Evening star., 1894-03-17
c o X e IS A r M Y
officials Do Not Think It Likely to Reach
Washington.
Maj. Moore IL Keeping Himself Posted
and Says the Police Will lie Ready
for Any Emergency.

Those nervous people who always look
under the bed and up the chimney before
they retire for the night and place a chair
against the door with its back under the
knob to increase the efficient guardianship
Of double bolt and n Yale lock are shiver-
ing like an Aztec would in Alaska over the
terrible times that Washington will expert
ence along about May 1 when Col Coxey
and Mai Brown reach the city with more
or less than a couple OF hundred thousand
men to corral Congress and compel that
august body to forthwith pass certain bills
that will provide work for every man In the
United States who wants it. The timorous
are not only shaking in their boots. as be-
fore mentioned. but they are indulging in
whispered fears that make their own and
their hearers hair stand on end ike PIN
fea theirs on a youthful and unabashed
dominicker chicken. Already some of this
sort of citizens are burying thelr silver
ware and heirlooms and other Naluaple be-
longings at dead OF night deep IN the earth
OF their back yards, while others are pre-
pairing to get suddenly SICK ana nave tnelr
doctors order them away for tnelr hedith.
Fright like yellow fever, is contagious IN
the extreme and consequently the senu-
ment has spread among all classes who
may be subject to such injection. singular
as 1t may seem there are numerous EieHl-
bers of the National Guard VINO have their
corner of the District studying the topog-
raphy of the country in ,rder TO secure the
most advantageous position from Whlch 10
repel the onslaught OF CoXey ana Brown s
leyions when they pour in from Maryland.
They have also begun to polish up their
bayonets and 80 out surreptltioisiy TO
practice shooting ball cartridges out or
their rifles, SO as to become accustomed to
the kick" and in many other ways are
proceeding to get themselves In proper con-
dition to bound nimbly forth and be ready
to do or to die for the salvation OF the cap
ital when Gen. Ordway soun1s the snare
drum that calls them forth to victory.
While all this excitement IS being exper-
fenced in q suppressed tut none the less
emphatic sort OF a way. the autnorities or
the District and of the national govern
mcnt are pursuing the even tenor of their
peaceful way, undisturbed and uniismayed
by the news from Massillon, Ohio.
Commissioner Truesdell smiled this MORN
ing when asked If the Commissioners pro
posed taking any action in advan;e OF the
proposed invasion.
II have merely heard OF 1t through the
rewspapcrs," he remarked, and have re-
garded it more in the light of & huge joke
than anything else"
Commissioner Ross dismissed the subject
with q characteristic remark. Il have too
much faith in the good sense of the Amer
lean people to believe in the consummation
of such an absurd crusade"
At the War Department the idea or inVl-
sion was laughed at.
.You can rest assured" said an official
who did not care to have his name printed.
that the Coxey crowd will not be allowed
to grow to any large proportions before
Gov. Mckinley will take a hand in its dis
integration Even If it were organized and
started for Washington. neither Pennsyl-