Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-05-03
A RIDICULOUS q
Parade of Coxey's Grand Army in
Washington.

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S. Coxey's much-advertise de-
monstration on behalf of the
s.Commonweal of Christ" in
favor of good roads and the re-
pudiation of national obligations
to pay interest on bonds, ended
to-day in a ridiculous fzzle. All
told, about 600 men ont of the
originally promised hundreds of
thousands marched up the Cap
itol hill and marched down again.
In this six hundred were includ-
ed all the unemployed of the city
who could be drummed into sup
port Of the movement. The local
contingent dispersed after the
Capitol pasco was over, and only
the original three hundred
marched down into the newly
selected camp near an open
canal, condemned as ala unhealthy
resting place by the health Off
GERS. where they have been plac-
ed on exhibition by their leader,
who has taken out a license to
charge gate money for admission
to the camp and also-the
privilege of hearing him lee
ture. Coxey himself, who stud
iously courted matrydom; but
was careful to shield himself from
personal harm, was contempt
uously turned loose after he had
supposed he had secured his pur-
pose of being arrested. His burly
lieutenant Browne, who deli
berately attempted a movement
to force access through the Cap
itol grounds to the steps of the
Capitol to sustain Coxey in his
efforts to speak. and the leader
of the PhilaG elphia contingent,
Christopher Columbus Jones,
who went to his assistance, both
landed in the lookup, Browne
with a damaged head from a po-
lice clubbing, and without his be-
feathered hat.
POLICE CAPTAINS STATEMENT.
This is the story of Coxey's ar
rest as related by Captain
Garden, the Chief of the Capitol
Police, to Col. Bright, the Ser
geant-at-Arms of the Senate, and
Senator Voorhees,, of Indiana,
who we're sitting in the Sergeant
alarms office, when Captain
Garden came in to make his re-
port: ''Coxey came up at the
head of his band. He stopped
when he reached me. l was
standing at the foot of steps
leading to the rotunda. Coxey
said he wanted to believer an ad-
dress from the front of the Capt.
toll. told him he could not do
so. He demanded my reason
why. told him my instructions
were to permit no speech in the
Capitol grounds. He then said
he had a protest he desired to
read. He again demanded to
read. I told him he could not
read it. He again demanded to
know why and I again told him
that these were my instructions.
A number of newspaper men
were standing by. Coxey threw
the protest to them. I then ap-
llproached him and walked him off
through the crowd"
You did not arrest him."
queried Col. Bright, with some
Interest in his tones. Il did-not
arrest him." replied the Captain
Il simple walked off with him. >
"'That's right, broke in Sena-
tor Voorhees,, approvingly.
THAT is right" said Col.
Bright, echoing the Senator'S
words. mo arrest"
Il then" continued the Cap
tain, walked Coxey across the
grounds in front of the library
building, then South toward B
street, where I left him. l dc
not know where he went.
= Was Carl Browne with him?'
inquired Col. Bright. mo,
, did not see him."
Did Coxey make any disturb
; ance? asked Voorhees,. He die
not. He was just as nice as he
| was in his interview with you in
; this room yesterday afternoon