AtDDtA1: 24-25

[Paul Nightingale]

The second part of Ch3 sees Randolph off to visit Nate. This section runs
parallel to that previous. Randolph, "though out of uniform, was still on
duty" (24). Darby thought he was "going over to meet a girl" (16), a
suggestion that Randolph didn't refute. Interesting to note that Randolph
has adopted a disguise of sorts here, for the benefit both of his crew and
Chicagoans at large. His destination is "a seedy block" and upon meeting the
"young lady typewriter" he is addressed as "sonny".

Hence one intention of this passage is to remind us that, out in the 'real
world' (in spite of Lindsay's claims on 9) the rules onboard the
Inconvenience do not apply. If Lindsay and Miles visit "a separate, lampless
world, out beyond some obscure threshold" etc, then so does Randolph. Once
again we are reminded that authority is situated, and Nate also is found
"peering at Randolph ... with that mixture of contempt and pity which the
Chums in their contact with the ground population were sooner or later sure
to evoke" (25).

Nate's speech on 25 echoes that by Lindsay (6).

One can infer that, by focusing on so-called 'natural differences' between
the races and between the sexes also, the Fair attempted to deny, or
downplay, social class differences (and certainly conflict). All of which
begs a pretty obvious question--how far the organisation of the Fair, the
sub-division into "commercial and 'popular'" and "high-toned, educational"
did, effectively, segregate the classes (Lindsay's and Miles' misadventure
notwithstanding).

Nonetheless, class conflict was present at the Fair, not least in the
unavoidable memory of Haymarket. By 1893, three so-called anarchists were
still in prison, and Clarence Darrow was involved in the campaign to see
them pardoned.

James Green (2000) Taking History to Heart: The Power of the Past in
Building Social Movements, University of Massachusetts Press, 130-132.

"On 25 June 1893 thousands of unionists again converged on Waldheim
[cemetery] to dedicate a statue at the gravesite. Many foreign visitors from
the Columbian Exposition boarded special trains to attend the ceremony nine
miles from Haymarket. The statue, inspired by a lyric in the 'Marseillaise,'
was forged in bronze in the form of a hooded woman laying a laurel wreath on
the brow of a dying worker. It resembled earlier art in the French
republican tradition in which strong female figures symbolized liberty and
justice. The martyrs' followers created a place of memory with a monument at
Waldheim in order to advance the work of remembering. 

"The day after the dedication, the new populist governor of Illinois, John
Peter Altgeld--himself a German immigrant--pardoned the three other
Haymarket defendants and ensured his own political demise. The governor's
statement--a remarkably radical one for a public official--blamed repressive
police action for the bombing tragedy, claimed evidence had been fabricated,
and accused the trial judge of 'malicious ferocity.'"