Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1896-08-01
THE BEGINNING OF THE CONGRESS
MARRIED BY BAD WEATHER.
Twelve Speakers Addressed the
Crowd From as Many stands
i'm Hyde Park.

jstic trouble which swept over Lille in
France, is stirred up by the arrival of
Herren Liebneck, Bebel, Singer and other
foreigners attending the socialistic con-
gress in session there this week, will
reach London today. Though Lille has
a socialistic mayor and deputy, 1t is evil
dent that the people of the city are not
prepared to swallow such wholesale out
bursts of socialism as were INDUCED in
by the congress, and the result has been
riots of such a character as would, II 1t
happened in Paris, says the Times, have
sent a SILVER throughout Europe. The
trouble started with the posting of a
placard by the municipality inviting the
inhabitants to welcome their brothers
from abroad Counter pllcards We're
posted by the republicans melting the
people to hiss the procession. SO, when
the sOcialistic procession marched
through the city on Friday evening, it
was greeted with cries of viva ia
France" and "A bas Prusse." The line
was broken and the mayor became separ-
ated from the procession. The musicians
waved their tri-colored flags which the
socialists tried to seize.
The international socialistic and trade
union congress begins at St Martins
town hall on Monday. London will doubt
less receive all the anarchists and So
CalistiC demonstrations incident to this
congress during the next week more
calmly than the ebulitions of the con-
gress at Lille were received there, as the
presence of Germans in London furnishes
no political provocaton. Preliminary to
the congress there will be a mammoth
demonstration in Hyde Park tomorrow
of socalistic workers and trade union
lists. lin favor of international peace and
amity." There will be y platforms and
as many different chairmen all of the
latter we'll known figures in labor or po-
ltical circles. There will be two dele
gates from the continent, who will speak
in French and German. The congress
which assemblies on Monday has four
German delegates, 81 French and four
from the United States. The anarchists,
as distinguished from the socialists, will
hold a welcoming meeting of their own
in separate hall on Tuesday evening.
The London newspapers are devoting
much space TO American politics. The
Daily News has column sketches of Gov
ernor Mckinley and William j. Bryan,
the former by Chauncey NJ. Depew and
the latter by Morton Frewen.
The Saturday Review has an article
by Golden Smith, in which the writer
says that he believes that Bryan will
succeed at the presidential election. Pro-
fessOr Smith says: 1T is a social and
industrial instruction, using free silver
as it's watchwOrd, which is the most for
midabe feature of the situation. The
east has robbed the west with lis tariff
and the west is now going to rob the east
if 1t can by population, under the form
of debasement of the currency"
Great preparations nave been made
for the demonstration in favor of inter-
national peace in Hyde park today un-
der the auspices of the organization com
mittec of the international socialist and
trade union congress, which begins at
St. Martins hotel tomorrow. Tie demon
straton committee, which has been at
work on the arrangements since March,
and had distributed 20 900 hand bills and
10000 posters, had employed a band to
head the procession and had made elab-
crate arrangements with the commission
or Of works and police, but what they
could not arrange for WIGS the weather,
which proved against them today, and
the downpour of rain practically made
a fiasco of the demonstration.
Professions were formed in all parts
of London, the socialists, members of
trades unions and their sympathizers,
and marched to Hyde park, the peoples
forum of London. When they arrived the
rain was steadily falling and it gradually
increased 10 a deluge, driving away
nearly all the multitude that it was
hoped would be there TO listen to the
speakers. Twelve platforms had been
erected for all the speakers but the
Garments Union, and chairman for
each had been chosen by the demonstra-
ton committee. 1t was intended to have
addresses from each platform in French
and German. as well as in English by