Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-05-03
COXEY IS REFUSED.
FORCED TO MOVE ON BY THE PC-
LICE AT WASHINGTON.

Rush of n Mob Through the Shrubbcry
Checked by the Minions of the Law and
scrimmage That for a Moment Looked
Like Riot.
WAsH:NGToN, May 2.-The march of
Coxcy's commonweal army which started
from Massillon, O., on Easter Sunday
ended in interruption by the police
Fortunately there were no casualties and
General Coxey addressed his buresque
army in camp last night while Marshal
Carl Browne slept in police station cell,
and Christopher Columbus Jones, leader
of the Philadelphia commune and the
comedian of the movement, endeavors to
appropriate n share of the martyrdom ia
an adjoining cell. The performance
enacted within the shadow Of the Capitol
is without u counterpart in the memory
of Washingtonians. Over the broad
smooth plaza Of several acres facing the
east front of the Capitol was packed u
crowd Of men and women numbering TO-
600 The Capitol steps and the porticos
were packed with people Of both sexes,
well dressed, and most of the members of
congress were in the throng.
Handful OF Members in the House.
An early adjournment had been taken
by the senate on account of the death of
Senator S.ockbrdge, but the house, not
wishing to seem to be tcrrorized by the
demonstration, went through the sem
bance of u session with n handful of mem
bers More than 200 city police reinforced
.
several cities were sprinkled through the
crowd, for the concentration Of lawless To-
cal characters gave just grounds for appre-
tensions of trouble apart from the pres
encc of the Coxcyites. 1t was shortly after
| O'Clock when the army halted in the pub
lie street south of the Capitol grounds. Its
hve-mie march down from Brightwood
through the principal streets of the city
had been witnessed u thousands.
Composition of the Army.
There were 800 men in line; Mrs. Annie
l.. Diggs, the populistic ngitator Of Kan
sas, in barouchc; Coxey's l7-year-old
daughter In white on n cream colorcd
steed, representing the Goddess of Peace;
Carl Browne on great gray Percheron
stallion; General Jncob Slccher CoXcy, his
wife and the infant Legal Tender Coxey
together in another carriage; Virginia La
Valette, said to be an actress, on horse
back, draped in an American flag, us the
Philadelphia commune's Goddess of
Pence; the unemployed, carrying white
flags of peace on slaves and the monde
script banners setting forth the doctrines
of reincarnation, good roads and enmity
to plutocrnts sprinkled through the cara.
van
Browne IIalts the Procession.
Marshal Browne halted the procession
there in the street, and walked backed to
Coxey's carriage. The general kissed his
wife, and then the moving spirits of the
affair forced their way over the plaza to
the Capitol steps, their men, acting under
orders, standing in their tracks After
Coxey and Browne had passed yelling
crowd of several hundred men followed,
most of them after Browne, conspicuous
because of his unique costume. Tramp
ing and tearing its way through the cost
ly shrubbery the mob went, while the
squad of mounted police which had headed
the parade, daZed for n moment by the I'M
expected move, charged recklessly into
their midst.
Coxty Takes IL Forced Walk.
Coxey was confronted by the police rs
he took OIL 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 n well-worded epitome of
populistic doctrines. Meanwhile Carl
Browne was being literally dragged by the
collar of his coat through the crowd toward
the nearest station, after he had made II
fight to retain his banner. Two police
captains, II lieutenant and sergeant thrust
the mild-mnnnered CoXey without vio-
lence, back across several hundred feet of
humanity to his carriage.
ON IAE EnCE nE A RI0T