The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-01

MS Iurtner passage was barred.
The great crowd now recognized him
and shout went up from every corner
OF the vast assemblage. Coxey turned
to the crowd and raised his hat He was
pale. Captain Garden of the Capitol
police stepped to one side of him and
Lieutenant Kelly of the city police was
at his other arm. The officers formed
solidly about him. The crowd below was
Kept back by menacing clubs.
Nv hat do you want to do here?" asked
Captain Garden.
II wish to make an address, re-
sponded Coxey, his voice showing intense
emotion.
"But you cannot do that"
He Wanted to Protest
'9Ihen can l read protest." asked
Coxey.
There was a moments hesitation He
drew from his pocket a type-written
manuscript and began to unfold it.
There was movement among the Of
| ficers.
| Capt. Garden quietly took Coxey by
| the left arm and Lieutenant Kelly took
him by the right. They moved down
the steps, the solid rank of officers fol-
lowing. Coxey was thus impelled down
ward and forward. He was not pulled
or put under arrest, but firmly pushed
away.
| At the first steps the great crowd greet
ed Coxey and the officers with storm of
shouts.
/ Again the mounted police charged,
the crowd surged and it looked as though
there would be trouble. But the little
knot of officers pressed forward with
Coxey in the center. They were danked
| by the mounted officers.
Thus Coxey made his exit from the
capitol entrance and the east front AS
he moved away he tossed the type-writ-
ten protest to the group of newspaper
men and said: "That is for the press"
There was no formal arrest. The officers
| merely moved him away from the center
of conflict.
They were satisfied in having prevent
ed the use of the capitol grounds for
Coxey's speech and attendant demon
stration- When the way had been clear
ed, Coxey was given unrestrained lib
erty.
i He turned towards his army, which
still stood on B street Carl
Browne was a shining mark for the
policemen account of his conspicuous
costume, and from the same reason the
most aggressive and tumultuous portion
of the crowd followed him.
Police Break Through.
As he broke through the foliage of
the lawn half a dozen mounted police
charged after him across the grounds,
escaping by a miracle from running
down any of the people who scattered
right and left before them.
When Browne reached the foot
hurried and exciting dialogue be-
tween him and the police,
which could not be heard through the
uproar
Then two policemen threw them
selves upon Browne, grabbed his flag
of peace and smashed the staff,
| seized Browne by the shoulders and
thrust him through the crowd several
hundred feet to the sidewalk.
Clubs were seen descending upon mems
fho hut hot fHox-
Browne was hit, could not be seen.
As the two officers rushed him through
/ the crowd he was seen trying to shelter
| his head as though he expected
/ blows, and could be heard shouting: 81
am an American citizen; l stand upon
my constitutional rights" Despite his
constitutional rights, the dramatic mar
shall was dragged to the police station.
When the police had escorted Coxey to
his carriage, -hurrying him by the
shoulders, he clambered into the vehicle
where his wife sat with Legal Tender"
in her lap and as he stood there a loud
cheer was sent up from the surround
ing crowd.
Then the policemen seemed to lose
their heads and falling upon the luckless
colored women they clubbed the negroes
Justify:
For moment the army which while
all this was going on had been waiting on
ID
leaderless and in confusion, although the
men had not broken ranks in all the tum-
ult. Honor fell to the humble bass drum
mer of rescuing it from confusion,
for he started rythmic and regular
"boom' upon the instrument and the
commonwealers fell into step with Coxey
bowing to the right and left amid wild
cheers the procession turned down
Second street to the south and started to
march to the new camp in the EalariOus
region in the extreme southern part of
the city.
Christopher Columbus Jones of the
Philadelphia contingent, was also ar
rested. He and Browne will be arraign-
ed in police court tomorrow. DisOrderly
conduct and assaulting an officer, it was
said at first, would be the charge,
but later at police headquarters it
was stated that the charge is
to be violation of the ST eciai act OF con-
gress against assemblages in the capitol
grounds. The penalty under this act is
a fine not to exceed $10O or imprison-
ment not to exceed sixty days or both.
The senate and house each adjourned
today almost as soon as the session began
out of respect to Senator Stockbridge's
memory.
COXEY'S BILLS.
T1,. waasures Which the Ohio Reformor