A. I was here after they arrived, but not here on the night of the bloodshed.
Q. You say there was no necessity for calling the troops here?
A. None that I could see.
Q. You mean by that that the civil authorities were able to cope with the mob, or with the strikers?
A. I think the civil authorities could have successfully coped with any disorder if it had not been for the introduction of the troops and their want of discipline. I think that the troops helped more than any other cause, so far as my judgment has been able to reach. Their want of discipline, their want of coolness, and subsequently their demoralization, running away, was the prime cause which led the mob, and brought out the bad elements in it, and gave them to suppose they were masters of the field.
By Mr. Means:
Q. You mean to say that there was a demonstration of that kind before the Philadelphia troops arrived?
A. Of which kind?
Q. Of the mob going out to destroy property?
A. It had assumed that which in popular parlance, is termed a mob.