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300 VIOLENCE AND THE LABOR MOVEMENT
cago Record. He was asked by Commissioner Carroll
D. Wright as to the character of the United States deputy
marshals. His answer was : "From my experience with
them I think it was very bad indeed. I saw more cases
of drunkenness, I believe, among the United States deputy
marshals than I did among the strikers." (27) Benjamin
H. Atwell, reporter for the Chicago Nezvs, testified:
"Many of the marshals were men I had known
around Chicago as saloon characters. . ... . . The first
day, I believe, after the troops arrived
the deputy
marshals went up into town and some of them got
pretty drunk." (28) Malcomb McDowell, reporter for
the Chicago Record, testified that the deputy marshals
and deputy sheriffs "were not the class of men who ought
to be made deputy marshals or deputy sheriffs. . . .
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 sheriffs and deputy marshals
drunk than I saw strikers drunk." (29) Harold I. Cleveland,
reporter for the Chicago Herald, testified "I was
... :
on the Western Indiana tracks for fourteen days
. . . and I suppose I saw in that time a couple of
hundred deputy marshals. ... I think they were a
very low, contemptible set of men." (30)
In Mr. Baker's testimony he speaks of seeing in
one
of the riots "a big, rough-looking fellow, whom the people
called Tat.' " (31) He was the leader of the mob, and
when the riot was over, "he mounted a beer keg in front
of one of the saloons and advised men to go home, get
their guns, and come out and fight the troops,
fire on
them." . . . The same man appeared two nights later
at Whiting, Indiana, and made quite a disturbance there,