The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-05-03
GROVER ON
CAR STRIKE
Delivers Interesting Lecture on
"The Government in the
Chicago Strike OF 1894.
BEFORE PRINCETO STUDENTS
Ex-President Creates Profound
Impression and Receives
Hearty Cheers.

j
Hearty Cheers,
(By Associated Press)
PRIMO EroN, N. j., May 2.-Before
one of the largest audiences ever as
eembled in Alexander Hall former Pres
ldent Grover Cleveland delivered tne
Stafford Little lecture tonight on the
Government in the Chicago sMike "l
1894"
MIR. Cleveland was greeted with en-
thusihstic applause when PRESIDENT
Woodrow wilson introduced him. saying,
.Mr. Cleveland stands to-day as the
most nromnent man in the Tilted states
and needs no introduction especially TO
4 Princeton audience.
Evoy- word Of the lecture was follow
\, cd with the closest attention. ana NJ
@dts conclusion the Princeton students rose
and gave d hearty locomotive cheer
4 for lecturer.
Chicago Strikes.
Mr. clcveand's subject wass "'rhe Govern
n,ent in the chicago strikes les h,,ooy referring
& to sonis Of the serious problems which iaSea
n his administration during the year lssa, .he en-
part as follows:
in the last days Of June 1884, very deter oa,
in i,'' the city Of Chicago. Amost IN a night i
grew to full proportions OF naleyoie y, ~ wv
anssr R0tns and nrsad so sy hd
within n few days 4 had reached neartN me
entire Western nG sfo0 weps
especially involved in Its attacks. The car
riage of United States mai was interrnp ,,,1i
Interstate commerce was obstructcd, ana rail-
road properly was rlotousy destroyed, Attor-
ney-General Oney in his official report correct
~ defined the purpose and design of TINS out,
break in these words To compel n settlement
OF disputes between the Pullman Company and
reiitated or aimed at than a complete stop
page of all the railroad transportation OF the
country State and Interstate. and freight as
well as passenger. '84A @4t sMssI
Pullman Strike of 1894.
The sb bsa rs in strike BY
ployes of the Pullman Palace Car Company,
which bsEsn on che I'm gay q Pay 49, ai he
cause Of the pullman strikers was lak toi up w
by the American Railway Union. Members ,. s,,, q
Pullman cars or trains bearing them, AT thnt
time three fourths OF the railroad mileage or
the country was under contract " use W.
"The same railroad companies which had con
tracted to use these Pullman cars upon their
lines said Mr. Cleveland, mad eontra e.
with the United States government for the
carriage of mails and wsre Of s1sr aie It
need hardly be said that of necessity, the
trains on which the mails We're carried and
1nerce were, as a general rule. those to which
the Pullman cars We're Also attached. ,,,s~
The officers of the railway union establish,
ed Headquarters in the city of Chicago, md
from there gave directions for the maintenance
and management of the strike. Reports SOON
4 came from various quarters that the mai,
We're completely oostructed trains We're seized
mtted. Thereupon# the Attorney General mme-
diately sent q dispqttl, 70 the United states e
that the passage OF regular trains carrying
United States mails in the usual and ordinary
way be not obstructed.
Mails Interfered With.
Wherever there was interference with b., The he
States courts were appealed to for relief. In
4 Chicago the United States marshal was NJ.
thorzed 10 employ special deputies and SPECIAL
counsel for the government, In a letter to
this special counsel the Attorney General in
making suggestions concerning legal proceed,
rights of the United States were vigorously
asserted in Chicago the origin and center OF
the demonstration the result would he to
make 1t n failure everywhere else, and 10 pre-
vent It's spread over the entire country and
be advisable. instead of relying entirely upon
warrants, issued upon criminal statutes
OF obstrntttnG United States mails, that the
courts should be asked to grant intunctiors
which would restrain ana prevent any attempt
TO commit such oitcnse.' a3f }
Mr., Cleveland then described the repeated.
Court injunctions ana the use Of deputy mar
shas 90 prevent riots and the obstruction or
{ commerce ana mails, 81
The desperate and far-reaching character Of
this disturbance sSls not IN the least undercs-
tmated by exeGutIys offielals at Washington"
Mr. Cleveland said, and it must be borne. In
mind. that while menaclng conditions were inny-
ing swiftly and accumuatng at Chicago, like
conditions inspired and supported from that
central point existed in many other places
within the area Of the strikes contagion
Courts Play a Part.
"of course /, WAS hoped BY those charged
win the responsibility of dealing With the sit
uation that q direct assertion of authority
by the marshal or resort TO the restraining
the emergency. Notwithstanding, however,, an
anxious desire to avoid measures more radica..
The fact had not been overlooked that a contn-
sort to military force The ke' 10. dispatches
10 the Federal officers at Chicago from the
Attorney-General may be found in the self
overcome resistance 10 the exercise OF dts
legitimate and constitutional functions as re-
lion OF Interstate commerce and the preserva.
lion of the property of the United States, and
in certain constitutional and statutory Tro-
Visions. II was the intention OF tho Attorney
General to suggest in these dispatches that
immediate and authoritative information should
he given 70 the Washington authorities Il
lime should arrive when, under the sanction
of general executive authority, or the cansri-
iutional provisions, a military force would DO
necessary ut the scene of disturbance,
Federal Troops Used
THE strike situation grew rapidly worse.
riollng eliminated IN the formal reques, of
The United Slater marshal, supported by tho
Federal troops This request way al once
met by orderl to the War Department, and
soldiers from For, Sheridan We're soon on the
OF this procedure concluded ms follows
. The mere preservation Of peace and good
the city and State authorities
IAN executive proclamation issued by tho