From the Federal judge who sat on the bench as the protege of the late
George M. Pullman, to whose influence he was indebted for his
appointment—as he was to the railroad companies for the annual passes he
had in his pocket—down to the last thug sworn in by the railroads and
paid by the railroads (p. 340 report of Strike Commission) to serve the
railroads as United States deputy marshal, the one object of the Federal
Court and its officers was, not the enforcement of law and preservation
of order, but the breaking up of the strike in the interest of the
railroad corporations, and it was because of this fact that John P.
Altgeld, Governor of Illinois, and John P. Hopkins, Mayor of Chicago,
were not in harmony with President Cleveland’s administration and
protested against the Federal troops being used in their state and city
for such a malign purpose.
This is the fact and I shall prove it beyond doubt before this article
is concluded.