Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1894 — COXEY'S CRUS ADERS [ARTICLE]

COXEY'S CRUS ADERS

Apply to Congress for Aid to Get Baek t® Their Homes. Large and indignant delegations from the industrial armies encamped about Washington applied at tiie room of the House committee on labor, Thursday, not to urge their bills, but to plead for assistance. The expected has happened; their leaders had deserted them, and they sought Congress's aid to return to the localities whence they had come. Coxcy’a meu said that their leader had left them in the lurch. Keily’s men averred that their leader had drifted away several days ago. and that they did not expect to see him again, while -Fry’s men said their leader had probably abandoned them. ■ The men who were brought from the Pacific eoast by Kelly were particularly indignant, and expressed a fervent desire to tar and feather their general. Mr. McGann told them that there was not the slightest chance of a Government appropriation for their return, and sent them to the local superintendent of charitieo,