The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-05
MAYOR IS INDIGNANT.
Chief Magistrate of McKeespOrt
Resents Action Of Sheriff.

Pittsburg, Sept 5.-McKeesport was
thrown into a state of CONSERVATION by
arrival of the force of deputies COM
manded by Sheriff Mckinley asked for
by the officials of the American Tin
Plate company. At the first fntimatiOn
that such a course would be pursued
Mayor r. ]. Black held a conference
over the telephone with the sheriff. La
ter he went to Pittsburg, and on his
return he was boiling over with indig
nation. He denounced the action OF
Sheriff Mckinley in the bitterest terms
Chief Of Police Patrick J. Morrissey
volunteered to land every deputy at the
police station If the mayor would only
give the word, but the mayor cautioned
him that such action would transcend
his powers. The mayor gave out a
signed statement shortly after the ar
rival of the deputies in which he says:
In view OF the fact that Sheriff VIM
c. Mckinley, who under the statutes Of
the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is
the paramount peace officer of Al
legheny county, has seen fit, in the dis
charge of what he mistakenly conceives
to be his duty, to send deputy sherifs
in that portion of the city of McKees-
port occupied by the Demmler tin mills,
it becomes incumbent upon me to pro-
test against such action Probably there
is no more peaceful spot on earth than
that enclosed within our limits. There is
no disorder here. There is no menace
Of disorder here.
1T was at such a time and at the
rounding out of SO highly creditable
record as this that Sheriff Mckinley
gathered together some hungry and I'M
employed heelers, many Of them men of
bad records and more questionable char
acter and hurried them into the city.
This little handful of men, armed with
stitute a vastly greater menace to the
peace and good order Of McKeesport
than the more than IL full regiments Of
lawabiding citizens who are now on
strike here.
'-The insult to the city Of NTcKeesport
is as wanton and impolitic as it was i'll
advised. 1 know personally nearly all
of the men who are here on strike.
know them to be good citizens indus
triOuS, sober. peaceful and lava biding.
I was not consulted by the sheriff
of Allegheny county in this matter of
encamping deputy sheriffs within our
municipal boundaries Sheriff Mckinley
deemed it W1Sest to commit the dis
courtesy of ignoring the high official in
the city. and excuses his course upon
the ground that he had been informed
by certain trust officials that the des-
truction Of the Demmler tin mills was
imminent and the property in dire dan
ger every moment the presence of suca
deputies was delayed This informa-
LACIls NlQGNGA It's may nave DGCAAs
is absolutely false and as malicious as
it is untrue.
Il reiterate my ability. unaided by
the county authorities. TO prevent law
lessness, whether Affecting the prop
erty of individuals or the U. S. Steel
corporation 1 have sworn in special
officers of the law from among the bus
mess men of the city, not from the
ranks of the strikers. I have taken ev-
cry reasonable precaution against out
break, though violence was never i'm
minent.
Il now call upon the striking work
ingmen of MckeespOrt to give the lie
to the alleged necessity for the presence
of these deputies Stay away from the
Demmler mills ard let the officials fight
their battle for resumption with incoIn-
petent assistance Ignore their stealthy
operations and remain quietly about