The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-04-30
COXEY At WASHINGTON
Ills Weary Walkers Encamped in
the Suburbs.
VISITED BY MANY STATESMEN.

Capitol Steps, Despite OhlcIal Prohib-
ftion.
~ " WASHINGTON, April 30 Citizen james
slecher Coxey, ,commanier-in.chief of the
Good Roads Army-sisfne Commonweal,
SS1nding on wagon in the center of the
Grightwood Driving park. waving aloft
his Alpine hat to one of the most cosmo-
politan apd extensive audiences ever
gathered In Washington, announced yes
terday afternoon that the greatest march
of the Nineteenth century had been ac-
complished.
The march had been accomplished, as
Citizen Coxey said, but its ending was In
pitiful contrast to the massing of the
thousands Of unemployed that its projec-
tors had prophesied. Three hundred and
ahalf Of miserably dressed, woebegone,
grumbling, out at the elbows and run
down at the heels specimens of humanity,
who bore striking though perhaps un-
deserved resemblance to the familiar
genus tramp, marched into the park led
by wheezy apology for band, pitched
tents and stretched themselves 10 the sun.
Thousands from the city turned out to
make a holiday Of 1t and inspect the curl
Gus aggregation. They listened TO the
weird talk of Marshal Carl Browne and
hHS opuiiotiC SptcGhol SbAty nth tHti
turned toward home in haze of mental
wonderment at the whole queer perform
nnce, the perseverance with which it had
been carried out and the notoriety it had
STAINED.
Thick clouds Of dust overhung tho two
roads leading to Brightwood From the
city all day long, and they were plowed
with more travel than customarily beats
them In months. Two endless professions
swept along the roads all day with such
variety Of travellers as had never turned
out in Washington since war times. There
were pretentious carriages bowling along
with senators, representatives and their
families, swells of the foreign legation
monocled, with their legs epcased in long
riding boots. astflde of steeds with closely
cropped tails, darlties with their draught
mules hitohed to the most unique vehicles,
into which they had piled friends and
neighbors Of their own color, stages and
grocers' wagons carrying picnic parties OF
young people, tallyho's with clubmen
packed like sardines on the tops, pedes-
trians young and old, plodding through
che three miles of dust and darting among
the crowds were bioyclers galore, for the
good roads of Washington makes it the
wheelmans paradise
Every horse and wheel vehicle In the
city had apparently been pressed into the
service, while the little trolley railway
line, which was built for the benefit oil
suburban residents, was ridiculously in
adequate to the demands upon it. All its
oars were hidden under the people who
alambered over them, clipging to the
windows an perched upon the roofs The
anne corporation which runs the electric
Eoad owns Brightwood park, and 1t was
remarked that the company could well af
ford to keep the Commonwealers all sum
mer, paying their expenses, and fat div
Adends would accrue ...
Lining the entrances to the park enter
prising colored citizens had established
their booths for traffic in gingerbread and
sweetened water, which passed current
under the gulse Of lemonade. The sem
blance to q circus L vout was further en-
forced by the - BILE riggers and shel
+ lnsn sulkTEH about the outskirts Of tn,
crowd. But when the people poured into
tbe park enclosure the suggestion of cir
Gus day was full blown. In the center o.
>-hS half mile race track tapped the canva!
enolosure which encircled the quarters O.
the Comtnonweal army.
Half dozen weather beaten army tent!
stsod about the canvas drawn circle, with
several canvas covered commissary wAR
pns. The tents and wagons were GOV
cred with black painted daubs, legend
which We're queer mixture of Goo
Roads" "Reincarnation" and Finance.
The great Percheron horses with shugg,
fetlooks were tethered about the wagons
Near by were fastened two large Ameri
Nn flags, and the emblematic banner
were piled on the ground
Most interesting of the sights, however
ora iba bTY mn n al ha panL ~,
Ole of the Qulxotio army, the men VIII,
bad borne the brunt of the mud ant
storms and oold. They were the mos
unique and inexplicable aggregation eve
brought together. Some OF them were
work about the tents and wagons, other
eurled upon the damp ground, munchtnl
great chunks of bread and many NOR
Stretched sleeping in the sun with thei
heads pillowed on rolled up coata. Fash
lonly dressed ladies stood about surveying
The men, commenting upon their appear
hnoe, with no apparent realization of tn
TACT that the ubjects of their comment
were human beings who could hear AM
understand them,
The question which has most agitate,
Washington of late was propouuded t.
Eoxey by the Associated Press reporter
"What do you intend TO do when the pc
ing in the Capitol groundsi" he was ask ed
mo one Will prevent us, replied til
seer from Massillon, with great prompt
hess. Does not the constitution guaran
Zee the right to peaeeAbly Assem- ble and pc
ktion congressf'
But there is a police regulation pRsse
by congress, which forbids professions an
tssemblages on the Capitol grounds, an
lhe police will stop your army if it al
Iempts to trespass."
'sfhe constitution was written befor
lny police regulations" replied the gen
lral. "If they come in conflict with tn
constitution they are void. We stan
squarely upon the constitutions that is GU
platform.
''How do you Intend to enforce you
fights"
"There IL but one way, by an appeal t
Che courts. We will go before the highes
bourt In the land, il necessary Mean
while we will wait h6re in Washington
h takes all summer. II the courts refuse u
bur rights there will be a revolution. Il
pot advocate revolution, nor do | desir
II, but 1t will be irrestible, and IL will b
The Rraatsat revolution Of history II th
american people are onoe thorough.
aroused"
The conversation of Mr.. Coxey wa
broken into by trumpet call which sun
sponed the choir of the nriay. Followin
carl Browne. the choir of n dozen private
sh the army tlooked out to the platforr
wagon. which has borne the remarkabl
Ilegorical panorama Of the curse of ns
lonal bank. Browne climbed into tn
Fagon. Be>t,a him stood stalwart ma
lolding aloi, haauer with the legend
tfhe kiugd IA of Heaven ION earth) is a
hand"
Tho choir sang iu various keys, a key t
nch indivit 1 parody on the reViFtg
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