Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-07-14

ent emergency was to vindicate the
law and that only, and that, II that
law had been violated there should be
quick, prompt and adequate indict-
ment. When the jury turned towards
its consulting chamber there was not
the man within reach of the judges
voice that had not already made up his
mind that return of indictments
against the leaders of the union would
be as quick and as prompt as those re-
sponsible for the putting into opera
tion of the machinery of the federal
courts could possibly desire.
Organized labor was prompt to strike
back at the last manifestation of fed
eral power and authority. Hardly had
the word been flashed across the half
mile of intervening ground between
the government building and labor
headquarters that indictments had
been returned and warrants issued for
Debs and his associates placed in the
hands of the officers of the law when
the committee appointed by the trades
and labor associations of the city to
urge upon the Pullman company the
desirability of submitting the dispute
with its ex-employes to arbitration.
and which had been endowed with au-
tocratic authority in the event of re-
fusal being returned, attached its sig
natures to the order calling out every
union man in the city from midnight.
Almost before the ink was dry on this
document, General Master Workman
Sovereign, of the Knights of Labor,
,In ha ta1 nf H.,
| upon manifesto addressed to mem
bers of the organization throughout
the country, declaring that crisis had
been reached in the affairs of the ma.
tion that endangered the peace of the
republic, that the flames of discord
were being purposely famed by the
railroad corporations at the risk of the
life of the government and appealing
to the order and through it to the
whole people to lay down the imple-
ments of toll for a short season and un-
der the banner of peace and with pa
triotic impulse to create through peace
able assemblage healthy public senti-
ment in favor of the amicable settle
ment of the issues involved.
The manifesto was couched in some
| Nhdt lis, lOI Willie III pHt
portion it appealed to the order as
though its executive officer was at
the moment of writing little doubt
full of his ground or the scope of his
authority, it later on specifically re-
quested the membership not to return
to its usual avocations until a settle
ment of the pending trouble had been
made known through authentic sources
This order or request, or whatever it
might properly be designated, was
wired at once to the officers of every
district assembly throughout the coun-
| try.
Around the town the news of the ar
rests, while it intensified the strained
feeling already referred to, failed to
produce any pronounced manifestations
either of approval or Indignation. Peo-
pie that had been assuring one another
! that the arrest of Mr.. Debs would be
the signal for a movement by the
masses upon the building in which he
might be temporarily confined, proved
themselves false prophets.
The arrested men took the situation
in a nonchalant mood. No glittering
of steel bayonets or tramp of military
forces marked their progress to the
government building, nor were any
| handouts brought into requisition.
They came like free citizens, joked and
laughed while waiting for bail, put
their signatures to the bonds as mat
| ter of personal recognizance and then
returned to their headquarters to re-
sumo the work that had been Temporal
4 I,-i11 nj tal rThair moe,
was the signal for enthusiastic cheers
and greetings from the crowd in wait
| ing.
Bail was fixed at $4,000 in each case.
| The penalty is fine of from 81, 900 to
$4,000.
In the meantime Marshal Arnold's
men had been busy collecting evidence.
A subpoena duces tecum had been is
sued for j. &. Haines, who is one of
Debs' assistants in the A. r. u. head
quarters. Deputy Marshal White was
given the paper to serve, and the mar
shal's Office effected a junction with the
postal authorities to make a clean
sweep. Maj. James Stuart, chief in
spector of the Chicago postal division,
accompanied the group of deputies.
| VII iiS ttiC iooih VIC oluCC
business of the A. r. Z. is conducted,
the deputy read the subpoena and then
the search began. The officers had a
mail sack and they gathered everything
in sight. Records, letters, circulars,
kilograms and miscellaneous matter
were thrown in a heap and then the
private correspondence of the Office was
gathered in.
The mass of confiscated matter was
taken to the federal building and care
fully deposited in the vaults of the dis
trict attorneys office, to be used in the
trial at the October term of court.
A force of 25O United States deputy
marshals was sworn in last night to
guard the northern, eastern and south
ern approaches to the post Office build
ing in which the vaults of the sub
treasury are located The military are