Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-08-28
NOMINATING SPEECH.

NOMINATING SPEECH.
OF the Hon. Mont Cochran Nominating
Glick-The Governors Answer to a Cal
From the COnventiOn-Some Fine Orator.
ical Efforts.
SPEECH OF HON. MONT COCHRANE.
Mr.. CHAIRMAN, AND GENTLEMEN OF TIKI
| CoNvENTIoN:-Pardon me if preface the
mention of the name 1 shall place before
this convention with some reference tC
the general principles involved in this
campaign. It is fact familiar to every
student of American history that at the
birth Of this Nation it was claimed by a
few persons that the American people
who had left the tracks of their bootless
feet upon bloody battle fields, were in
capable of selfgovernment; an aristocra-
cy-a governing class-was suggested.
At that time there appeared a grand
and glorious character in American his
tory, Thomas Jefferson. He, with his
compatriots, who believed in self-gov-
eminent, founded Democracy, and its
foundation was laid broad and deep, and
the one fundamental and only idea
which has constituted Democracy from
that time to this is that the individual is
capable of self-government. This is
Democracy in its simplicity, in its purity,
and this is the Democracy that you and
1 adhere to to-day. Afterwards, at an
other epoch in our history, Know Moth
ingism confronted the American people
with the proposition that our foreign
born citizens could not assimilate them
selves to this sublime Democratic idea
Two-fifths of the men in America were
enrolled in secret societies for the pur-
pose of denying the right of citizenship
to men who came from oppressed Ire
land, England, Germany and France.
They said, we will close the doors
against those men; they cannot assimi-
late themselves to our ideas.
Fellow citizens, with these facts staring
them in the face, with secret societies
that had been organized with the sworn
intention of DISTINGUISHING and driving
foreign-born people from this country
when know.nothingism came, it's hands
dripping in the blood of foreigners, the
grand old Democratic party again assert
ed that men are capable of self-govern.
ment. Great applause.) 1t smote its
beast in the forehead; it strangled this
infamy. At another time, when rebel
lion asserted itself, Abraham Lincoln
stood unassisted, unhelped by his own
partisans. Greedy, the grandest of all OF
them, said: "Let them 60 in peace
Seward conceded the right of secession
Lincoln called for $4,000 troops, and
when this country was swept by the
whirlwind of passion which followed, ]
ask you, my Republican friends
if it was not Stephen A. Douglass who
held up the hands of Abraham Lincoln
unto the going down of the sun? Again
in another form we confront this same
spirit of dictation, this same spirit Of
prescription, this same spirit of know.
nothingism, which says the Government
must think for the man. The first battle
was fought in Kansas two years ago
Intolerance, prescription, knownothing.
ism on the one hand, Democracy on the
other. The issue was fairly made, and
Kansas decided that no Legislature, cant.
ing hypocrites, or ecclesiastical syco
plants could usurp the control of indi.
vidual action, and take from American
f1eemen rights and privileges never be-
fore denied mankind even in the ages Of
feudalism and vassalage. Again Democ-
racy affirmed the fundamental principle
that man is capable of self government
You all remember that at EmpOria
when the Democratic banner fell in the
dust and it seemed that no man would
bear it aloft, we found man who grasped
it with an iron nerve and carried it for.
ward to victory. Great applause.
No oil knnW fpIlnW. citIzpna that
when Geo. w. Click accepted that nomi.
nation at Emporia he seemed to accept
an impossible task. Fifty or sixty thou.
sand Republican majority stared him in
the face. 1t was my pleasure to be with
him during that campaign, and we went
into counties where persons would come
to us, with the best of motives, and say
DO not discuss prohibition" and the
invariable answer was, Il have come
here to discuss Democracy and prohibi.
ton, and l will discuss it." Applause ]
Gentlemen of the Convention, without
OBTAINING you longer, thanking you fol-
your patient attention, let me tell you
from year to year, until all over this
country We have seen what we have
witnessed in this State, the men
who have always been Democrats and
voted the Republican ticket will become
Democrats again. And as initiating a
campaign portending result as newt
able as that sun shines and rain falls; as
Initiating campaign which l predict
will engross the attention of this people
above every other question, l have the
distinguished honor, not as the request
of the Democrats of Atchison county
alone, or of the Atchison county delega-
ton, but of the people of Kansas to
place in nomination as our candidate fol
Governor, the Hon. Geo. w. Click, oil
Atchison county; a man of pure
and stainless habits in public and
private life; one who knows no fear; a
brave. fearless and persistent defender
of the faith-a good mantle next Gov.
ernor of the State of Kansas. Ap,
plause.
ADDRESS BY GOVERNOR CLICK.
Gentlemen of the Convention:
Please accept my heartfelt thanks for
the distinguished honor you have con.
ferred upon me. It has been wholly un.
sought, and l should have been much
better pleased had your choice fallen
upon another, but as you have willed
otherwise submit to your decision. In
your unanimous choice of myself hope
that l IAN feel that my labors for the in
terest of our people during my incum.
bency of the executive Office has met
with your approval.
The dark clouds that were to over.
shadow the sky on my Inauguration
have turned out to be bright clouds Of
prosperity for our State, with peace and
happiness taking up their abode in the