Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-07-21
TROOPS KEPT ORDER
Nearly Fight at the Polls at Pullman
Ill
The A. II. U. Man Elected-Laundry
Girls Attacked by 'Women-Debs
Named for President.

The unusual sight OF military called on to
| preserve order at the polls was witnessed
at Pullman, Ill., yesterday. At the sixth
| primary district of the thirty fourth ward,
| located at the Pullman engine house, hot
| fight was waged between factions support
| ing George w. Miller and Frank q. Robey
for nomination at the third senatorial con-
vention to be held today.
Millers interests at the Pullman polls
| were in charge of Alderman Chadwick,
while the American Railway Union candi-
date, Robey, was supported 10y a large
crowd Of the strikers. The latter claimed
| that their man was not having fair play,
and that Miller had two of the three judges
| and all the clerks. They placed William
| Birkhof at the polls challenger. and
Alderman Chadwick demurred, claiming
that Birkhoff was not a resident of the
| district
This caused a lively row and for n time
| 1t looked as IL the row, which was rapidly
| increasing in size. would clean out the
polling place. The police were notified and
sent a patrol wagon. with Lieut. BaSaett
and eight officers. to the scene At the same
| time some one called for the troops and
two detachments of company L, first regi-
ment, were sent on the dorble quick to the
POLLS. The show Of force prevented any
back from the polling place.
In the election the A. r. U. delegates to
the state senatorial convention =, ere elected
by pa to 104
Laundry Girl. Attacked.
No more trouble occurred until o'clock.
when the laundry girls grit. When they
left the works they were surrounded by a
demonstrative mob of from 800 to 1000
women and children. A portion OF the
a1 nnio
the streets of Pullman to her home Near
Market hall they stopped her progress and
began calling her names. and one woman
1t Is sad struck her in the face. Several
policemen stepped in at this juncture and
gave her protection to her home No ar
rests were made
In the meantime an escort of ten police
led by Sert,t. Riley. was having an inter
esting time protecting Tie rest Of the la IN
dry girls, who lived in Rcseland. A mob
OF nearly 800 women and children and a few
men followed them from the worns down
fIorence avenue, and on liita street to the
Illinois Central tracks The police were not
accustomed TO dealing with crowd Of tie
FEMININE gender and did httle more than
Keep the most turbulent women from seiz-
Ing hold of the frightened girls
me entire march was enlIyepei with cries
or scabs' and other epithets. At Rose,and.
where the girls separated, each was follow
ed home by small group of the women.
whose object seemed to be to see where the
girls lived.
At o'clock fifty Hoilanders who have
been employed about the works as lumber
showers. track graders and repairers, left
the southeastern gate of the works for
thelr homes in Roseland. They mad a guard
OF sixteen policemen. Scarcely had they
come from the works when 100 of the
strikers, shouting 'scabs' and other names
surrounded them. They took the same
course toward koseland as had been taken
by the laundry girls. Before Roseland was
reached the crowd following them had in
creased largely. and IL became necessary
Tor the police to charge it several times
win liberal use of the club, before II was
dispersed was
The Pullman laundry was started yester-
DAY with a force Of forty girls most of
whom were old employees Three hundred
men were at work I'm the shops cleaning mn
oillnS machinery, and making a careful in
spection. In addition TO these 30 apnIic,
IONS have been received from old work
men.
Sensational Story Denied
Regarding the report from Hammond
IND, that mob attacked Lake Shore
height train, Mr.. WILDER western passenger
agent OF the Lake Shore. says:
After the train was side-tracked- at
whiting, at a meeting point with another
train. two men were seen to pull the conn
ing pin. They have since been apprehend-
ed ana are now under arrest There was
rot a gun discharged. there was no great
crowd. and ii would seem unnecessary for
US to deny the statement that an of oar
trains are going out under guard, for as a
matter OF fact during the worst of the
trouble our trains were not accompaniej
bE armed men, except through the Yards
ana there was no time at which we con-
sluered mat there was any danger Of in
'eiieTehce as iar east as Whiting
Debs for President.
A nass meeting was held at Ocden,s
Grove last night and Debs was nominated
Tor President of the United States amid
great enthusiasm. The speakers were labor
men, and their remarks were all of one
tenor. They eulogized Debs and denounced
President Cleveland. The meeting declar.si
itSeI as utterly opposed to the democratic
ana republican parties, and predicted n
sweeping success for the populists in the
next election.