Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-03
MAYOR OF CHICAGO
DEF|ES ORDERS OF
GOVERNOR LOWDEN
Furnishes Police Protection
for Public Meeting
of Pacifists.
STATE EXECUTIVE SENDS
TROOPS TO PREVENT IT
Guardsmen, Rushed From Capt.
tai, Arrive After Delegates
Have Adjourned.
ORGANIZATION PERFECTED
Conscription and Sending OF Troops
to France Denounced by
Speakers.
ORGANIZATION PERFECTED. D.
Conscription and Sending OF Troops
to France Denounced by
Speakers.
tBy Associa ted I'rc-s.l

CHICAGO. September 2.-After be-
ing driven from three States. the Per-
pies Council OF America for Democracy
and Terms Of Peace perfected formal
Organization at public meeting In
Chicago to-day.
The session was held under pro-
lection of the police. acting on orders
from Mayor william Hale Thompson.
which were in defiance of Governor
Frank c. Lowden. Four companies of
national guardsmen. rushed from the
the state capital on a special train
to prevent tho meeting. arrived after
1t had adjourned. it's purpose accom-
plIshed.
The clash in authority between Mayor
Thompson and Governor Lowden came
as tho result of the action of the po-
lA,e In breaking up the pacifists yester-
day on orders from the Governor. When
the Mayor. who was at his summer
home. at Lake Forest. heard of II, he
declared that the Governor had cx-
ceeded 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. imme-
diate preparations were made to hold
the meeting. which had been prevented
in Minnesota. North Dakota and Wis
consin. and had been forbidden as un-
patriotic and disloyal by the Governor
of Illinois.
PATROLMES oS, GUARD
TO SUPPRESS DISORDER
The delegates gathered shortly after
noon at the West Side Auditorium. in
the heart OF a cosmopolitan quarter.
Patrolmen were on guard inside and
outside the building TO Suppress any
disorder. Nearby streets were utter
ly deserted AZ the delegates took their
places, and were called to order by Sey-
mour Stedman. former Socialist can
didate 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 Ad-
Jutant-General Dickson. of Illinois. into
conference. 1t was found that az most
of the Illinois national guardsmen had
been federalzed. the Governor had no
troops at his disposal in the Chicago
district. An effort was made to reach
Major-General Carter. commander of
the Central Department to obtain his
permission to use Federal troops. but
he could not be found in time.
= AS Governor Lowden considered i'm
mediate action necessary, four COM
panies Of the Ninth Regiment OF tho
Illinois National Guard. who had not
been federalized. were assembled at
Springfield and started for Chicago.
Adjutant-General Dickson, who accom-
panied the troops. had orders to break
up the meeting at once on his arrival
in Chicago. despite the action OF the
police and Mayor.
NATIONAL EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE APPOINTED
The pacifists appointed a national
executive committee. as follows:
Seymour Stedman. of Chicago; j. D.
Works. former United States Senator,
of Los Angeles; James II. Maurer, of
Pittsburgh, member of the Pennsyl-
vania Legislature; Professor Scott
Nearing, Of Toledo; Jacob p. Anken, of
New York: Morris Hillquitt. New
York; Professor H. w. l.. Dana. CO.
lumbia University; NJ. A. Toohy, of To-
ledo; Mrs. w. l. Thomas. of Chicago,
national secretary of the woman's
Peace Party: George Roewen. Of Bos-
ton; Frank Stevens, OF Arden. Del
Leila Faye Secor. Of New York; Re-
becca. Shelly. of New York; Elizabeth
Freeman. OF New York, and DR.. H w.
Watz. Of Cleveland, Ohio.
Later committees were appointed on
American liberties. economic condi.
tions, revolutions and peace terms.
Rabbi j. l.. Magnes. of New York,
then delivered an address, in which he
said:
Through free discussion the people
might. while helping democracy
throughout the world. develop rather
than restrict our democracy here at
home. Is 1t worthy of democracy
that citizens holding divergent views
be driven from place to place to find
opportunity for discussion?'
MORE MISERY THAN AT ANY
~ TIME SINCE BUNKER HILL
Z W. E. Mason, Congressman at large
from Illinois. the next speaker. de-
clared there was more misery in the
country to-day than at any time since
Bunker Hill. "But no worse thing ever
happened In the history OF the United
States" ne said. than is happening
now; whom people like you are branded
as criminals and denied the right Of
FREQ assembly"
He also declared that the only peo-
pie who welcomed the war were the
bankers and editors, and denounced
conscription and the sending Of troops
to France.
Former Senator Works. of Los
Angeles. said.
,. ..T.have never seen the time whom the
b TsI1 Continued zon Second Pase.9 go;
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