| Show MI U FIST lAX IT i CAPITAL T I Coxey Pails to Make His Speech from the Steps of the Building BROWNE AND JONES THROWN IN JAIL Browne Afterwards Gets Bonds but Christopher is Left to Slumber VERY WILD SCENES THROUGHOUT THE DAY Over Five Hundred Men Were inLine in-Line on Pennsylvania Avenue The Mau Rush Made for the Steps Coxeys Defiance of Lair and Or dcr He Accepts His Defeat Philosophically Philo-sophically and Says He Will Not gain Attempt to Speak from the Point on Which He Had Set His Heart The Serous Problem Now Confronting the Officials Is What Shall Be Done with the Army Sovereign Says Kelly Will Ride Out or Des Moines Even if the Entire En-tire Railway System of Iowa Han to Be Tied Up Only the Commencement Com-mencement Washington May 1The march of Coxeys commonweal army which started from Massillon 0 on Easter Sunday ended today by the interruption interrup-tion of the police Fortunately there were no casualties ties and tonight General Coxey is addressing ad-dressing his burlesque army in camp while Marshal Carl Browne sleeps in a poUce station cell and Christopher I Columbus Jones the leader of the Philadelphia commune and the comedian come-dian of the movement endeavors t appropriate a share of the martyrdom in an adjoining cell i4 The performance enacted within the shadow of the capitol today is without of Washingtonians a counterpart in the memory ingtonians Over the broad smooth plaza of several acres facing the east front of the capitol was packed a crowd of men and women numbering 10000 The capitol steps and the porticos por-ticos under the Grecian pillars were packed with people of both sexes well dressed and most of the members of j Congress in the throng I An early adjournment had been taken by the Senate on account of the death of Senator Stockbridge but the House not wishing to seem to be terrorized I ter-rorized by the demonstration went through the semblance of a session with a handful of members More than 200 city police reinforced the capitol officers and detectives from several cities sprinkled through the crowd for the ccncentration of lawless local characters char-acters gave just grounds for apprehensions appre-hensions of trouble apart from the presence of the Coxeyites j I 1 Over Five Hundred In Line I was shortly after 1 oclock when the army halted in the public street south of the Capitol grounds Its five mile march down from Brightwood through the principal streets of the city had been witnessed by thousands There were 525 men in line Mrs An lne nie L Diggs the Populistic agitator of Kansas in a barouche Coxeys 17year old daughter in white on a cream colored steed representing the goddess bf peace Carl Browne on a great gray jktallion General Jacob Coxe his wife S pA e infant Legal Tender Coxey together to-gether in another carriage Virginia La Valletta said to be an actress on horseback draped in an American flag as the Philadelphia communes goddess of peace the unemployed carrying white flags of peace on staves and the nondescript banners setting forth the doctrines of reincarnation good roads and enmity to plutocrats sprinkled through the caravan Marshal Browne halted the procession proces-sion there in the street walked back to Coxeys carriage the general kissed his wife and then the two moving spirits of the affair forced their way over the plaza to the Capitol steps 4 their men acting under orders and standing in their tracks After Coxey and Browne passed a yelling crowd off of-f everal hundred men most of them fol f cwing Browne conspicuous because of iis unique costume trampling and tearing its way through the costly shrubbery the mob went while the sg < Uafi of mounted police which had haded the parade dazed for a moment mo-ment by the unexpected move charged rpoklpsslj into their midst x < jiitt Constitutional Rights I Ccxey was confronted by the police a ieto6k off his hat to speak on theo the-o jltol steps His constitutional rights being refused he thrust upon them a printed protest which proved to be a wellworded epitome of Pop lillst doctrines Meanwhile Carl Browne was being dragged by the collar of his coat throagh the crowd to the nearest station after he had made a fight to retain his banner Two police captains a lieutenant and sergeant thrust the mildmannered Coxey without with-out violence back across several feet of humanity to his carriage Mounted police were forcing their horses among the people several of them cracking their clubs over the heads of the nearest near-est persons women were shrieking in terror men were yelling fiercely some were knocked down and trampled upon up-on For five minutes there was riot in that section of the mob in front of A the east steps which occupied about i an acre of the asphalt Then the two agitating spirits having been removed I and half a dozen particularly belligerent belliger-ent men having been taken in by the 7 > olc she disturbance was quelled I without person serious injuries to a single Somehow the army was started off towards its new camp between double i lines of police followed by a mob of I thousands cheering like demons for Goxey and Browne Within an hour I the capito grounds had almost re 4ajied l their normal quiet with only Wfew hundred people strolling around t Accepted it Philosophically General Coxey accepted the situation philosophically His army was put to work clearing up the new camping i ground for occupancy while Coxey I drove over to the office of the district commissioners with an eye t business He made application of them for the I necessary license to charge admission t his cpI cp-I The commissioners desired to consider con-sider the proposition so acting upon Sf theb suggestion Mr Coxey went toT I to-T the clerk and paying 5 secured a l becse for one day only r have no complaint Coxey said uQ make as far a the police are concerned con-cerned They treated me with great i t c > v consideration < for they had to carryout carry-out the law even if i was an unjusi one My speechmaking however at the capitol is over and I shall not again attemptit It would be of no use The American eagle did a good deal of squealing today but that was to be expected The authorities pinched him rather hard Hell have his say however how-ever sooner or later The most serious chapter of the affair af-fair for Washington is the problem of I what is to be done with the army remains re-mains unsolved Coxey has no intention inten-tion of leading his men away and still I declares that the movement has just begun that they will stay here until i Congress provides for them by passing bills CHEERED ALL THE WAY Poorly Dressed Men and Women rail Into Line Jesse Coxey led the army to camp his whiteclad sister the goddess ofpeace retaining her courage admirably A squad of twentyeight police under Lieutenant Amiss meantime had marched over to the army and lined up to preserve order as it departed A grayhaired man with a G A R button but-ton on his coat climbed up the steps of an adjacent house and began to harangue har-angue upon the rights of American citizens wTiidh drew a fraction of the crowd about him The army as it marched down Second street was followed fol-lowed by hundreds of poorly dressed men and women Who cheered it all the way without intermission and shouted loudly for Coxey and Browne General Coxey talked to an Associated Press reporter when they reached the new camo I I was careful to walk on the sidewalk side-walk and trespass on no local regulations I regula-tions when I went to the steps he said This is the beginningOf the movement that is all The people are with us the common people Look at the thousands who cheered for our cause today We will remain right here Other bands of unemployed will join us Congress will see the will of the people and will pass our bills Browne and Jones who was arrested with him were marched off to the police po-lice station and locked up in adjacent cells The entries in their respective cases were Carl Brown age 44 occupation oc-cupation artist and journalist single charged with disorderly conduct complainant com-plainant Officer Edward J S Cramlin arrested by Officer Robertson Christopher Columbus Jones 59 years old pump maker married charged with disorderly conduct complainant com-plainant Officer Collins F Lithers arrested ar-rested by Officer Fuldridge 1 |
