The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-30
AND THE POPS
Converted After Twenty-four
Years in Sin
IS THE WAY THEY PUT IT.

WIT. WhnIey Makes n Few Remark nc
the PODuIEst League RSOms-Others
Talk on the strike
Z B. Whaley made his debut before
POpulist audience last night at the Popu-
list league. 1t took some coaxing to in
duce Mr.. Whaley to say anything and
some talk was required to bring him to
his feet. J. Nj. Harrington the chairman,
said: 81 know you all want to hear Mr..
Whaley. The last time heard him was
when he was in a debate at Tecumseh
for the Republicans, and had occasion
to say few things about him and want
TO hear whether he has really been con-
verted."
w. S. Decker: "We do want to
hear Mr.. WhaIey. We are all brothers
here in this Peoples party and we want
TO get Mr.. Whaley up here where we can
see him SO we will know him and call
him brother"
Harrington: "In religion we always
put the young converts to the front and
let the old fellows take back seat We
always have them get up and say they
love the Lord if they can't say any more
We want Mr.. Whaley to get up and say
he loves the Peoples party"
MIR. Whaley arose and said: "Well
Mr.. Chairman, can say that much at
least. L have worked for the Republi-
can party faithfully for twenty four
years and during the last two years of the
time / was a member of the state central
committee, and while do not expect to
be able to work as hard for the success
of the POpulist ticket as | did for the
success of the Republicans in those two
years my good will will be with the
Peoples party. / do not care to make a
speech tonight but next Friday evening
I expect to tell in this room just why
left the Republican party. l do not see
how any thinking man can help doing
what i have done"
Harrington: THAT is a good exper-
fence from a man who has lived in sin "A
years"
H. H. Brown said: 81 have heard good
news today The action of the assistant
attorney general and the infamous order
of Judge Phillips will remove all doubt
from the minds of the working men as
to where the courts stand; for this order
of Judge Phillips proves that the courts
are subservient to monopoly. am hap
by to hear of the fe up of the railroads
by the A. r. u. They are working to-
gether with the Farmers Alliance The
forces of labor and capital have met and
no human force can guide or mind direct
the channel in which it will turn.
''The only party that sympathizes with
the strikers" said Mr. Brown, ais the
Peoples party. No Peoples party man
will go a deputy to shoot down his
fellow men for So day, "a voice-'No
sir
Eff there was no Peoples party do you
believe that labor would dare to boycott
great monopoly? l know it would not
If this order of Judge Phillips means
anything it means that the railroads own
the men"
The speaker said of the ballot, it is the
lightning which clears away everything
in its track, and said: ''Let the lightning
next November shatter every United
States court that dares to prostitute itself
to capital, and down every one who dares
TO stand up and say he is not man."
c. .. MadOulet, who is employed in
the Santa Fe shops, said: There is one
thing we wOrkingmen want to find out,
and that is what this word parity that is
in all the old party platforms means.
We think it means a single gold stand
ard"
He continued: II am railroad man
and do not know whether the strike will
succeed or not. think it will be set
tied next week and l believe by that
time every wheel will stop and that the
men will win. 1 see that Judge Foster
has come out on the side of the railroads.
Judge Caldwell, who has been praised
TO the skies for his stand for the laboring
men, has come out against the strikers
and l do not know what we have to
pect."
III. A. Root. the Populist lawyer, talk
ed about the legal side of the strike. He
said that the roads did not have to haul
Pullmans even if they had a contract to
do so if it interfered with their business
II believe" he said, shat the only rea-
son they have for insisting on hauling
the Pullmans is to show their authority
and that General Manager Frey and the
other general managers can enforce
their orders"
The following executive committee, to
assist in the campaign, was named: j.
NJ Harrington, J. L. Anderson, +. J.
Hudson, L I. Yount, H. w. Parker, E
b Whaley, c. H. Nutz and Geo. Wagner.