The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-05-10
ooXEY CAPTURED.
The Leader of the Commonweal and His Lieutenant Arrested While Attempting to Enter the National Capitol

Lieutenant Arrested While Attempting
 to Enter the National Capitol
 WASHINGTON, May 2.-The common veal army was astir early yesterday upon Brightwood heights with prepara- tions for the great procession to the capitol. All the men carried slaves on which futtered white flags with the motto: "Peace on earth, good will to men, but death to interest on bonds" The first delegation to join the pro. cession was the J. $. Coxey club. It consisted of 125 men, mostly bricklay- CTS, who met the army at Boundary street. the old limits of the city.
 At Thomas circle Marshal Browne ordered a slight halt for a rest, while the men gave three cheers for ''peace. The police dashed up and upon their command the army promptly moved on. The commonwealers turned into Pennsylvania avenue about 1915 and as the opening was reached solid front of mounted policemen was seen. They stretched from curb to curb, making ingress toward the capitol im- possible. Coxey sprang from his car riage and made his way back toward the entrance to the capitol A how'll ing mob was on his heels but the flank movement was appreciated
 Browne followed, bearing his banner. The rank and file of the army stood in the street The squad of police sud- denly discovered that Coxey had turned back. Quickly the officers spurred through the crowd after Coxey and Browne. Coxey had slipped through the nSruggling mass and before any one knew it was bounding up the east front entrance to the capitol. He was up to the tenth step before he was recognized. Then the officers closed in above him and his further passage was barred
 Capt Garden quietly took Coxey by the left arm and Lieut.. Kelly took him by the right. Again the mounted po- lice charged; the crowd surged and it looked as though there would be trou- ble. But the little knot of officers pressed forward with Coxey in the cen ter. They were satisfied in having prevented the use of the capitol for Coxey's speech and attendant demon stration.
 When the way had been cleared Coxey was given unrestrained liberty. He turned toward his army, which stood on B street Carl Browne was a shining mark for the policemen on &C., count of his conspicuous costume, and from the same reason the most aggres- sive and tumultuous portion of the crowd followed him. 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 be- fore them.
 When Browne reached the foot of the capitol steps there was a hurried and exciting dialogue between him and the police, which could not be heard through the uproar Then two policemen threw themselves 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 shoulders in the group, but whether 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 ex- pected blows, and could be heard shout ing: "I am an American citizen; I stand on my constitutional rightsr Despite his constitutional rights, the dramatic marshal was dragged to the police station.
 Jesse Coxey led the army back to camp, his white-clad sister, the Goddess of Peace, retaining her courage admir- ably.
 Late in the afternoon Browne's bail was fixed at $500 Mrs Emily Briggs, wealthy resident of this city, and Mrs Anna Hahn, a prominent labor sympathizer, undertook the bond and the chief marshal was set free.
 Coxey said he was we'll satisfied with what had transpired during the day. He believed that the fact that the com mon people of the United States, rep resented by his followers, had been de- nied the right peaceably to assemble and state their grievances, would be heralded throughout the land and would result in bring ing many thousands of the unemployed to this city. He still ad. vised peace and declared that he be- lieved his two bills would be passed by congress inside of two or three weeks. There was large crowd about the camp during the evening, and large detail of police was posted there to pre-