The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-16
Republicans Have Stolen Some
POpuIist Campaign Thunder.
Parade OF Country People at
Marion September 1.
FROM ALL DIRECTIONS.
Roads to Town Will Be Throng-
ed With Wagons.
People Of Each Township VIII
Be Organized.

| The Republicans have stolen the old
Populist idea of having big parades of
country people come marching into the
towns to their rallies. The Republican
| managers are making preparations for
| a tremendous meeting at the opening
| of the Republican state campaign at
Marion on September l. and parade
of the people from the country will be
one of the features.
| In the early days of Populism in
Kansas the parades were one of the
| great wonders of the movement. In
some counties almost every farmer be-
| longed to the Farmers Alliance and
this afforded an easy way of getting up
the parades. Each alliance would meet
| and march to the county seat in a body.
A mile or two outside the town they
! would halt until all the alliances from
| that direction had gathered and then
go trooping into the town from all di-
| rections, some times making a parade
| from three to five miles long. Those
were in calamity days and the vehicles
were mostly old lumber wagons the
| more rickety the better, and frequently
drawn by two old crowbaits. There
were labels of all descriptions and BAN
ners to burn, and by the time the pa
| rade was over there was usually plenty
of enthusiasm to cheer even a mediocre
spellbinder.
The Republicans will try something
of the same kind for their Marion
meeting. They expect to organize the
townships of Marion county and march
the farmers of each township in a body.
The parade is scheduled to take place
about 1:30 on Thursday afternoon, Sep
tember 1, the day of the rally. All the
L Laf lad r1rff
but the parade will be made one of the
big features of the day.
But that will not be the only one. The
Republican managers will spare no pains
nor expense to make the opening rally of
the campaign tremendous one and they
VIII doubtless be successful The state
committee will do everything it can along
| that line. and the people of Marion feel a
| local pride in the matter and will do their
part The managers of the state commit
tee are arranging for special trains, tn
ion to carry the crowds. The rate viii be
one fare for the round trip. The schedule
The exercises will begin in the after
noon and will last till into the night.
the principal speaker, but Fairbanks will
not make the best speech. He has been
candidate of the Republican party for vice
president he will, of course be the prin-
cipal attraction, but people who heard
Senator Fairbanks when he was in Kan
sas four years ago know that there are
twenty men in Kansas who can make a
better speech. Therefore people who get
their expectations too high regarding
Fairbanks speech are apt to be disap-
Senator Long and E. w Hoch are also
scheduled to make speeches and theirs
will, of course, be good ones Secretary
Miller of the state committee says Chair
and ali of the eight congressman to make
speeches at the Marion meeting. Gov.
vitation so far as he knows and that It
would be impossible for him to be at
Marion anyway, as he promised weeks
sneak a reunion WASHINGTON
on that date.
The state committee has made arrange
ments to secure the largest tent that can
be secured in Kansas City for use in case
of rain. If the weather is pleasant the
meetings will be held in the city park, of
which Marion is very proud.
A big political meeting of this char
acter was held in Marion in 1900. but
then it was a Populist meeting with
parade trimmings, instead of Repub-
lican. Webster Davis was the speaker
in the afternoon, and John w Breid-
enthaI, the fusion candidate for gov
ernor, spoke in the evening. There
was big parade early in the after
noon. A newspaper man stood with
E. w. Hoch in the office of the Marion
Record watching the parade pass. An
old-time Republican stood near belit-
tling it. He estimated that there 500
or 500 people in the parade.
Hold on!" said Hoch. Lets give
'em due credit. That's the biggest
parade there has been in Marion dur
ing this campaign"
John Dawson was scheduled by the
Republicans to speak in the evening
in the court house, in opposition to
Breidenthal, who spoke in the park.
Dawson and Breidenthal got into town
on the same train during the after
noon. The local Populists had pre-
pared a decorated carriage which it
sent to the depot to meet Breidenthal,
but the committee in charge got Daw-
son instead. Breidenthal started to
walk up town, but the carriage over
took him and Dawson invited him to
ride.
In the evening Breidenthal started
in, of course. with the biggest crowd.
Marion is Republican
Dawson has one of the
best pair of lung in the west, how
ever, and his speech could be heard
over half the townsite, and before he
got through he had more of the crowd
than he was really entitled to.
Barney Sheridan, who once called
Henry Allen a Gathering boodler,'
prints the following in the Paola Spirit:
TT is with regret this paper learns
that Henry ]. Allen will not be an In
against Bowersock. The Western Spirit
loves Henry for the enemies ne has
made"
Word comes from Hill City that Lieu
tenant Governor Hanna is convalescing
from attack of typhoid fever to the ex-
tent that he is able to sit UP, and his
physician has gone for an outing in
Yellowstone Park
Lawrence Gazette: 1t is said that the
janitor had to work the furnace over
time for three hours to thaw the frost
off the windows of the room in which
CONGRESSMAN Bowersock and Henry
Allen held their conference