The record-union., 1894-03-15
a BAD LoT.

That precious fraud and dabster, Carl
Browne, aided and abetted by A. E. Red
stone, a chronic agitator without serious
aim or definite purpose, have joined
forces with another crank, j. S. Coxey of
Massillon, Ohio, and the three are at
tempting to organize a march upon
Washington by the unemployed. The
avowed purpose is to demand of Congress
an issue of many millions Of greenbacks,
or Government notes of some order, to be
expended under direction of the Secre-
tary of War in building good roads in the
several counties of the States.
Coxey has been flooding the country
for some time with badly printed and
cranky petitions to Congress on the good
road question. Coxey himself has an ak
to grind. his interest in good roads being
first awakened because he has something
to sell which good roads will boom.
Now he has gone so far as to raise BAN
ner on which he has placed a figure of
OnA1Stg WILL buO lIlObNOs 11C 41dbA AhAoOAs
Browne, the scapegrace, breaches that
part of IChrist's soul has come into his
(Browne's) 'being by reincarnation, and
part of it has by the same process come
into the being. Of Brother Coxey." He
adds: THAT is what brought US together
and prevents all jealousies between US;
that strikes down all rivalry"
The peace army is TO move on the 25th
inst from Massillon, o., and go through
Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland to
Washington by May 1st. On the road
Coxey is 10 make speeches and Carl
Browne draw caricatures and exhibit his
Financial Panorama" AS for Red
stone, he has his headquarters in Wash
ington, where he runs a crank sheet, and
is making preparations to receive
Browne, styled ''Seer and Prophet" and
Coxey, called 1.-The New Christ"
They are a cunning lot, for they declare
that men in ill-health must not join
them, nor anarchists, nor bummers, nor
thieves, but only patriots; that no
arms are to be carried, and everyone is to
furnish his own blankets, and each come
expecting to trough IT," People along
the route have been notified that contri-
buttons of food will be in order and ex-
pected, and that all who contribute will
be placed on the roll of honor. The
''army wagons" are to call at stores all
along the route and receive contributions.
This army is to be divided into groups
and divisions from FIVE persons up to
communes of los, and communities of
215, and then into cantons, and the whole
is to be called 1.-THE Commonweal."
This is an outline of the cranky scheme
of three conscienceless fellows, whose
effort may so far succeed as to gather
few hundred men and march them out
to worse suffering than they now endure,
if not to starvation and death. The whole
thing is Falstaffian and ludicrous; its
promoters are simply rascslly; they
know that Congress cannot do what they
ask, even if so minded; that their whole
scheme is impracticable, wild-eyed and
misleading, and that it will simply gather
all the tramps in the country near to
Massillon and along the proposed route.
with a few misguided men who may be
sincere, and that when Washington is
reached, if ever, the whole thing will
fatten out and the gathered horde be left
to starve.
It is to the shame of the Legislature of
California that this fellow Browne was
last session permitted to occupy chief
seat in the Senate Chamber and issue
rough sheets therefrom and sell them,
that were neither more nor less than
means of levying blackmail toll. He is
shallow-pated, vulgar and nasty fellow.
whom the police of Chicago bounced out
of that city il good order. Redstone is
well-known in California, where he has
neither respect of nor influence among
the people. A lieutenant of these rogues
is one L. C. Fry, who is just now organ
;z;ny a branch of this son TO Washing
tonn army at Los Angeles. This fellow
;s ouita as we'll known as is Browne as