Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1894 — MAY BLOW ’EM UP. [ARTICLE]

MAY BLOW ’EM UP.

Alleged Anarchist Plot to De* • stroy the National . Capitol. ■T Other Public Building* May Be Attacked -Comiminireiler .Taxon th* ‘‘ Plotter. A Washington dispatch to a New York paper June 18, says: A plot has been exposed which -had for its object the destruction of the Capitol and perhaps other Government buildings. The secret service and police authorities have been kept informed of the movements of the plotters and would have been enabled to thwart them had their machinations approached actual violence. Only once, about three weeks ago. when the channel of inforniation was unexpectedly interrupted, were, tlie I't'deral and District authorities really alarmed. They did not know at what moment an attempt might be made to explode bombs in the Capitol, the Treasury Building, the White House, and the War and Navy Buildings. But as the days passed and nothing was done the authorities restored the line of communlcation with the nest of Anarchists -and worn nhlo ngnin to shadow every conspirator and keep informed of Anarchistic movements.

According to the story, the plot was formed at the time Coxey's army wars marching to the capital, and reports of its existence came from various points, Omaha, Chicago and Pittsburg among them. The prime mover in the anarchistic plot was Honore Jaxson. He came from Chicago and is still in tho city. In Chicago he had been a disturber for years. At the ' time of thb Haymarket riot he narrowly escaped being arrested as a principal conspirator. J axon is. a half-breed of unknown tribal origin. He was one of Louis Roll’s lieutenants in the Canadian rebellion some years ago. —T h e fact tha 11 he an arelvists have committed no act in Washington upon which they could be convicted has prevented their arrests. Their meetings have been small and secret. Their experiments with chemicals have boon such that it could hard.ly be.ijro.Yoii tlui.t they in tended to resort to extreme —meastrresr—Tifey Havawritten no letters. In fact< all along they have waited for something to happen—something which would give them an opportunity to carry out the scheme of violence. An occasion for the use of the explosive, the Anarchists hope, it is said, will be furnished them by the arrival of that part of army now reported in the Cumberland valley. Under cover of a disturbance produced by them the plot against the Capitol is to be carried out. In support of this it is said that a number of Chicago anarchists of the most rabid type are with that army.