St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-02
GEN. COxEYS GREAT DAY.
BROWNE AHD JONES COT LOCKED
UH
TRAMP ARMY BEHAVED WELL


Speeches Were Made-Police
Handled the Crowd Fairly
Well.
WASHINGTON, May 1.-The march oil
Coxey's commonweal army, which
started from Massiiion, O.. OH Easter
Sunday. ended today in interruption by
the police. Fortunately, there were nc
casualties. and tonight Coxey is adj
dressing his burlesQue army in camp
while Marshal Carl Browne sleeps in q
police station cell. and Christopher Co
lumbus Jones, leader OF the Philadelphia
commune and the comedian of the
movement, endeavors to appropriate a
share OF the martyrdom in an adjoining
cell. The performance enacted within
the shadow OF the capitol today is with
ont counterpart in the memory OF
Washingtoniahs. Over the broad plaza
or several acres facing the east front OF
the capitol was packed a crowd OF men
and women numbering 10000. The cap
itol steps and the porticos under the
GreciaD pillars were packed with peu-
pie OF both sexes, we'll dressed, and
mosto the members of congress were
IN the throng.
An early adjournment had been taken
oy the senate on account of the death of
Senator Stockbridge, but The house. not
wishing to seem to be terrorized by the
demonstration. went through the sem.
oiance OF session with handful of
members. Mere than 200 city police
reinforced the capitol officers, detectives
rom several cities were sprinkled
through the crowed, for the concentra-
ton of lawless local characters gave
justification Of apprehension apart from
the presnce of the COXeyites.
1t was shortly after / o'clock when
the army halted south of the capitol
grounds. Its fye-mile march down
from Brghtwood through the principal
streets of the city had been witnessed
by thousands. There were 500 men in
line. Mrs. Annie l.. Diggs, the Popu-
IiStic agitatOr of Kansas. in barOuche 4;
Coxey's seventeen-year-oldd daughter in
white OH cream-colored steed, repre-.
senting the goddess of peace; Carl
Browne OH great gray Percheron
stallion; Gen. jacob Sielcher CoXey. his
wife. the infant Legal Tender Coxey.
together in another carriage; Virginia
La Nalette, said 10 be an actress. on
horseback, draped in an American flag,
as the Philadelphia coinmune's goddess
of peace; the unemployed carrying
white flags of peace on slaves, and the
nOndescIipt banners setting forth the
doctrines of reiacarnatun, good roads
and enmity to plutocrats. sprinkled
through the caravan. Marshal Browne
halted the procession there in the
street, walked back to Coxey's carriage,
TIE GENERAL KISSED HIS WIFE;
then the two moving spirits of the affair
forced their way over the plaza to the
capitol. their men acting under orders
by standing in their tracks. After
Coxey and Browne passed through a
yelling crowd of several hundred men
most of them followed Browne. conspic-
uous because Of his unique costume.
Trampling and tearing its way through
the costly shrubbery the mob went,
while the squad of mounted police
which had headed the parade. dazed for
moment by the unexpected move,
charged reckIessly into their midst.
CoXey was confronted by the police as
he took off his hat to speak on the steps,
and, his demand for his constitutional
rights. as he called it, being refused,
thrust upon them a printed protest.
which proved to be well-worded
epitome of POpulistic doctrines.
Meanwhile Carl Browne was be-
ing literally dragged by the
collar of his coat through the crowd
towards the nearest police station after
he had made fight to retain his, ban
her. Two police captains, lieutenant
and sergeant thrust the mild-man-
nered Coxey, without violence, back
across several hundred feet of humanity
to his carriage. Mounted police were
forcing their horses among the people ;
several of them cracking their clubs
over the heads of the nearest persons,
women were shrieking in terror, men
were yelling fiercely; some were being
knocked down and trampied upon. For
five minutes there was riot in that Sec
ton of the mob in front of the east
steps, which occupied about an acre OF
asphalt. Then, the two agitating spirits
having been removed and half dozen
belligerent men having been taken in
by the police, the disturbance was
quelled
SINGLE PERSON.
Somehow the army was started off to-
ward its new camp between double
lines OF police. followed by a mob OF
thousands cheering like demons fu,
Coxey and Browne. Within an hour
the capitol grounds had almost regained
their normal quiet, with only few
hundred people strolling around. Gen.
Coxey accepted the situation philo-
sophically. bis army was put to work
clearing up the new camping ground
for occupancy, while Coxey drove over
to the Office of the district commission,
ers with an eye to business. He made
application to them for the necessary
license to charge Ambulance to his
to consider the propositions, SO, acting
upon their suggestion. Mr.. Coxey went
to the clerk and by paying IS secured a
license for one day only.
'IHAvE NO COMPLAINT
Coxey said. ITO make. as far as the DO
lice are concerned. They treated me
with great consideration. but they had
to carry out the law. even if it was an
unjust one. My speechmaking, how
ever, at the capitol is over, and shall
not again attempt it. Ii would be nc
use. The American eagle did a good
dea! of squeaiing today, but that was te
be expected. The authorities punched
him rather hard. He will have his saw
however, sooner or later"
THE MOST SERIOUS CHAPTER
of the affair for Washington. the prob
lem Of what is to be done with the army,
remains unsolved. Coxey has no inten.
tiou Of leading his recruits away. he