People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1894 — COXEY’S COHORTS. [ARTICLE]

COXEY’S COHORTS.

♦‘The Army of Peace” Appear* to Be Gainlug Recruit*. Los Angeles, Cal., March 15.—Gen. Coxey’s industrial army movement is causing considerable of a sensation here. Over 800 of the unemployed organized a regiment several weeks ago and expect to join their comrades from the western states in the march to Washington. They sent a delegation to the city council to obtain railroad transportation from Los Angeles to Washington. “Gen.” Frye, commander of the army, has sent a notice of the proposed movement to Secretary of War Lamont, and inclosed its constitution and by-laws. A demand was made that Lamont order rations to the army from various posts and provide transportation. “Gen.” Frye says that the army will number 3,000,000 by the time it reaches Washington, and intimates that it will be just as well to accede to the requests. Washington, March 15.—The war department officials have had no request for rations from any one connected with- the Industrial league, which organization is said to be contemplating a raid in force on Washington, and it may be safely predicted that no such requisition is likely to be honored. The army officers do not relish the threat that the capital is to be overrun by a horde of unemployed and hungry people, as it would add greatly to the burdens of the relief organizations here. Touching the implied threat of trouble and disturbance in store for the town if these extraordinary demands of the fomenters of this movement are not granted the army officers have no anxiety. Ever since the riots here in the ’7os the war department has realized the importance of having at hand a sufficient force to meet any emergency likely to arise and they have little fear of trouble. San Antonio, Tex., March 15.—An east-bound freight train of the Southern Pacific was captured by thirty tramps west of Marfa, who were on the way to join Gen. Coxey’s forces. When ordered to leave the train by the conductor the men refused to do so and became very insolent. The sheriff of Presido county was informed of the situation by telegraph and was asked to afford the train protection. When the train arrived at Marfa the sheriff and a large posse met it and placed all »f the tramps under arrest. New Castle, Pa., March 15. —The railroad men at New Castle Junction. 2 miles south of here, say that almost every freight train that passes over the four roads centering there have from one to half a dozen men on it who claim to be on their way to join Coxey’s aemy at Massillon.