The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-13
SENSATIONAL.
STARTLING REVELATIONS RE-
GARDING THE PULLMAN
STRIKE.
A Meditated Revolt by Regular
Army Officers Who Thought it
Disgraceful to Kill Working
men for the Corporations.
1.-The RAILWAY TimeS.l

Mayor Pingree of Detroit, Mich,
has written book, which, in its in
troductory chapter, makes certain
startling disclosures which every pa
triotic American should hail with ac-
clamations Of delight.
Mayor Pingree is built upon the pat
tern Of Gov. Altgeld Of Illinois. He
He loves his fellow men who are in
distress. He abhors PlutocratS and
all their deyilish Vaccinations. He
regards them as the arch enemies of
the Republic who would,i they could,
debauch angels and wreck the govern
Satanic policy. Mayor Pingree intro
duceS the
PULLMAN STRIKE
that he may give the public an as
founding secret connected with that
affair in Chicago. He speaks like one
who knows whereof he speaks, and the
public has learned to place implicit
confidence in his utterances.
THE SECRET
disclosed by Mayor Pingree is that the
officers of the regular United States
troops who were brought to Chicago
by order of President Cleveland, who
foolishly took the advice Of Olney, the
corporation lawyer, who was attorney
general in Gle veland's cabinet, met at
one Of the hotels and denounced the
policy of using the army to perpetu-
ate wrongs and by so doing to degrade
It in the eyes of the people. x
OFFICERS COMPARED NOTES.
Whenever opportunity offered they
1.-THE army officers) compared the infor-
nation gathered by their own men
md themselves, and when they eX-
hausted inquiry and were satisfied,
they met in one of the Chicago hotels.
That meeting was one Of the most eX-
traordinary for it's significance that
was ever held in this country. 1t Was
q calm and quiet comparison of notes
gathered by the officers themselves,
and the conclusian was clear that the
army had been brought to Chicago
under pretense for the purpose OF
siding with the corporations in an in
dustrial struggle.
Mayor Pingree, in what he says,
states what multiplied millions OF
men believed at the time was true,
that it was clear there was no emer-
gency of sufficient moment to demand
the appearance OF the United States
army. The troops were in dilemma.
tine unhappy operatives at Pull
man." says Mayor Pingree, "were not
armed men, nor were the men Of the
Railway Union who took their part
cut-throats or armed rebels. 1t was
clear that it was fight for
JUST WAGES.
1t was clear that it was fight for
just wages against Pullman and his
SympathiZing corporation gang, who
refused arbitration. Pullman had
said There is nothing to arbitrate,
and a misguided President of the
United States had sent the troops to
back Pullman. 1t was clear to the
eyes of those officers that the police,
or at the utmost the state troops, were
equal to the disturbance that had
been going on, and it was clear to
them that such work for the army
would, when the real facts we're
known, render the army obnoxious to
the thinking people, as showing that
1t was at the beck and call Of corpora
tions and as showing that a corporate
ariStOcracy had the control of the
army, and that if republic were to
be maintained it would call for the
total abolition of an army that could
be made use Of for such anti-Republi-
can methods"
DENOUNCED THE PRESIDENT.
There in that room," says the au-
thor, "officers who had seen service in
the great war of the rebellion, ex-
pressed their indignation that they
were called out to be used, as was
patent to them, not so much to quell
a riot as to crush labor unioDs, in a
city where cowardice and greed for
money predominated over common
sense; where bowling newspapers
egged on rather than allayed the ex-
citement Of badly misinformed city,
and all under the f1imSy plea of en-
forcing the Interstate commerce act.
They were to be used as the general
managers might deem best"
RIGHTEOUS INDIG NATION.
"TheSe officers" says Mayor Pin
vree, "did not confine themselves to
She mere expression of Indignation.
Their patriotic feeling led them fur.
ther than that. They denounced
among themselves the advisers of the
President of the United States who
had sent them on such a mission. 1t
was not the spirit of inSubordination,
but of righteous indignation against
being used against the defenseleSs and
the weak, and to bolster up wrong
ind greed, which animated many regu-
lar fficerS.
"In their righteous anger they were
willing to give their views to the pub
tic. and a second meeting was to be
held to form mllate those views, which
were to be spread over the length and
breadth of the land to the people OF
the republic. 1t is a pity these did
not see the light of day at the time.
Had they been published there might
nave been a different end Of the
eat strike. The people would have
Known the truth. All the facts Of