The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1894-05-03
Coxey's Army Parade
Leader of the CommonWeal- l.
ers Reaches the Capitol.
He is Net Allowed to Speak
Taken in Charge by Police
and Sent to His Carriage.
Carl Browne Placed in Jail
Performance at the CaditOl
Without a Counterpart
Police Charge the
Crowd

Washington, u. e., May 1.-The
march of Coxey's commonweal army,
which started from Massillon, O., on
Easter Sunday: ended to-day by the
interruption of the police. Fortu,
nately there We're no casualties, and |
to night General Coxey is addressing
his burlesque army In camp. while
Marshal Carl Browne is under bond,
and Christopher Columbus Jones,
leader of the Philadelphia commune
and the comedian of the movement,
who endeavors to appropriate a
share of the martyrdom, sleeps in
police station. The performance en-
acted within the shadow OF the Cap
itol today is without counterpart
in the memory of Washingtonians
Over the broad smooth plaza of sew
eral acres facing the east front of
the Capitol was packed. crowd of
men and women numbering 10000.
The Capitol steps and the porticos
under the Grecian pillars were pack
ed with people Of both sexes. well
dressed, and most Of the members
of Congress in the throng.
It was shortly after clock when
the army halted in the public street
south of the Capitol grounds. Its
FIVE mile march down from Bright
wood through the principal streets
of the city had been witnessed by
thousands There were 500 men in
,, line Mrs. Annie L Diggs, the Pop
ulistic agitator of Kansas, in ba
rouche; Coxey's II year old daughter
in white on cream colored steed
representing the Goddess of Peace;
Carl Brown on great gray Perch
eron stallion, General Jacob Slecher
Coxey, his wife, and the infant Legal
Tender Coxey together in another
carriage; Virginia La Valette, said tc
s be an actress, on horseback, draped
in an American flag as the Philadel
phia eommune's Goddess of Peace
- the unemployed carrying white flag
8 of peace on slaves and the monde
- - script banners setting forth the doc
g trines of the re incarnation, goot
:. roads and enmity to plutocrat
- sprinkled through the caravan,
:, Marshal Browne halted the pro
- cession there iu the street, walke'
= back to Coxey's carriage, the genera
II kissed his wife, then the two MOVING
-, - spirits of the affair forced their wa
- = over the plaza to the Capitol step:
their men, acting under orders
standing in their tracks. After Coke
and Browne passed yelling crow
y of several hundred men, most c
- :; them following Browne, conspicuou
- because of his unique costume
80 80 Trampling and tearing its wa
~ = through the costly shrubbery th
mob went, while the squad of noun
10 ed police which had headed th
parade, dazed for moment by tt
unexpected move, charged reckless
ID ly into their midst.
~ Coxey was confronted by the pt
50 lice as he took of his hat to spea
y u on the steps, and his demand fc
a. constitutional rights, as he classe
: it. been refused, thrust upon the
-, -. printed protest which proved to |
"a a we'll worded epitome of populi
d doctrines. Meanwhile Carl Brow
was being literally dragged by ii
collar to the nearest station. after
had made fight to retain his ba
~ ner Two police captains, lieute
:e's ant and sergeant thrust the mil
hammered Coxey, without violene
ne ne back across several hundred feet
nts humanity to his carriage. Mount
!iss !!hisss policemen were forcing their hors
the among the people. several OF the
had had cracking their clubs over the hea
bed bed of the nearest persons. women We
) Of shreiking in terror. men were yelli
Iess Iass fercely, some were being knock
@ vas down and trampled upon. For f
i've i've minutes there was riot in that sect;
nks Ir5 of the mob in front of the east ste
am which occupied about an acre of
tmore ore pkalt. Then the two agitating 81
rite rite its having been removed and half
am dozen particularly belligerent n
having been taken in by the poll
Z the disturbance was auelled withs
serious injury to single person.