Nevertheless, there is available proof sufficient to make it clear to
the unprejudiced mind, to the honest man who seeks the truth, that the
United States government, under the administration of President Grover
Cleveland, was at the beck and call of the railroad corporations, acting
as one through the “General Managers’ Association,” and that these
corporations, with the Federal Courts and troops to back them up, had
swarms of mercenaries sworn in as deputy marshals to incite violence as
a pretext for taking possession of the headquarters of the American
Railway Union by armed force, throwing its leaders into prison without
trial and breaking down the union that was victorious, maligning,
brow-beating and persecuting its peaceable and law-abiding members and
putting the railroad corporations in supreme control of the situation.
That was the part of President Cleveland in the Chicago strike, and for
this achievement the railroad combine and the trusts in general remember
him with profound gratitude, and are not only willing but anxious that
he shall be President of the United States forevermore.