Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-09-06
COUNCIL
OEF|ES GOVERNOR
Illinois Executive Rushes State
Troops to Stop Con.
ventiOn.
MAYOR BALKS GOVERNOR.
Convention Hurriedly Assemblies under
Police Guard Sent By Chicaso's
MAYOR BALKS GOVERNOR.

Chicago. Sept. 2.-After being driven
from three States, the peoples council
of America for democracy and terms of
peace. perfected formal organisation at
a public meeting in Chicago to-day.
The session was held under protection
of the police acting on orders from Mayor
William Hale Thompson, which were in
defiance of Gov. Frank o. Lowden. Four
companies of national guardsmen rushed
from the State capital on a special train
to prevent the meeting arrived after it
had adjourned, its purpose accomplished.
The clash in authority between Mayor
Thompson and Governor Lowden came
as the resout of the action Of the police
in breaking UP the pacifist meeting yes
terday on orders from the Governor.
When the mayor. who was at his summer
home at Lake Forest, heard of 1t. he de-
clared that the Governor had exceeded
his authority and Immediately instructed
Chief of Police Schuettler to permit the
meeting and to give the delegates every
protection.
When the pacifists heard of the mayors
action this morning immediate prepara-
tons were made to hold the meeting
which had been prevented in Minnesota,
North Dakota and Wisconsin and had
been forbidden as unpatriotic and disloyal
by the Governor of Illinois.
MEETS AT CHICAGO.
Assured Of the protection Of the police,
the delegates gathered shortly after noon
at the West Side Auditorium in the heart
Of a cosmopolitan quarter. A score Of
patrolmen were on guard inside and out
side the building and fifty more were held
nearby to suppress any disorder. Nearby
streets were utterly deserted as the dele
gates took their places and were called to
order by Seymour Stedman, former socialist
candidate for governor of Illinois, as tenn
porary chairman.
In the meantime Governor Lowden had
been notified of the defiance of his orders
! and Immediately called Adjutant- General
Dickson of Illinois into conference. 1t was
| found that as most of the Illinois Ma
| tional Guardsmen had been federalized
the Governor had no troops at his dis
posal in the Chicago district.
AS Governor Lowden considered imme-
date action necessary. four companies OF
the Ninth regiment of the Illinois National
Guard who had not been federalized were
assembled at Springfield and started fol
Chicago on a special train at 1858 O'Clock
with orders to make the run in four hours
Acknowledgement Dickson, who accom-
panied the troops. had ordered to breal
up the meeting at once on his arrival II
Chicago despite the action of the police
and mayor.
CHOOSE NATIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Pacifists appointed national execu
tive committee as follows:
Seymour Stedman of Chicago: ]. d
Works. former United States senator o
Los Angeles; James H. Maurer. Reading
Pa, member Of the Pennsylvania Legis
,lature; Professor Scott Nearing of To
lledo; Jacob Panken of New York: Morris
Hillquit of New York; Prof. H. w. L
Dana, Columbia University; M. A. Too
hey, Toledo; Mrs. w. I. Thomas of Chi
cago, national secretary of the Woman
Peace party; George Roewen of Boston
Frank Stevens of Arden. Del. Leila Fay
Secor of New York: Rebecca Shelley o
New York; Elizabeth Freeman Of New
York. and DIR. II. w. Walz of Cleveland
Later committees were appointed oil
American liberties, economic conditions
revolutions and peace terms.
w. E. Mason. congressman -at-large fror
Illinois, the next speaker declared Their
was more misery in the country to-da
than at any time since Bunker Hill. "Bu
no worse thing ever happened in the his
tory of the United States" he said. ''tha
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