Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-11-19
AN EXCITING SCENE

ct the Annual Anarchistic Demonstrates
in ChIcago-Lucy Parsons Strained tRe
Limit, and Police CAPTAIN Wheeler In
terfered and Led Her From the Stage
Proceeding that Created q 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 a 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 ia Ike up the great struggle for which
| his father had laid down his life and
| where that 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 a
million bodies would move on their
legs, and that then from the graves in
would spring.
All the time Mrs. Parsons was get
more vehement in her manner and
more pronounced in her utterances.
| Arriving at 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 four honest men in
| the face.
| Then came the climax. Raising her
| voice to the highest pitch, she said: II
ask you for what they suffered? What
crime had they committed? ask
| you, hideous murderers, you gang of
murderers, from Gary, Grinnen and
Gov. Oglesby, down to the gang OF
hired police spies, ask"
Here Capt. Wheeler stepped 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 gesticulated wildly,
and for just few seconds there was a
move toward the stage.
Chairman Apple grasped the situa-
ton and called for order, and it was
| partially restored.
! Mrs. Parsons were exchanging courte-
sizes in the wings
What arc you trying to do to me?''
demanded Mrs. Parsons, her eyes fair
| ~ 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 socn at her side
and again led her away. Again the
house was thrown into an uproar and
| someone shouted: "Forwardr' 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 seat 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. mo, no." he continued,
anarchy is not dead, bet it is getting
stronger each year and will live on
/