The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-02-15
RESOLUTIONS AND SPEECHES

or Ringing Character Made by Mnr.
tins Ferry Citizens In DenuncIation OF
III" Outrage of Yesterday Morning.
Fully fifty representative citizens OF
Martina Ferry held an indignation
meeting In tho law Offices OF George
Duncan, In tho Shreye-lIervey build.
ing. yesterday afternoon, and tho das.
tardly act was denounced In tho strong.
est terms. The agsemblago was made
up OF business mon, ministers, physi.
clans. attorneys, manufacturers, bank.
ers. workmen and law.abiding citizens
generally.
Tho meeting lasted from 9 until 5
o'clock. Ringing speeches wero made
by about one.nalf Of those present, and
nearly everybody had something to
say about tho lawlessness. All were OF
tho opinion that tho time had como
when a halt should be called, and every
man proposed to soc that the laws and
city ordinances are hereafter rigIdly on
forced, and 10 see that all law.breakers
are prosecuted 10 tho full extent OF tho
law.
1t was decided to request Mayor
Wcslwood to Immediately appoint at
least SIX special police to guard tho
Buckeye Glass Works, all to be first
class men, sober, md armed with re-
volvcrs. and to urge the city council OF
Martins Ferry to otler reward OF $500
for tho arrest and conviction OF the per-
son or persons who threw the bomb
into tpe ol!ice.
The mayor, marshal and police off.
GERS were censured and several present
favored change if tho lawbreakers are
allowed to continue to bulldoze and as.
sault mon who arrive to work at the
Buckeye Glass Works, to shoot at men,
to attempt 10 burn the works and blow
it up with dynamite, all without prose-
cution. Such plain, outspoken express
sions were never heard At any meeting
in Martins Ferry and such a meeting
was never held in the town.
When the meeting was about half
over Mayor Samuel Wcstwood wa, sent
for. When he arrived he was informed
OF the object OF the meeting. was told OF
the gross ou!rages that had been com.
mit;ed. that the people desired tina: the
law and ordinances be enforced, that
singularly no effort had been made to
arrest and punish the perpetrators OF
the crimes. that men were wanted who
will enforce the law regardless o. whom.
it hurts and that it Is the desire that no
further outrage. shall be committed d
and that something should be done at
once.
Mayor Westwood made a statement,
denying tho accusations against him,
saying that the police force is small,
that the Buckeye Glass company had
promised to notify him when they e1-
pected non.union men to arrive, that
this it had done only on one occasion,
the time the crowd came from Pitts
burgh via Wheeling. At which time they
were given the protection OF the police
force; that tho police received no notice
OF the coming OF the men the Saturday
night the riot occurred, that the COM
pauy had been promised the entire po-
lice force, ii trouble was expected, that
he and the police had made efforts 10
learn the names OF the violators and
that the citizens had not aided him in
bringing the guilty parties to justice,
and that he was always willing 10 pun
ish yiolators Of the law. regardless OF
their status in tho labor ranks.
The revolutions passed are brief but
to tho point, and voice the sentiment
o: the meeting. They ARE as follows:
WHEREAS, Within tho last few weeks
q number OF men have been assaulted
and some OF them brutally boaten. who
came to tho city to work at the Buck
eye glass factory: and
WHEREAS. It is not sale and has not
been safe for persons desiring to work
at said glass factory to come into town
or appear on the streets, and
WHEREAS, It ia the opinion OF the
public that no proper efior, has been
mado on tho part OF tho authoritie. to
apprchend any OF tho persons guilty OF
those odenses, and
WHEREAs, Persons have shot at tho
manager Of said works and no eflor: ha.
been made to ascertain or arrest the
guilty parties. and
WHEREAS, The Buckeye glass factory
this morning was danlgaed by dynamite
and the police force is thought BY many
either TO- be inefficient or insufficient,
and
WHEREAS. AS We are informed, tho
mayor has power by ordinance to ap-
point special police and night watch.
mon In emergencies; therefore, be it
Rssoired. That the mayor bo and is
hereby requested to appoint sufficient
number OF police and night watchmcn
mot less than six--to protect lie and
properly in this city. and that such
police and night watchmen be appoint
cd ut once. 80 as to 90 on duty tonight,
and we recommend that tho city council
offer IL reward OF $500 for tho arrest and
conviction Of tho person or persons who
throw tho bomb into tho office OF the
Buckeye Glass Factory this morning
and attempted to blow up tho factory.
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