Coxey Marches Out

Two years ago in Massillon, Ohio a pucker-faced old man with a stand-up collar and a wide-brimmed black hat drove about town in a two-horse square landau exhorting the citizens to nominate him for Mayor. He promised them a new deal on utility rates, relief for the unemployed. Because he was "General" Jacob Sechler Coxey who led the famed army of unemployed to Washington in 1894, Massillon heeded, nominated him on the Republican ticket by an unprecedented total of 2,983 votes, then swept him into office. A few weeks ago Mayor Coxey announced he was a candidate for renomination.

This time the voters were skeptical. Why had he not issued his much-touted non-interest-bearing bonds for relief? Why had he failed to adjust utility rates, to put through his plan for municipal ownership of water works? Why had he failed to crush the opposition that persistently blocked his program? Last week the voters marched to the polls, smothered Mayor Coxey under a landslide in favor of his political enemy, City Council President Clarence W. Angerman. Mayor Coxey got only 647 votes, finished a poor third.

Undaunted, he announced he would seek the Republican nomination for U. S. Senator. "Why, at So I'm just beginning," said he.

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