Evening journal., 1894-04-30
COxEY AT WASHINGTON.
Intends to March to the Capitol
Steps Tomorrow.
THOUSANDS VISITING HIS CAMP

Revolution WIN Foilow-Camp Looks
Like n Circus Ground.
WASHINGTON, April 3O.-Citizen James
Slecher Coxey, commander-in-chiefo Of the
good roads army of the commonweal,
standing on a rickety wagon in the corner
Of the Brightwood Driving park, waving
aloft his Alpine hat to one OF the most cos
mopolitan and extensive audiences ever
gathered in Washington, announced that
the greatest march of the nineteenth cen
tury had been accomplished.
The march had been accomplished, as
Citizen Coxey said, but its ending was in
pitiful contrast TO the massing of the
thousands of unemployed that its pro
jector had prophesied Three hundred and
half Of miserahlg dressed, woebegone,
grumbling, out-at-the-elbow and run
down-at-the-heels specimens of humanity,
who bore a striking though perhaps un.
deserved resemblance TO the familiar genus
tramp, marched into the park, led by
wheeling apology for a band, pitched
tents and stretched themselves in the sun.
Thousands from the city turned out tc
make holiday of it and inspect the curl.
GUS aggregation. They listened TO the
weird talk of Marshal Carl Browne and
turned toward home i'm haze of mental
wonderment at the whole queer perform
ance, the perseverance with which it had
been carried out and the notoriety il had
attained.
Thousands Viewed the Army.
Thick clouds of dust overhung the two
roads leading to Brightwood from the city
all day long, and they were plowed with
more travel than customarily beats them
in months. Two endless professions swept
along the roads all day, with such variety
of travellers as had never turned out in
| Washington since war times. There were
/ plenty of carriages bowling along with
senators, representatives and their fami
lies; swells of the foreign legations, mono
cled with their legs incased in long riding
| boots, astride of steeds with closely crop
| ped tails; darkies with their draft mules
hitched to the most unique vehicles, into
which they had piled friends and neigh;
bors of their own color; stages and grocers
wagons carrying picnic parties Of young
people; tallyhos with clubmen packed like
sardines on the tops; pedestrians, young
and old, black and white, plodding through
the three miles Of dust, and darting among
the crowds were bicyclers galore.
Lining the entrances to the park enter
prising colored citizens had established
their booths for traffic in gingerbread and
sweetened water, which passed current un
der the guise Of lemonade The semblancs
to a circus layout was further enforced 10y
the thimbleriggers and shellmen skulkina
about the outskirts of the crowd.
When the people poured into the park
inclosure, the suggestion Of circus day was
full blown. In the center of the half mile
| H.
which encircles the quarters of the com
monweal army.
Half dozen weather beaten army tent.
stood about the canvas drawn circle with
several canvas covered commissary wag
ons. Tents and wagons were covered witt
black painted daubs-legends which weri
a queer mixture Of good roads, reincarna
tion and finance. The great PercheroI
horses, with shaggy fetlocks, were tethereC
about the wagons. Near by were fastened
two large American flags, aud the EN-
blematic banners were piled on the
grounds. Most interesting of the sights
however, were the human elements-th'
rank and file Of the Quixote army, the mer
who had marched and borne the brunt o
mud and storms and cold. They were tn,
most unique and inexplicable aggregation
ever brought together. Some Of then
were at work about the tents and wagons
others curled up on the damp grount
munching great chunks Of bread, anC
many more stretched sleeping in the sun
with their heads pillowed on rolled NJ
coats. Fashionably dressed ladies stool
about surveying the men and commenting
upon their appearance, with no apparen
realization of the fact that the subjects o
their comments were human beings VIII
could hear and understand them.
; Coxey In Creased Trousers.
, Over in the most pretentious tent, whicl
! bore the sign Headquarters painte
. across it, were found the leaders of tn
army, General Coxey and Marshal Browne
y The marshal, whose personality has bee
1 made familiar to the country, busted him
! self in changing his buckskin suit for
more conventional black cutaway in PREF
4 aration for the Incarnation services
e which were about to begin. He was en-
4 tirely oblivious to the presence Of the ID
e dies who stood at the entrance viewing hi
= toilet.
Clad in a fashionable spring suit of ligh
4 drab hue, with as perfectly creased tror
sers as could be seen on Fifth avenue, wit
a cup Of coffee in one hand and boile
egg in the other, from which he alternat,
ly took refreshment and sustenance sa
;. General Coxey, as mild a hammered ma
as ever headed an army Of peace.
The question which has most agitate
i Washington Of late was propounded I
D him by your correspondent what d
5 you intend to do when the police prever
7. you from holding your meeting in the car
u itol grounds" he was asked.
u "No one will prevent us" replied th
seer from Massillon, with great promp
le ness. docs not the constitution guaraI
~ ~ tee the right to peaceably assemble and p'
n tition congressW
le "But there is police regulation passe
or by congress which forbids professions an
assemblages on the capitol grounds, an
le the police will stop your army If 1t a
~ tempts to trespass."
~ 1.-THE constitution was written befol
az any police regulations" replied the gel
al eral. IF they come in conflict with q
constitution, they are void. We stan
iy sauarely upon the constitution. That
a our platform"
to How do you intend to force yo'
y, rightsf"