The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-01-21
Public Sentiment Reacts Against the
RecrudeScent Mob Spirit as
Seen Sunday Night.
DEBS TO STRIKE sYMPATHIzERs
HE COUNSELS ORDER AND THE USE
OF Peaceful METHODS.
Argues for the Principles of His So
cial DemOcracy-Restive Spirit Is
Noticeable at Brazil.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Jan. pa rain
and snowstorm which came over the city
this evening would have prevented a mob
forming such as last night destroyed
street-car property, even if there had not
been a general reaction of sentiment during
the day that almost precluded a like out
break To make sure that there would be
repetition of last nights events the
management of the street-railway company
took off the streets the few cars that had
been running.
The mass meeting at the courthouse filled
both big courtrooms with enthusiastic SYM
pathizers with the movement against the
company. The crowd was especially at
tracted by the announcement that Gene
Debs would tell the labor side of the strug-
GLE which he said was not given to the
public in the local newspapers. While he
addressed the audience in one courtroom
c. O. Pratt, of the national committee of
the Amalgamated Association of Street
railway Employees, spoke to the people in
the other room, and later they exchanged
places. Debs. described graphically the in
terview with Motorman Tubbs, which Man
ager Clark has alluded to as the occasion
for the discharge of this man, which action
was the preliminary occasion for the strike.
Debs called particular attention to the fact
that Mr.. Clark had never told the public
how Tubbs insulted him. and then narrated
the conversation between the two, alleging
that it was Clark who insulted Tubbs by
offering him a bribe to serve as an ennis
sary of the company among his fellow
Il, .,,1,- .t,o
charge that Tubbs was insulting was in his
remark to Clark that he could not be
bribed.
Debs said the strike must be and would
be won on the line Of peace and order. and
by boycotting the cars and those who rode
on them The workingmen of Terre Haute
must not make trouble for the company
by riotous conduct, but could make more
trouble by being peaceable. He exoner-
ated the strikers of the charge of partici-
patton in last nights rioting. He chal-
lenged Manager Clark to discuss with him
before the people of Terre Haute the issues
involved in the strike.
Part Of Mr.. Debss time was devoted TO
his doctrine of socialism, which, he said.
in the end must be resorted TO by working
men: that strikes at best are not good and
should be ordered only when necessity
forces the men into them
Mr. Pratt made the statement at one of
the meetings that when w. r. McKeen.
who is president of the company, was
called upon by committee he said that If
he were manager and not president the
Tubbs matter would be quickly settled.
The capital stock Of the company is held
in Boston. and Mr.. McKeen is only for
mally at the head of the company.
There was no sign or trouble about the
street railway system during the day. The
company had q number OF cars running, but
they were little used. 1t was under
stood during the day that the company
would post a notice giving the men a def
mite time. in which they could return TO
work and If they did not comply their
places would be filled with imported men
While no one had any particular informa-
ton on the subject II was a common re-
mark that there would be more violence
when the attempt should be made 10 per-
nanently fill the places of the motormen
and conductors who are in the anomalous
position or having a strike declared for