Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-04

600 men in line,' answered Brown.
Il said there would be 100000 peo-
pie with us, but they won't be in
line. They sympatliize with us but
they won't be in the procession to
the Capitol. But we will have 100,
600 people along tho route. Trains
are bringing in thousands of people
aud there will be II 100000 people in
Washington tomorrow TO sec us."
Brown said thnt the band and bag.
gage wagons and all the camp parn-
phernalia would appear III tho dem
onstration tomorrow. He was asked
what he proposed to do if the Di :
trict authorities decided that the pa.
rado was in violation of the law, and
he answered TINT the army had IA
much right to march to the Capitol
ne any one else lad, and they pro.
posed to do it, with the band playing
and flags flying.
To evade II city ordinance, which
imposes license fee of So per day
upon exhibitions charging admission
fees, no stated Charge was made to
the crowd that visited Brightwood
yesterday, but lusty lunged com
nonwealer stood at table at the en-
trance and announced vociferously
that contributions were solicited.
In this way $500 were realized, and
knowledge of this fact intensified the
dissatisfaction at the camp this morn
ing against Browns desei ton to the
luxuries of the city while the mon
hungered. Nearly NIL of the foragers
returned to camp i'll time for supper
The route to the camp from the
city has been changed. The paaade
will come i'll by the Fourteenth street
road to Mt. Pleasant, n suburb of
the city, thence via Fourteenth street
proper to Pennsylvania. avenue to
the capitol grounds. AT this oint
the body will turn into First up b
street to Delaware avenue northeast,
which will place them on the north
enst border of the grounds. Here it
is proposed to disbnnd and enter ms
individuals unless permission is sub
sequently granted them to go in as a
body.
Brown and Coxey spent large
part of the day seeking location
within the city for their camp. An
enclosed square of vacant lots south.
east of the Capitol has been offered
them, and if they can obtain permits
sion from the city authorities, they
will doubtless occupy it, although it
affords no shelter except that from
the winds by the fence.
The sanitary conditions are unfa
vorable also. The purpose of this is
obvious, convenience to the prospect
i've throngs of visitors ard to the
base of supplies.
THE wEALERs SPEND A BAD NIGHT.
WASHINGTON. April 3O.-CoXey's
three hundred "wealers' spent a
bad night in camp where the army
OF the Commonwea| will remain, ia
quote Coxey. until the stencil oil
their bodies fills the nostrils Of the
National Legislators" They were
soaked with dew and chilled to the
bone, and many did not close thpil
eyes until the wal III sun this morn
ing brought comfort to their sore
and tired bodies. They have look
ed on the National Capital as The
promised land. but found it very lii
tile different from desert, out oil
which their Moses and Joshua
CoXey and Brown-led them. Ma
tnrally there was much dissatisfac
ton and many growls. Brown and
Coxey slept at hotel last night.
WASHINGTON, May 1.-Jacob S.
Coxey's much advertised demonstra
ton in behalf of the :'Commonweal
OF Christ in favor of good roads and
the reputation of national obliea
tons to pay interest on bonds ended
today in ridiculous fzzle. All told
about six hundred men out of the
promised hundreds of thousands
marched up the capitol hill and thei
marched down agaiu. In This sis
hundred were included all the unem
ployed of the capital who could be
drummed into support of the move
ment. The local contingent dispers
ed after the capital fiasco was owe,
and only the original three hundred
marched down into the newly select
ed camp ground near an open sewer
canal, condemned as an unhealth,
resting place by the health officers
where th"y have been placed on OK
hibltion by their leader, who Ia.
taken out license to charpe opt,
money for admission TO the camp anc
the privilege of hearing him lecture
Coxey himself, who studiously court
ed inartyrdom, but was careful 1,
shield himself from personal harm
was contemptuously turned loose al
ter he had supposed he bad secure,
his purpose Of being arrested. Hi
burly lieutenant, Brown, who DELHI
erately attempted Il movement t,
force access through the capitol to
day to the steps of the capitol, t.
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