Lawrence Weekly World (Newspaper) - November 17, 1892, Lawrence, Kansas LAURENCE WEEKLY 1 NOVEMBER 1892 38 RIGHTS OF GENERAL MASTER WORKMAN CURRENT ISSUES CoOperation of Organiza tions Advocated Tim Educational Qualification for and of Immigration Strongly general assembly of the Knights of Labor settled down to business the preliminaries having all been arranged last The is not nearly so large as outsiders had because of the fact that the number of delegates is but all the leaders in the great order are here and are prepared to take action on matters of interest j to the mem I It is said that there will be proposi tions presented looking to full and complete cooperation with the Na tional Federation of and the National Farmers Alliance in all mat ters of interest to or affecting the in of the working The entire morning session was de voted to the reading of the annual ad dress of Master Workman Powderly and to the presentation of the reports of the and the ex were all well UNION OF LA BOB FORCES General Master Workman Powderly to the important work to be done and advocated admit ting women to local assemblies on equal terms with Continuing he said As I review the past history of the labor I am inclined to the belief that there has been a great waste of vital force and As we look around us we see a hundred ana one new associations having iu view the granting of benefits for acci dent or or insurance iu case of While it is true that many of these were swindling concerns pure and it is none the less true that they drew not alone from the Knights of but from all labor It is a fact that there arc too many labor i organizations struggling for The tendency of the labor movement seems to be to divide while that of the oppos ing to consolidate and thereby to train strength to hi t the forces of single they are arrayed beforo Every prominent member of a labor or who for some reason or has taken offense at something or who entertains an idea that his plan sets about organising a new society of The only result is division of cutting off of isOr lation and final These may not be palatable but that they arc true no one can deny who has eye to sec and earsto It is not by remain ing silent on these things that we can re move the Something must ba done to remedy this error that it is an both of judgment and I am morally cer Tho crying need of is an in which every interest may bo cared There exists why every branch of toil should not enrolled under the shield of this EDUCATION FOU THE The master workman congratulated the assembly on the passage of the ballot reform laws and advocated the passage of election laws making ability to read a prerequisite for vot but any laws establishing a property Of these matters he said This nation must depend for its life on the intelligence of its arid it is very essential that an educational qualifi cation take tho place of tho system how Once get tbo citizen to road ballot and he will take more interest it and will 1 be anxious to study the principles of the parties which ap peal to him for No matter how intelligently the illiterate citizen may dis pose of his ballot ho docs itou the strength of what he is told and not what hu His illiteracy gives some other man the privilege of voting I recommend that the general assembly take action on this OF Much space was devoted to the question of Uie master workman saying in part Some six years ago your general master workman declared that ho was in favor of the restriction of Tho then expressed were not received with fa vor by the notwithstanding that his sentiments have not changed unless it bo in the direction of a more rigid exclusion of immigrants than ho then We may adopt short hour laws in every state us well as tha na we may fix wage scales throughout the we may enact protective tariffs until the articles of foreign manufacture are but while tho tide of immigra tion flows on in jail uninterrupted stream there will be dependence on no reliance on and there can be no protection to American labor that will status of the American higher than his brother who lives under the weight of centuries of monarchical Your general master workman has no hesitation in saying that he favors the total exclusion of all immigrants wao are not self sus uning on landing in thin coun He would nx a term of would be long which time no immigrant should be permitted to land with a unless he could prove that he had sufficient means to sus tain himself and those dependent on him for one LABOR AT THE BALLOT The which just closed wit a very interesting if not intelligent discussion of the but there is more of a revenue illegally drawn from the pocket of the manufacturers and workmen in one month of the year by the railroads and tele graphs than we pay in tariffs for a These and all other questions connected with them must occupy the attention of the industrial organization for the future and the strike of the must beja strike for the rule of the We politics as vo bat we be politicians or the slave of w ns if he performed his duty under the law intelligently and as ought no judge would dare charge treason against workmen who but struggled for The baitle of the future must be fought out on different lines from those which marked progress of the These lines must diverge from and center at the ballot Not as slaves to bent on obeying the of a boas or mas but as freemen who value freedom and would maintain it should we The speaker advised affiliation with the Farmers Alliance and other simi lar recommending the organization of a social or beneficial feature of the and in conclusion said that he knew of nothing he had done during the year that he would not do over again under similar cir FINANCES AND The of General Secretary Treasurer Hays begins by a statement of the conditions of the benefit insu rance feature owing to lack of support by the members has not been very He urges the delegates to adopt measures to arouse the interest of the membership in this part of the work the order His financial statement shews including the balance on hand at the beginning of the fiscal July the total receipts of the order have been total expenses leaving a balance on hand July of j He explains that there have been several dinary payments during the past 3Tear caused by defending law though all decided in the orders have entailed heavy The of the order has increased slightly during the past year and is now over in good Except slight some of the general officers on the order is entirely clear of all its including its general headquarters in some coal mining property in Indiana and other property in New York state and elsewhere is fully paid for and foots up a total value in the neighbor hood of The troubles the Knights of Labor and the World s Columbian exposition management are given at great length together the efforts made the Knights to settle the It was stated that all local assemblies were by a circular emanating from the board urged to press upon their mem bers in congress money should be appropriated for the exposition until the labor question was The report claims that this was done and the troubles were speedily Several legal recommendations are CONVICTS IN OUT FORM KANSAS AND MISSOURI POL FOR FEDERAL The Good Things That Groyer Has the Disposal of Will Not He to j Go is Announced for Secretary of Who Are Will ing to Serve Uncle leaders are already to figure on the places which they will ask of President Cleveland and it is admitted here that Glick can get the pick of the offices which coine to He is out for secretary of John Martin is spoken of for Tom Byans place as minister to Mexico It canbe accepted that the Kansas Democratic central committee will make a united fight to place Colonel Thomas Moonlight in charge of the pension office The Topeka pen sion agency is one of the largest in the the district comprising New Mex ico and the Indian territory and the salary is The latest Republican estimate on the legislature is as follows Independent 1 Populists and 1 io 25 40 the independent Republi can and the tie to the Republicans pn joint ballot would be or four short of a In view of this situation the Republican man seem disposed to abandon all hope of a Republican to suc ceed United Stales Nine Spanish Killed and Sixteen Wounded by convicts in the prison at attempted a general Shortly after their cells were un locked this a given they sprang upon the and the latter were The alarm was soon spread and the military The commander the assembled in the court yard and twice ordered them back to their The convicts had armed them selves with all manner of arms and advanced the Before the latter had time to fire the convicts were upon them and a hand to hand fight Finally the convicts were overpowered after nine had been killed and sixteen DEATH AT A BRIDAL Nine Members of a Spanish Wedding Party Crushed to lie a town fortyfive miles from a young couple just married and friends were dancing in a restaurant where a was served when the wails of the building The entire party with the employes of the place were buried in the When the wreck was cleared away nine dead bodies were lying in a row on the The injured num ber thirty and many of them will HALF A MILLION Chicago Water Clerks for lingo Shortage This estimate of the amount lost by the city through the irregularities of the water office was made being placed at for the year 1892 The according to Expert Accountant Hoi are in a condi tion of hopeless demoralization owing to the erasures and lack of system on the part of Clerks Dwjer and Sherwoods Friends It is believed here Judge Sherwoods home that the judge has been de by Shirk fusionist for the supreme His friends here have been wiring the authorities of Jeffer son City for days about the but can get no definite most replies being somewhat Senator Cockrell Xot who passed through here yesterday bound for said that he was a candidate for another term in the senate and was not worry ing about the matter at ashe had no declared opponent During the campaign just closed he made eighty eight The Cosur Region Willey has just issued a general order njr General the troops in Coeur DAlene to suspend martial law In Shoshone The county has been under martial law since the riots last The federal troops have been ordered and now the civil ties will resume HUSTLING FOR THE Candidates For in Missouri Under Cleveland KANSAS City Democrats are already out hustling for plums that Cleveland has the disposal of when he becomes for Western Mis For postmaster of this city there are four avowed candidates in the ber of the board of public Holmes and For United States marshal for Vvestern Hugh Mc at present one of Missouris members of the state board of worlds fair John of Saline chairman of the state board of railroad and warehouse and Joe Gates of son of States Marshal Elijah are the only prominent candidates much talked about as For United States district attorney Sena tor Teasdale City Counselor Rozzelle are mentioned as the candidates of the Gibson wing of the They will not have the race track to James Waddill and William Wallace are two other local attorneys whose names have been Outside of the Bob of John Walker of and Thomas Delauey of Greene county are probable Bob Hicklin is an ex member of the Missouri assembly and John Walker is to United States Senator while Tom Delaney is a member of the Democratic state central com and u soninlaw of Pony the present minister to Congressman Dockery of Gallatin is said to have in training a bucolic young attorney who will re the support of family His name will be kept secret until the morning of March For internal revenue collector Tom and Dee Reese are said to be in while dark horses innumerable arc petitions and David Wallace is yet the only candidate for the office of collector of This is the best placeat the disposal of the president in Western Missouri Fighting For Control In the su preme court yesterday application was made for a writ of com pel the clerk of the Clay county court to issue certificates of election to the Republican candidates for the legisla ture on the grounds that the ent candidate who received a majority of the votes had been indorsed by the and in printing the official ballots the names of the independent candidates had been placed on the ticket At the same time another contest from Knox county was started if suc will unseat an independent representative and seat a If these changes are made the legisla ture will be tied on a joint Glick on the Populist ernor Glick asked today what would become of wie Peoples party in Kan sas if the Democrats should reduce the replied The Peoples party begin to fade and in fame years it will contain only the The people of Kansas as well as all other states look upon the Democratic party as the party that will reduce taxation and the ex penses of In order to remain in the Democrats will only have to fulfill their They Want So Mosque Erected for Exhi at the Worlds following which is self was received by the city officials yesterday from Secretary of State Secretary of IMPERIAL LEGATION OF WASH Oct Robert Levy concessionary for the Chicago informed me during my recent visit to that city that certain Syrian Chris tians aided by certain American mission aries propose io have a mosque built outside of the exposition grounds in order to show the for what a Mussel mans religious edifice This is the sauie as if in an Asiatic city inhabited by Mus selmen a number of persons among them should erect a church for purpose of showing what a Christian ligious edifice Your excellency I readily see that such a thing cannot be tolerated in the United whero all according to the are respected and I therefore beg you to sand a copy of this note to the authorities of the city of Chicago in order thus to prevent the erection of any mosque outside of the exposition especially by parsons who profess a relig on which is not the and who are simply actuated by gain without any for the religious feelings of a friendly govern Be Secretary of to accent the assurances of my very high For his secretary of MISSOURIS Francis Issues His Animal Proclamation for the JEFFERSON Governor Francis issued his Thanks giving proclamation last It is as follows Tho people of Missouri have abundant cause to return tu for the manifold blessings of the past yen Peace has pre pestilence has not pervaded our bountiful harvests have rewarded our labor and for these and for the price less heritage of a free government founded to afford equality of protection and of op for the fraternal sentiment that pervades our for the continued prosperity nd progressive development of the let us unite in grateful to the Giver of All j In with the recommendation of the president of the United David gov ernor of do appoint November a day of thanksgiving and that day I call upon the people to abstain from their several secular and in their places of worship and at their firesides to give expression to their appreciation of the of Almighty and reverently ask for a continuance of the divine Let them show their worthiness of blessings confer red by doing good to others and by manifest ing tii at broad spirit of humanity which should characterize an happy and grateful DAVID TURF FARMER LEADERS if STARTER JACK CHINN SHOT ON THE RACE SHOT DOM BY A POLICE The Famous Was Under the In fluence of Liquor and Was Using a an Official of the Louis Jockey Club and Re sisting Arrest When the Fatal Ending AFTER I A KANSAS Ben Charged With Attempt ing to war rant for the arrest of Ben who attempted to bunco the city of Cheyenne out of has been and officers are after Blanch who is at Blanchard came here a year claiming to be agent for an Eastern syndicate wanting to build a smelter in A bonus of in cash and real estate was raised by the people con trary to Blanchards they refused to turn it over to him until the smelter was Blanchard made a bold bluff at com mencing and commenced con for several thousand dollars worth of work on Fart of this he paid for with drafts on East ern people which were returned pro Blanchard left the city and for the past three months could not be ST Jolin starter at the East St Louis jockey club was shot it is fatally wounded yester day afternoon by Captain of Police Colonel returned a day or two ago from where he had been handling the Hag at the The East Louis jockey which holds a contract with had consented to the arrangement on Ending culty in filling his ordered him to The turn of affairs did not just e suit Chinn and lie was in a decidedly bad lie came back Monday and took his how He was in a very bad humor and read the riot act to the jockeys before the racing and before the day was over made a lot of ugly talk about several persons connected with the Monday night the di rectors of the club held a meeting at which it was decided to suspend China Yesterday morning Chinn began drinking heavily and at noon was quite Ilis order of dis missal was made out but did not show up at the track until after the first race was The club had secured Starter Dwyer of the Madison track to handle the flag and he was in the box ready for the second race when Chinn appeared and took the from him and started the After the race Secretary Sinclair found Chinn among the stables and presented him with his Chinn said that if he did not start the horses no one else would and refused to accept the at the same time catching hold of Sinclairs coat collar with one hand and reaching down into his boot with the other and drawing out a large Two policemen caught Chinn and tried to disarm he in the meantime making desperate efforts to get at Sinclair with the Captain Anthony came upon the scene at this moment and seeing that Chinn about to get the best of the po he drew his revolver and tired full in Chinas The bull struck Chinn in the mouth and ranged up coming outback of the Chinn was removed to a hospital where he lies with but slight hopes of Colonel Chinn is known all over the country among turf circles and has handled the flag at all the great tracks of the country The National Alliance Will Have Co Important Work to Farmers Alliance and Industrial i began their national convention today j without i any definite plan of wor Some changes and modification in tl plan of organization will jbe For there will be an attempt to amend that part of the organization providing for a national lecturer idea that there should be what would be known as assistant lecturer in j state in the union has gained a and some of the members will support I the movement I Probably the most important ter incidental to the meeting will Jan attempt to amalgamate orders now have in the An effort to bring a the Farmers Alliance the Farmers mutual benefit tion was made in Indianapolis it but members of think that the scheme will go th finally there will be an amalgamation of of the farmers and laborers unions ift the The Railroads Compromise ences between the telegraph on the New Pennsylvania the company have boon Some time ago the operators manded higher wages and submitted scale of salaries made the monthly stipend instead of The company declined to agree to but issued a circular wages to a certain After a long conference with Superintendent Ramsey advised the men to accept I scale and this has been Knights of Labor In inga couple of hours this morning search of a suitable place to hold their national the Knights of Walhalla abouli noon the sixteenth annual general sembly went into being trailed j to order by Grand Master i and the committee on credentials im I mediately presented its consideration of this consumed all morning Illinois Miners Walk V coal i miners of the Springfield district i today and formulated a scale ov d i cents per ton gross weight an per keg for coupled wit i dts I for weeky If this s not accepted a week the jra i will all NOT A BINDING APPEAL FROM Export of increase inthe export of live beef and hog products Last month the United States sent out live cattle to the value of which was more than in the same month last Total exports of hog and dairy products for the mouth were against for Octo John Passes NEW of the Adams express died last Gaiette Changes Nov and the only morning daily in the changed hands Uall of this city and Emerson of the latter a nephew of Ralph Waldo being the The consideration was Streit retires as business Hall assuming the management and Emerson conducting the editorial The policy of the paper will not be A Prominent Missouri Lawyer John Merick died in this city at 3 oclock yesterday Merick was one of the most prominent attorneys in the state and a leading and influential lie was a delegate in the last national conven I A Call Is Made for Money to Op the NEW Nov officers of the American Federation of the Amalgamated association of iron and steel workers of the advisory board of Homestead locked out men last night issued aa address to the American which sots forth the situation at from the strikers The address contains the following appeal It has been decided by the representa tives of the the of the Amal association of iron and steel workers of America and the executive council of federation of labor to designate December as Homestead and we call upon the wage as well as liberty loving citizens of our to make a contribution of a portion of earnings of that day to aid our struggling brothers of Homestead in their present contest to defend themselves before the In this appeal we pledge to you that every dollar contributed will be devoted to the best interests jf the and not one cent used for any pose than above Their cases be brought before the highest our country if Tho International Monetary Little Real the Inter national Monetary conference at Brussels November 22 the proceed ings will be opened by one of Belgian representatives American delegates to proposals they desire to Then a committee will bo appointed to prepared definite The instructions of Sir William Vernon chancel lor of the to the delegates are that they are to the conference as to commit the governments to The Indian currency is debating a motion which is supported y by three including the lord who presides over the lish gold coinage iu The posal has no chance of It is doubtful whether Baron Herschel isV really in earnest in his support of the as he lias warned even by single standard ports that a change would India besides causing tre mendous trade and finance there and in the Indian iu sts in Great There is reason to that Baron Herschel rather designs to V check by a means of bravado a pro posal to influence the at the monetary MISTAKEN FOR A STRIKER A DAMAGE 3ur Elected State returns from Greenwood county gives 2 majority for state Lyon county his Lev received 22 The latter is therefore elected state senator from the district by 20 Six Hundred hundred bouses have been destroyed by fire in the city of The houses mostly of the cheap native variety and much privation has been caused by The Cherokee Strip Live Stock Associa tion of the Cherokee Strip live stock asso against the McClellan company was decided yesterday in the circuit court in favor of the defendant The suit was brought to recover on a note given by the defendant for the rent of grazing lands in the Cherokee The note was given only a short time before the mation of the president was issued on February ordering cattle men to vacate the Judge Woodson held that the president had authority to order the lands and that his order annulled the con tract between the Cherokee live stock association and the McClellan cattle The suit is the first one of its kind to decided and will affect several hundred similar North Dakota withstanding the that has received plurality over Demo for there is strong talk in Democratic quarters of a contest Latest returns give Fus for The entire fusion sfate ticket except Secretary of who has about MO U Workmen Killed In a KooW Another Small morning the occupants of the Carnegie Homestead wos were aroused by tv o 1 by cry of agony wnd the search when Max union walked watch box of the mill p lice with revolver in his hand I said h wanted to give himself up as he shot a He conducted the to his lodging where the animate form of a man was lying the There he is I think he is a said A physician was hastily sent when he arrived the man was A mill pass and check for his pay on his person indicated that the dead man had been a mill but no one knew him except one who said he had seen him working in the yard Newman says he was assaulted asleep and fired and killed the He was locked j ana Burned and Ernest sons of a prominent and farmer of this vicinity whose body was recently been charged with him and then burning his No la NEW Policemen the number of have received J their short billies and commencing today there will further use for the night the Q
