The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-06
MARTIAL Law
SOUNDS TERRIBLE
What Il Really is In Mining District
10 Far From Anything to Mako
tho Blood
TlnsIe.
CREEK FOLKS ENJOY IT
Original Proclamation Effected Only
Portion Of One County But the
Line May Be Ex-
tended.

CHARLESTON, W. Va, Sept. 81
That the territory under martial law
in the Kanawha coal field Is to be ex-
tended to include parts Of Boone and
Fayette counties, was the belief today
when orders were issued calling out
every militia company in the state.
The original proclamation suspend
ed the constitution only in portion
OF Kanawha county.
Governor Glasscock would not ad-
NIT that he purposed an extension Of
the martial law district, but 1t was
apparent that the serious situation
could not be haEaled safely unless a
larger section of the country around
Paint and Cabin creeks Is included.
Thirty prisoners were in the guard
house today awaiting trial before the
military commission. They are mine
guards and miners.
The sentencing of w. Y. Tucker,
mine guard, to one year in the peni-
tentiary late yesterday, indicated that
the military commission will inflict
serious punishment where any evil
dence is obtained.
| Tucker was charged with carrying
reyolvers and other weapons without
state license and impersonat.ng an
officer while nonresident of the
state. Tucker was imported by a
detective agency to help break the
/ strike
4 He admitted having killed man
In Jonesville, Va, before coming to
i the West Virginia district, but said
| that the killing was in self defense.
Forty-one mine guards, non-resi-
dents of the district, have obeyed the
order of the military authorities by
leaving the strike territory.
/ What Martial Law Is.
i CHARLESTON, W. Va, Sept g.
4 The Kanawha river divides the gov
ernment of the United States from
the benevolent military satrapies OF
4 Cabin Creek and Paint Greek, fifteen
:. miles from Charleston, both Of which
/ are in West Virginia, but at present
it's the only territory within the Uni
ted States where the constitution does
not wave.
4 BY decree of Governor Glasscock
the creek country Is in state OF
war; until civil law, destroyed by the
anarchy of the mine guards, is re
constructed, martial law-the laws OF
war-will prevail Martial law sounds
rom sntically terrifying. It's roman
tic, but not terrifying.
1t is even fun. The creek folks en-
Joy it. In the coal creek country II
is blessed as deliverance. 1t has
banished the mine guard and his
automatic revolver; it has taken from
the hands of the coal barons severa
machine guns, with which the baront
had planned to bust the strike-ma
chine guns that could shoot lead witt
: the cumulative effect of hail storm
1t is fun-this martial law-liks
; grandma's hoopskirt dress, like great
great-great- great -grandpa's steel riyec
ed suit of armor and other antiqui
ties. It's a free trip into the morn
ing of Anglo Saxon civilization, wa.
back before the days of King John
who was the father of habeas corpus
the right to which Is one CT thu
things you lose the moment you stel
out of the United States into thu
state of war"
Immediately as you leave the skif
that carries you across the kanawhi
YOU are stripped of all your constitu
tional guarantees, your revolver ant
the bottle of whiskey, If you hav
= any.
The constitutional rights you lose
YOU walk into the benevolent an
!, even gentle military despotism an
which four thousand driven men o
the mines have gladly sacrificed ten
j. porarily are:
! The right OF free speech.
!. The right OF assembly.
! The right of trial by jury.
/. The right to carry arms.
The right of habeas corpus.
! That's martial law.
) You are ferried across the Kama
= wha. an American citizen. and, pres
!, TO. you're nothing. You can't max
: a speech though your soul may b
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