The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-06-20
JINCOES WERE OUT
FULLY TEN THOUSAND IN EVIDENCE
AT LONDON LAST NIGHT.
Gathered Outside Queens Hall, Where
Labouchere and Others Held
Pro-Boer Meeting.
MANY ALSO ON THE INSIDE
AND THEY AMUSED THEMSELVES BY
HOOTING THE SPEAKERS.
Pro-Boers Alleged to Have Had
"Gapgs" of '.Foreign Rufiians"
Hired to "keep Order"
TWO SETS OF RESOLUTIONS
JINGOEs OPPOSED TO AGITATION IN
BEHALF OF THE BOERS,
While the Inside Crowd Resolved in
Favor of Complete Independ-
ence of the Burghers.
Pro-Boers Alleged to Have Had
"Gapgs" of s.Foreign Rufiiansv
Hired to "Keep Order"
TWO SETS OF RESOLUTIONS
JINGOEs OPPOSED TO AGITATION IN
BEHALF OF THE BOERS,
While the Inside Crowd Resolved in
Favor of Complete Independ-
ence of the Burghers.

LONDON, June 19.-Thousands of people
began collecting outside Of Queens Hall
two hours before the advertised time of
the pro-Boer meeting held there tonight.
When the doors were finally opened the
pressure of the surging mob was so great
that many people tainted. There was con-
siderable disturbance and windows were
broken in during the attempts made by
persons without tickets TO gain admission.
Some of these were expelled.
In spite of the vigilance of the promoters
of the meeting, many jingoes gained an
entrance to the hall, which was crammed
from floor to ceiling. Much hooting,
mingled with cheers greeted the delegates
on their arrival, and during the evening
the deliverey of speeches was attended
with some difficulty from the same cause.
Henry Labouchere presided, and besides
]. w. Sauer (ex-commissioner OF public
works of Cape Colony, many prominent
pro-Boers, including John Dillon, leader
of the Nationalist party. David Lloyd
George CSVesh NationalisD, James Keir
Hardie (Socialist), and Sir Wilfrid Lawson,
were present.
During the meeting fully 10000 jingoes
gathered outside the Queens Hall, in Re-
gent street, blocked traffic and necessitated
relays of policemen to keep SemDlance
Of order in the crowd. Several mounted the
parapet of the Langham Hotel and, waV-
ing union jacks, proposed resolutions
against the pro-Boer agitation, which they
declared TO have been carried when the
meeting in Queens Hall terminated.
The usual speeches were made and the
usual resolutions were carried amid much
commotion. The resolution included an
amendment in favor of complete inde-
pendence of the Boer republics, proposed
by Baron Battersea, for the Radicals,
which did not meet with the approval OF
the Labouehere party. The The %raeIiail meeting ended
j. Y. Herman (ex-treasurer of Cape
Colony and now a representative OF the
Afrikander bund in Engand) wrote letter
to the promoters of the meeting apologize
ing for his absence.
Several collisions occurred between the
crowd outside the hall and the police. and
the latter had the greatest difficulty in
handling the assemblage No casualties
were reported.
The Daily Mail asserts that the pro-
moters of the Queens Hall meetings had
the service of coo or 700 'stalwarts' and
stewards. The gangs of foreign ruffians"
We're found inside i.s the hall & according oI to to
eject the maIcontents." The stalwarts"
were drawn from the low-class foreign
busters and the Daily Mail says they
acted with unrestricted violence in eXclud-
ing royalists and throwing out undesirable
persons.
All the Loyalist papers published edi-
torials protesting against the "effrontery"
of the Queens Hall meeting 1t is general
ly admitted that the 700 stewards were
cruited from among stalwart gas workers,
market porters, etc. The Standard declares
there Is excuse for these Queens Hall
rhetoricians and their kind From the lead
er of the opposition downward they are as
much the enemies of the country If they
were in the field against it, with rifles in
their hands"
The Chronicle says: "It was undoubtedly
a packed meeting. The stewards were
curiously recruited, well drilled, and suit
ably armed TO eject dissentients. But there
had been thiny yelled indictments TO row.
dyism on the part of the dissentients, and
in view of these and previous experiences
the promoters were not to be blamed for
packing the meeting, which, however,
served the useful purpose of letting the
cat out of the bag to the real policy
behind the movement, namely, 10 restore
independence TO the two republics"
Mr.. A. j. Balfour, first lord of the treas
ury, in a speech tonight at Conservative
banquet in London, made a strong protest
against the action of the Bannerman party
in countenancing the pro-Boer movement,
thereby prolonging the war and adding to
the already great difficulties and sufferings.
1T is a sea ndalous and shocking thing"
said Mr.. Balfour, that such men should,
before the whole world, accuse their fell
w-countrymen and soldiers of carrying
on war by barbarouS methods"