Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1894-05-01
COXEY QUICKLY ARRESTED
GOT HIS HAT, hut NDg =
SPEECH, OFF.
4 crowd out To See The EnGiO-
riOus End of The Common
wears Long Tramp-S0me pis
Orticrlies Gathered In

zen NONey LOOK us u plOplliouS tIISH, |
was the portion OF the army OF the Com
for its demonstration in favor |
of Coxey's good roads bill. The droop- |
ing spirits of the Commonwcal were
cheered considerably. In this particular
5 something was due of course to the two
eggs and bread and coffee which each OF
the men had for breakfast a DrImonlco
meal as compared with the Czonc and
water on " hch the men were Obliged to
subsist until two o'clock yesterday
afternoon.
The Commonwealers spent another
checrless night. The air was cold and
damp and the men who were without
covering and there were few who had
any shelter whatever suffered much,
but the breakfast, which was served
early, bracod them up after their right of
misery, and they Tell to work with will
to break camp George Washington,
when Marshal Browne gave the order.
By o O'Clock there WAS no vcStlgc OF
the camp remaining in the Brightw0od
driving park except few piles of straw
and the general litter which told OF the
presence of the men and horses.
Shortly before 10 O'Clock Marshal
Browne formed the men in a hollow
square and, standing in the centre,
cal cd for three cheers tor peace The
cheers were given, and the Common.
weaers waved their little cotton flags
of peace with which they had been
armed. Nov, cried Browne, well
march around the grounds and lrv it
over again, and Tie band started up a
slow step, to which the eight communcS
| walked in a circle to a point about 100
wards from the lormer camp. Here
Browne formed them into long liue
and put the men tn ough a littlc drill
| with their peace stavts Then he har-
angued them, counselng peace. Their
banners OF peace. he said, would TIC more
torcible than all the guns and cannons
in the world.
The men checred and Browne waved
his hat. Garry, peace " cried Browne,
shoulder, peace. and with their little
flags pointed upward at an angle behind
| their heads the CommonwcalerS started
of to show Congress what it should do
! The buglc sounded, the band played and
a Scotch bag piper brought forth dorul
sounds from his instrument. lust then
the leader of the Communweal arrived
in his pony phuton. With him was Mrs.
CoXey, and in her arms she carried ilttle
Legal Tender Cox,y," her babe OF a
few weeks. Citzsn CoXcy held the rcins
| At 10:15 Marshal Browne called "at
tcntion' again, and with Shoulder
Peace" AID "'orward, March, th'
Commonwcal army started for Wash
ington, led by Browne, CoXey, the band
and platoon Of mounted police.
At this hour the metropolitan police
had surrounded the capitol and patrolcC
its corridors. Blue coats uld be seer
Everywhere, and tie visitors were nc
iquested by them to move on and not
to block the passage and dOorNdys
The main body Of the guardians OF lh'
peace we're stationed at the cast Iron
where Gen Coxcv, it was expected a
this time, would attempt to speak b,
IL O'Clock the hour before the Comnor
veal army was due at thccapitol, thous
ands OF curious men, women and Chi
dren had gathered around the building
to gain places OF advantage. to witnes
the much tailed OF and lor geXpected at
peal to Congress by Coxey aud bis to
| lowers
| The route Of The procession was dow
| Fourteenth street. the road to Noun
Pleasant, thence along Fourteenth stree
proper to PENNSYLVANIA avenue. to III
Peace monument and around the capt.,
grounds. Fourteenth street WAS ver
dusty and the marchcls were pleHtliulI
hcspringlyd as they marched along, III
Cummonwcal moved at a funeral pa,
and it was three quarters of an hour /
7 reaching Mount Pleasant, a suburb {
|! the city,
II At the head of the dusty soldiers
| peace were three mounted poIcemtr
"a Then came Mrs. Annie l.. Diggcs, Il
populist orator of Kansas in an ops
barouchc with her husband and her tvs
daughters. And then appeared Mr
Mamie CoXey, typitying peace
mounted on white palircy. She is
blonde girl of l6 She wore suit
cream colored CLOTH relieved by a b
I red how at the throat, and little Bit
liberty cap. She seemed perfectly ;
home on the plltrey, but appeared som
what embarrassed atattracting so mul
~ attention. She nodded smilingly at t
people who Saluted her Two old ST
! dicrs, one a Confederate and the other
- Federal, both members of the Commo
veal, formed her guard of honor, mare
ing on foot, Carl Browne followed ,
la large white stallion. Then came sew,
foot sore musicians, CoXcy, Mrs. Cox
i and little Legal Tender Coxev came nc
in Il phWtou. Jesse Coxcv followed ne
on spirited horse, The rank and file I,
lowed and when the army reached t
peace monument at the foot OF the cal
tol it found crowd OF between tour al
five thousand awaiting it. The proc,
sion then wcndcd its way towards t
cast front of the capitol.
There an immense crowd saw Coke
bare headed, proceed to the steps ot t
east portico aud mount to the first pl;
form about five steps. Here were ST
toned Captain Kelly and other office
of the police force They met the Genci
and before he had timc TO turn his ia
to gather the multitude he was polite
informed that he could make no spec
at that place. CoNcy said 81 wish
enter protest" "No, sir, said the e.
tain, you eau take no action here OF a
~ kind
Coxey then said "WeIl, then, | vi
to read n program" "ltcannot be re
here" said the officer,
Coxey showed no Inclination to vi
and he was uuccremoniously hustled
the steps, He made no physical res,
@ ance, but protested oil the while and
crowd gathered around him and
structed the way somewhat, but it v
not the hustle OF resistance, but seen
more like curiosity, The police did
use their clubs,
IS Coxey was not formally put under