New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 30, 1917, Page 5

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST-30, 1917. - POLICE SMASH UP | F. 1. F. GATHERING Tild Rioting Followé Attempt to Hold Sedition Meeting New York, Aug. 30.—In one of the _Wlldest scenes that Broadway ever “witnessed, the police, assisted by sol- diers, last night broke up the largest meeting held by the Friends of Irish Freeédom since the organization start- ed its anti-British campaign of se- dition in this city. From the midst of a crowd of 5,000 the police took John D. Moore, na- tlonal secretary of the organization; “Stephen W. Johnon,s national organ- izer and manager of the meeting and other prisoners, including Miss Mar- garet Curley, niece of the mayor of isoston, and carried them to the West Thirtieth street police station. By the time the last arrest was made Broadway was packed for blocks in both directions, Herald Square was jammed with a crowd _that easily numbered 10,000. The po- | lice literally fought their way through | this throng, escorting as a prisoner | the Boston girl, who had fanned the | feeling of the crowd to frenzy by kissing the flag of the Irish revolu- tion and waving it and the Stars and Stripes high above her head. | Although the seditious statements of the Friends of Irish Freedom had received wide publicity and many #inds had been busy trying to fit | Lheir talk to a charge of sedition, the police cast all technicality aside last night and broke up the meeting and made the arrests on the old-fashioned charge of obstructing traffic. Others besides the police were busy last night to make it a Waterloo for the Friends of Irish Freedom. The organization had been holding meet- Mngs twice a week at Broadway and Thirty-seventh street, and there Cleveland Moffett and his Vigilantes made their futile attempts to halt what they termed a propaganda of treacon. But last night when an automobile containing Mr. Morre and his friends | reached that corner they found in progress a brisk meeting to obtain re- | .rruits for the Naval Miiitia. A brass band had helped to draw a crowd, | and, with those who had gone there | for the Friends of Irish Freedom | meeting, there was quite a gathering. 1 Coroner Timothy Healy was In charge | of the recruiting meeting, and to the protests of the Friends of Irish Free- dom that the crowd and the corner were theirs he turned an unsympa- thetic ear. Move to New §cene. The coroner had the police on duty there tell the anti-English agitators that they couldn’t hold a rival meeting as there wasn’t enough room. There- upon, it was shouted that the Friends of Irish Freedom would hold their meeting at Broadway and Thirty-fith street. The automoble with the speak- ers went there, and a stand was rigged up at the back of the machine. By the time the usual Irish revolution and American flags had been put in place a crowd of 1,000 had gathered. speaking was delayed for 15 minutes and by that time fully 3,000 persons had gathered, many of them coming from Broadway and Thirty-seventh street, In a moment 50 policemen sprang seemingly from nowhere. A half a hundred soldiers joined them. Efforts were made to prevent the crowd from congregating, but it was too much for the guardians of the peace. The sup- porters of Johnson and Moore, with loudly voiced threats, packed about the automobile and * the speaker’s stand. N A cheer went up when Johnson stood in the rear of the automobile. He held out his hands in dramatic gesture, bidding his audience to be still. He opened his mouth to speak. A ‘white-capped Lieutenant nodded, and a six-foot patrolman told John- son he’d make no speech that night. “I can't speak to you friends,” shouted Johnson. “I'm under arrest.” He was taken from the stand and hustled west in Thirty-fifth street,with the police station as his destination. The crowd closed in upon the police- | men with Johnson, and jammed the prisoner and captors against the wall of Macy’'s store. Soldiers rushed to | the aid of the police, and between the two forces Johnson was taken to the staton. Two minutes later Thomas McCoy of 17 West 120th street took the stand He uttered about five words and found himself under arrest. Shaun Conway then mounted the platform and started in a belligerent voice, He was pulled down, but for some reason escaped arrest, while the police fought their way out of the crowd with Mc- Coy. 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He made a plea for “fair play” and ‘“free speech” and then launched into the denunciation of the city magistrates and Mayor Mitchel, who, he said, would never be mayor again “no matter how well he can tango.” Moore was going strong When he felt the arm of the law. BY this time the crowd was in a frenzy of excite- ment. The police were pushed about, cursed and abused. They showed good discipline and used their night- sticks only gently. Whether by po- lice direction or not a big automo- bile was run east in Thirty-seventh street from Eighth Avenue. After a few minutes of effort the driver appeared glad to back off and give up | the attempt to get through the crowd. Not to be daunted, the Friends of Irish Freedom showed that they had not had enough. Miss Curley, Who has been a regular speaker at the meeting, got up and waved the Amer- ican flag. Tt took five minutes for the ovation she got to die down. Her volce was too weak to carry over the disorder of the crowd, but she showed how she felt about it by tearing & big picture hat from her head and shouting denunciations of England and “tyranny.” It looked for five minutes as if she would finish her speech. The crowd, which had been split into groups by the police, became packed about her automobile, and she was speaking with spirit when more policemen ar- rived. All at once, as if impelled by a great force, the crowd surged back. No one seemed to know just what had happened. Miss Curley turned, in alarm, to see that, with the aid of soldiers, she was completely sur- rounded by blue-coated men, with nightsticks in hand, ready for busi- ness. Not a word was said as one of them climbed into the front of the automobile and started it, with the speaker on the rear seat. Then bed- lam seemed to break loose. The girl stood up, kissed the flag of the Irish revolution, and waved it with the Stars and Stripes. Her moving lips showed that she was still talking, but not a word could be heard in the ‘hubbub. Soldiers Cursed, Hits the Target. The automobile was run into the crowd that blocked the way. A man insisted on clinging to the front of it. A soldier tried to pull him away. he cursed the soldier and the soldier struck him in the mouth. That was only one of many Incidents. The po- lice were fighting to clear a way with their woman prisoner, when Patrol- | man Hoffman was pushed roughly to one side. He grabbed the man who had jostled him and carried him to the station, where the prisoner said he was John Weiffenbach, a butcher, | of 391 Seventh avenue. He was locked | up on a disorderly conduct charge. | In the meanwhile the police were still struggling to get Miss Curley away. Every minute added hundreds to the crowds that hemmed the po- | lice in front, with those who had been Miss Curley’s auditors in the rear. Suddenly the police broke through and soon had their prisoner on the way to the station. Seventy-five more reserves, Captain Bailey, had arrived .by this time and turned their attention to the crowds which jammed Broadway so that nothing could move in Her- ald Square. The police besought the men and women o go on home, but they were in no mood to move. Every- thing was blocked tight.when a po- lice automobile with a glaring search- light ploughed its way through the jam and adopted the novel expedient of running up and down the side- walks with screetching horn. This helped to clear the sidewalks, under and then the police split the crowd in two, pushing part south and part north towards Times Square. When the body of the north-moving crowd came to Thirty-seventh street and Broadway the patriotic meeting was still in progress. In a few seconds its size had grown from 200 to 2,000, and the noise drowned out the speak- ers’ voices. The band played “The Star Spangled Banner.” Someone re- fused to take off his hat; a sailor took it off, and another near riot was under way. Then the police told Coroner Healy and his patriots to call it a night’s work and go home. In another half hour Broadway was pretty well cleared for five blocks on either side of Herald Square, and al- though the danger of a serious riot seemed past several hundred police reserves remained on duty until after midnight. United States Marshal McCarthy, with a corps of his men, was in the crowd but took no part in the ar- rests. Cleveland Moffett was not there, although there were many cries for him by those not friendly to the Vigilantes. MILK DEALERS FARNED. Following his inspection of the dairies in the vicinlty of this city re- cently Dr. B. D, Radcliffe milk and food inspector has sent letters to those managers of the dairies which he found unclean and ordered them to clean them &t once or their Ii- censes would be suspended. In the samples which he inspected Dr, Rad- cliff found in many cases much dirt in the milk, LUNCH BOSS BISCuUIT The wholesome [ oracker for nearly a eentury STONE RAPS PRESS 'DEFENDING COURSE Says Lord Northeliie Is Here to Influence Editors Washington, Aug. 30.—The presi- dent’s note to the Vatican won praise yesterday from Senator William Joel Stone, chairman of the foreign rela- tions committee of the senate, many of whose constituents, as well as lead- ers of his party, have demanded that he resign because of his continued op- position to the war program of the government. Senator Stone, who was advised of the resentment of the people of his state, took occasion to reafirm his allegiance to the government today and substantially to repeat his oath of office. During the debate on the ‘War Revenue Bill he arose to a ques- tion of personal privilege to denounce newspaper: attacks upon him. By im- plication he charged that Lord North- cliffe, British war commissioner in this country, had fn some way influ- enced the attacks. The speech of the Missouri senator, which was dellvered with perceptible emotion ,provoked greater attention than the discussion of the war rev- enue measure itself. He asserted that he had been unjustly assailed because he had presentd a communication addressed to him by a pacifist organ- ization headed by Amos Pinchot and Max Eastman urging him to intro- duce a resolution reflecting the con- gressional view as to the manner in which peace might be obtained. ‘“Have we come the point,” de- manded the senator, “that it is to be regarded as lese majeste or some form of public offense for a senator to lay before this body a respectful com- munication addressed to him? ' When I presented this petition I said noth- ing by way of approval or disapproval of the text, and yet there are vile pub- lications which have hounded me. What sinister influence operates to prod a numerous clzss of metropoli- tan editors into this mad intolerance + Attack on Northcliffe. “Lord Northcliffe, who owns the London Times and other important English publications, is honoring &he United States by a temporary resi- dence. He comes from England un- der some form of official sanction— exactly what it is T do not know—but he has a commission of some kind, and it is said that the principal ob- ject of his mission is to influence the American press for the promotion of the interests he represents. “1f, indeed, that be the object of his mission T feel abliged to say that up to this time his labors have been crowned with marked success. Can it be that a senator or a representative in congress or a public man in any position is in daily danger of being pilloried before the Ameerican people whenever he is audacious enough to do or say anything that does not pass with approval the exacting test of My Lord Northcliffe’s censorship? “I will not comment to any extent upon this most recent storm of scur- rility which has been beaten upon me g storm started out of the depths of my great offense in presuming to pre- sent a peace petition to the senate. If I am, correctly informed, as I believe I am, some of the editors who have in- dulged in these scandalous denuncia- tions are unnaturalizeed residents of the United States who owe allegiance to King George V. Abuse Our Hospitality.” “Such men, instead of serving their country on the battleground, seek the hospitality of the United States and abuse it by villifying American public offifficials who do not happen in all re- spects to accord with their views and purposes. Perhaps my Lord North- cliffe and others of his caste believe that these foreign editors so working here do better service in this way— that is to say, in striving to control American public' opinion—than they could.do in shooting their armed ene- mies along the trench lines. They are employed to fire fusilades of a differ- ent kind.” The Missouri senator declared that he had no German blood in his veins. On the contrary, he asserted that he had ‘“better English blood in his veins than the present English King.” He reviewed his record on the war meas- ures and asserted that by voting for them he had displayed patriotism of the highest character. He said that he indorsed every word the President had said in his note to the Pope. “I am willing to go to war to pre- serve the civilization of the English- speaking people of the world if for a moment I belleved their civiization was imperilled,” he continued. T did oppose having the United States en- ter war as a belligerent, and every day I live confirms me in the wisdom of that action.” But now that this countrwy is at war, he added, he-would do everything within his power to aid it in carrying the struggle to a successful termina- tlan, Of Missour!’s foreign population, Senator Stone declared his bellef that 65 per cent. of the German voters had been loyal to the Republic ,and he denied that any influence had been brought to bear on him. The Newark Shoe Store—Bargains. In addition to the large stock aof men's shoes at bargain prices, The Newark Shoe Store, at 824 Main St just above the track, are putting in a new line of the very latest in ladies’ shoes, All the pepular shades and styles, Twe prices only will be found at this stere, $8.50 and $4.50. 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