St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-06-27
ABOUT ESQ COxEYlIES.
THEY ALL WANTED 10 BOARD TIVE
NIGHT EXPRESS
BOUND Fon THE ZENITH CITY.

The Police stopped Them-A Few
Managed to Get Away on the
Freight Train at Midnight
Mass Meeting at Haymarket
Square - The "Generals" and
'.CoIonels" Deliver Addresses.
At 10 o'clock last night telephone
message came from the st. Paul q
Duluth railroad yards at the corner OF
Third avenue southeast and Ninth
street, to police headquarters, asking
for detachment OF officers. The yard
vas crowded with Coxeyites who were
determined to take the train for Du-
luth. and the railroad men were afraid
some injury might be done
to the cars. Lieut.. Coskran or
dered detachment OF officers to
70 from the Second precinct. The Off
GERS found sixty men in the yards. oil
determined to board the night express,
which leaves the union depot at 1O:40.
When the officers arrived and informed
them they must not board the train I'M
less they had tickets, some of them,
skunk away behind freight cars. evil
IDENTIFY afraid they would be arrested.
Nothing was said, the men merely
standing around and waiting for the
train. When the train pulled into the
yards no attempt was made to board 1t.
The men were orderly and made no.
demonstration.
About l o'clock the freight train
bound for the north started out, and a
T,,., oce l,r d<.I
were prevented by the brakemen and
officers. On the whole. there was NO
disorder. 1t is understood another at
tempt will he made to take train for
Duluth. anu the leaders say their men
ere going north. no matter what hap
pens. 1t may be that by tonight suf1-.
cient money will have been raised TO
transport the army OF tickets, second
class. =
1t is customary for stage celebrities
to give farewell performances, and
especially farewell tours. Not to be
outd0ue by any one i'll the theatrical
profession, the Coxeyites last night gavs
what they advertised as Farewell
mass meeting" it was held on Hay
market square, as usual, aud the usual
crowd of several thousand people at
tended. Addresses were made by
''Gen." Jetfries, BRIG. Gen." Shoals,
Col Ross and Keep Off-the- Grass"
Brooks. The tenor OF their addresses
was the industrial movement and
monopoly. Gen." Jeffries spoke about
the assassination of President Carnot,
and remarked that he desired it under
stood that the Coxeyites did not favor
anarchy or violence.
Argument was the great 1weapon. ac-
cording to the general" and for all
hour or more he belab0red the monopo-
lists, the plut0crats ana the royalists.
Col" Ross made "stirring' speech.
In which he dropped his his and
added them with remarkable dexterity.
He spoke of one Backwards" who. as
correspondent for certain newspapers,
lad done 'arm to the industrial
movement" He spoke Of "harnichists"
and dynamite" and maintained SIREN
uously that he was opposed ~ both.
Later in the evening Gen" jeffries
read the names of the directors of the
Guaranty Loan company, and stated
that the list was furnished him by the
chaser" He commented OH each name
as he read it. and none OF the comments
were such that these directors would
| have been pleased to have been III the
crowd at the time of his making them.
The crowd cheered him enthusiastic
ally.
This evening there will be another
meeting of the Coxeyites, in spite Of
what the bills said. At this meeting
there will be organized what is know as
''home guard"
IA meeting was held last night in the
journal Office, the Journal directors aud
the eX-stockholders of the Times at
tending. MIR. Swift stated at the con.
clusion of the meeting that the matter
of the injunction was discussed and that
it had been decided to pay no attention
to it. He said the Injunction wasnoth-
ing more nor less than q bluff, neither
Thresher, Ankeny nor Nimocks having
any grounds for an Injunction.