The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-10
A SECOND COXEY.
Washington Minister DenOunces
LaWsOn's Statements.
Hints That the Boston Man Is
a Presidential Candidate.
NOTHALFTHE PAUPERS
Commercial Club Was Very
Much Disappointed.
Their Guest Slipped Away Early
Sunday Morning.
Had Intended Giving Him a
Quiet Banquet.

Ottawa. Kan. July 10.-Thomas w.
Lawson left here Unexpectedly before
dawn Sunday morning for Kansas City
60 consult a specialist on throat trou-
bles. The strain on his voice of Satur-
days two speeches, both delivered in
the open air, developed alarming symp-
toms and made imperative an immed-
late consultation with a physician.
The crowd which assembled in the
Chautauqua assembly tabernacle in the
afternoon to see Lawson in the role of
a worshipper was disappointed, but
there was another feature, likewise I'M
announced, which made the occasion
one of interest. For Lawson's own
peace of mind it is perhaps as well that
the enemy of ''frenzied finance" was
not present.
Denounced His Ideas.
The Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts of Wash
ington, who preached the assembly SER
mon, denounced the ideas of both Law
son and William Travers Jerome, ex-
pounded here Friday and Saturday, as
'fallacies,'' and urged the necessity OF
clear, unimpassioned thinking on the
part o. the citizens of the country.
In coming to us in his aristocratic
car" said DR.. Crafts, Lawson reminds
US of Coxey and Tom Johnson, using
wealth to enlist the poor as their sup
hidden remedy? There are no 10 million
paupers in the country, as Lawson
says. His facts about crimes of stock
gambling would carry greater weight
If he were not still practicing them him
self For his warnings against buying
wind and water we are truly thankful,
but when he suddenly jumps from the
witness stand to the judicial bench, as
If to charge the jury, he makes a polltl-
cal stump speech instead
Good Word for Folk.
The clergyman also upbraided Law
son for what he called his attempt to
arraign the west and the south against
the east. Jerome, DR.. Crafts said, had
succeeded in keeping down the lid
on gambling when the lid had no po-
litical pressure beneath it, but had
made no Roadway against Sunday
liquor selling. backed by political pres
sure The attitude of Governor Folk is
the only proper one in this particular,
he said.
The business men of Ottawa, members
of the Commercial club, had arranged a
reception in Lawson's honor, to which
only select few were invited, for six
o'clock last evening. It was to have
been in a tent on the Chautauqua
grounds, in Forest park. With this on
his mind Lawson was allowed to go to
his car at IL o'clock Saturday night, af-
ter a day that had been strenuous and
stormy. full of unusual-and some unto
Ward-eVents.
Lawson Had Fled.
At o'clock Sunday morning a little
group of early risers walked down to
the Santa Fe yards, intending, if pos
sible. to verify the assertion that Mr..
Lawson was accustomed to rising at 5
o'clock every morning to work When
they reached the tracks they were
amazed. The private car Haslemere
had vanished; the hero of Ottawa's
Chautauqua had disappeared in the
night The news spread quickly and
soon reached the home of DR.. c. S. Nus
baum, secretary of the ChautauQua So
ciety. "A letter has just been delivered
to me-" said DR.. Nusbaum, "in which
Mr.. Lawson says that the condition of
his throat had become somewhat alarm
ing and that if he is to fill his other
engagements it will be necessary to con-
suit a specialist. For that purpose MI.
Lawson left Ottawa at 4:45 O'clock
while we were asleep, and is now in
Kansas City. This is a sore disappoint-
ment to us, because we had hoped to
give Mr.. Lawson good rest until Mon
day morning.
Lawson's speech Saturday, delivered
in two installments, was really only his
second public appearance as a speaker
and, to quote his own words, it "tore
his throat to pieces. There We're,
conservatively estimated. 1000 persons
within range of the platform. Lawson
tried to speak for another thousand
who could not find standing room in
the tabernacle and in doing so he
strained his voice
Ottawa People Wonder.
Now that it is all over and Ottawa
is again able to sit up and blink and
catch its breath some of the deep
thinkers-and there are plenty of
them here in a town that has sun
years-are beginning to wonder just
what all the fuss was about. There
are many who wonder why Lawson
took the trouble to come here and
tear his throat to pieces' advising
them to sell their stocks and bonds
especially "Atchison.' Lawson talked
like a "bear''-to use the parlance of
the pit-like a bear who was short
''seI, sell, SELL" 1t looked and sound
ed like gigantic bear raid on "Atch-
ison," always "Atchison;" every other
extemporaneous utterance was against
that stock. The funny thing about
this, in the opinion of Ottawa people
some of whom are somewhat "puffed
up" about it, is the implication that
anyone here now has, ever has had or
expects ever to have any stocks or
bonds of the "Atchison" or any other
brand.
Henry Aliens Ideas.
Now said Henry J. Allen of the
ottawa Herald. I'VE have no stocks out
here and he knows it. Tom Lawson
IS all right, suppose, but, really, don't
you think he could have reached Just
as many people with that talk in an
other way? 1t was awfuily hard work
for him. that speech. and us, us with
out a share of Atchison or any other
stock, except cows and sheep and
-'sich-' 1t was a good speech and well
worth hearing; it contained much that
was popular out here in Kansas and
Mr.. Lawson made many friends here.
but I think hundreds went to the
tabernacle just to hear the lion roar
Mr.. Lawson made a most favorable
impression among the women of the
town, a fact worth noting. The Bos-
ton man looked about him approving
ly and passed his hand over mems
shoulders to shake hands with the
wonderland the girls@sniled and
talked to them in that low, confden-
tial. I-wouldn' t-telI-this-t o-anyone-else