The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-10-22


strikers would attack them, so II il
as broad as il is long" Col. Young
said he had heard nothing that would
indicate that an attempt would be
made to land the negroes at Pana.
The town was perfectly quiet at mid
night, with no one on the streets ex-
cept the militia patrolling their beats.
| Testimony mt stocLade.
| When the coroner's jury arrived at
the stockade they were accompanied
by Hon. j. w. Patton, of Springfield,
| ILL.,, who is Manager Lukins' attorney,
and also by a representative of the
legal department of the Chicago 81
| Alton railroad. who is here looking
after the interest of the railroad COM
pany. Several witnesses were exam
ined before noon, when the jury took
| a recess until 1880 p. m.
The afternoon session OF the cor
oner's jury lasted several hours, TAX
| ing the testimony of the wounded
| guards, IL in number. In order to ac-
complish this house-to-house canvass
was necessary, as many of the special
officers were confined to their hunks
in the companies houses. The state
ments of the wounded men who were
on the train with the negroes devel-
oped nothing different from what was
stated during the morning session of
the jury, the majority claiming that
the firing was commenced by the strik-
ers. In some of the statements 1t was
acknowledged that when the guards
on the train learned that the miners
were firing on them they returned the
fire. They claimed they had strict or
ders from Capt. Schumacher under no
circumstances to fire n shot except in
defense Of their lives. The men who
testified denied that there were any
| shots fired by the guards on the train
and said that not a man fired shot
until they saw their comrades drop
| ping on all sides of them.
| Turner's Attitude.
Springfield H.. Oct. 15.-Gov. Tan
ner gave out lengthy interview re-
| garding the situation at Virden and
his attitude on the importation of
m'nerg into the state. He said:
| Certain yellow journals industriously
| tried to have my position msundersto God
| by stating that was opposed to the i'm
| POI 'atioH' dS tlty put IL, Oh MIXERS Ger
| tain newspaper reports have charged Gen.
| Reece and Capt. Craig of the battery, of
| speaking disrespectfully of the imported
| niggers' as they see At to call them. This
| Is absolutely untrue of Gen. Reece and
| Capt. Craig, as well as myself NV posi-
| tion has been from the beginning, and
| am now more positive in that position,
| emphatically against the importation of
| labor into Illinois. not from the southern
states alone. but from all other states be-
cause such a pernicious system as have
| said before, necessarily brings to our state
| and dumps upon society an undesira BILE
| class OF citizens, and do not propose, II I
| can help II. that the state of Illinois shall
| be used as dumping ground for the
| criminal and Idle classes of other coun-
| tries or other states. IL one, two or three
| or even larger numbers come to our state
in the proper order and in the ordinary
| way, seeking honest employment and the
mine owners see fit TO employ them, will
| give them all the protection necessary to
| peacefully operate their mines"
| Coal Company an Outlaw.
Gov. Tanner further said that the Chi
cago-Vlrden company has been an inten-
| tional outlaw: has sent an agent to Ala
| bama and by false pretenses induced ne
groes TO come here. loading them on the
| trains like cattle, locking the doors OF the
| cars, feeding them like stock, and procur-
| ing the services Of armed guards from
| detective agency, and invading the state
| in an Illegal manner. as no governor of an
| other state would do without the consent
OF the governor whose state was to be en-
| tered. Gov. Tanner says II he had been
| apprised of the coming of the train he
should have had II met at the state line
with the national guard and disarmed and
| made prisoners of every man bearing
| arms. He charges the owners of the Chi
cago-Virden mine with firing on the min
ers first, and with being law breakers and
criminally responsible for the bloodshed
of Wednesday, and their detectives and
guards as guilty OF murder and should be-
and he believes will be, indicted by The
| Macoupin county grand jury for murder.
Exceeded His Authority.
Referring to the action of Capt. Craig in
| searching the train which bore the negro
miners back TO Virden Friday evening. the
governor said that Capt. Craig had exceed
ed his authority and that he had in
| structed Col. Young, now commanding at
Virden, not to interfere with the operation
of the trains nor to invade them, but TO
only prevent the unloading of imported
laborers, which unloading would at once
bring about trouble.
| The governor continual: LAS / said In
the beginning, 1t is not my purpose, nor has
| II been from the first, to discriminate
against the negro. The negro has the same
right under our laws and constitution as
all other classes and nationalities. What
/ am opp osed to is the pernicious system OF
importing labor. Perhaps in placing an
embargo upon imported labor am a little
in advance of statutory enactment. How
ever. sometimes in the interest of society.
II becomes necessary to enforce law In
advance of it's statutory enactment.
MANY good people, perhaps, think
that / should have sent troops to Vir-
den before this difficulty occurred Had
/ done so l would have been using the
state as an agent to further the interests
OF the mine owners. as the moment the
| troops had been landed they would have
| dispersed the idle miners. and of course
the avarcious mine owners could have
landed their imported labor without diff
fculty, thus accomplishing their end
Troops Must Not Board Trains.
Springfield, H., Oct. 1s.-William
Brown, ot jacksonville, general coun-
sci of the Chicago d Alton railroad,
called on Gov. Tanner Friday evening
and protested in the name of the rail-
road company against the state troops
boarding the company's trains and
searching them. The result of Mr..
Browns protest was that Gov. Tanner
gave instructions to COL Young, in
command of the state troops at Vir-
Han mt IN allow trnops n hnu ri IN