The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-04-21
ARTz BOBS UP.
He Wants to Head the Topeka
COmmOnweal.
His Plans of a Highly Revolu-
tionary Nature.
IF COXEYITES FAIL
Artz Wants His Organization
to Seize State CapitOls,
And Take Charge of the State
governments.

Ex-Adjutant General II. Fl. Artz, of the
Kansas National Guard, is the talked of
leader of the Kansas division of the Army
of the Commonweal, which will be or
ganized at the court house tonight.
General Artz has signified his willing
ness to become a leader in the move
ment, and will be one of the speakers at
the meeting to be held at the court house
tonight.
To STATE JOURNAL reporter this
afternoon General Artz said: Il consider
this Coxey movement to be a crisis in
our country. l think that each state
should have an army that would be or
ganized SO that if Coxey's army at Wash
ington should meet with resist
ance, these state armies could
rush to the state capitals and take charge
of the government" In speaking
of the army to be organized tonight, he
said: 81 shall be there. l think it will
be organized without doubt Sec
retary Osborn's Loyal Sons of America
is a movement of this kind, in my esti-
nation. As far as l can learn, this
Coxey movement is wholly non partisan,
and it should be, too"
At the meeting of the Populist League
last night the memb bers talked about the
Coxey movement, and most of the Pop
ulists present were loud in their APP
plause of the movement.
Noah Allen, w. Ii. Bennington and
others talked, and it was their idea that
the Topeka division of the Commonweal
Army shall be organized as a home
guard and shall not join in the march on
Washington unless they should be
needed.
@. c. Clemens says the meeting called
for tonight was originated as joke. but
the joke is all out of it now aud toHight's
meeting will be in earnest
When last nights meeting adjourned
all present gave three cheers for Coxey
and the meeting at the court house.
The sentiment of the meeting was ex-
pressed in the following resolutions
which were adopted:
Resolved, That we congratulate the
working men of Omaha and Council
Bluffs on their poineer movement to
prove to the American plutocracy and
official tools that working men, though
they seem sometimes to sleep are not
dead, but when disturbed too much are
likely to prove to be very much alive. 1t
Eegins to look as if the people may run
the railroads before the government gets
an opportunity to own them. At all
events the people of Omaha and Council
Bluffs seem to be running the railroad
officials at lively rate. The spectacle
of 5000 working men rising suddenly
like the clansmen of Rhoderick Dhu has
startled the arrogant oppressors of the
people as nothing else could have startled
them, and it is good for the health of
these protected American snobs that
they should be considerably startled.
We cordially endorse the Omaha army
Omaha seems to be a good place for
great movements of the people to get
we'll born.
Resolved, That as citizens of Kansas
interested in the welfare of the common
people, we are proud of the conduct of
Hon. T. ]. Hudson in defending the
rights of poor men possessing only their
birthright as American citizens to enter
fl,xac ffrI Of hnir
manufacturers and wealthy robbers and
of the action of Mrs. Annie L. Diggs in
providing for the entertainment of the
liberated American sovereigns, when re-
leased from his high mightiness, the
police judge of Washington.
A resolution was also passed express
ing sympathy for Congressman Jerry
Simpson in his present sickness.