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Kansas City Chamber of Commerce please to make ready a camping ground, with commissary and sanitary equipment. Conrad H. Mann, general chairman of Kansas City's convention arrangements, replied: "Tell the farmers . . . we'll welcome them with open arms. We can take care of 100,000 farmers. If necessary we will tent our 1,500 acre playground—Swope Park. . . ." Citizens watched for another Coxey's Army, for a recrudescence of Populism, or for the passing of an empty thunder-gust.