The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-03-24

taA WyCQ6Vll0 V8.-E. h. Bailey.
Norfolk and Western trains.
ROANOKE, VA. MARCH "a. 1894.
The following suggest on from the
Jacksonville Citizen, which we copy in
part, appears on the front cover of the
Manufacturers Record under the head.
ing how to develop the South:
In this age of the world the only
way to push any business is to adver-
tie st. This is as true of attracting
visitors, bringing settlers and securing
the investment of outside capital as it
is of selling a new remedy for disease
or finding q market for some new
implement 1t is not enough to have
fish the fact to the world and to thrust
1t upon the notice of everybody"
The suggestion is the EN- bodiment of
good ''horse sense" 1t is just what
the Manufacturers Record is seeking
every week to carry out and The TIMES
lis always cooperating in any and all
plans to develop this section of the
country. We believe that just at pres
@cnt we have no better opportunity of
presenting the advantages of Roanoke
and Southwest Virginia than by hold
ing an industrial exposition here next
fall In another column The TIMES
readers will notice that this project is
received with favor all along the line.
GENERAL COXEY AND HIS ARMY.
& Up to last nighr when the dispatch
published in another column of The
TIMES was received, we were inclined to
look with some seriousness upon the
movement of the fanatical crusade
which seemed about to be startei by
General Coxey from Massillon, Chic, to
march to Washington to insist upon
Congress the passage of certain meas
ures which Populist PETER has already
introduced in the Senate.
I For several weeks past special and
i Regular United and Associated Press
$dispatches have been rushed over the
i wires 4 over the country. The Ohio
" wv tshington papers and the larger
.-Ies generally have been devoting
A,much space to the elaboration of every
# detail OF the plans that either were
deyised by Coxey himself or the entor-
+ prising reporters on the spot.
The New York Sun has from tho
&Sstart considered it scheme for bring.
ing Massillon into prominence and
cause boom In its real estate, but
aSthe Washington papers have so alarmed
the citizens of the Capital that they
aaye taken means to provide
# or the reception Of the Com
81 nonweal." Colonel Moore. in com.
3 nand Of the regiment OF the National
Hduard at Washington, had the several
companies turn out in short order tho
&kother night just to show Congress now
brompt and efficient they would be in
Answering call for an emergency. The
Sapolice are getting excited too, and even
1.-THE staid Congressman are beginning to
take uan interest in the matter as a
version from the Breckinridge Pollard
capdal and tariff and silver discus
sions.
Someone is authority for the state.
ment that If the mob gets to Washing
/ ton Congress will not allow them to
parade on the Capitol grounds or as.
semhle before the Government building
and call out to the legislative bodies
to listen to their demands. 1t is
doubtful If Congress would so favor
them, and If not what would be the re.
&Sult2
Governor Mckinley, too, has not been
Rbehindhand in assuring the people OF
$Ohio that he would allow no violation
Rbf the peace of the Buckeye Stato 10y
eoxey's horde, while Governor Patteson
Bias been seriously contemplating plan
<or arresting the whole army as vag-
"a ants the moment they touch the Key.
.stone State.
Under such perplexing difficulties,
with nc assurance Of cordial well
4oozue along the line, will the Common
lRsaia start? Will there be round
Sjcore OF people ready to begin on Sun