The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-15
LAWSON WAITED.
Col. Greene Didn't Visit Boston When
He Said He Would.

Boston. Dec. 15.-Boston is horribly
disappointed because Colonel William
S. Greene failed to descend upon Thorn
as w. Lawson as he publicly advertised
he would.
The colonel, who is president of the
Greene Consolidated Copper Mining
company, the stock of which dropped
nine points in the market, is said to car
ry a pistol with four notches on it.
In his open letter to Mr.. Lawson he
denounced him as liar, a fazir, and a
charlatan," and closed with this onin-
Gus sentence:
Tomorrow in Boston shall call up
on you"
Boston waited all day for the tragedy,
and so did Mr.. Lawson, but the colonel
failed to come from New York.
Mr.. Lawson, in his quiet room, await
ed the arrival of the armed messenger
from the camp of his Wall street enc
mics.
Men were offering over the telephone
to meet the colonel at the railway de-
pot and stay him, but Mr.. Lawson
laughed softly at them.
Hes a friend of mine," he said, land
If he comes, in spite OF what he has said
about me, I'll be glad to see him.
wouldn't have any harm come to him
for the world. I'm really very sorry he
got hurt in the market
Mr.. Lawson had already issued a
statement declaring he had offered
through Colonel Greene's brokers to as
sist him if he needed assistance to pre-
vent the crash in Greene Copper stock.
He's a great big hearted fellow he
said, who would starve before doing a
wrong. He has told me many a time
that he killed four men, but they need
ed killing I believe it. Two were shot
in the back, but, as he explained it, that
was the only way he could get them.
Il know the ours who put Colonel
Greene up to writing that letter. They
are getting desperate. but they will be
more desperate before this situation de-
Velops much further"
After this explosion there was a deep
silence, broken only by the labored
breathing of Mr.. Lawson's bold defend
ers. Then the 'frenzied f1nancier,''
having nothing else to do, apparently,
calmly penned the following philippe,
New York:
my Dear Colonel: 1 know you for
one of the biggest hearted, squarest
men 1 have ever met. Notwithstanding
todays newspapers 1 have the fairness
to repeat it
You say that I attempted to rob
you and your Greene company. You
know you lie.
you brought me your Greene COM
pany and said: Lawson, you are the
only man on earth whom would
trust with it, I took it and for five
to an amount of, I think, more than
100000. Then had Mr.. Rogers best
experts examine it, and when they re-
ported it as no good I went to you like
a man and said: I return it to you,
and take my loss
Now for your threats. I know you
are a brave man. I know. not only
because you have told me, but because
I have verified it, that you have
notches on your revolver to mark
where you went up against men in
Arizona and Mexico.
PICKED WRONG CUSTOMER
ST know you have made some of the
leaders of the system give over their
schemes to ruin you simply by calling
their attention to the fact that you in
tend to call them up at their offices.
But you have picked the wrong
customer. You or any of those who
have egged you on, or any of the
dirty ours of the system may come to
my office or other place that is con-
venient or accessible. and when you
come L will be there to meet YOU
From New York finally came word
that Colonel Greene, contrary to the
avowa1 of his office manager, had not
started for Boston. Mr.. Lawson sent
out the following;
"To Wall Street: The frenzied
f1nanciers have walked up and they are
going to do things. 1t was one of
Americas great men who said The
way to resume is to resume 1 may
therefore be pardoned for saying the
way for frenzied hnanciers' to do
things is to do them. The press will
see that proper notice is given what
they do.
so far as am concerned, let Wall
street make no mistake. 1 will do my
work in my own way, not the way the
'frenzied financiers' want me to do it
'"They lombard me with lies and
mud; they may send along bad men
with guns; they may offer their dirty
dollars in large amounts to servants to
drop poison IN my coffee, but I will
be found doing business at the old
stand when they are tired and through
doing business.
Twill the people continue to buy
stocks at fraudulently made high
prices and sell them at the artificialIy
made low prices and be thereby rob-
bed, or will they take advantage of the
present situation and everlastingly
swamp the frenzied financiers and the
5ystem with the chromos they have
been manufacturing?
Watch carefully what is being done
and decide for yourselves who will
limited money and its unlimited, cold
blooded trickery and thuggery, or a
man who depends wholly and absolute
ly upon truth. As crash follows crash,
place the blame where it belongs
zone word to Wall street: Are the
frenzied financiers paying for the last
few days purchases made to uphold
their tottering structure with their own
or are they again using tbs
peoples savings in the national and
savings banks, trust and insurance
companies?
Are they? You may get the answer
and a correct one shortly in a way for
which you will not need to take my
word as to it's soundness.''-