The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1894-05-01


James 5. Coxey, commander-in-c chief
OF the good roads army of the com
monweal, standing on rickety wagon
in the center of Brightwood driving
park, waving aloft his alpine hat to
one of the most co>>oopo Titan and ex-
tensive audiences eve: gathered in
Washington. announced yesterday af-
tcrnoon the greatest march of
the nineteenth century had
been accomplished. Three hundred
and half of miserably dressed, woe
begone, grumbling. out at the elbows,
and run down at the heel specimens
of humanity marched into the park
led by wheezing apology for band,
pitched tents and stretched them
selves in the sun. Thousands from
the city turned out to make holiday
of it and inspect the curious aggrega-
tion.
Over the most pretentious tent,
which bore the sign of headquarters"
painted across it, were foun1 the
leaders OF the army. General Coxey
and Marshal Browne. The marshal
busted himself in changing his buck
skin suit for a more conventional
black cutaway in preparation for the
incarnation services" which were
about to begin.
Clad in fashionable spring attire OF
light drab hue, and as perfectly creas-
ed trousers as could be seen on Fifth
avenue, with cup of coffee in one
hand and a boiled egg in the other,
from which he alternately took re-
freshments and sustepance, sat Gen
eral Coxey. The question which has
most agitated Washington OF late was
propounded to him by the press re-
porter.
What do you intend to do when
the police prevent you from holding
your meet ting in the capitol grounds?'
he was asked.
"No one will prevent us" replied
the seer from Massillon. "Does not
the constitution guarantee the right
to peaceably assemble and petition
congress-"
But there is a police regulation
passed by congress- which forbids pro
cessions and assemblages on the cap
itol grounds, aud the police will stop
your army II il attempts to trespass.
The constitution was written be
fore any police regulations" replied
the general. 'If they come in con.
hict with the constitution, they arc
void. We stand squarely upon the
constitution, that Is our platform"
How do You intend to Spforce your
VIII Appeal to the courts-
There is but one way, by an ap
peal to the courts. We will go before
the highest courts in the land If neces
sary. Meanwhile we will wait here
in Washington IL it takes all summer.
IL the courts refuse us our right:
there will be revolution. | do not
advocate revolution, nor do l desire
IL, but it will be irresistible. and IL
win be the greatest revolution of his
tory, il the American people are once
thoroughly aroused"
The conversation of Mr.. Coxey was
broken into by a trumpet-call, which
summoned the choir of the army
Following Carl Browne, the choir of q
dozen privates in the army flocked ou'
TO the platform wagon. Browne
climbed into the wagon; beside hin
stood a stalwart man holding Cioft
the banner with the legend: 1.-THE
Kingdom of Heaven Ton Earth) Is al
Hand" The choir sang in variou,
keys-a key to each individual
parody on the revival hymn Hold the
Fort" Before the singing was ended
several hundred people gathered
around the wagon, with uplifteC
faces. Across the race track, in from
of the improvised platform, the granC
A. IL 20. laI Il
of men and women, like on n race day.
The track itself was full of car
riages, in some of which la dies ant
gentlemen of the fashionable worlt
leaned back, shaded by parasois, ano
listening curiously. Senators Man.
derson and Frye with their wives
were in handsome carriages, Senator
Coke aud Representative Kilgore OF
Texas, stood wedged in by the popu.
lace, the long, gray beard of Senator
Dolph of Oregon, showed conspicu
ously. Representative Dolliver was
at the head of another group of con
gressmen. Mrs Anna l.. Diggs, OF
Kansas, the Populist speaker, stood
with her baby in her arms.
Theology and Finance.
The speech of Carl Browne was &
strange mixture OF theology and
finance. He acknowledged that he
was a crank, because 1t took crsnl
to move anything, he said. The pres
ent condition of the country, he de
clared to be the fulfillInent of the
revelation TO st. John. The horns o.
the beast were the seven conspiraciei
against the money of the people; the
ten horns were the ten monopolies
foremost among them the sugar trust
Grover Cleveland had called al
extra session OF congress, and by
the aid of "that gray-headeC
rat from Ohio, John sherman" had
been able TO heal the wounds OF the
seventh head by repeating the silver
purchasing bill. Brownies speech
was listened to with impatience, be
cause the people wanted to hear
Coxey. When finally the genera
scrambled up awkwardly upon the
wagon and was introduced, he waved
his hat TO each quarter of the compass
Coxey Makes a Speech.
The citizen launched into his de-
scription of the millions of starving
unemployed, shouting, "Well sta,
here all summer, until congress takes
action on these bills" Great ap
pause with bell accompaniment 81
believe they will be passed in two
weeks. You only have TO pick up the