Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-06-25
COXEYISM THE ISSUE.
me industrial Movement Being
Agitated In Kansas
ecial Correspondence Of The Evening Star

special Correspondence Of The Evening Star
TOPEKA, Kan, June %, 1894.
Coxeyism will be the issue in the cam
paisn in Kansas this year. This fact was
demonstrated in the recent county conyen-
ions held by the populists. In two-thirds
OF the conventions resolutions were adopted
indorsing the Coxey movement and de-
mandatory of the legislation enacted by
the republican party during the past thirty
years. which. 1t Is claimed. has brought
about the present conditions In many IF
the conventions the speeches made by DOB.
ulist orators were revolutionary in their
tone, while In others the declarations were
SO wild and visionary rs to excite only rid
icule and derision.
The most conspicuous example of the lat
ter class was the speech of the editor of
the Advocate. populist paper published at
the home of Jerry Simpson In addressing
the convention he said
The people are stirred and aroused from
s .ne eds. 70 the west, and are marching.
10000 strong. in a grand army of industry
In defense Of the rights of the people, to
establish the kingdom of heaven on earth
me army of the Commonweal of Christ
mas come The long-looked-for chan.e in
condition Is here. Time and fulfllment of
prophecy Is now at hand. Multiplied mil
lions will De enrolled in reserve, and 90 to
Washlngtor TO obtain the relief demanded
sas population will be In sympathy with The
army of the Commonweal Of Christ before
the November election. This 10 struggle
OF the people for existence. There Il no
power on earth that can stop the army Of
Christ. His coming Is instilled In the minds
or the people, born in the birth. death and
resurrection of humanity. BY the Eternal
Coxey will yet make his speech from the
steps or the national Capitol"
These sentiments were cheered to the
ecno. The convention Endorsed the speech
as timely and patriotic.
In other counties resolutions were adopted
similar in tone and spirit. Local aeitators
found these county gatherings a good place
TO let off this kind of populist steam but
tnere was no attempt to organize armies
for the march to Washington for the
reason that Gov. Lewelling and other lead
ers had previously declared that Kansas
Coxeyites should remain at home These
leaders realize that every sympa thizer in
the Coxey movement in Kansas Is a pop-
ulist, and IL they should leave the state in
grand march to Washington they might
not return in time to vote at the November
election.
With single exception. every populist
weekly paper in Kansas indors.s Gov
ernor dwellings policy II, winking at
the violation OF law by the train
steaIers who . invade Kansas under the
and the action of the one hundred
county conventions last week, 4. is EVIL
dent that the populist party proposes to
to defend the crime he committed And
now that the populists have thrown the
gauntlet down, the republicans Will pick it
up. and thank their stars for the oppor-
tunity.
Discussing the impending campaign in
Kar sas today, a republican leader said:
Fortune could rot have been kinder to
a favored child than she is to the republi-
cans in giving them a chance to make Cox
eyism a state issue. The position of the
popI lists epitomizes their position upon
every other state question; there lies the
battle. and to defend Sanders and his band
the populists and their friends will have to
defend not merely brigands and highway
men. but band of insurgents going on to
Washington to coerce the Congress of the
United States Stripped of its tinsel this
Is pain. od-fashioned tres son, and we pro-
pose to say so. and appeal to the voters to
bury such party too deep for resurrec-
ton. This is the issue the Kansas republi-
cans Will make. They will preach patriot
ism and the preservation of American in
situations. They will denounce the policy
Of Lewelling that of a weak minded
demagogue and a dangerous revolutionist.
They will demand that Kansas be cleared
OF the shame of such an administration in
the name of state and national honor. Such
a campaign will be manly, brave and pa
triotic, and will be Endorsed by all law
abiding men in the country, without regard
to party. such q campaign will win Kans Is
for the republicans 1t is a Godsend that
we have such an issue upon which to go
TO the people"