Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-06-28
KANSAS REFORM RALLY
Details of Demonstration to Be
 Held at Ottawa.
PROMINENT MEN WILL SPEAK

Thomas Lawson to Tell . Personal
 Story of ssThe Crimes Of tho sys-
 temn-scene of the Rally wlll Bo In
 the Open Tn a Large Park-Exrect-
 ed Crowds win Camp Out Uhadler che
 Trees.
 Ottawa, Kan, is to be the scene of a noteworthy popular demonstration in the interest of that spirit of reform which manifested itself when the Kan. sas legislatu last winter passed a bill to establish state oil refinery to break the monopoly in Kansas of the Standard Oil company, says spe- cial dispatch from Ottawa to the New York World. Arrangements have been made for Governor La Toilette of Wis consin, William Travers Jerome of New York, Thomas w. Lawson of Bos- ton, Clarence S. Darrow of Chicago and Joseph W. Folk of Missouri to be present and address the people of tfse west.
 To know the full significance of this coming of Folk and the others to Kan sas would be to have felt the growth of that remarkable sentiment which surged upon the Kansas legislature last winter. In the face of constitu- tional questions, the influence of pow erful lobbyists and an open threat of misfortlnes to come from the coun- trys greatest monopoly, this sentiment put through a series of nu-Standard oil and antirailroad measures.
 It is this spirit with the Ottawa Chautauqua assembly as it's agent and corresponding secretary. which asked Lawson to come and tell personal story of "the crimes of the system" La Toilette to come from Wisconsin to complete the story already partly known in Kansas of the railroads and their guileful ways, Jerome to come from New York and Folk to come from Missouri to tell of law enforce ment and Darrow from Chicago to
  topic of American independence.
 Mir Darruw will speak on the after noon of July 4. Governor La Toilette will speak on July 6, Mir. Jerome will speak on July and Mir Lawson on July 8. The assembly programme cov- CTS the dates between July and IA. Throughout the west arrangements are being made for a vast assembage of the people.
 The man who conceived the unusual features of the programme this year ls the Rev. c. S. Nusbaum. presiding elder of Methodist conference dis trict which embraces the larger part of the Kansas oil territory and secretary of the Ottawa Chautauqua assembly. MT. Nusbaum made personal visit to Boston to meet Mfr Lawson, bearing the invitation of the Kansas governor.
 Tn accepting the invitation Mir. Law son said to Governor Hoch:
 I have never delivered a public address in my life and nothing could induce mo to place myself in the position I here agree to but my sense of duty to my country and to section of it's people who have had the honesty and the des- perate courage to throw their fortune and their lives in the pathway of the most brutally ruthless band of brigands that ever pfundered or desolated the homes of a free people. In my humble way I will when with your people try to point out way to strike of the letters which are all but permanently riveted to their and all American necks. and in doing so I pray God to give me strength and voice.
 Ottawa is a city of 5000, school and college town, fifty miles from Kansas City. on the northern limits of the western oil fields. It claims no indoor facilities for accommodating the large expected. The scene of the engagement" win be in the open. in the great park whose entrance is dedicated to the soldiers who fought with Funston in the Twentieth Kan gas. The crowds which hear the re- form discussions will camp under trees.