The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-04-30
HEAVEN is AT HAND.
Carl Browne With a Cup Coffee
in One Hand,
And a Hard Boiled Egg in
the Other,
TELLS HIS SOLDIERS
He is Ready for the 'Reincar-
nation"

WASHINGTON, April 30. - Citizen
James s. Coxey. communicative chief
of the good roads army of the COM
monweal, standing on rlckety wagon
in the center of Brightwood driving
park, waving a1oft his alpine hat to
one of the most cosmopolitan and ex-
tensive audiences ever gathered in
Washington, announced yesterday af-
ternoon 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 wheeling apology for a band,
pitched tents and stretched them
selves in the sun. Thousands from
the city turned out to make a holiday
of it and inspect the curious aggrega-
ton
Over the most pretentious tent,
which bore the sign of headquarters"
painted across it, were found 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 a cup of coffee in one
hand and a boiled egg in the other,
from which he alternately took re-
freshments and susteDance, sat GEN
eral COxey- The question which has
most agitated Washington of late was
propounded to him by the press re-
porter.
sWhat do you intend to do when
the police prevent you from holding
your meeting in the capitol grounds2"
he was asked.
tsNo one will prevent u.s." 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 assem- blages on the cap
itol grounds, aud the police will stop
your army if it attempts to trespass-"
THE constitution was written be-
fore any police regulations" replied
the general. IF they come in con-
dict with the constitution, they are
void We stand squarely upon the
constitution, that is our platform"
How do you intend to enforce your
rights?''
VIII Appeal to the Courts
ssThere is but one way, by an APP
peal to the courts. We will go before
the highest courts in the land if neces-
snry. Meanwhile we will wait here
in Washington if it takes all summer.
If the courts refuse US our rights
there will be a revolution 1 do not
advocate revolution, nor do 1 desire
it, but it will be irresistible, and it
will be the greatest revolution of his
tory, if the American people are once
thoroughly aroused
The conversation of Mr. COxeV was
broken into by a trumpe t. call, which
summoned the choir of the army.
Following Carl Browne, the choir of
dozen privates in the army hocked out
to the platform wagon Browne
climbed into the wagon; beside him
stood a stalwart man holding alOft
the banner with the legend: 1.-The
Kingdom of Heaven ION Earth) Is at
Hand" The choir sang in various
keys-a key to each individual-a
parody on the revival hymn Hold the
Fort" Before the singing was ended,
several hundred people gathered
around the wagon, with uplifted
faces. Across the race track, in front
of the improvised platform, the grand
stand seats were filed with solid rows
of men and women, like on race day.
The track itself was full of car
riages, in some of which la dies and
gentlemen of the fashiona BILE world
leaned back, shaded by parasols, and
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 Senate
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 a
strange mixture of theology and
finance He acknowledged that he
was crank, because it took a crank
to move anything, he said The pres
emit condition of the country, he de-
clared to be the fulfIlmeDt of the
revelation to St John The horns of
the beast were the seven conspiracies
against the money of the people; the
ten horns were the ten mOnOPOlies,
foremost among them the sugar trust
Grover Cleveland had called an
extra session of congress, and by
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 general
scrambled up awkwardly upon the
wagon and was introduced, he waved
his hat to each quarter of the compass
Coxey Makes Speech
The citizen launched into his de-