People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1894 — NEARING THE CAPITAL. [ARTICLE]

NEARING THE CAPITAL.

Coxey Marches Into Frederick, Guarded by a Mounted Force. Frederick, I Md., April 26.—When Coxey’s band of peace marched out of Boonsboro at 8 o’clock Tuesday morning the air was full of rumors of impending trouble. Word had been received from Frederick that an armed force of men was on its waj’ to meet the army and prevent its passage across the line of W ashington county. As the crowd worried slowly up the steep sides of South mountain crowds of persons trooped along behind. At the top of the mountain the column swung past the gray stone residence and chapel built by the widow of Admiral Dahlgren. Just as it turned the corner of a tall hedge the top of the hill opposite burst into view. There, standing in solid array, was a troop of horsemen. The morning sunlight glistened on their saddle and bridle trappings. Browne rode up and the identity of the troopers was revealed. Sheriff Tim Merman, of Frederick county, came forward and explained that he had been ordered to appoint a poase to attend the army as long as it was in his territory. “I have summoned my deputies,” he said, “to allay the fears of the people along the road.” The troop was under the command of CapL Eli Frost Each horseman was armed with two long six-shooters, some of them suggestively displayed in the saddle holsters. The first of the collateral branches of the commonweal came into the army Tuesday night A man named Humphreys had gathered a company of forty commonweal sympathizers near here, and for the past week had been instructing and drill-, ing them. They were taken in as commune F, with Humphreys as their marshal. Nearly all of them have the appearance of being genuine laboring men.

Gen. Coxey returned from New York Tuesday afternoon. He is enthusiastic) over his reception there and says he has made arrangements to return next Saturday and deliver an address in the Grand opera house. "Everything is working nicely,” he said, “and our march into Washington will be triumphal. Our camping place in the capital city will be at Woodley park.” Atlantic, la., April 26.—Kelly’s army is divided into two camps. The Sacramento division and the San Francisco contingent are not on speaking terms, and a wide patch of green grass grows between the two factions in the fair grounds east of Atlantic. The trouble which showed its head in Neola Monday reached a climax Tuesday morning while the army was at lunch at Walnut, and between Walnut and Atlantic the Sacramento men seceded from the Kelly army by electing Col. Speed “general” and voting to go ahead of Kelly to Washington. In the short space of two hours Col. Speed was reduced to the ranks and then transformed into a genral, and will decide whether he will be able to lead the Sacramento division as an independent organization or be compelled by circumstances, of which the commissary is the dominant feature, to remain with Kelly. The Sacramento men accuse Kelly of arrogance, swell-head, favoritism and covetous fingers for the commonweal treasury. They say that $6,000 has been subscribed between here and San Francisco and declare that Kelly has placed it where none but he can find it Washington, April 26.—-Several hundred stands of small arms and repeating rifles have been delivered from the war department to the treasury department. The small arms w r ere turned over to Capt. Putnam, of the treasury watch, and the repeating rifles were placed at convenient points about the treasurer's end of the building.