The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-09-03

While the pacifsts were meeting.
and the governor making all efforts to
stop the meeting. Major Car
ter, commander of the central depart
nnent and Hinton G. Clabaugh. chief
of the bureau OF investigation. depart
rnsnt of Justice. conferred and as q
result 1t Is expected that the arrival OF
the troops would be signal for the
declaration of martial law for a part
OF Chicago at least.
For several hours Governor Lowden
sought to get In communication with
General Carter TO ask his cooperation
and the ordering out of some of the
companies OF troops to guard the halls
and drive the paci4sts out Being un-
able to do SO. he finally ordered Ad-
1utant C eneral Dickinson to entrain a
battalion of the Ninth infantry, a
newly raised and equipped national
guard regiment at Springfield. The
battalion left Springfield at o'clock
and arrived at o'clock tonight. The
troops detrained at the point nearest
tho West Side auditorium on the west
side.
The pacinsts held a secret meeting
at sac this morning IN a little hall
on the west side. The open meeting
was TO have been held in the even
ing II is believed however, that the
action of the governor in ordering out
troops was tipped off 10 the peace
advocates from Springfield. as it was
announced suddenly that the open
meeting would be held in the after-
noon, in order to c4rcumvent Governor
Lowden.
Former Senator Works and Con-
gresham Mason were the leaders at
the pacifsts' meeting. Seymour ,Stsd-s
man, chairman of the meeting, inter-
rupted one of the speakers to an
nounce what the governor had done.
S. Gioverman. city central commits
tee man of the Working Mans Circle.
leaped to his feet. shaking his nst IN
the air. and shouting
Not resist! Must we submit quietly
without resistance while our liberties
are being taken away from us? say
let as resist until the last drop OF our
blood has been shed. We can only
expec. to triumph through a revolu-
ton The revolution will free us II
Is the only way.
His speech started a riot of cheering.
Mean leaped upon their chairs and
shouted:
Revolt, Revolt Down with ths
government"
The meeting was called at a:45 and
at that time only about seventy-nve
persons were in the hall. About zoo
were present when Congressman Mason
arose TO speak.
Our president In answer to tha
popes peace proposal demanded that
! when the German people speak to this
country and ask for peace that peacs-
/ proposal then can be worked out said
, Mason. I'm the name of God and love
of Justice, Vhy don't he let the Ameri-
can people speak,
Several others spoke along the same
| lines Former Senator Works declared
| that he was a. the meeting to up-s
hold the constitution of the United
! States and defend free speech" The
! California ex-senator asserted the gov
| ernor should send troops to guasan-
/ tee the pacihsts free speech instead
| of trying to stop them
At the close of the meeting res0lu-
| tions were adopted thanking Mayer
Thompson and the police departments
: for the protection accorded in the
I "city of refuge" as Chicago was called.
/ The mayor told me not to interfere
/ with the pacifsts Ii they wanted -
i meet" explained Police Chief Herman
/ Schuettler to reporters today. Tbs
/ mayor remarked he didn't see Whist
i business Assistant Chief Westhfook
i had In breaking up the meeting Stature
4 day and told me to see that they wern
4 not interfered with again by anybody
I When asked what he would DO II
# higher authority would try to pre-
vent peach meetings. Schucttfer saj1:
Should q power higher than tho uo4
\ - m
i force will acquit itself In N hon3x@
) able manner and viii do KbsoIut6s4
nothips to discredit itssl&"