The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-06-18
Solid Truths.

% land now, fellow citizens, for Jus
: one moment, let me call your attention
i, to great fundamental fact that / re
o gretfully say has been lost sight of, t,
n great extent, i'll our political can
vases.
1t is one of the painful peculiaritie
. OF these conflicts of ours, that we los,
sight of the principles that underli,
our political contests, in our PARTISAN
ship for individuals. 1t matters no
who was nominated at Chicago, the
principle involved, and the duty in
cumbent upon the American either
would have been the same every time
More than this, fellow citizens. there
is no man in the country so great as
the country itself There is no man
III the country whose craftsmanship
overreaches the aggregate wisdom OF
the American people. The governing
power OF this country we deny as COM
ing from above or beyond the people
themselves. 1t comes not down from
governors, down from legislatures :;
| but 1T comes up from the people, and
no thoughtful man who loves his
country could look upon the contest as
L looked upon it in Chicago, without
trembling for his country. You would
think that there was nobody but Blaine
or Grant or Sherman or somebody else.
f0rgetful that God Overrules and Yields
the deStlnleS of our country. using
solely and only the intelligence and
the integrity and the character of the
people to govern us. [Applause.
And now fellow citizens. the nomi.
nations are made. So far as we are
concerned, the conflict must be entered
upon and must be fought to a conclu-
sion. And it is high time, as has been
sald from this place to-night-it is high
Tune that all this unpatriotic, this
wicked talk about individual prefer
ence should cease. Why, in one of
our evening papers-and language
cannot describe the utter and unutter-
able loathing that feel for that kind
OF statesmanship-in one of our papers
issued in this very city this afternoon,
Is the declaration that the hOrseman
from AppOmattoX was consigned to
perpetual oblivion by the Chicago
convention. Think of the inspiration
That stood back in that sentence, as it
was written and published The
.hicago Convention consigning to OBJ
lvlOn the solitary hOrseman of Ap-
'omattoX Court House! Tell me as
lulck that the morning stars that were
et III heaven and sang at the creation. ,
Mould be consigned to oblivion by the
lat OF some weak mortal Tell me as
Don that the sun, when it sheds its ,
'iare Oh the western waves, has gone
nto hopeless oblivion, never to rise 4
nd gild the morning sky again, as tol
ell me that the name of u. s. Grant
nj his history has been consigned toI
biivion by the Chicago Convention Il
Cheers.
But as l said before, patriots, lovers
tnelr country, members of the Re n
ublican party, talk no such thing as I
us. NO great man has been consirn- J
1 10 oblivion there but the names of
lose who have struggled in peace or r
war to sOlidify around about this
ltlre principle Of free government, q
ld maintain it, in peace or i'm war L
i'll live and find a recognition in the u
carts OF not only our own peODle. Int
he peoples of all the earth, becauseI
lere is an instructive impulse of human
iture that recognizes heroism wher-
'er we find it, III spite of ourselves.
But now, word or two. The NO.
liar facts of this contest present D
to the Republican party OIL
ansas and the Republican partv Of
re Nation; All of the warning ele-
ents OF the party were thoroughly
canned IN the interest of their re- I
ectlve candidate at Chicdgo They
ere solldlfled and organized to an eX-
Ut nave never before known them
nee the day of Henry Clay. The
'mlnatlon came upon this people as
surprise. 1t neither entered the am
lions, FOR the hope, nor the expecta-
ms OF these organized forces. andI
nee the country is not to-day ablaze
TN enthusiasm, because everybody
beaten. We found many a man in n
llcago that was exactly as [ was. L
at knew no motto but God and ~
ant, and it takes us some little time u
aad the other G God, Grant and
lr1leld but we will get around to it.
wv, the Republican party of the ma
n Is like the sail that flaps in the
no, but it does not portend destruc-
II, IL does not portend apathy. We
only waiting until the shin yeers Ill
'und and gathers in the breeze. and f.;
IN away We will go to victory as we w
We gone before. Applause.
70 Iar as Kansas is concerned, it il
publican. 1t is Republican ever
! always; and by no possibility .
ld nomination be made such "a to
ng about, through jealousy or ana
;, an Endorsement of Democracy in
nsas. But Kansas has a duty to
form, above and beyond carrying
electoral vote for Garfield and Ar, tp,
II. The eyes of the whole country "
upon Kansas, and they feel that
republican majority here has been N
de at their expense. ~ Nv
ne manner in which we take I'M