Page 370: Ray Stannard Baker, then a reporter for the Chicago _Record_,
now on the staff of _McClure’s Magazine_, testified as follows in answer
to the question as to what he knew of the character of the deputy
marshals: “From my experience with them it was very bad. I saw more
cases of drunkenness, I believe, among the United States deputy marshals
than I did among the strikers.”
Pages 366 and 367: Malcomb McDowell, reporter for the Chicago _Record_,
testified: “The United States deputy marshals and the special deputy
sheriffs were sworn in by the hundreds about the 3d and 4th of July, and
prior to that, too, and everybody who saw them knew they were not the
class of men who ought to be made deputy marshals or deputy sheriffs.” *
* * “In regard to most of the deputy marshals they seemed to be hunting
trouble all the time.” * * * “At one time a serious row nearly resulted
because some of the deputy marshals standing on the railroad track
jeered at the women that passed and insulted them.” * * * “I saw more
deputy marshals drunk than I saw strikers drunk.”
These were Edwin Walker’s justly celebrated guardians of the peace.
Page 370: Harold I. Cleveland, reporter for the Chicago _Herald_,
testified: “I was on the tracks of the Western Indiana fourteen days.” *
* * “I saw in that time a couple of hundred deputy marshals. I think
they were a very low, contemptible set of men.”