The Southern indicator. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1903-1925, 1914-05-02
u. S. SOLDIERS ARE
SENT TO COLORADO
PRESIDENT COMPLIES WITH GOV.
ERNOR's REQUEST FOR AID
IN STRIKE DISTRICT.
" TO PRESERVE ORDER"
Wilson Emphasizes That the Govern.
ment Has Nothing to Do With
"Controversy."

Washington.-President Wilson ex-
tended the protecting arm of the Fed
eral Government to the state of Colo.
rado, where because of riots and
pitched battles between striking mill
ers, Governor Ammons had found the
state militia unable to cope with the
situation and asked for help. The
Colorado delegation in Congress, mine
owners and miners themselves Joined
In the request.
1t was one of the rare occurrences
in American history when state
found itself impotent to assert it's au-
thority. but the President, in a tele-
gram to the Colorado Governor, ex-
pressly stipulated that the Federal
troops would confine themselves to
maintaining order only until the
state can re-assert its authority and
resume the enforcement thereof"
The President issued prociama-
ton ordering all persons engaged in
domestic violence to disperse and IRE
tire peaceably to their sbodes." Sec
retary Garrison after a conference
with the President, ordered three
troops of the Fifth Cavalry from Fort
Leavenworth and two troops of the
Twelfth Cavalry from Fort D. A. Rus
sell. Wyoming. to Trinidad, and Can
on City, respectively.
The proclamation read:
BY the President Of the United
States Of America:
a Procfamation:
t.
Constitution OF the United States that
the United States shall protect every
state in this union, on application of
the Legislature or Of the Executive
(when the Legislature cannot be con-
vened) against domestic violence;
And, whereas, the Governor of the
state of Colorado has represented that
domestic violence exists in said state,
which the authorities of said state are
unable to suppress; and has repres-
ented that it is impossible to convene
the Legislature Of this state in time
to meet the present emergency;
And. Whereas. the laws Of the Uni
ted States require that in all cases OF
insurrenction in any state or OF OBJ
struction to the laws theerof, when.
ever in the Judgment of the Presi
dent 1T becomes necessary to use the
military forces to suppress sucn in
surrection or obstruction to the laws
he shall forthwith, by proclamation
commend such insurgents to disperse
and retire peaceably to their respec
tive abodes within limited time:
"Now. therefore, I, Woodrow vii
son, President Of the United States
do hereby admonish all good citizens
Of the United States, and all persons
within the territory and Jurisdiction
OF the United States against aiding
countenancing. abetting or taking part
in such unlawful proceedings; and
do hereby warn all persons engaged
in, or connected with, said disturb
ance and obstruction of the laws tt
disperse and retire peaceably to theil
respective abodes on or before the
thirtieth day Of April, instant.
"1n testimony whereof, have here
unto set my hand and caused the sea
of the United States to he fixed.
Done at this city of Washington
this twenty-eighth day of April, II
the year of Our Lord Nineteen Hun
dred and Fourteen, and of the indie
pendence of the United States O.
America the one hundred and thirty
eighth.
(Signed) WOODROW WILSON.
"By the President:
william J. Bryan, Secretary of State.
Steamer Ashore Off NJ. c. Coast.