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Newspaper Page TextRecorder °£ORG^^ wTl. GI.KSHNBK. s : t I J Mltor, Onlt lHl «>rc»n of Hurater County. Official Organ of Wobator County. SUNDAY • - SEPTEMBER 7.1890 NR. 0. B. HILL TALKS. Tbe AJ.KRICC. H.CO.D..U put|U« Oaiiy ami Weekly, during the year. ;The Daily Recorder In Iwned ev moral ns except Monday*, daring Ihe year, at .W* per month. orW.'Jl) per y*ar. The WEEKLY Recorder 1m laaned every Friday morning, »l »1 per ye»r payr.hle \u advance. It has the largest circulation o any paper In Soathtceat Georgia,clrcula* ting largely In tliecountlea of Buinter, Lee, Terrell, Htewart, Wehxter, Bchley. Marion' Macon, Iwxtly and Wilcox. Entered at Anierlcna PoMt-Offlce a* second All c PENCILLINGS FROM THE PRESS But Not to the Extent of Two State Bouae Officer*. From the Tribune of Koine. To Marietta: Kom© sympa thizes with you. W© know how it in ourselves. It's the Wife Down Thla Way. From the Allnnta Constitution. “Our paper has th© courage of its convictions anti always speaks its mind,” writes a Georgia editor, "for our wife’s mother writes th© editorials and seta th© type, too." Thla la Heally Cruel. Krom the Tribune of Rome. To the esteemed Albany News and Advertiser: The Seventh ills' trict Democrats don’t have to go away from home to hew out Con greasional timber. Judge I.awsou doesn’t live in the uuterrl/ied Heyenth. A Progreaalvo Man. Krom the ThomnavllleTlmeii-KnterprUe. Col. W. L. OJeasner, editor of the AMHBh'I'H KKCOKLKK, Is iu tlie city. Mr.Glessner is president of the Georgia Press Association, and of the most progressive men iu (ieorgia. He has done as much ns any man in (ieorgia to attract at tention to the Kmpire State of the South. Buna The Times for Glory. From the Hrun*wlck Timet. The Times trusts that all corpor ate enterprises proposed will meet with hearty encouragement, for last hut not least, The Times is the re sult of the united coritorate effort of a fow men who, recoguiziug at the outset that a morning daily could not for years pay expenses, have patiently supported it, when its support meant deficit ami not revenue, continue to support it, and will continue to do so until it pay expenses. This Will Apply to a Few Amcricua Merchants. From the Hnwklnsvllla New*-I>l*pntch. If you arc a merchant don't ad vertise In your horn© paper, but buy you a rubber stamp and use it. may save you a few dimes and make your letter-heads and wrap ping paper look as if you were do ing buslnoss in a one-iiorse town. Call on your local paper when you want a free puff for your own bus! •ness or tor a public enterprise, but when you want job periling done for pay give it to some other. Standing By Their Town. From tin* Kllavllle New*. The highest market price is what our merchants and busiueaa i have determined shall be paid for cotton in Kllavllle. To make this possible they met Monday and live of them agreed to put up $“>00 each every live days during the sea'snu to pay for cotton. Mr. Frank Mumford, who lias a contract direct with Liverpool, agrees to take it oil’ their hands at cost, and put up f500 ns a guarantee of good faith uud to cover any lots ill case of failure. Our telegraphic advices of this morning state that the Tribune of Home has been aold to Capt. J. J. Seay, a wealthy citizen of that city. Col. J. L. Martin has been made managing editor. Capt. Seay will find that a newspaper is not so easy to run an a steamout line. The Augusta Chronicle publishes the following curious epistle with the statement that it is a love letter, Written in cypher. The Recorder would be pleated to publish a trans lation of it from some of its enter prising readers: Nz. Pxo Kfbs Kbsmljob: Zpydpoopn jubiijof ipx J bu gjo* joli g|>o b tjhin pg zpos efbs gbdf. J ibwf dpvoufe uif ipost tjodf J tlix xpy mbtu injoljoh fwfsz ebz zpt xpome afu afuvso up zpos ebustnjoh epwf zpy epopo dbmm tppo J xjunt hp ejtusbdufe. Zpost vouzin efbiu. WjpMFr. The Savannah Morning News is sued its trade edition Friday morning. It was a mammoth edi tion of 21 pages, filled to the brim with statistics of Savannah's great trade. There la no better edited, newsier, more readable paper in the Houth than the Newt, atfd It folly deserves its success. ( '-fi From ths Atlanta Constitution. One of the most agreeable and In tclligent gentlemen I have ever met is Mr. D. B. Hill, of Amerlctis. J give snatches of bis interesting talk caught at the Markham last light. "Hon. Charles Crisp, Congress- mau from our district, lias tlie most remarkable memory for names and faces. He never forgets (he face of a mau whom he has met, and ids faculty i» the same as regards ohil dren. He knows the face and name of every child he has ever met in Americus or auywhere else, and never forgets it. If he has met the child only once and saw It no more, it matters not for how long, he remembers the face and name just the same. ‘‘There are two other very re markable things about Mr. Crisp. He Is just the same Charley Crisp to everybody he kuows whether he is running for office or not. His pleasant manner is always the same. ‘‘The other is his sticking at the post of duty. He has remained right at Washington during the present session of Congress extend ing through many mouths without having visited his home in Ameri cas for even one day. His wife and lamiiy have remained at home all the while, too. He has not been out of Washington, I believe, but once during the sesssioii, when he run over to New York to make a tar iff* speech iu Tamuiany hall.” Mr. Hill says the census will give Americus about <>,200 population. She has two compresses, a furniture factory, an ice factory, a guano fac tory, an iron foundry, a score of smaller industries—has electric street cars, electric lights, and in push and liveliness Is a second. At- lanta. The late Henry W. Grady once said of Americus that she was the only rival Atlanta had in Geor gia. During the month of July Mr. Hill, who has a plantation In Inee county, gave the negroes on his place a barbecue. He sent down among other things a lot of lemons and 500 pounds of ice to make lem onade. They didn’t understand exactly how to form the mixture, aud one old darkey advanced this • unique idea: Ef yer wan ter tlx de water rite fer de lemons, jes’ put all de ice in de well about Friday and by Hun- day it'll solve and de water’ll be cool and nice an’ ready for to squeeze de lemons in it, an’ yer kin jes’ draw up de lemonade fer all till yer can’t res’ ” Mr. Hill thinks that Gordon is Southwest Georgia's favorite for the Senate. \s was announced in a telegram in Saturday’s Recorder Col. John Temple Graves has resigned the position of editor of the Koine Tribuue. Mr. Graves w'as led to this course because of the fact that majority of the stockholders of the Tribune were for Felton in his in dependent race for Congress. Mr. Graves, being an organized Demo crat, could not do otherwise than support Mr. Everett, who will be the regular Democratic nominee. All honor to Mr. Graves for ids stand! STORIES OF SENATORS. WATER WELLMAN WEAVES THEM INTO A WASHINGTON LETTER. Jones, or Narad*. Is the Senatorial Story Teller Far ExceUence-Benator Plum and the Papers—An Addendum Con cerning the Pension Office. Special L'or(espon<Ien«-u to Kkcoudeu. Washington, Sept 4.—Jones, of Ne vada, is known to his colleagues os the senatorial story teller. He is fond of taking possession of a big chair just within the senate cloak room, with a fragrant cigar between his teeth and a crowd of his fellow senators gathered about, listening to his stories. It is one of the traditions of the senate that Jones has a new story every morning, and sen ators on both sides of the chamber think a day hofc been lost if night comes and they hare not heard the newest yarn of the senator from Nevada. Jones’ fund of stories appears to be inexhaustible. Many of them aro anecdotes of his pem •onnl experiences in the far west. « OF RAILROAD STRIKES. verdict in the second decree,’ said the TlIK Recorder of Saturday bad an article about ThomasvHle, in which it was stated that that place had attained its eminence ns a win ter report by judicious advertising. The citizens of tiiat place now pro pose io get up n fund aud nub«cribe for live hundred copies of the Times- 2uterprise, sending them to friend* and acquaintances North, fills In good idea, as it keeps th© name of the town before that mauy people, and if it be the meant* of Inducing even a few to locate, it will have amply repaid the investment. A Boon to the Sick, Dr. King’s Royal Germetuer is endorsed by Rev. J. R. Hawthorne, pastor First Baptist church, Atlan ta, Ga., who says: "It is a great remedy.” Uev. Ham 1*. Jones says: ih every poor suffering wife had access to that medicine.” Thousands of others attest its vir tues. Fifty gallons are drank in Atlanta dally, where it Is perform ing remarkable cures. It removes the cause of disease aud builds up from the first dose. Head stamp for lull particulars, certificates of won derful cures, etc., to King’s Royal Germetuer Co., Atlanta, Ga. It cures jvhkn ai.l else fails. Price, $1.80 per concentrated bottle, which makes one gallon of medi cine as per directions accompany ing each bottle. Can be sent by ex press C.O. D. If your druggist can not supply yon. Street railroad tickets on sale at Prealdent’e office,507 Jackson street, twenty-one for one dollar. W* M. Joses, JSO-tf. Bee. and Treat. W. W.C. for sale at Cook’s Phar macy. 439 Cotton Avenue. Ameri- *Oa. JONES, OF NEVADA, THE SENATORIAL STORY TELLER. "Speaking about judges," said Jones tho other day, "let me tell you of tho old alcalde wo *sed to have out in Mari- >osa. In the early days, just after we lad acquired Lower California from Mexico, the judicial system had not been organized under tho laws of the United States, and by common consent Hie old alcaldo continued to hold court and set tle disputes. Most of th*. .’itigation grew out of raining claims. Tho laws were very crude and unsatisfactory, and so we modo a law of our own to the effect that if a man did no work on his claim for thirty days it could then bo tAken possession of by another. "One poor fellow named Harris took a claim and worked it for a week or two and then fell sick. Week after week passed and ho grow no better, and finally tbo thirty dAys, and then forty and more had elapsed sinoo dirt had been turned over on his claim. There wasn’t man in tho camp that would jump tho claim, but a stranger camo along, sized up the situation and took possession. Am soon ns Harris was ablo to leave his bed ho brought suit of ejectment in the al- caldo’s court It was a clear case. Tho evidence was overwhelming that the originai # cIaimant had lost his rights un der tho local law, and nothing re mained for tho alcaldo to do but to decide in favor of tho defend ant Tlxia ho was very reluctant to do, aud was hemming aud hawing orer his decision when Harris, seeing that tho cose was going against him, lost his temper and sprang at tho throat of tho man who had dispossessed him of his property. Tho men clinched and rolled upon tho floor, with Harrison top, and in n fair way to choke the wind out of Ids antagonist. Two or threo bailiffs ran forward to pull the man off, when tbo old alcaldo, his oyes flashing and his gray hair waving about, leaped from his bench with a revolver in his hand, shout* log: “ ‘Let no man touch them. These liti gants are settling their difficulty in their own way, and it is tho duty of this court to encourage private adjustment of all disputes. If any man touches them I’ll shoot him on tho spot!' “No inan did touch them," added Sen ator Jones, "and Harris gave his man •uch a licking that ho was not ablo to do a stroko of work for six weeks; and Harris thus got his claim back. That is the sort of justice wo used to have in tho wild west." Laughter over this anecdote liad not subsided when Senator Jones wan re minded of another story. “Out in San Francisco a good many years ago,” ho said, “a Hebrew mer chant killed a man. lie was indicted and brought up for trial. The jury was impaneled. Johnsou was tho name of tho first mau drawn. ’Johnson,’ ex claimed the defendant, ’dot ish bat’ Tho next was Hamilton. ‘Another Christian.’was the defendant’s despair- accused. Terms were finally arranged *P0 ,000, cash on delivery of tho ver dict The trial was held and the verdict brought in. It was guilty in the second degree. Then Juror Isaacs and the con victed man had another interview. Mr. Isaacs wanted his money. “ ‘Can't you make it eighteen thou sand?* pleaded tho unfortunate. “ ‘No, 1 can’t Must have the whole twenty thousand.' “With much reluctance and many groans the twenty thousand was paid over. After folding the bills into a fat roll and stuffing them into his pocket Mr. Isaacs looked up with an injured air and remarked: “ ‘It was unkind of you to ask me to throw off two thousand after all the trouble 1 had to get that verdict in tho second degree for you. .Why, 1 had to pay them eleven Christians a thousand dollars apiece to get them to vote my way. They was all for acquittal!* “ Senator Plumb, who has been unusu ally conspicuous of late on account of his independent attitude on tho tariff bill, U one of the busiest men in gress. I have watched Plumb for a long time, and I have never seen him idle. He lives at the Shoreham hotel, but keeps a “den" on Fourteenth street, near the newspaper offices. This den, which is a curiosity in its way, tho senator en ters regularly every morning »t 8 o’clock. For two hours he does nothing but sit there, with his western slouch hat upon his head, reading newspapers. He is the most omniverous newspaper reader I know of. He takes all tbo New York papers, several from Chicago, ono from Phila delphia and perhaps a dozen dailies from other largo cities. Three daily papers from Kansas City and two from St Louis reach his offico regularly. There are magazines and weekly publications by tho score. But the bulk of tho sen ator’s newspaper mail comes from his own state. He is a subscriber to overy paper in Kansas. As there aro four or five hundred papers in that state, a scoro or more of them published daily, it is ?asy to seo that Senator Plumb has his hands full. IIo reads .a newspaper like tbo exchange editor of a great daily. His typewriter operator opens tho papers and spreads them out on his desk, and when the senator goes at them they disappear at tho rate of three a minute. A rapid glance finishes one page, and a second glance anothor. But nothing of interest to him escapes his quick eyes. “I believe in the local newspapers," says Senator Plumb. "They are tho lead ers, tho makers.of public sentiment. They aro nearer to the peoplo than any other papers. Their editors ininglo with tho people, and consciously or uncon- sciously reflect tho views of their readers. "By my private letters from all parts of the state, and by reading tho local pa pers, I can tell just what the peoplo of Kansas are thinking and talking about. I can feel the pulse of the people and take their temperature. I am amazed. SOME MODERN HISI0RT THAT IS OF CURRENT INTEREST. The Greateit American‘‘Tie-Up” Waain 1877. and Was Inaugurated cn the Bal timore and Ohio Bail road—The South western and Others. 6ESJLTOR rU'MM, TUH NEWSPAPER tUCXD. ing comment. The next name was Aus tin. *Oh, dear,’exclaimed the defend ant, ‘I hat uo show at all. The verdict Till be in the viret decree.’ Eleven names were finally drawn, every one that of a Gentile. Tho defendant was jging his hands in despair. But _ non of the name of the last juror gave him hope. It was Isaacs. ” *AhT exclaimed tho prisoner at the ter, •! may be able to do something with Mr. bam* That night the de fendant and Mr. Isaacs had an inter HUMAN NATURE AT TlIK PF.NSION OFFICE, too, at the excellence of our county pa pers. The majorityot them are cat ©ful ly, ably edited. They not only print tho news of their neighborhood, but have opinions which I find it worth my while to read and reflect upon. I get uo bet ter return for any of the money which I spend than for thAt which I pay out for tho local uowspapors of my state." Ono of the duties of Senator Plumb h pretty typewriter girl is to keep accounts with all of tho newspapers of Kansas. It is not necessary for publishers to send their bills to him. Ho forwards a check for another year’s subscription shortly before tho old subscription expires. It is easy to guess that a man who lias this sort of appreciation of tho excellence of his local press is likely to Ih* very |>opu- lar in his state, aud to remain in tho senate as long as lie cares to. At the big pension office tho other day 1 saw an incident which had a good deal of human nature in it, A poor woman, who is trying to hasten action on her ! husband's \>enslon claim, lmd arrived at | the office just l>efor«» the closing hour, j and being in a hurry to seo ono of the j officials, asked a young woman, ono of the clerks, to watch her little girl for a few minutes. While tho mother was ab sent tip stairs tho young woman lifted tho pretty child upon one of the many file coses which half fill tho great floor. In a few minutes tho little elf was sur rounded by hundreds cf women, young and old. Ah tho array of clerks rolled down the stairs many of them paused to worship at tho altar of babyhood. Kisses, ap ples, oranges, candy, pieces of cake from lunch baskets ,aml oxclamation.s of adora tion were rained upon tho child till tho tiny mortal must have fancied herself in fairy land. What. a pity, I thought while looking on, all these pension offico girls cannot be married aud have babies of their own. Walter Wellman. Baca m Good Iloy. Willio (down in tho country, writing home to his father}—And I have been a good boy, too, papa. I haven't nut away for a week. Willie's Momma (adding a postscript) —Wiffi© tea teen confined to tho ten— fer a week withavery tore toe.-Chl- cs^aTrihtma • HjwcJa) Correspondence to Hxro New York, Sept. 4.—'Tho greatest railroad striko which this country ever saw was that inaugurated on the 10th of July, 1877, at Camden Junction, on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. Tho causes which led to it aro apparent enough now, although at the timo they were so obscure ns to mnko tho pudden uprising, which swept through tho country like a flame, a matter of genuine surprise to even tho shrewdest observers. The rate and freight wars between tho great railroads and tbo enormous water ing of tho stocks hod produced two fac tors which called for a decrease in the operating expenses. Tho receipts were lees, while the capital on which inter est was to be paid was more. The vari ous roads bad reduced their expenses, and the discontent among the men was very great. On tho 11th of July the Baltimore and Ohio announced the usual reduction—10 pec cent—and the men' protested. On the 16th the men struck at Camden Junction and Martins- burg, W. Va., and within five days the traffic of tho middle and western states was paralyzed. The governors of West Virginia and Maryland applied to Presi dent Hayes tor United States troops, stating that their state volunteers were not sufficient to quell the riots which had followed tho strikes. Within a week from the initial refusal to allow trains to move riota had taken place in Balti more, Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Buffalo, Indianapolis, St. Louis and Chi cago, and tho National Guards bod been ordered out in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, Indiana, Kentucky. Illinois, Michigan and Mis souri. The commerce of the country was simply paralysed. Not only were tho railroad men on strike, but labor unions all over tho land colled thoir men out This was not all. There were formid able riots and much loss of life and property. Pittsburg was the soene of tho worst riots during tho whole period of disturb ance. National Guardsmen had been gent from Philadelphia, and on their ar rival found that the sympathy of all the peoplo was with tho railroad men. At a mass meeting of tho triples unions held July 20 resolutions indorsing the strik ers were passed. On tho 21st the riots began, and the troojw were driven into the round house, where they tuado a stand. On tho 224 tires were utarted and burning coke trains were run against tho round house. Tho regiments thereupon fought their way out and left tho city. Tho fires spread until in buildings alono over #4,000.000 worth of property had i>een destroyed, while tho value of that burned iu tho freight trains has never iwen known. Nothing but tbo remonstrance of Secretary of State Evarts prevented tho provident docUritg tho state of Peirasyl* v.inia in insurrection and calling for vol unteers to invade it. The attitude of the railroad king* was offset by the action of the executive committee of the Interna tionals in St. Louis, who dictated to the mayor of that city and the governor of Missouri in a moat lordly way, and for a time actually had their commauds obeyed. From the Atlantic to the Rocky mountains tho railroads were stopped nnd troop* were on guard. Tho striko did not extend to tho south nor to tho eastern states, hut during its contin uance the middle and western states were almost at the mercy of tho 8trik it was practically killed by its own friendH. Tho railroad inen, who were fighting for a living rate of pay, and not for tho destruction of the property of others, soon became tired of the com munistic element, and the riots changed public opinion, which had been at first favorable to tho strikers. Vigilance committees were called into existence, aud they accomplished what neither the National Guard nor the regular troops hud been able to. Tho citizens who be- lieved in law nnd order speedily separat ed themselves from the de&tructionists, and tho Utter found at onco what a small proportion they really were. But the Btrike while it lasted was a memorable one, and tho losses in property were hiin- ply frightful. Tho wage earners gained by it, for the companies were taught verely that there was a poiut beyond which they could not go. On the other hand, tho laboring men loomed tho dan ger to them and their cause which ex ihtod in the .-.narohiitio element in so- •■'ety. There were two r,trikes of the shop men on tho Union Pacific railroad in 1SS4. On May l of that year notico was jKjstod in all construction and repair shops, aud at prominent places on thecora- pany's premises, giving notice of a reduc tion in wages of from 10 per cent, to 25 per cent., to take effect at once, and in cluding nil employes excepting engineer* and firemen. With ttio exception of tho brotherhoods of firemen, and engi neers (hero was an absence of organiza tion on the road at that time. But tho shopmen quit work within threo hours after tho jKxsting of tho notice, aud they were joined during tho day by the switchmen and trackmen. Denver seemed to toko the lead, nnd tho temporary organization which was at onco formed there was recognized by tbo employes at other points us the striker*' spokesmen. A committee was dispatched to Omaha to coasult with the managers of tho rood, and oil freight trains were stopped. The hitherto un organized men' flocked into tho tem porary unions, and within forty-eight tean the whole force of shopmen and trackmen was thoroughly united. The shops remained shut down and freight train© tied hp far four days, at the end of which ti:c3lke company surrendered. *b4 Um oLmSw was recalled. On An*. 15 following » wdoetton if. footing thi tbopmen »< EBlt, Km., 1 ortenxi wd about fifty men in T wiio had taken pronounced porta trouble of May 1 .were diacbaugon with explanation. In Um meantime tbs i ployca had quietly perfected an organ- ixation and were attached to the Knights of -Labor. Tho headquarters was at Denver. An order was sent out by the district assembly striking. all shops and once more tying up the freight trains. At the same time a committee hurried to Omaha to discuss the subject with the management For two days the situation was. very threatening, but on the third day the company once more yielded and the men resumed work. * There was an extensive strike on the "Wabash” in the summer of 1885, and for threo weeks Sedalia, Moberiy, Han nibal and Kansas City hung on tho rag ged edge of serious outbreaks. This strike was occasioned by an order posted in the shops of the company discriminat ing against the employment of members of the Knights of Labor. The Missouri militia were called out and remained in. camp on the outskirts of Sedalia for sev eral days. An effort wns made to get tho "southwestern system” out in a strike of sympathy, but. the genoral ex ecutive board of the Knights’of Labor, to which tho men of both roads belonged, refused consent The strike finally wore itsolf out, both sides to the controversy being heavy sufferers and both claiming a victory. Another serious strike in 1885 was that of the employes of the Denver and Rio Grande railway. The company at tempted to force its employes to desert the Knights of Labor, and began a sys tematic discharge of men who were prominent in the order. The road was being operated by a receiver, nnd the United States courts of Colorado took a hand in the fight Severn! engines were blown up with dynamite, one bridge was burned and a number of care were destroyed. Of course the .strikers were charged with these depredations, but they emphatically denied all knowl edge of revolutionary tactics, and as serted that tho Pinkertons, who were getting |5 per day as special guards, were responsible for tho damage©, as they wished to keep up tho excitement Some twenty of tho strikers were ar rested, chiefly on tho charge of intimi dating non-union men, and six of them were convicted and imprisoned for from threo to twelve months each. This striko never was declared off by the Knights, but they were undoubtedly badly defeated. Tho next strike of any importance among tho railroad men was that on the Miiwouri Pacific in 1880. It come about in a curious way. Tho Texas Pacific road woo iu the hoods of a receiver ap pointed by tho United States court, and a foreman named Hall was discharged. Tho Knights of Labor, under the leader ship of a man named Martin Irons, came to tho conclusion that they could coerce tho Texas Pacific by striking tho Mis souri Pacific. . Vico President Hoxfo be came very augry, claiming that he hod no power over a road in the hands court, and tho fight became k bitter There was sotno rioting, the usual'shool ing of innocent people who had corao t look on, nnd tho usual employment of Pinkerton polico. For a timo 8fc. Louis was isolated from the rest of the coun try, bat tho strike finally petered out and many of tho strikers were forced to find now places. This trouble lasted about two months and a half, nnd in volved the Texas Pacific, the Missouri Pacific, tho old Iron Mountain and the Missouri, Kansas and Pacific roods. Over 40,000 men were thrown out of em ployment and nbout 14,000 were con cerned in the strike. A curious inci dent in tho Btrike was tho bitter corre- sitondeuco betwoon Mr. Jay Gould and Master Workman T. V. Powderly, in which there was some hard Hitting on each side. In this year tho men on the North Shore rood struck becauso of the refusal of tho officials to disebargo eight x.on- union men. Tho strike was settled in six days by finding other work for the eight men. In December, 1887, tho strike on the Reading rood took place, which is worthy of a lino because of tbs effect i t had afterword. The Knights of Labor engineers began it, and men from tho Brotherhood of Locomotive Engin eers took their placq^ the strike being a failure in consequence. . e Tho Brotherhood of Locomotive En gineers has always been considered one of tho most conservative labor unions in tho country. It was thought to ho ono of tlio most powerful until February, 1988, when it inaugurated what in known os the "C., B. and Q." ■trike. Tho men at tho throttles of the engines on tho Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, the Burlington and Missouri River, tho Hannibal and St. Jot, the Kansas City, the St. Joe aud Council Bluffs, and the Chicago and Iowa roads were members of the organization. Tho roads were paying them by tripe aud grading tho pay so that tho men on the branch did not get as much as those on tho trunk lines for their work. The Brothorhoixl asked for pay per railo of * run and equal pay to aU. These being refused Chief Arthur ordered a strike. It was tho opportunity of the Knights to get oven with tho Brotherhood fer their defeat on the Hooding. They fairly fiocked to Chicago to toko tho place of the sulking men and as fast as a Broth erhood engineer went out a Knight of Labor etepped in. The strike was fore doomed to failure, aud although Chief Arthur called tho Brotherhood men from the Reading ho was unablo to save it No violenoo was attempted exoept in one cose where some men attempted to place dynamite on the C., B, and Q. track, for which they were duly punished. tral railroad, thejdstoryof which is* had 3FP mmm ■ An iron that will not nut lout IBM rewntijr bgr a Pittsburg ' I WMJ, in incwaf mum&chue it b S'lnro* ratle« cost of nugiutlo ojdd. Ad k-;4 : .;v.

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Americus daily recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1884-1891, September 07, 1890, Image 4