Evening star., 1898-10-15
Chicago-Virden Coal Company Will
Not Land Negroes.
WHAT The MAnAGERS SAY
Attempt to Fix Responsibility on
Gov Tanner.
HIS POSITION DEFINE d

VIRDEN. H.. October 15.-Attorney VIM.
Patton of the ChlcaEo-Nirden Coal Com
rany is authority for the statement that
no further attempt Will be made to land
here the Alabama negroes whose coming
resulted in the loss of 50 many lives. There
is under consideration. according to At
torney Patton. an attempt to fix the re
spousibility for tn tragedy upon the gov
ernor Of Illinois The lawyer declares thai
il is the intention of the coal company to
press the matter. and it will be for the
grand jury of Macoupin county to say
whether Gov Tanner shall answer in
court.
J. F. Eyester. manager OF the company
store who was SC nearly killed by The
r:ob Wednesday. is recovering. The mill
tia commander Col. Young. has placed
gI ard of soldiers at the house where Eye
ster was taken
The authorities at Springfield are con-
sidering the advisahili;y of sending another
eatliuS gun here to be placed inside the
stockaGe Col. Young, however does net
consider additional artillery necessary.
Gov. Tanner Defines Hi. Position.
In an interview at Springfield, Ill. yester-
day Gov. Tanner defined his position in re-
gard to the trouble at Vlrden. He said:
ON learning this morning that the Ma
tionaI Guard were searching trains. ! at
tItt gave oIutTS 10 Nl'il INttScr SthJuNfiiIt
general. tc Instruct Col. Young that the
National Guard have no right to search
trains. and that hereafter they would not
board trains that their orders were to pre-
vent the lending of inn orted labor, which
would necessarily result in the precipta-
tion OF riot: that they were there TO Keep
the peace and prevent any person from
provoking a riot.
My position has been from the begin
ming. and ] am now more positive in that
rfOsar
ton of labO- into Illinois, not from the
southern states alone but from all other
states. because such a pernicious system,
as l have said before, necessarily brings to
our state and dumps upon society an unde-
sirable class of citizens. and l do not pro-
pose. if l can help 1t, that the state of
Illinois shall he used a dumping ground
for the criminal and idle classes of other
countries other states.
IF one two or three. or even larger num-
bers. come to our state in the proper order
and in the ordinary way. seeking honest
employment. and the mine owrers see fit
To employ them. l will give them all the
profession necessary to peacefully operate
their mines
an intentional outlaw; has sent an agent
to Alabama, and by false pretenses in
duce1 negroes to come here, loading them
OF; trains like cattle. locking the doors OF
the cars feeding them Ike stock and pro-
curing the services of armed guards from
detective agency. and invading the state in
an Illegal manner.
Charges Against Mine Owners.
He added that if he had been apprised of
the coming of the train. he should have
had il met at the state line with the Ma
tional GUard and disarmed and made pris-
oners of every man bearing arms
He charged the owners Of the Chicago
Firden mire with firing on the miners first
and with being lawbreakers. and crtminaIly
responsible for the bloodshed of Wednes-
day. and their detectives and guards as
guilty Of murder. He believes they should
and would be indicted by The Macourjn
county grand jury for murder
dispatch from Chicago Yesterday says:
Complications which threaten to assume
srester proportions than the clash betvee?
the federal ard state authority during the
railway strike under Altgelj's administra-
tiOH promise to grow out Of Gov. Tanners
scton in r=fusing TO allow the Alton road
to unload negro miners at Virden. Solicitor
General Brown of the Chicago and Alton
left for Springfield today as the result of
conference between the officials OF the
road The governor Will be sought by
Solicitor Brown. who Will assume charge
OF the situation At Virdon. so far As the
Alton Is concerned Steps will be taken
likewise by the Alton to secure legal re
dress for the alleged lawless seizure Of
the road by the governor.
TIE officials Of the Alton make no at
tempt 10 conceal their anger and cast the
blame upon the governor for interfering
with common carrier. which has author
ity to rperIte as such. under state laws
The officials Of the Alton claim that one
of the most sacred prerogatives of a com
mon carrier was outraged. and they ex-
press their determination TO find ont if
the governor of the state can exercise
lawleSS force" as they term it. without
- being held to account