The Washington times., 1901-09-08
NEW YORK ANARCHISTS QUIET.
no Arrests Expected. md the Police
Not EspcciaIIy Active.

|
Not Especially Active.
| NEW YORK. Sept 7-Police Commits
| sioner Murphy. when asked this morning
| whether the New York police. as the Chi
caso police are doing, expected to make
al arrest of Anarchists. said that the New
York police would probably confne them
selves to keeping Anarchists under sur
veillance, as in, the past. After expressing
| his indignation at the attempt on the
Presidents life, he said:
Socialists and Anarchists are two
| classes of people. They should be treated
differently. The Socialists have among
them some of the greatest minds of the
country. The Anarchists have among
| them the revolutionary outcasts of all the
nations of Europe They are not Ameri-
cans, and If an uprising should take place
here the community may rest assured
that the police will take care of 1t IN a
quick. decisive and emphatic way If any
attempt at open violence is made in New
York there won't be two orders given to
the police. The patrolmen will not wait
for a second order. but will go in and en-
force the laws to the fullest extent, and
there won't be any occasion to cali out
the militia"
The Commissioner was told that ii was
reported from Chicago and other large
cities of the country that arrests CT An
archists were being made, and he was
asked if he had issued any orders This
morning or intended to issue an order
looking for such action on the part of
the police of this city. He replied:
Conditions are different in New York
from the conditions in some of the large
cities in the country. The police OF New
York have always held the Anarchists in
determined way. We have had no out
breaks by the Anarchists in New York
City. and they are not at all active here.
There are number of them, it is true, in
this city, but they have confined them
selves to making speeches. and those
speeches have been of late years of very
mild character. We don't apprehend any
trouble from Anarchists in New York.
Captain Titus, of the detective bureau.
said he did not believe there was any New
York end to the anarchistic plot against
the President He said from all infor
nation he has received from the police
at Buffalo. the gang to which the assas-
sin belongs has been working in the West.
Sergeant Grady, of the detective bureau,
said that the Anarchists from New York
had not held any meetings lately in this
city. About two months ago the police
broke up an attempted meeting. He said
that Emma Goldman has not been here
for several months. She attempted to
address a meeting here, the police got
after her, and she went West. and the
last heard of her was in Toledo. Grady
said that it is popularity supposed that
there are about 1900 Anarchists In New
York but that most of these are rabid
Socialists He does not think that there
are more than 200 Anarchists in New
York. and the average New York Anar-
chst is rabid only when he is full of beer.
His bravery, Grady says, wanes when he
becomes sober.
Detective Sergeant Funston, who. with
Detective Sergeant F'oy, has been the
Presidents bodyguard whenever he has
been in this city during the last four
years, was at police headquarters early
this morning. He was asked If the Pres
ident had ever shown any anxiety for his
welfare while on any of his trips here. and
said that he did not. but rather ridiculed
the idea of danger, and simply accepted
the attentions of the police as matter of
course.
Funston said he did not think there had
ever been any attempts on the Presidents
life while here. but that many people had
tried to see him at the hotels who had the
appearance Of eIarks. About year and
a half ago. white crossing the Pennsyl-
vania ferry to New York. Funston said.
the only real attempt, as he thought. to
do the President harm took place The
President was in a closed carriage. and a
tall man, not answering the present
would-be assassin's description, came to
the door. According to the detective, the
man feigned intoxication. and attempted
to open the door of the carriage. He was
moved away. but when the detectives
back vas turned. came back again. and
succeeded in opening the door. The sec
ond time he was thrown away, and after
ward was closely watched, but as no
charge could be made against him he was
not arrested.
Emma Goldman. whose writings are said
to have been the inspiration of Niemann
or CZolgosz, is probably the most notori-
Gus Of the Anarchists in this city, .nd the
most active woman in Anarchist circles
however, that she has written on the sub
ject, and she has been regarded as a fiery
talker and agitator more than as a
thinker of even superficial ability. on
several occasions meetings which she ad-
dressed have been stopped by the police,
her style of oratory quickly leading to
disorder.
She often speaks in more than one Ian
Euage in the course of her harangues,
gesticulating violently. and always tend
ing toward incendiary utterances even at
meetings supposed to be confined to the
discussion of some East Side strike or
other comparatively innocent matter.
who have brains even if warped, regard
her as particularly irritating nuisance.
Within the last few months and since
the assassination of King Humbert of
Italy by one of the Paterson, n. j., group
of Anarchists, the Goldman woman has
has done any writing at all 1t has been
for small anarchiStic publications.