Evening star., 1896-03-31
A NEW POLITICAL ORDER
The Patriotic Sons ofAmsrica Have Head
quarters in This City.

The latest thing in the way Of secret
political organization was organized in this
city about a month ago and is now said to
be spreading over the country. lis organ
ization has been conducted 50 secretly that
nothing was known of 1t until a Star re-
porter came into possession Of some facts
about it.
The membership is not made up of men
of prominence in the political world, but
Of what is called 1.-The Industrial classes
followers of Coxey's ideas.
The order is known as"The Patriotic Sons
of fAmerica''-different from Haryey's Pat
riots of America" The founder of this
new organization is a DR.. Marion. the man
ufacturer of a patent medicine. He is from
the south, and during sreenback days was
a leader in the greenbaek agitation in
Georgia. He claims to be direct descend
ant Of Gen. Marion. His headquarters are
in Arthur place, which runs back of the
Maltby building.
Purposes of the Order.
The members of the order really consider
themselves patriots, notwithstanding they
hope to be well paid for their alleged patr1-
otic services. The organization may have
been-and probably was-gotten up for the
selfish ends Of certain men, but anyhow, it
is working the feelings of that class of
men who followed Coxey to Washington.
Besides the president the order has 800
vice presidents. These officers are the Or
ganizers, and they have been appointed in
every state. 1t is the duty of the vice pres
idents to organize lodges and secure sig
natures to a petition and protest"
The petition will set forth 10 Congress
that there is no money In this country and
that the workingmen are every day getting
poorer. 1t will recite that the per capita
circulation is less than $40, when it ought
to be $5O.I 1t will go on to ask Congress to
pass bill authorizing the Secretary of the
Treasury to issue $1,000, 100000 Of green
backs and to coin all the silver and gold
bullion In the treasury and to grant free
coinage to everything and everybody.
The protest will sllege that the Secre-
taries of the Treasury, aided and abetted
by the Presidents. have for years de-
liberatelyi- taken piles of greenbacks and
burned them to keep them from circulating
and to make the people poorer.
1t is proposed to get 100000 signatures
to the petition to Congress. The members
of the order say that Congress could not
resist such a large number Of the people
of the country. If it did so, the members
say, there would be another invasion Of
Washington by gigantic army of men, a
hundred times larger than that of Coxey.
To Distribute the Money.
The plan for distributing the money
which Congress will be asked to authorize
10 tno fnosI AoFei ever pfopoSeu ny any
financial Napoleon. The money is to be
divided among the members Of the orer,
and those who were not patriotic enough
to become members will be shared out.
The president gives to each vice presi-
dent an order or check on, the secretary
Of the treasury for $4,000 in payment OF
his services. AS stated, there are 1,50C
vice presidents. Each man who becomes q
member of the order, and is not an officer,
is given check for $500. These checks
or orders are to be ordered paid by Con-
gress when it passes the bill authorizing
the issue of the billions of greenbacks and
the coinage Of oil silver and gold.
Readers of The Star may be disposed to
look with doubt upon the existence of such
an order, but it has headquarters in Wash
ington, all the same. A Star reporter has
seen some of the printed orders, by which
the patriots hope to become rich. He has
seen the $4,000 checks issued to vice pres
idents.