1913 Storming of the Chawopolis Palace

## 1913 Coup Attempt against Garfield Lucas Webster

### Result

Coup failure* Intense security of the city of Chawopolis made the coup impossible
* Webster remains in power until his retirement in 1919

Leaders and Commanders| * Emperor Santiago
* Garfield Lucas Webster
* Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII

The **1913 Storming of the Chawopolis Palace** was an unsuccessful violent right-wing coup attempt seeking to overthrow the left-wing Prime Minister Garfield Lucas Webster, his progressive cabinet and the 3rd Chawopolis Palace, this coup attempt took place on July 4, 1913, to stop the spread of socialism under Webster's encouragement. Conservatives and right-wing libertarians attempted to set the whole city of Chawopolis on fire to distract the Chawosaurian Imperial Army to get to the Chawopolis Palace to force Garfield Webster to either step down or get assassinated. The coup failed due to the intense security of the Chawopolis Palace and the city as a whole.

Garfield Lucas Webster was using his popular support that he was able to forge with Thomas Edison's technology (*see: Edison Strategy*) to build public support for Webster's brand of socialism (social democracy) to empower the working class, weaken the political power of business leaders and strengthen the political influence of labor union leaders, and Webster's communication strategy succeeded with conservatives failing to rebut his pro-socialist message.

Right-wingers stormed the Chawopolis Palace in an attempt to violently overthrow Prime Minister Webster, his socialist cabinet, and the compromised-minded Conservative majority in the Chawopolis Palace. They broke into the palace and caused the entire 3rd Chawopolis Palace, Emperor Santiago, and the prime ministry to hide into bunkers while the rioters broke into offices, vandalize and stole personal and public property, and failed to find any of the politicians that they were looking for, in part because the Chawopolis Palace bunkers were not known to the Chawosaurian public until 2006 and the information of where were these bunkers was also not known to the public until 2015, flustering the confused rioters.

Due to the age of the Chawopolis Palace, its insides are very creepy and there was barely any electricity because its architectural surroundings were not made for modern day electricity resources. Its hallways are also designed as mazes to confuse the Chawopolis Palace's invaders to make it easier for the Chawosaurian Imperial Army to capture these rioters because the military were trained to know where to go in the Chawopolis Palace. The palace's maze hallways were also unknown to the general public until 2018. The insurrectionists tried to set the Chawopolis Palace on fire, but the palace was fireproof because the palace was built out of gold, iron, and silver, so it's hard to set the Chawopolis Palace on fire, and the glass was hard to break because it was made out of diamonds.

The rioters luckily managed to successfully find Garfield Webster's prime ministerial office, which added to their confusion, Webster wasn't present there, anywhere in the palace, or anywhere in the city. When the rioters were finally arrested by the Chawosaurian Imperial Army ordered by the emperor, it was released to the public that Webster was at Mumbai, British India, performing prime ministerial duties with Shailendra V.K. Balakrishnan.

The insurrectionists were humiliated by the lack of attendance of their targets, the revelations that Webster was in India to do prime ministerial business starkly enraged the right-wing extremists, saying they should've overthrown him before he departed to India, except he too would end up hiding in a secret bunker not known even to the extremists themselves. The insurrectionists struggled to find their way out in the maze halls of the Chawopolis Palace that was actually made to confuse invaders.

Many of these insurrectionists were sentenced to death for insurrection. This was a historically failed insurrection because of the lack of knowledge of the traps that was set in the Chawopolis Palace (the palace's maze hallways are traps for invaders) and as for two seditionists: Speaker Jonathan Sidney MacCarthy and MP and future Prime Minister Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII, they were never prosecuted and they were allowed to keep their political careers.

## Background

Starting in the contentious 1909 Chawosaurian legislative elections, there was an anti-British vibe in Chawosauria as British political parties solidly control the Chawopolis Palace, using it as a national legislature. The backstory of this situation was that since 1492, the Chawalliankalitans of the Arctic feared European colonization as they saw their neighbors from the Americas suffer at the hands of European colonial empires of Spain, Britain, and Portugal, but the Chawalliankalitans lived in peace until the Chawo-Wolfsberg War, where the Wolfsberg Empire, a nation not part of human society, and its quasi British allies in Canada successfully overthrew the Chawalliankalitan pagan government.

The Wolfsbergians transform Chawalliankalita into an oribis, which is ruled by British politics and Chawosauria was born. Malcolm Lyons MacKenzie Wilson becomes Prime Minister of Chawosauria installed by the British, and the Chawosaurians did not like Wilson, leading to his disastrous result in the 1905 Chawosaurian legislative elections, and Wilson's Conservative Party getting smashed in the 1906 elections in the UK only embarrassed him further that Emperor Santiago said no to Wilson getting a second term.

Finally, the 1909 elections in Chawosauria have arrived, and the Conservative Party UK, who rules the Palace, put up a right-wing populist leader, Jonathan Sidney MacCarthy, to replace the unpopular Malcolm Wilson after Wilson was denied a second term by the emperor because of his humiliating defeat in the 1905 elections and the embarrassment Wilson suffered from his Conservative Party's landslide defeat in the 1906 U.K. elections. Emperor Santiago replaced Wilson with the same left-wing populist who threatened to compete against Santiago in the 1899 Chawosaurian direct election, that left-wing populist was Garfield Lucas Webster, to counteract against the Conservatives' populist approach, but Webster didn't like either the Liberals (UK) or the Conservatives (UK), and Webster's preferred party, the U.K. Labour Party, was banned by Chawosauria's anti-socialist laws from participating in a Chawosaurian election.

The U.K. Liberal Party instead reelected James Blair Wellington, who is very unlikeable because of his establishment ties. In the 1909 election results, the Conservatives regained their majority but still lost in the popular vote, while Wellington was defeated, he led the popular vote in a plurality, and he was pressured to resign, eventually replaced by Theodore McClellan. Garfield Webster took office on January 1, 1910, and he was an unliked Prime Minister because of his sympathies with socialism in an anti-socialist Chawosauria.

The Conservative majority Chawopolis Palace and the media ganged together to smear Webster, trying to label Webster as an out-of-touch socialist, but Webster wanted to show the right-wing that though they can attack him if they wished, there is still a side, his side of the yard, people who didn't go to a university, people who revere the working-class, and demanded independence from quasi-British rule, and Webster wanted to rally them.

Webster held a stadium-size rally, well, in a stadium, which was a game-changer, no Prime Minister has ever spoke to the people up close, or even spoke to the people at all. Turnout was higher than Webster anticipated because people were excited to see the Prime Minister up close, Webster roared a speech that calls for a social democracy, and he was met with loud applause from the people in the rally, this level of excitement for Webster's public appearances scared the right-wing media and Chawopolis Palace Tories. There were right-wing protests against Webster, escalating the right-wing opposition to Webster because of Webster's historic fashion at communicating politics--by speaking directly to the people.

Being hammered by the protests and wasted his financial arsenals due to doing so many rallies, Webster believed he needed to keep fighting the establishment, and ended up meeting with his cabinet with a new strategy, but they knew that Webster was a fan of Thomas Edison and his technology, the cabinet proposes that movie theaters are gaining widespread popularity among the Chawosaurian people as well as Americans, and other people around the industrialized world, so Webster could communicate with the people through movie theaters, but back in 1910, movies were silent, Webster decided that recording his voice while he was speaking his speech, while being recorded by camera, that would revolutionize public speaking in Chawosauria.

Webster enacted a strong progressive agenda that is strong and true: labor unions controlling politics, strong environmental protections, free education to all, free healthcare to all, and a living wage.

## The Attack

### The Chawopolis Palace

The Chawopolis Palace was built was after the death of Emperor Chawalliankalita in 2552 BCE, the palace serves as a mausoleum for Emperor Chawalliankalita, a cemetery for all of Chawosauria's deceased monarchs, and honorable Chawosaurians who are buried there as well, but it was also a royal house for the Chawosaurian royal family, but the Chawo-Wolfsberg War saw the overthrow of the Chawalliankalitan Empire to Christian conquerors but the conquest was met with heavy Chawosaurian resistance.

While still a personal residence for the monarchy, it also become the headquarters of the Chawosaurian government (though already was), it became the location of the Chawosaurian Imperial Legislature, and the palace's interior was drastically changed for that purpose of a democratic government.

The palace is built out of iron, gold, and silver. It's windows are made out of diamonds and crystals and are beautifully decorated, it's carpets are made out of Polar Bear coats on its iron and steeled floors as cold as ice to be barefoot on. The doors of the palace, even the entrance doors, are so fragile that pulling them will cause them to break off, fall on you if stand in its way, and kill you easily.

The halls of the Chawopolis Palace are designed to be a maze in case of a coup, these mazes are designed to confuse invaders and make them vulnerable to being ambushed by the Chawosaurian Imperial Army who know their way around in these maze halls as they were trained to. The palace was also extremely cold, not careful wearing a coat will lend you catching the cold or suffering (or dying) from hypothermia. Due to the old age of the palace, the inside of the palace is gloomy and scary looking, it looks like a haunted castle, and you can hear things that aren't physically there.