The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-08-16
Plans to Stop Strike Rloting
Without the Mayors
Intervention.
ADJT. GENERAL IN CHARGE
Soldiers Camp on Stats House
Grounds Ready to QuelI
Disorder.

CoLUMBus. Aug. is.-Gov. Harmon has
assumed personal charge 81 the car
strike situation in Columbus.
To-day. without consulting any one. be
decided 90 put force Of 900 State troops
in tho Capitol yard and little after night
fall they wero encamped there. including
tho First Regiment OF Cincinnati. part OF
the Third Regiment Of Dayton and Troop
and Battery q Of Columbus.
When troops were here before the Gov
ernor allowed Mayor Marshall to direct
them through commanding Generals when
he saw At. Tonight the Governor 10 In
charge 81 tho troops and his Adjutant-
General gives the orders.
The troops were not placed for patrol
service. but were held In the State HOUSE
grounds. II remains Co he seen whether
this system will be effective in coping with
car distir Dances. inasmuch AZ the trouble
has been due 10 tho guerrilla warfare Of
stone throwers and men with guns who
hide in alleys and houses 20 attack cars
and make their getaway before the police
and deputy sheriffs can find them.
The plan is for the Governor to direct
the troops and the Mayor 90 handle his
police force. now much depleted 10y the
mutiny due to the order that the poIics
ride the cars as guards. In case the po.
ice and military reach a scene Of riotnE
together the soldiers are Ia he in authority.
Bankers and business men have raised
si2. 500 20 pay for special deputy sherins.
but the authorities have been practically
unable TO enlist deputies OF special police
officers.
The soldiers orders will be 20 shoot
and Co kin IL any resistance IL offered to
their authority. The soldiers are pr
vided with riot cartridges. sach of which
IL guaranteed To injure from ten 10 fiftaeu
perssns in a mob.
Gov Harmon TO day issued proclama-
ton calling on all citizens Ia rally to the
standard OF law and order and assist the
troops and local police force in putting
down riot and disorder. The Governor
declared that he believed the situation
had got beyond the local authorities. and
that IL devolved upon him as Governor
10 step in and use the states authority
IN preserving order. He takes entire
responsibility for calling the Troops back
10 Columbus when he issued the call
he made It plain that hs had done 80
without any request from Mayor Marshall
or any one else Connected with the city
administration
Tonight th. Mayor suggested 20 tho
Columbus Railway and Light Company
that because % the riotiug No effort b.
made 10 run cars Tonight The company
ignored the suggestion
4 = Coach. Of the Coach Detective
Agency has arrived Ia take charge 81 the
strik" breakers ia the absence of John p
Brady, the leader who fed after shooting
two women and child
Acting ON the sugRe--tion ~ Mayor
Marshall the Company began sending ~
cars early. ny v O'Clock all cars on the
Mount Vernon ard Leonard av.rue
Tires which penetrate the west and
northeast sectors Of tho city where
there has been considerable trouble
were in III. hairs Aside from store
throwing and shooting there WAS niIs
disturbance. tonight Arrests were few
Tn" city Council tonight appointed
o committee - propose to the car company
and tie union that the issues Of tho con
trover-y he laf - IN" council. sitting ~
board ~ arbitration There ~ little
likelihood that the company -1ill agrees
to this 40 Il has all aolng declared It's
opposition 10 the arbitration proposal
and also has rot been on friendly terms
with the council
Anticipating the possibility 81 efforts
60 wreck the five trans bringing the First
Regiment from Cincinnati the State an-
thorties tonight had two pilot engines
With details Of soldiers covering stretches
u baltimore and Ohio Railroad. track IN
the vicinity Of Manchester and Morgans
station. where there are trestles
II IL evident toni ht that there may h.
friction when the military authorizes
under Gov. Harmon and the police and
deputy sherifs under Mayor Marshall
meet to qiell rioting
The military officers arr planning 90
assume charge 81 things when they are
called out. To AN impari al observer IL
looks a. II the Governor has about made
up his mind to lift the management Of
the situation en,irely ont az Mayor
Marshalrs hands Predict ions are fr,.ely
made that in the event 81 serious trouble
the Governor will not hesitate 20 remove
the Mayor from Office. Under Ohio
laws he can suspend Mayors under a
variety Of charges.