Philadelphia Inquirer, September 22, 1901View transcription
Police Disperse Socialist Crowd
Meeting Was Scheduled in Camden, But It Was Prohibited for Fear of Trouble
Considerable excitement was created in Camden last night by the attempt of members of the Camden branch of the Socialistic party to hold an open air meeting at the junction of Broadway, Newton avenue and Mt. Vernon streets. The meeting was stopped by orders of Mayor Hatch. Chief of Police Foster, Captain Stanley, Sergeants Reader and Stackhouse and twenty-five patrolmen were kept busy dispersing the large crowd which gathered. For a time it looked as though there would be serious trouble.
George H. Geabel, of Newark, N. J., who was expected to deliver the principal address, said to Chief Foster that it was an abridgement of the freedom of speech, that neither he nor his party were anarchists or Nihilists. He insisted that Czolgosz is a Nihilist. The Chief replied that their attitude might not be understood by the large crowd gathered, and violence might be done them, and it was his duty, therefore, to stop the meeting.
Meeting Was Scheduled in Camden, But It Was Prohibited for Fear of Trouble
Considerable excitement was created in Camden last night by the attempt of members of the Camden branch of the Socialistic party to hold an open air meeting at the junction of Broadway, Newton avenue and Mt. Vernon streets. The meeting was stopped by orders of Mayor Hatch. Chief of Police Foster, Captain Stanley, Sergeants Reeder and Stackhouse and twenty-five patrolmen were kept busy dispersing the large crowd which gathered. For a time it looked as though there would be serious trouble.
George H. Geabel, of Newark, N. J., who was expected to deliver the principal address, said to Chief Foster that it was an abridgement of the freedom of speech, that neither he nor his party were anarchists or Nihilists. He insisted that Czolgosz is a Nihilist. The Chief replied that their attitude might not be understood by the large crowd gathered, and violence might be done them, and it was his duty, therefore, to stop the meeting.
