St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-07-20
MANY MORE INDICTMENTS.
SEVENTY FIVE PERSONS IMPLICATED
FOR VIOLATIONS or LAW l{.
BILLS AGAINST DEBs Ell AL.

the Chief Conspirators-AT Talk
With Debs-Thinks He Is
Painted Too Black-Specifica-
lions From Injured Innocence
Prefers to Remain in Jail.
CHICAGO. July 19.-The federal grand
jury returned twenty-three indictments
In Judge Seaman's court this afternoon.
and was discharged. LII the twenty
three indictments were included the
names o. about seventy five individuals
who are charged with violating the
federal statutes during the railroad
troubles of the last three weeks.
District Attorney Milchrist refused to
give the names of any OF the indicted
persons, beyond admitting that there
were several new indictments against
Debs, Howard, Keliher and Rogers. the
chief officers OF the A. K. U. Included
other officers of the organization who
have not been so prominent as the four
now in the county Jail. The others who
go to make up the seventy-6ve are
strikers against whom are charged spe-
citic acts of interference with trains or
any property of the companies.
DebS and the other officers are In
nearly all the twenty-three indictments.
Whenever the grand Jury concluded to
presenta batch of rioters who commit
ted specific acts, such as the derailing
of trains, Debs and his companions were
named with them as conspirators. In
addition to-that there is an indictment
against DebS. Rogers, Keliher and
Howard charging them with conspiracy
to deprive a citizen of the Uuited States
of one of his constitutional rights-that
is, the right to ship goods from one state
to another.
Mr.. Milchrist said the question as to
whether Debs and the other officers will
be compelled to give bail on each
separate indictment has not been settled
but will be after the bench warrants are
issued and served tomorrow. No in
dictments were returned against rail
road officials because no information
was given against them.
Eugene Debs said 10 an Associated
Press man today:
The following notice Is alleged to be
posted in various parts of the stock
yards:
IA. R. ITO Whom 1t Nav Con.
Germ: AT meeting held by the Ameri-
can Railway union at Corcoran's hall
the following was unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That all men continuing
In the employ of the railroad depart-
ments of OF the Union Stockyards and
Transit company. Armour q Co.,
Swift 81 Co., n. Morris 81 Co., Burton
Stock Car company, Streets Stable Car
company, Canada Cattle Car company,
of the union stockyards where railroad
men are employed, at p. m. Wednes-
day, July IL. 1894, will be forever
randed as scaos and treated as such. 81
Nv. Ii. OvERTON, President. e
~. A. DRIsCoLL. Vice President.
IN. K. TURPKIN, Secretary. Z
Approved by e
''E. V. DEBS, President.
"G. w. HOWARD, Vice President. -
SIS. KELLER, Secretary. q
~ need hardly to say that the abOve.i
so far as the officers of the American
Railway union is concerned. is a Tor
gerry. Of course no such notice was is
sued or approved by us. Nor have we
any knowledge as 10 how. when or by
whom such notice was authorized or
posted. The first information we had
on the subject was when brought to our
notice in this mornings daily papers.
This is fair sample of the methods.
that have been employed TO poison the.
public mind against the strike and those
officially connected Herewith. The
most fragrant falsehoodS have passed
current for the truth.
LAS, for instance, few days ago
story was published TO the effect that
Mrs. HiginbOtham was seriously i'll in
Montana and not expected to live, and
that Mr.. Higinbotham had appealed to
me to allow the dying wife to be brought
home to see her friends for the last time
by special train; that in brutal man
ner declared that not q wheel should
turn. This base and heartless falsehood
has been widely circulated, and has
done incalculable damage to innocent
neil.
Need l say that no such request or
appeal was received from MIR. Higin-
botham? Need l further say that if
such an appeal had been made without
reference TO its source, even though 1t
had been in behalf of q poor washer
woman, would have responded, had it
been i'll my power SO to do? III such an
emergency, man who would not afford
the required relief would be as destitute
of heart as hyena. The writer of the
damna0le falsehood may accept this as
personal to himself. his thought being
father to the wish.
Column after column of villificatiOn
and coined SANDER have been published
to serve the malignant purposes of the
subsidized press. In due time the truth
will prevail. The wrong will be cloven
down; the right will be enthroned. Our
struggle is for humanity; why charge
us falsely with inhumauity?
''ln this connection ! may add that
certain kilograms have been published
which were not authorized or transmit
ted by any officer of our organization.
Stripped OF false and extraneous matter,
the charges will fall TO the ground.
Meantime we can afford to be patient, and
we say without bravado that we prefer
TO be in Jail with our convictions to
being free without them"
This interview was had in the pres
ence Of Messrs. Howard, Keliher and
Rogers and acQuieSced in by them, and
was further submitted to counsel for
MIR. Debs before being authorized to the
press, upon an inquiry made by Mr..
Debs as to whether the branding of
these manufactured ISLANDERS could be
Ill any way considered by the court as
contemptuOuS of the proceedings now
pending for contempt.
Going Back to Work. s
BRAZIL, Ind, July 10. - Meetings
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