Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1894 — GODDESS OF LIBERTY BURIED. [ARTICLE]

GODDESS OF LIBERTY BURIED.

Novel Performance by Common weal ers at Washington, A Washington dispatch July 4, says; The Coxey Commonwealers went through the spectacular performance of burying the "Goddess of Liberty” in front of the capital to-day. It was the sequel of the demonstration of May 1. when, according to Coxey and Browne, liberty was mortally wov.fitkd and lingered until she expired on the Fourth of July. The Commonwealers marchetPfour abreast, 214 strong, with many banners and devices. At their head rode Carl Browne in a remarkable disguise. His beard had been removed and his face powdered. A wig of yellow hair fell to his waist. His arms were bare and powdered. A liberty cap was on his head, and his body was wound with the emblematic garments of liberty. It was not intended that Browne should be known in his disguise, anftthe name of the goddess was announced as "Sarah Elkhart, an Egyptian.” After parading through Pennsylvania avenue the army formed around Peace monument, where Goddess Browne delivered an apostrophe to the bronze goddess on top of the capital. As he closed his address he dropped In a simulated swoon from his horse, and his comrades catching him placed the pale-faced marshal in an impromptu hearse and laid him at full length, with flags and crepe over him. The hearse was inscribed "Liberty is Dead.” The processton then moved away to Mulligan hill, where the goddess stepped from the hearse, and the Commonwealers closed the day with dancing and speeches. -— A