The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-09-05
PAC|F|STS ORGANIZE
AT CHICAGO SUNDAY
Mayor Thompson Gives Police Pro-
lection for Meetings of Peoples
Council of Democracy.
ORDERS TROOPS TO
SCENE
Meeting Adjourns Before Soldiers
Arrive. Many Infammotory
Speeches Made.

Ell from three States, the Peoples
Council of America for Democracy
and the Terms Of Peace perfected a
formal organization at pubic meet
ing in Chicago today.
The session was held unler rro-
lection of the police, acting on orders
from Mayor William Hale Thcmp-
son, which were in defiance of Cover
nor Frank o. Lowden. Four compa-
nies of the National Guardsmen rush
ed from the State Capitol on a special
train to prevent the meeting arrived
after it had adjourned, it's purpose
accomplished.
Climax Reached.
| The clash in authority between
Mayor Thompson and Governor Low
den came as the result of the police
breaking up the meeting yesterday on
orders from the Governor When the
mayor, at his summer home at Lake
Forest, heard of it he declared that
the Governor had exceeded his author
ity and Immediately instructed Chief
of Police Schuettlcr to permit the
meeting and to give delegates every
protection. When the pacifists heard
of the mayors action this morning i'm
mediate preparations were made to
hold the meeting which had been pre-
vented in Minnesota, North Dakota
and Wisconsin and had been forbidden
as unpatriotic and disloyal by the
| Governor of Illinois
Meeting Well Guarded.
The delegates gathered shortly af-
ter noon in the Westside Auditorium
in the heart of cosmopolitan quar-
ter. A score of patrolmen were on
guard inside and outside the build
ing and fifty more were held nearby
to suppress and disorder. Nearby
streets were utterly deserted as the
delegates were called to order by Sey-
mour Stedman, former Socialist candi-
date for Governor of Illinois.
| In the meantime Governor Lowden
had been notified and Immediately
called Adjt. Gen. Dickson, of Illinois,
into conference. 1t was found that as
most of the Illinois guardsmen had
been federalized the Governor had no
troops at his disposal in the Chicago
district. An effort was made to reach
Major Gen. Carter, commander of the
Central Department, to obtain per-
mission to use federal troops, but he
could not be found in time.
Troops Ordered Out.
~
ment of the Illinois National Guard,
who had not been federalized then,
were assembled at Springfield and
started for Chicago on a special train
at 1858 o'clock with orders to make
the run in four hours.
Adjt. Gen. Dickson, who accom-
panied the troops, had orders to break
up the mectingf at once on his arrival
in Chicago despite the action of the
police and mayor.
National Executive Committee.
Pacfists appointed a national exc
cutivc committee as follows: Secrc-
tary, Seymour Stcdman, of Chicago;
j. d. Works, former United States
Senator, of Los Angeles; James II.
Mauvcr, of Reading, member of the
: Pennsylvania Legislature; Prof. Scott
Nearing, of Toledo; Jacob Pankan, of
New York; Morris Hilquist, New
York; Prof. II. w. L. Dana, Columbia
University; M. A. Toohy, Toledo; Mrs.
W. |. Thomas, Chicago, national sec
rctary of the Woman's Peace Party:
George Rocwen, Boston; Frank Stew
ems, Arden, Del; Leila Frye Sccor,
New York; Rebccca Shelly, New
York; Elizabeth Freeman, New York,
and DR.. II. w. f. Waltz, Cleveland.
Later committees were appointed on
American liberties, economic, ccndi
tions, resolutions and peace terms.
Rabbi }. l.. Maglus, of New York,
then delivered an address in which he
said:
Pertinent Question.
at is worthy of democracy that
citizens holding divergent views be
driven from place to place to find op-
portunity for discussion? That they
be threatened with Imprisonment, that
they be spied upon and maligned be-
cause in these miraculous days of
change, of death and Of life of misery
and hope, as lovers Of America and