The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-05-25
DEMOCRATIC
POLITICIANS
RESPONSIBLE
y,- the Great st. Louis strike-Hope
70 Make Gains in the Approach
ing Primaries.
COY. STEPHENS THREATENED.
worlds Fair Question Brought Into
tbe Controversy-NOn- Union Men
Continuing to Pour In

ST. LOUIS, May 24.-This was the
,,ys,teenth day OF the great strike in
oorpra,ed by the employees of the st.
Torls Transit Company. and a settle
,,.r, apparently Is further away than
s,.- neither side to the controversy
.s,rIpg willing to advance any propo-
sJ,,op TO end 1t. The Transit Company
has resumed service on all of Its lines,
syceot the Broadway, Northern Central.
s,rfhwcstern Union and the South
s-ytb street divisions, and attempts
NAV be made to-day to run cars on
somp of these. on the lines In opera
tI5, the street railway officials assert
tspy are daily running more cars and
carving additional passengers.
Non-Uuion Men Coming In.
Non.union men continue to come in
from other cities. and as fast as they
arrive the company puts them to work.
Word vas received from Cleveland
tba, farty-two ex-employes Of the Big
consolidated street railway system had
been sent here to take the places of
strikers.
Thus far no general sympathy strike
among labor unions has been called, as
had been expected there would be. The
different trades and labor organiza-
uor, are showing their sympathy with
me strikers in another way, by con-
td5aang to their support ana passing
rules fnlng members for riding on the
street cars.
Will Stop Worlds Fair Appropriation
Union labor has brought the worlds
fair question into the strike controver-
sy. At mass meeting held last night,
a resolution was passed to the effect
that all union labor throughout the
United States be asked to instruct their
representatives to oppose the passage Of
the worlds fair appropriation bill un-
less the st. Louis Transit Company set
ties the strike satisfactorily to its for
mer employees. The resolution has
teen wired to John B. Henderson,
speaker of the house of representatives.
Two Hundred Arrests Made.
Since the strike began 200 arrests of
persons, alleged to have violated the
law in its connection have been made
twenty-five warrants have been issued,
ten indictments reported by the grand
Jury and the remainder OF the cases
have been taken to the police and
United States courts. where many Of
them are still pending. In most of the
cases which have been tried in the po-
lice courts, the defendants have been
discharged. A few of the prisoners have
been released without trial, the police
falling to collect the evidence for pros
GsutIoH.
Governor Stephens Is in the city for n
conference with the police authorities
on the strike situation and met with the
board Of police commissioners to-day.
Governor Stephens Talks.
Governor Stephens was quoted this
afternoon as saying:
Tam satisfied that the trouble along
the street car lines and the whole spirit
Of anarchy which I find prevails so
largely In the city Of st. Louis at pres
cnt Is being fomented and extended by
the Vaccinations of certain coterIe OF
Democratic politicians who hope by
their course to, in some manner. make
gains in the approaching party prImar-
les. This element is sending speakers
to meetings held to express sympathy
for the strikers all over the city, and II
no, counseliHg disorder 1t is at least
materially encouraging 1t.
Responsible for the Ehgies.
"These persons are responsible for the
many cfigIes of myself and the police
authorities dangling from poles and
trolley lines on many streets. 1t is as
atsult OF their movements that have
received many letters threatening my
Ike should continue to do my duty and
provide officers to keep the peace
u desire you to say further. that II,
as governor Of Missouri with all the
Iowcr vested in that office for the pur-
pos- can put an end to the abomIna-
Ole condition that prevails in st. Louis
i'al.I employevery lota Of that power"