest regiment here had place
away in the rear. Verify, there was
rottenness in all this.
The story current this morning that the
Sacramento and Stockton companies left
the scene of operations because dsgnsted
at the delay for the word of conflict is
taken with allowance this evening. The
fact is appreciated that the strikers have
outgeneraled all the generals of militia
here, according to the authority of men
who have had experience in such matters.
One proper way might have been to have
allowed the guardsmen days rest here
with plenty of food and at daybreak to-
morrow morning to have moved secretly
upon the railroad yards and to have sent
off trains without any possible interfer-
ence from the strikers. II is hln,ed that
the regulars might have done the thing
in that way.
Even Barry's Third is credited with
three companies in sympathy with the
strikers. Company G of the Third is un-
der arrest tonight for refusing to advance
against the strikers. Company E, the
color company, is also liable TO arrest for
the same reason. The First Infantry,
Colonel W. P. Sullivan, is the only regi-
ment which has maintained itself credI-
tably during the exciting day.
A Gatling gun was knocked to pieces
this afternoon by the members of one of
the Sacramento companies. They were
instructed to draw the Gatling over to the
American River trestle at Thirty-first
street to guard that avenue. and instead
of drawing it they hitched the gun to the
rear of an electric car. All went well
until the roadway changed from asphaltum
to basalt. The motorman happened to be
a mem ber of the A. r. u, and be saw far
enough ia see his chance to do something
for his comrades in the order. He let out
all his spare electricity and hurried the
Gatling over the cobblestones. and broke
the barrels and all kinds Of mechanism.
Militiamen and strikers have mingled
rather freely to-night. The militiamen
have been splendidly treated by the
strikers, and in many cases fed and PAM
pered generally. Nothing can be more
evident than the fact that the contest be-
tween the National Guardsnen and the
members of the American Railway Union
is at an end. 1t is generally understood
with weapons of all patterns and with an
ample sufficlency of ammunition. 1t is re-
ported that many Of the miltiamen have
given over their spare ammunition to the
strikers.
DEPENDS ON THE SOLDIERS.