Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-20
NOT MUCH DOING
At the Headquarters of Citizen Red
stone I'm This City.

A man with a sharp knife and requisite
skill would have little difficulty in carving
collar buttons out of the opaquity that
crowds the interior of the Coxey headuuar-
tiers in Rechabite Hall. Dull quiet is a weak
appellation for The condition of affairs
where Citizen Redstone and his faithful
four or five companions hold diurnal ad-
miration meetings of Coxey and Brown and
indulge in rhetorical flights of fancy about
constitutional rights of American freemen
and the manner in which a Congress COM
posed of rich mems creatures trample the
rights of upright and honest citizens in the
dust and deride their victims while doing
1t. A program of one days events al Rech-
abites' Hall would suffice for that of every
day. With the exception of the two or three
days when Capt. Primrose and his forty
in mortals used the hall as lounging place
not new face has been discovered by a
regular and persistent visitor. One is al
ways sure to find Citizen Redstone, when
he Is not at the Capitol, and is dead GER
tain of seeing Secretary G. +. Mayer at any
hour. With two or three other individuals
who do not appear to have any particular
official connection with the commonweal
these complete the regular occupants of the
headquarters.
Citizen Redstone loves to talk. but is
fonder OF indulgfng in mysterious meta
phor. The story has been published that
men have been recruiting at headquar-
tiers and being sent up to join the army
at Hagerstown. This Is all utter and
ridiculous rot. Citizen Redstone has given
several newspaper men and one or two
curiosity seekers letters of introduction tC
Carl Brown and Coxey, and this action
has served as the basis for his oracular
remarks about Washington men being sent
out to join the army. Not five days ago
he asserted that it was not the policy OF
Coxey to receive any additions to his
forces until he reached the rendezvous
near this city. The other claims and as
SertiOnS of the CnYaysitaS q ~
the line appear equally as well founded. o.
Communication Not Rapid. r7Ai5
Secretary Mayer said this morning that
the committee which vas alleged to have
waited on the President and Secretary of
War and requested the use of Washington
barracks for the accommodation of the
commonweal during it's sojourn in Wash
ington was to get definite answer today
or tomorrow. He didn't know the name OF
any member of the alleged body, and
neither did any one else at the hall. Mr..
G. r. Mahoney, who has been hand in
glove with Citizen Redstone for the past
ten days, and who is engaged in securing
means to provide the army with subsistence
while ii stays in Washington, said he knew
nothing of the committee, and had not
known any such body was in existence I'M
til he saw it in The Star, which published
the information, it will be remembered. on
Mr.. Mayors authority.
The only tangible thing that has occurred
at headquarters during the past three or
four days is the call for a mass meeting to
be held in Rechabite Hall tomorrow night.
The hail. by the way, will accommodate
about go people If they sit close and oc-
cupy the middle and side aisles So far as
the Washington end of the commonweal is
concerned, neither people police have
any need for alarm. Only the hope born
of the excitement over the approach of
Coxey and his crowd saves it from total
collapse.