The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-08-22

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during the past FIVE years in Kansas /
have taken an advanced position on the
money question. First | stood alone, ard
then all my colleagues stood with me.
battled with ard for the cause of the people,
agaiust corporations as | understood it.
| could not bear 70 see the old party Of
freedom, the party born TO defend the
oppressed, proslituted TO be the creature OF
| BANKEEs AND sYNDICATEs
and capital against labor That believed
| TO be the true work of Republican Kansas.
| The record | have made will be correctly
| Judged when the jealOusies OF ambition and
the bitterness Of Partisanship have passed
| away.
There can be no calamity so great TO any
| community or State Is when great prin-
| ciples, great questions, great general inter
ests are trampled out OF sight by petty To-
cal interests and personal feudS. \ battle
| Tor great questions no man should be
ashamed to fight ! am proud Of Kansas,
| history and appeal TO her people to take
| the front rank in The battle Of Justice and
progress. You have many able and pa
| rriotic gentlemen to be yO~- standard bear
! ers. No one man wrTp, up all in himself.
| especially appeal that yeu give a jnst
support TO the honorable gentleman YOU
have Just selected. \ man Of great ability
and scholarly attainments, of
UNELENISHED REPUTATION.
You have selected him, and | ask YOU 10
deal fairly with him. See tina, he is no,
unjustly and wickedly assailed by interest
ed liars and black-mailcrs. He brings you
| an unspotted reputation, as | brought you.
Deal more justly by him than you have
done by me.
| have other fields OF labor long to en-
| ter; other duties and other tasks that have
waited too long. | shall enter upon my
| new tasks with happiness and delight.
During the year have yet to serve you in
Congress | shall enieavor to accomplish all
that is possible for the great measures in
my hands, and for your interests; and it
will not be my fault if the closing session
| OF my third term in Congress. is not the
best and mos; useful for my reputation,
nv constituents and nv country.
CYRUS LELAND
Made his remarks very short, thanked his
friends Tor their support, and hoped that
the banner Congressional District OF the
state will roll up 10000 majority Tor John
| \. Anderson.
W. ". GUTHRIE
Heartily endorsed the nomination OF MIR.
Anderson, and said that those who said IN
the morning that the opposition could not
unite, had found themselves badly mista-
ken. He said that he had been candi-
date for Congress on two different occasions,
but that he was through with the business,
for the simple reason that now he has not
money enough 10 leave the city OF Atchi-
son.
LUCIES EAKHR,
the candidate from LeavenSOrth said he
came As the representative of the people oi
the people Of LeaveGworIh 10 Manhattan,
and had not a sore spot It. he had hardly
got lar enough in the fight TO know what ii
was. He said he had made TO fight ON Mr..
Phillips, and had no fault to find with Mr..
Phillips record. The people Of Lcaven-
worth will be satisfied with MIR. Anters OH
and will give him warm support
T. v. MORRILL,
was then introduced by the Chairman and
made a very humorous speech. He said
| that the people Of the First district were
TO he Congratulated on Mr.. Anderson'S
| nomination. lie thought il WAS hardly
| fair to ask candidates To- deliver addresses
at their own funeral. This reminded hlm
| of the old lady. who, on account Of dry
| spell" had lost her corn crop. She said II
vas mighty severe loss, out 1he was
mighty glad that her neiSh'o'S h"' io7'
then. too.
col. JOHN 4. ANDERSON.
| Col John A. Anderson, the next Con-
oressman for the First Congressional Dis
Irict j. tf,v.fou wears of age. and native
| ~ P.nnsvIvania. being born in Washing
ton cnuntv- Of that state, in 1884. When
| he was unite youpg his father removed to
| New AIbany Ind. afterwards removing to
DAYTON q. thence to Oxford. o., and to
CL;,Iicn,he in the same State. residi"g in
each of these places but comparatively
nor, time In 1853 he was graduated from
Miami University at Oxford. O., OF which
institution his father was President, being
ior two wears while there. a roommate OF
Hon Raniamin Harrison. of Indiana. Hon
Wbitelaw Reid. editor OF the New York
| n ;byn, il also graduate Of this Univer.
s;,v In 1856 Col. Anderson went to Cali
fornia. returning home in few months
sut se;tl;nc in the tiolien State N 1897, a
Stockton. by his vigorous efforts Inc rirS
Presbyterian Church, OF which he was pas
ton erected fine edihce, IN which N
lp-@ ched until 1861, when ne s
Jo!,ED THE BAD CALIFORNIA VOLUNTEERS
oLI,;, Ia w,s ofFered n maiorship
Su, I"dm;no bimssIf be,ter oualiii, i to &C
obanIa;n bs Fused the protered com
,;ssiop lie served under General Conner