The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-05-05

CoxEY As SEEN At HOME
One Of His Attempts to Tesoh Pol
1tlcs by Object Lessons.
Coxey-'Senator Coxey, e they
call him at home, because be was
awfully defeated for State Senator
once-General Coxey, now of the
army of the Commonweal? Yes,
indeed, know him. responded =
former resident of Massillon, Ohio,
when the onward march of the
molly brigade came under discus
sion.
"Coxey is an amusing character.
He is not q crank, even in his f.
nancial balloon ideas. He impress
es his friends with the notion that
he knows they are nonsensical him
self. There is assurance, disregard
of public opinion and love of no.
toriety in everything he does, but
he is friendly sort of fellow. He
bears himself with dignity, and
looks the substantial man of bust
ness that he actually is.
"You know he owns big stone
quarries near Massillon, and the
sand he sells would every year
make pile as big as the Post Of
fee. He says himself he is head
over heels in debt. don't know
he ought to know about it. There
is not the slightest trace of the cow
boy about him, as there is in Carl
Brown, his imported visegerent.
Coxey looks like an average man
of affairs.
II have often thought since he
started this good roads crusade that
he cultivated hobbies to keep his
mind diverted.
"He owns a stud farm in Ken
lucky, and the dominant branch of
his sensible talk is on horses. Sat
urday, you know, is the great day
for farmers to come to town in
Ohio. They hitch their teams in
the public square, buy their sup
plies and collect the news the rest
Of the day.
tits Coxey's great day for public
financial education and agitation.
You can zee him any Saturday
perched upon q railing around
some basement barber shop, ha-
ranguing group on the beauties of
more money. The attitude of the
general mind of the little city to-
ward the great financial publicist
and advocate is one of quiet amuse-
ment.
One Of the funniest things Coxey
ever did was to furnish an object
lesson to prove that the consumers
paid the tariff tax It was during
a heated campaign. One day Cox
ey had hauled into town and an
chored in front of the. Office of the
democratic organ a huge ditching
A flaming placard was
declaring that it had been
bought in Canada, that its price
when made was so many dollars
and the duty was SO much, and the
cost had been borne by
the Massillon owner.
"There it stood for some days,
and groups gathered and grew angry
over debating this irresistible con-
clusion of logic and plain business
But the mere presence
of the machine seemed to make the
tariff reformer surer of his claim
and the protectionist absolutely
furious.
''In the course of week the rival
editor executed q master stroke.
He had written to Montreal about
ditching machines and discovered
that this particular machine had
never yet been paid for at all by its
domestic consignee, either cost or
duty-in fact, the litigation was
pending. The abstract proposition
of who endures the tariff tax van
ished amid the laughter over this
exposure.
IA few nights afterward some en-
thusiastic republicans, returning
from a meeting, dragged the Ca
object lesson down to the
canal and backed it over the bank
into the raging waters. It required
Coxey's four blooded horses half
4 day to drag out that machine, and
it was somewhat twisted in the
course Of the festivities. New
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