The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-03
CLEVELAND SPEAKS ON
 CHICAGO STRIKE RIOTS
STRONGLY SUSTAINS THE FED-
 ERAL INTERFERENCE.

Correspondence Between the President
 and Governor AltgeId-Attitude of
 the Latter-Action of United States
 Circuit Court in Imprisoning Debs
 and His Associates Defended--Way
 Marked Out and UnchangeabIy Estal,-
 Iished for Guidance of Nation.
 Princeton. N. J.; May 2-Before one of the largest audiences ever assembled in Alexander hall former President Grover Cleveland delivered the staf- ford-Little lecture tonight on .oThe Government in the Chicago Strikes of 1S94.s
 MT. Cleveland was greeted with en- thusiastic applause when President Woodrow Wilson introduced him say ing: sMr. Cleveland stands to-day as the most prominent man in the United States and needs no introduction. es- Decially to Princeton audience"
 Mir. Cleveland strongly sustained the right of federal interference.
 In concluding his explanation of the events leading up to the accomplish- ment of all the purposes of the govern ment's interference MT. Cleveland said:
 T hope I have been thus far success f,,I ,, ,,,xx <ffo,.+ t 60 <xl,;1,t the extensive reach and perilous ten dency of the convulsion under consid- eration, the careful promptness which characterized the interference of the government and the constant desire of the national administration to avoid extreme measures"
 Then followed most interesting part of the address. the reading of the cor respondence which passed between President Cleveland and Governor John F. Altgeld of Illinois. Of him MT. Cleveland: This official not only re- fused to regard the riotous disturb ances within the borders of his state as sufficient cause for an application to the federal government for it's pro- lection against domestic violence un- der the mandate of the constitution, but actually protested against the presence of federal troops sent into the state upon the general governments i'm itiative and for the purpose of defends ling itself in the clearly defined exer- cises of it's legitimate functions The discussion following was illunin- ating of the whole question of states rights and federal supremacy, conclud- ing with this dispatch from MT. Cleve- land:
 While I am still persuaded that I have neither transcended my authority nor duty in the emergency that con- Fronts us. it seems to me that in this hour of danger and public distress. dis Sorts on the part of all in authority to restore obedience to law and to protect life and property
 This" said Mr. Cleveland closed a discussion which in its net result dem onstrated how far ones disposition and inclination will lead him astray in the field of argument"
 In closing MT. Cleveland concluded with brief reference to the legal pro- ceedings which grew out of the dis turbance, and finally led to the adju- dication by the highest court in our land establishing in an absolutely au- thoritative manner and for all time, the power of the national government to protect itself in the exercise of it's functions"
 In sustaining the action of the United States circuit court which ordered the imprisonment of Debs and his asso- ciate officers of the A. R. U. for diso-
 beying it's injunctions Mir. Cleveland said: 'The supreme court of the Unit ed States has written the concluding words of this history, tragical in many of it's details, and in every page provok- l ing sober reflection. Nevertheless, even those most nearly related by ex- ecutive responsibility to the troublous days whose story is told, may at this time congratulate themselves that they I have had to do with making out the
 way and clearing the part, now un- l changeably established, that shall
 hereafter guide our nation safely and
 surely in the exercise of all the func~ tions belonging to it which represent
 the peoples trust.''
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