Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-11-02
POINTS RY PRENTIs
Summary of His Recent Speech at
H.GWatha-

t'
Prentis speech must have been, to put
i; mildly, a "rattler :"
Noble L. Prentis, the star orator Of
the campaign, made the closing speech.
1t was wit and rumor, pathos and ell
quence from beginning to end, and held
the audience even during the alarm Of
FIRE. There is no panic IN the Republi-
can PARTY. Prentis said if the Demo
Gratis had been allowed to keep their
slavery here our prairies would show
only scattered plantations, with the how
els of slaves. There would have no
Hiawatha, for no Border Ruffian read
poetry or ever heard OF LongfellOw.
Our river towns would the home of
shantles, visited once year by stern
wheel steamboat with cargo Of fiat
tobacco and yellow head whisky. The
only town excitement would be the rip
pie created when the james boys hung
Yankee. He had just been travelling
through free Republican Kansas, and 1t
looked like the Garden of Eden, the
serpent driven out and the elections just
carried by the Republicans. He was
proud to be a Republican, to live in this
century, to iavsr temperance aud good
morals and march at the front Of the
procession of the army Of progress. Keep
as near to the band as possible if you
don't want to get left.
The Democratic party used to have a
banner and flag. Now they are
marching under jug tied tn the end OF
long pole. The news from Ohio
showed that original sin Is still with US,
and it WINS the duty OF the Republicans
TO march forward and continue the fight.
He thought Brown county all right !;
didn't see any men in the audience
whose foreheads were so low that when
they cried the tears ran down the back
Of their heads. Click was leading the
fat-heads this year. Click, who be-
longed so far back III the geological ages
that no scientist had ever classified the
Strata in whi:h the fossil was found.
Click belonged to the party that points
with pride to record SO damning that 1t
makes them madden than hornets every
time Republican alludes to 1t. The
Kansas Republicans, like their brothers
in Iowa, Indiana and Ohio, belong to
the temperance party. The Democrats
are the seIfapp )inled champions Of
whisky, The Democrats are the self
appointed champions of whisky. The
Democratic father probably points with
pride to his dutifuI off spring aud ex-
uIts with giee when he tells his neigh
bors: John is promising lad comes
home drunk every night now"
belong to the other party to the
party Of my blue coat brothers who
marched to the front, who fell on the
field, and whose brave faces we see no
more. belong to the party which De-
liovcs in Divine order and in the In
vincible progress Of humanity and NOR
ais. l have not forgotten the sneers at
the soldiers, 1.-THE Lincoln hirelings,
the ridicule of the "God and humanity
party, the yeIls and jeers Of Christless
mob of rufians who hoWled at the "JIuIy
loyal" The blue coats have memories
and the young men who come after u.
are reading the newspapers and study
ing history. You can trnst them at thu
polls.
MIR. Prentis closed mis- matches
speech, interrupted every minute Will
cheers, with the following dramatic pas
sage;
Image to yourself queen, beautiful
majestic, serene, seated upon her throne
resistless in her power and perfect il
, ;;;..,;tti;ce, around her throne they come
Women cume. They say: eve bea
our burdens. When war comes it des
olateS our homes and our hearts. w
guid the easiest steps of the futur
statesmen, generals, councillors, the fu
ture pillars of the States; We pay taxes
Grant then that we may have part i
saying what shall be done With eur own.
And the queen says; 'Naught that ha
interested the wise brain or the pur
heart In my domiEions is Indifferent t
D me. l will command my councillor
e that they consider your petition
And black men come and they say
D Sin the constitution of this kingdom
is written: There shall be no distinc
ton Gu account Of color. We, too, hay
q borne orr part. When the cloud {
) war rolled from the field, 1t revealed tn
e mangled, torn and bleeding bodies {
e black men, piled heap on heap that h
r throne, oh Queen, might endure forever
From the depths of slavery and povert
we have been rising up, till thousands {
US contribute to the treasury Of th
State. Grant, then, in recognition {
p all this, that one of our number may b
: given some humble place in the concil {
this kingdom" And the Queen says
! 1T shall be done
Last GENES che bound as with chain
!. his face SO worn, so wretched, so haa
/ gard, that his mother had not known th
r fee she pressed to her boslm in ro-
+. rest, aud be cries, sob Queen, prote,
e me. Health gone, hope gone, strengt
e gone, courage gone. [ am powerless
. resist the temptations that surround me.
: And the Queen says: t'Drive as with
d whip of scorpions, from my domfnion
: those who would tempt this man, an
f fatten ON his wretehedness. Driv
Y them away. Leave him, let HIM 60"
What brave man, what true maj
standing before that throne and listenin