The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-07-13
TWO WOMEN AT WAR.
Mary Lease and Annie Diggs Make
a Sensati onaI Scene
1t THE BIG POPULIST RALLY.
Mrs Lease CrHtIc1ses Mrs D1~gs,
speech and Mrs. DEggs Demands y
RetractIon-tSOv. Wafte's Speech

morning, 5000 in the afternoon and prob
ably 1000 or 5000 at night The larger
part of this crowd was present to see the
celebrity, Governor Waite.
Governor Waite arrived at the city park
shortly after o'clock yesterday after
noon.
Governor Lewelling introduced in
we'll worded speech of a very few min
utes Governor Davis II. Waite, the "war
governor of Colorado" AS the gray
bearded, specialized old gentleman
stepped to the edge of the platform, he
met by most datterlng shout from
the crowd of more than five thousand
that had Assem- bled to hear him speak.
The governor is certainly not a blood
thirsty looking man. and his remarks
were not those a man would choose with
which to stir up warfare and riot His
manner was mild and his language very
far from that which the maj GRITTY OF his
auditors had expected after reading
the accounts of his powder scented ut
terances.
For the most part the governor devoted
his time to a defense of his position in
the late Colorado labor troubles, claim
ing that he was able to cope success
fully with the situation, and desired no
interference from Mr.. Cleveland or the
United States troops. He also referred
to the Cripple Creek mining trouble.
The first part of his speech consisted
of a description of the birth, growth and
success of the Peoples party. In speak
ing of the Omaha convention and the
platform that declared the approach of
moral financial and political ruin, he
said: SAT that time the country was in a
comparatively prosperous condition al
though the policies of both the old parties
if persisted in we're certainly ruinOus.
w e put such planks in our platform as
promised better times. went before the
people with that famous platform you all
know so we'll and carried twenty two
electoral votes five months from the
birth of the party.
WAS not this record wonderful? The
Republicans were in power then. The
Democrats are in power now and what a
terrible state of affairs exists today. And
what remedy IS offered to you by either
Of the old parties5 None, absolutely
none. Their only idea is to follow the
presidents financial policy which is in
the interest Of Wall street-tO pay our
debts with borrowed money How can
any body pay a debt with borrowed
money? To have better times you must
have a change of administration. In no
other way can debts be paid nor workmen
given employment Open the national
treasury to free coinage of silver in
ratio Of sixteen to one"
Mr. Waite then directed his attention
to the Pullman strike and the trouble
that attended it. This strike can never
succeed because the entire armed forces
of the United States are against the sue
cess Of the laboring man. The United
States government IS using all its mill
tary power to build up monopoly"
Although the crowd had been almost
oppressively quiet till now, this remark
called forth a tumult Of applause. The
speaker then proceeded to read some ed
itorials clipped from Denver papers and
commented them. The crowd was
not interested in this, however, and the
governor continued:
stIn my own state. within the last week,
men have been arrested by deputy
United States marshals without warrant
and thrown into Jail for sixty days.
Within the last week the United States
has sent troops into five states, which is
useless and unlawful
eve have lawless elements in the state
Of Colorado but they are not among the
laboring men, Only a short time ago
my Attorney General Tarsney taken
from his hotel in Colorado Springs, car
ried to a canon five or six miles from
town and there tarred and feathered.
And what was his offense9
1T was charged that he had been brutal
in his treatment to the mine owners and
that he had defended in the court room
men whom he had had arrested as at
torney general That he had melted by
his course riot and lawlessness among
the miners and had permitted the de-
struction OF property Instead OF melting
riot among the miners at Cripple Creek
his entire course was to prevent the
destruction of party and keep down riot
and bloOdshed. He was working under
orders from his chief.
st was not necessary to call upon I'm
Gle Sam. l sent the Colorado National
Guards down there and the disturbing
elements were quieted and the national
guards did not find it necessary to shoot
a man. [Applause1 The papers stated
that General Tarsnev defended lawless
mobs. / deny it most emphatically. The
trouble settled, there we're no arrests
and no men were thrown into jail as now.
There was no Instruction and the state
was fully able to keep within bounds and
Quell what was simply a drunken miners
row that is likely to occur in any mining
camp.
And yet the papers of both the old
parties condemn the Populist movement
and the Populist officials for doing their
duty. Why all this bitternessr 1t is be-
cause they realize that for the first time
in twenty years party has arisen which
promises to change the financial policy Of
the nation and give the laboring man
decent pay for his labor"
Governor Waite closed his speech very
prettily and accepted gracefully a mod
crate amount of applause.
Fred Close spoke for few moments
/ following and finally introduced Heavy
1 Comedian Thomas, who started to sing
! his one-Iegged song but got hold of the
wrong leg and sang one verse Of the Re-
/ publican version before he noticed it and
was compelled to retire with rather more
/ precipitancy than dignity without finish
ing until he could go up town and get the
Populist side of the story In retiring
he said that he had just received tele-
gram saying that dear friend Of his
was i'll and wanted to see him. The
fact OF the matter is there are two YER