The San Francisco call., 1896-11-13
STOPPED BY THE POLICE
Lucy Parsons Talks at the
Annual Demonstration of
the Anarchists.
Those Who Executed the Newmarket
Prisoners Are Styled Hide.
GUS Murderers.

CHICAGO, ILL, Nov. 12.-Trembling,
her checks red and her fists cIencned, Lucy
Parsons was led off the stage at the West
Twelfth-street Turner Hail by Police Cap
tain John Wheeler last night at the annua
demonstration in memory of the anar
chists who were executed as result of the
Hay market murder.
Captain Wheeler and a number of mer
were on the platform as she began tC
speak. There was rothing out of the or
dinary 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 his father had left off
She predicted that the day would come
although the feet of the executed men had
ceased TO travel the earth, when q million
bodies would move on their legs. and that
then from the graves In Waldheim the
social revolution would spring.
All the time Mrs. Parsons was getting
more vehement in her manner and more
pronounced in her utterances. Arriving
at description of the manner. in which
the four men went to the scaffold, she de-
clared that the men who had charge oil
| the hanging hurried through with their
work because they feared to look four
honest men IN the face.
Then came the climax. Raising her
voice to its highest pitch she said: Il
ask you for waat they suffered What
crime had they committe1? l ask you.
hideous murderers. you gang of muir
derers, from Gary, Grinnell and Governor
Oslesby down to the gang OF hired police
spies-I ask
Here Captain Wheeler hastened across
the stage and. before Mrs. Parsons could
say any more. led her from the scene.
Instantly the hall was in an uproar. Men
shouted and gesticu!ated wildly, and for
just few seconds there was move
toward the stage.
Chairman Apple grasped the situation,
and called for order and it was partially
restored. In the meantime Captain
Wheeler and Mrs. Parsons were exchang-
ing courtesies in the wings.
What are you trying to do to meT'
demanded Mrs. Parsons, her eyes fairly
glistening; prevent me from telling the
people why you murdered my husband
Well, 1 willteli them"
Sulting the action TO the word she has
tened to the stage and fairly shouted,
while she shook her clenched fist in the
direction OF the back part of the hall:
"You murderersI l hurl it in your
teeth"
Captain Wheeler was soon at her side,
and again led her away. Then the house
one shouted ''ForwardW The good judg-
ment Of the chairman was again exer-
cised; and Johann Most, who in the mean
time had arrived, was introduced to gain
the attention of The audience. Alter quiet
had been restored Mrs. Parsons left the
stage and took her seat in the center of the
hail.
divers speech was a defense of an
archism. He SAID it was not the desire of
anarchists TO tear down or destroy any,
thing, bnt rather to build up.
Herr Most was not very radical in his
remarks when he saw Mrs. Parsons was
Interrupted. He simply gave a recapitu-
iatlon of tho events from the time the first
anarchist meeting was disbanded by the
pollce 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, can
archy is not dead. but it is getting stronger
each year, and will live on forever"