Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-09-03
Pro-German Peoples Peace
Council Meets in Windy
City Under Protection of
William Hale Thompson.
TROOPS RUSHED FROM
CAPITAL TOO LATE
Executive Committee Is Ap-
pointed of Which Former
Senators J. D. Works and
Scott Nearing Are Members

tsT MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wIRrl
chicago, Sept. 2.--After being driv-
en- from three states the Peoples
council of America for Democracy
and Terms of Peace perfected formal
organization at a public meeting in
Chicago today.
The session was held under protec-
tion of the police acting under orders
from Mayor William Hale Thompson
which were in defiance of Governor
II. .. Lowden. Four companies of
national guardsmen, rushed from the
state capital on special train to
prevent the meeting, arrived after it
adjourned, its purpose accomplished
The clash IN authority between Mayor
Thompson and Governor Lowden came
as the result of an action of the police
IN breaking up the pacifists' meeting
yesterday on orders from the governor.
When the mayor, who was at his sum-
mer home at Lake Forest, heard of this
he declared that the governor had ex-
ceeded his authority and Immediately
instructed Chief of Police Schuettler
to permit the meeting and to give the
delegates every protection.
Pacifists Act Quickly.
When the pacfsts heard of the
mayors action immediate preparations
were made to hold the meeting which
had been prevented in Minnesota
North Dakota and Wisconsin and had
been forbidden as unpatriotic and dis
loyal by the governor of Illinois.
Assured of the protection of the po-
lice the delegates gathered shortly !
after noon at the West Side auditor
ium in the heart of a cosmopolitan
quarter A score of patrolmen were
on guard inside and outside of the
building and fifty more were held near
by to suppress any disorder. Nearby
streets were utterly deserted as the
delegates took their places and were
called to order by Seymour Stedman,
former socialist candidate for govern
or of Illinois as temporary chairman.
In the meantime Governor Ilowden
had been notified of the defiance of
his orders and Immediately called Ad-
jutant General Dickson of Illinois into
conference.
Guards Rush to Chicago.
As Governor Lowden considered i'm
action necessary, four COM
panies of the Ninth regiment of the
Illinois national guard who had not
been federalized were assembled at
Springfield and started for Chicago on
a special train with orders to make
the run in four hours. Adjutant Gen.
eral Dickson, who accompanied the
troops, had orders to break up the
meeting at once on his arrival in Chit /
cago, despite the action Of the police 1
and mayor.
With the soldiers rushing toward ,
Chicago to prevent their meeting, the [
pacifists We're called to order and a [
national and executive committee ap- |
pointed as follows:
Names Executive Committee. t
Seymour Stedman, of Chicago; J. D. I
Works, former United States senator I
Of Los Angeles; James H. Maurer, of q
member of the Pennsyl- 1
iania legislature; Professor Scott S
Nearing, OF Toledo; Jacob Panken, of
New York; Morris Hillquitt, of New t
York; Prof. H. w. L. LANA, Columbia t
University; M. A. Toohy, of Toledo: t
lrs. W. l. Thomas, of Chicago, ma '
ional secretary Of the Woman's t
'eace party George Roewen, of Bos- t
on; Frank Stevens, Arden, Delaware;
ELLA Fay Secor, of New York; Rebec-
a Shelly, of New York; Eliza beth a
freeman. OF New York, and Dr. II. w. 0
Waltz, of Cleveland. a
Rabbi Magnes Speaks. p
f.1tt tfaa | Il
american liberties, economic condi- fl
ions, revolutions and peace terms u
'abbi ]. l.. Magnes of New York then c.
elivered an address in which he
aid: o.
Through free discussion the C,
lmerican people might while helping p
emocracy throughout the world de- fl
elop rather than restrict our democ- "
acy here at home. Is it worthy of a st
emocracy that citizens holding di- II
ergent views be driven from place to b,
lace to find opportunity for discus in
on?" 81