Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-03-27
COXEY'S TRIBULATIONS.
Musicians Desert, Winds Blow,
but the Army Moves On.
FOOD AND THE MILITIA AWAIT HIM
TIE COmmonwealers Are Due at Alliance
Today, Where There Are Forty Recruits.
Coxey Will Not March His Men Back-A
Feast Preparing at Economy, Pa.

TIE CommonweaIers Are Due at Alliance
Today, Where There Are Forty Recruits.
Coxey Will Not March His Men Back-A
Feast Preparing at Economy, Pa
LOUISVILLE, O., March 2T.-But ~ of
Coxey's commonwealers had the courage
to march away from Canton in the face of
the wintry blast that was blowing at the
time set for the start. The band deserted
at that point also, and that took much of
the spirit out of the soldiers. The march
from Canton to this place through two
inches of snow and in a temperature 20 de-
grees above zero was anything but pleas
ant experience for the thinly clad wander
ers, who had imagined that the entire trip
to Washington would be a sort of spring
time frolic.
Fifty tramps were picked up between
Canton and this place, and when the army
went into camp it numbered 122 aside
from the officers. The claimed enlistments
are $50.
Much excitement was created by the an
nouncement that three of the tramps had
robbed man named John Ruegg of
watch and $40 in money. This was the
first attempt at lawlessness, but no arrests
were made.
Re-enforcements at Alliance.
The Coxey crowd is due in Alliance at
noon today, and the excitement there is
unbounded. There are many people who
sympathize with Coxey, and the army
will be REINFORCED there. Several con-
signments of food arrived from nearby
country villages.
There is anxiety about the possibility of
a row while it is there. 1t is stated that
the men in the ranks-the privates-have
said that if CoXey tries to abandon them
on the preteXt of going to Chicago horse
sale there will be smashup of the whole
business and scrap to finish it. The mem
bers of Company X, Eighth regiment, I'M
derstood that they may be called on at any
moment, and if trouble occurs this after
noon the militia will be called out at once.
Forty destitute men, hungry and half
frozen, arrived at ALLIANCE on freight trains
and sought shelter in the city lookup
They said they had come to join the COM
monweal army. Colonel Richard, mana
ger of the fair grounds, where the army
camps, says that IA men from BergholZ a
mining village in the northern part of JEFF
fersOn county. applied to him for lodgings
until the army arrived.
CoXey and his army of the commonweal
will get royal reception when they strike
quaint old Economy, Pa, if they ever get
that far on their way to Washington.
This was decided on by the board of truS-
tees of the Harmony society. A wagon
load of potatoes, several hundred loaves of
bread and lot of good, old fashioned gin
ger cakes, such only as can be found at
Economy, have been set aside for the army
of peace. Furthermore it has been settled
that steer is to be slaughtered, dressed
and cooked on the hillside when the Buck
eye QuiXote and his followers approach the
village. A member of the board says
Trustee Duss met CoXey last week and ex-
tended an invitation to the commonweal
to dine there. During the conversation
Mr., Duss asked CoXey if he was going to
march his men from Washington back to
Massillon if his mission failed.
March them back said CoXey in as
constituent. "Not by a iugful. l will get
on train and come b'"ue myself, but the
army must get home as best they can. To
my mind this Is the worst feature of the
expedition. When the army breaks camp
in Washington, the men will start home in
gangs. 1t will be simply of forag-
ing all the way. They will do more harm
coming home than they will do on the way
to Washington"