The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-11-21
AN EXCITING e

1t the Annual AnarchistIc Demonstration
in Chicago-fucy Parsons Strained the
Limit, and Police CAPTAIN Wheeler In
terfered and Led Her From tho STAGE
a Proceeding that Created a Great Up
roar.
CHICAGO, Nov. 13.-Trembling, her
cheeks red and her fists clenched,
Lucy Parsons was led off the stage at
the West Twelfth Street Turner hall
by Police Captain John Wheeler
Wednesday night at the annual DEM
onstration in memory of the anarchists
who were executed as a result Of the
Haymarket murder. Capt Wheel
er and Il number of men were
on the platform as she began to
speak. There was nothing out of the
ordinary in the first words of Mrs
Parsons. Her son, she said, was like
his father, and she was teaching him
to take up the great struggle for which
his father had laid down his life and
where that father had left off. She
predicted hat the day would come,
although the feet of the executed men
had ceased to travel the earth, when a
million bodies you'd move on their
legs, and that then from the graves in
Waldheim the social revolution
would spring.
All the time Mrs. Parsons was get
more vehement in her manner and
more pronounced in her utterances.
Arriving at a description of the man.
ner in which the four men went to the
scaffold, she declared that the men
who had charge of the hanging hur-
ried through with their work because
they feared to look foul honest men in
the face.
Then came the climax. Raising her
voice to the highest pitch, she said: Il
ask you for what they suffered? What
crime had they committed? l ask
you, hideous murderers, you gang OF
%murderers, from Gary, Grinnell and
Gov. Oglesby, down to the gang of
hired police spies, l ask"
Here Capt. Wheeler stepped across
the stage, and before Mrs. Parsons
could say any more, led her from the
Gene.
Instantly the hall was in an uproar.
Men shouted and g~esticulated wildly,
and for just a few seconds there vas a
move toward the stage.
Chairman Apple grasped the situa-
ton and called for order, and it wa
partially restored.
In the meantime Capt. Wheeler and
Mrs. Parsons We're exchanging courte-
sizes in the wings.
What are you trying to do to me?"
demanded Mrs. Parsons, her eyes fair
ly glistening, prevent me from tell
ing the people why you murdered my
husband? Well / will tell you"
Suiting the action to the word she
fastened to the stage and fairly shout
ed, while she shook her clenched fist in
the direction of the back part of the
hall: You murderers, | hurl it in
your teeth"
Capt. Wheeler was soon at her side
and again led her away. Again the
house was thrown INTO an uproar and
someone shouted: Forward" The
good Judgment of the chairman was
again exercised, and Johann Most, who
in the meantime had arrived, was in
troduced to gain the attention of the
audience. After quiet had been re-
stored Mrs. Parsons left the stage and
took her seal in the center OF the hall.
Herr Most was not very radical in
his remarks when he saw Mrs. Par
sons was interrupted. He simply
gave a recapitulation of the events
from the time the first anarchist meet
ing was disbanded by the police until
the hanging of the four men in 1887.
in closing he said that anarchy had
not been killed by the hanging of the
four men. No, no." he continued,
anarchy is not dead, but it is getting
stronger each year and will live on
forever"