Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1894-04-30
NEWS By TELEGRAPH.
From All Quarters.
|COIHY BAT THBCAPITAL
He Asserts That His Men
Shall be Heard.
ne FOUGHT IN VAIN FOR HIS LIFE,
4 Scene Of Horror at the
New Orleans Fire.
FOR HOURS The EARTH 1REKBLED.
Thousands Of People With
out Food or Shelter.
FOB HOURS The EARTH 1REMBLED
ONLY A FEW MILES AWAY.

/ Coxey,s Footsore and Ragged Army
| Has Entered the District OF Column
bia-Cexey sleeps at q Hotel and
His Array Lies ON the Damp Ground
-To.morrow He Will March to the
Capitol and He Says There Will be
No Interference. 4
WASHINGTON, April 2Ss--Jseob Co1ey'e
ragged and footsore Army of Common
Veal entered the District of Columbia to.
day without molestation from the authori-
ties and are encampsd tonight OF federal
territory within . few miles of the capt.
/ toll.
Coxey sleeps at the National hotel, where
he Joined his wife and child this afternoon.
The rank and file of the 'Army" lie on the
damp ground in Brightwood driving park,
whore thousands of people gathered to-day
to Inspect the queer contingent.
There was no incident In the march
from Rockville until the advance guard ar
rived at the junction of the Rockville Pike,
where $50 bicyclists, including spooner of
Chicago, the amateur long distance cham.
picn, were drawn up in line. The wheel
men made demand for good roads
speech, and Coxey. from his carriage, COM
piled. A toll gate was shortly afterwards
reached, and after many circumstances,
finding the tollkeeper obdurate, Coxey
paid the amount necessary to secure pas
sage.
Nountebank Smith, "the unknown"
with his mesgre contingent Of deserters
from the commonweal army, had marched
his men from Rockville In advance of their
former comrades, and they established .
temporary camp at Silver Springs, Q sta
ton on the Baltimore and Ohio road where
the track crosses the Rockville pike, a short
distance from the district. Here was es-
tsblished squad of Coxeyites under Mar
shal Greenan, who had been sent
ahead ahead, to hspprshs aSt any N
ter Washington In advance of the main
body of the army. A dozen cavalrymen
of the Eighth United States, from Fort
Meyer, who say they were merely giving
their horses an airing, likewise bivouacked
at Silver Springs and waited there until
the army came along. Two hundred people
were gathered a. the Silver Springs station
at noon, when the army appeared. Brown
rode ahead on Coxey's horse. Coxey him.
self, dressed in stylish gray suit, rode In
phseton, driven by one of his henchmen.
Then came the army, marching by twos,
each commune dividing from another by q
big wagon. There were $3.50 of them by
actual count, including the advance guard
and the Jones contingent from Philadel-
phia. Christopher Columbus Jones, esq.,,
the leader of the Philadelphia commune,
riding Coxey's Hambletonian "Valer,"
locked like an itinerant preacher in his silk
hat and black clothes.
1t was 1890 when the district line was
reached. Only three policemen we're in
evidence when the Commonweal army
drew near the driving park at p. m. Al
the entrance was q sign stating that no ad-
mission would be charged to the park. but
sightseers were expected to contribute
something to help along the cause. Many
contributions were collected In this way.
Coxey, when questioned as to his next
movements, said:
1--WE shall lose no time at this camp.
Tuesday morning we shall march down
Twenty FIRST street to the statue of Wash
ipgton and along Pennsylvania avenue,
past the White house and the treasury,
reaching the steps Of the capitol at noon.
There We s1sff hold q meeting and impress
upon congress the advissbility of agreeing
to the measures of the Common Veal, the
good roads and the non-interest-bex
bond bills"
'What If they stop your
"They cannot stop US. The constitution
does not permit them. There will be no
Interference. We ehall not transgress any
law that is constitutional. There will be
no disorder in our parade or meeting. We
have perfect right to gather on the steps
of the capitol, and We will do so. n -