Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-05-04
Carl Browne and Christopher Co.
lumbus Jones Hustled Off to
the Station.
SERIOUS RIOT BARELY AVERTED.
Police Succeed In Quelling the
Disturbance by the Free Use
of Clubs.


the police. Marshal Carl Browne
sleeps in police station cell, and Chris
TOPPER Columbus Jones, leader of the
Philadelphia commune and the come
dian OF the movement, endeavors to ap-
propriate share of the martyrdom in
an adjoining cell. The performance
enacted within the shadow Of the Capt.
toll is without counterpart within the
memory Of Washingtonians. Over the
broad plaza of several ac1es facing the
east front of the Capitol was packed
crowd of mon and women. number
ing $4,000. The Capitol steps and the
porticos under the Grecian pillars were
Packed With People
of both sexes, we'll dressed, and most of
the members of congress were in the
throng. More than 200 city police rein
forced the Capitol officers and detectives
from several cities were sprinkled
through the crowd for the concentration
of lawless local characters.
1t was shortly after 1 o'clock when
the army halted south of the Capitol
grounds. Its fve-mile march down
from Brightwood through the principal
streets of the city had been witnessed
by thousands. There were 500 men in
line. Leading the caravan were Mrs.
Annie L. Diggs, the Populist agitator
of Kansas, in barouche; Coxey's r.
year-old daughter on a cream colored
steed, representing the "Goddess of
Peace;'' Carl Brown on great grey
Percheron stallion; General Jacob
Sleicher Coxey, his wife and the infant,
illegal Tender" Coxey.
On the Capitol Steps.
Marshal Browne halted the process
sion, walked back to Coxey's carriage,
the general kissed his wife and the two
moving spirits of the affair forced their
way over the plaza to the Capitol steps,
their men acting under orders by stand
ing in their tracks. After Coxey and
Browne passed through came a yelling
crowd Of several hundred men. Tramp
ling and tearing its way through the
costly shrubbery the mob went, while
the squad of mounted police which
had headed the parade, dazed for a
moment by the unexpected move,
charged recklessly 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, he
thrust upon them printed protest,
which proved to be we'll worded
Epitome of Populist Doctrine.
Meanwhile Carl Browne was being
literally dragged by the collar of his
coaS through the crowd towards the
nearest police station after he had made
a fight to retain his banner. Two police
captains, lieutenant and a sergeant,
thrust the mild hammered Coxey, with
out violence, back across several hun
dred 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; the
women were shrieking in terror, men
were yelling fiercely; some were being
knocked down and trampled 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
the asphalt. Then the two agitating
spirits having been removed and half q
dozen belligerent men having been
taken in by the police
The Disturbance Was Quelled
without serious injuries to single per-
son. Somehow the army was started
off toward its new camp between
double lines of police, followed by a
mob of thousands, cheering like demons
for Cozey and Browne. Within an
hour the Capitol grounds had almost
regained their normal quiet, with only
few hundred people stroling :aroand.
General Coxey accepted the situation
philosophically. His &f1hy was. put to
work clearing ZIP tho new camping
ground for occupancy, while Coxey
drove over to the Office of the district
commissioners with an eye to business.
He made application to them for the
necessary license to charge admittance
| to his camp. The commissioners de-
sired time to consider the proposition,
SO, acting upon their suggestion, Mr..
Coxey went to the clerk, and by paying
s. secured license for one day only.
Coxey Not Complaining.
II have no complaint Coxey said,
Ito make as far as the police are con.
cerned. They treated me with great
consideration, but they had to. carry out
the law even if it was an unjust one.
Ny speechmaking at the Capitol, how.
ever, is over and shall not again at
tempt it. It would be no use. The
American eagle did good deal Of
squealing today, but that was to be ex
pected. The authorities pinched him
rather hard. He will have his say,
/ however, sooner or later"
. The most serious chapter Of the affai1
for WASHINGTON. the problem Of what i