Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-04-26
KELLY ON THE MARCH
The Army ON its March toward
WashingtOn.

Omana, April gO.-lne real facts ABOUT
the presence of the militia at Council
Bluffs and Camp Kelly near Chautauqua
station were made public in an interview
with Judge y. w. Hubbard, attorney for
the Northwestern Railroad company.
While smertiag under the criticisms of
the press and public opinion, Mr.. Hubbard
acknowledged that he was responsible for
the calling out of the state troops.
IF these tramps aud buns try to
capture one of our trains there will be
trodtle,' said Mr.. Hubbard, and should
they gain possession of a train through
IN hook or crook or by the ~sympathies
of our trainmen, we will ditch the train,
if it destroys every car and hurts a lot
of men. We will not carry these Migrants
for love of money or be forced tn by their
capturing our rolling stock. In the eyes
Of the law they are a band of beggars,
who are organized for an unlawful pur-
Ecse and to prey upon the people who are
compelled TO feed them ard move them
on to the next station. Why, if we were
to carry these crowds over the lows rail
roads we would be compelled to carry ten
thousand more idlers just like them.
They would swamp our roads and we
could DO nothing but charity business,
and this is what we do not intend to do.
Our roads were not built for charitable
purposes, This movement must be
stopped right here nd now"
Omaha, April 20.--The Iowa militia
was ordered home last evening and all
companies have goue. Kelly says that
if he des not secure a train by noon to-
day he will march his army back to
Council Bluffs. General Manager st.
John, of the railroad, arrived in the city
last night and after learning the condition
of Kelly's men advised President Gable
by telegraph to furnish q train to take
the men to Chicago. President Gable
wired he would not decide whether to
furnish g train until morning. He ex-
presses warm sympathy for the men, and
recognizes the fact that if violence is
done railroad property will be the first
to suffer. The Kelly army is camped at
Weston, a station ON the railroad ten
miles east of Council Bluffs.
Omaha, April 2I.-Gen. Kelly is all the
good words hitherto said of him con
yey I'd to the readers and more. He dis
played the rerest of judgment and forti-
tude when he declined to put his ninR on
Il trein stolen at Council B~luffs-stolcn by
the CT gineers and fremeu of the Union
Pacific. 1t was a Union Pacific engine,
with Union Pacific cars, III the Rock
lsland track. Gen. Kelly declined il be-
cruise he said he had not yet broken any
law and did not intend to start in here.
There was great excitement here all day,
and it was intensified at nightfall by the
news that a train had been captured TO
relieve Kelly. Crowds thronged the
streets and an immense open mir meeting
was held. Rumors of the calling out of
federal troops, of state troops, of deaths
in kelly's camp, and reports of every
cor ceivable nature kept the GROVE on a
tension hard to understand. But no dis
order unusual ensued, and as if by a
miracle the clash that seemed inevitable,
was averted and Kelly's army slept at
camp at Weston waiting for daybreak to
march to Council Bluffs where a new
start East will be made on foot.
Washington, April 21.-Representative
Davis Pop, Kan.) has introduced in
the house a long bill reciting the woes of
the unemployed and directing the secre-
tary of wal to Immediately enlist 800
COO men in an industrial volunteer army
to serve for the period of one year after
| Ell listn emit" The ARM is to be fed and
Gle IL ed and paid as regular soldiers. In-
stead of drilling, they are employed on
public highways, etc. To defray the ex-
p'Lses of this army the secretary of the
treasury is to issue S50,0O0,0OO of legal
tender notes and certain other form of
currency. The bill specifies the following
issues of money to pay the army: Fifty
million dollars to replace the waste and
destruction on notes under the act of
1878; $150,0O0,0O0 to replace national
bank currency retired, $lO0, 100000 and
annually thereafter to keep up the volume
of money.
Nicola, Iowa, April 23.-Kelly and his
industrial army completed their first days
march from Council Bluffs here at q
o'clock last evening, and Immediately went
into camp in a grove jrst east of town.
| The entry into Nicola was a triumphal
march. Almost every man, woman AM
child of the LOO inhabitants went out
to greet the army. Flags were borne
ibd cheers We're lusty as the 500 men
| tr.,u ped down the street. The stores
ind vacant buildings of this place were
thrown wide open and the weary men
offered all available shelter. The start
fcm Camp Weston was made at D
O'Clock. Hundreds of people had gone
out from Council Bluffs and Omaha to
see the beginning of the long overland
march, and a dozen wagons heavily
laden with provisions awaited the NOV
| ing of the column. AS soon as breakfast
was over and blankets strapped the
companies fell into line, and in step with
the energetic trumping of a bass drummer
tramped down the hill upon which the
camp was situated, and the march to
| Washington was begun. The day was a
perfect one, and rapid time was made
along the smooth. well beaten roads.
From every farm house flags were flying
and at every cross roads lines of gaily
decorated wagons and carriages awaited
the coming of the army. The little town
| of Underwood was reached about noon
and a sumptuous repf st was served by
| the enthusiastic villagers. When the
meal was over aid the impromptI
speeches done the march -7as resumed
amid the energetic cheering Of the crowd
that was gathered. On every hand the
deepest sympathy for Kelly and his men
was expressed. Formers and townsmen
Were eager to supply the wants of the
commonwealers. Nicola is with Kelly to
| a man, and the condemnation of the &C
ton Of the railroads in refuGing rams,
\ uortas;on &, as yinlapt harn no ~ Comm