The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-07-12
THE SECOND COXEY'S ARMY
ANOTHER GREAT HOBO HORDE
WILL INVADE WASHINGTON.
Millionaire Friend of the Tramp,
James Eads How, to Lead Host.
Demand Remedial Legislation.

James Eads How, to Lead Host.
Demand Remedial Legislation.
ST. LOUIS.-Some time in August
or early in September an army of UNI
employed men will swoop down on
Washington, following in the foot
steps of Coxey's famous army. James
Eads How of this city, friend of the
proletariat and protector of the wan
dering tramp, will head this great
movement that is to overflow Mary
land, sweep into the district of CO.
lumbia and spend its force against
the walls of the national capitol and
the great buildings of state along the
Washington thoroughfares. 1t will
be the first march Of protest since the
utter failure of the Coxey movement
back in the 90s. The point of the
beginning of the march has not been
decided as yet, but it will begin from
some one of the valley cities, possibly
st. Louis; maybe Cincinnati or Louis
vile.
May BE Half Million MarChers.
Somewhere between 100000 and
800, goo of voorhees, workers are ex-
pected to join in the march of the
disconnected. The campaign to gath
er them up is already under way. The
first plans for the great march were
made last spring at the Hobo ConVen-
ton in Milwaukee. These have since
been perfected, and it is hoped now
no ho1 q
discomfort will join the protesting
column in its march upon the capitol
city.
James Eads How, the st. Louis
millionaire worker in the realms of
trampd0m, the man who laid aside
the dress shirt for the blue flannel of
the worker, is the moving spirit in
this movement. He has been in the
valley towns along the Ohio for sew
eral weeks pushing the propaganda
of this latter day crusade that is ex-
pected to shake the walls of indiffer-
ence and make it possible for every
man who wants it to have job.
Profiting by Coxey's Error.
Coxey was the leader of the first
of the great marches of protest. His
men marched so far that the spirit
/ of the column was gone long before
| it came within striking distance of
! Washington. 1t was failure. The
handful of those that started on the
movement stuck until the end. How
and his lieutenants are studying the
| history of this march, and hope to
profit by the mistakes of COxey and
his aids.
How hopes to make this march a
crusade against things as they are.
Whether or not congress will be in
session when the army arrives is
problematical How hopes that it
will, as he wishes to have immediate
legislative action taken on a number
of subjects that he believes will aid
the man among the hobo hordes who
is willing to work One of them is
that all government labor contracted
as such by the federal government
shall be given to those unfortunates
who are out of work.
How Is Dreamer.
Such an army as he leads How be-
lieves will show the nation the need
of some action. Men have promised
to join him from every part of the
country. Already the hobo tribes
have received, the call and are being
notified to concentrate in the valley
in easy distance of the actual start
ing place, which is to be settled
= upon later. 81
James Eads How has long been a
} dreamer Since he first began as the
friend of the newsboys in st. Louis
he has been striving to lift the down
trodden and those who have gone
down because of their own shiftless-
ness. He went among them studied
! their wrongs and their weaknesses,
T made himself a doctor in order that
J he might help them in their times
: of sickness, and now he proposes to-
lead them before their representa-
tives and ask that something be done.