The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-01-25
THE NEW EXECUTIVE.
Lyman q. Humphrey Installed as
Governor at Topeka
Ex-Governor Martins Introduction and
the New Governors Responsible His
toricaI Birth of the State Por-
tentious of Good.

Tor the occasion. Inc exercises began
with prayer by Rev. j. A. Bright, of abb
lene. The retiring Governor was intro
duced and delivered brief address. He
said:
Mr. Chairman, ana ladies and gentlemen:
In a few brief moments 1 shall cease to be a
servant Of the people and resume my position
as an American sovereign. Grateful as / am
TO the citizens OF Kansas, who have twice
honored me with an election to the highest
ofhce within their gift shall surrender my
honors and authority without regrets and re
sumo my old station among them with salts
faction and pride The post OF honor may not
be the private station but after an expert
ence OF four years discharging the always
laborious and often perplexing and vexatious
duties of the executive Office, 1 am sure the
private station is the post Of real independence
and enjoyment The labors, troubles and trials
Of public service are not. however without
their compensation. II the officers charged
With important public duties and anxious to
perform them with intelligence and fidelity. en-
counters on the one hand occasional examples
Of ingratitude, or meanness, or dishonesty, or is
essailed with unjust criticism or undeserved
abuse, he is sure TO find, on the other, many
more examples OF ardent devotion to public in
terests and Of sterling integrity as well as
grateful appreciation OF favors disinterested
and generous support and sincere and whole
some praise for duties well performed
do not intend, however, 10 trespass on your
time or tax your patience by discussion OF ex-
ecutlve labors, vexations and policies. This
vast audience Of representatives and citizens is
assembled TO salute the rising sun. Nv part in
the ceremonies OF the occasion is simply to
transfer 10 my successor the responsibilities of
the Office now hold. l can congratulate him
on the fact that many OF the disturbing ques-
tons with which / have had to deal have been
finally and conciusively settled-that in the
li6 organized counties OF the State no un-
settled county seat contests will harass or
perplex him: that the open saloon has been
banished from Kansas and that the conscience
and the judgment OF vast majority of the
people approve its Punishment [applausel:
that peace prevails throughout the borders of
the commonwealth and that, standing at the
threshold OF his administration. honored with
the confidence OF all the people OF the State
and grit about with the hopes and prayers for
his success, he can confidently expect that their
support will sustain him TO the end All
know that during the darkest years OF his
country's life he calamity and loyalty de-
Tended his flag; all know that his private life
has been as stainless as his courage during
those try ing years was dauntless; all know
that with his whole heart he loved Kansas and
win labor TO protect the interests and promote
thc welfare Of her people; all know that stain
upon any official act will wound him as did the
bullets OF his countrys foes. He there
fore am sure. rely upon the sympathy, the
confidence and the answering support Of all
honest just and intelligent people should his
actions as Chief Executive be assailed, as they
may be, by disappointed place-hunters or by
malicious and preiudiced political opponents,
or b. those who, conscious Of their own base
ness and depravity. delight in believing evil OF
Others and in defaming honorcd names and
stainless characters. My fellow citizens, il Is
at once pleasure and an honor to introduce to
ycu my successor, Lyman U. Humphrey.
He introduced his successor, Lyman q.
Humphrey, who delivered brief address.
After few preliminary remarks, Mr..
Humphrey said:
Standing at the threshold OF a great public
trust, the very contemplation of its response
hlities cuickens n keen sense Of duty into a
feeling OF selr-consecration to the unmeasured
task lying before me.
In estimating the importance of the execu-
tive ONCE, as one of the coordinate branches OF
government the growing greatness OF our COM
monwealth can not be excluded from view so
rich in the hallowed memories that hang over
and about her early days; IN the marvellous
strides that have carried her forward, whereby
she has overtaken eighteen OF her sisters and
vaulIed into the fifteenth place in rank among
the States; and still richer in the boundlsss
possibilities of the years that shall round out
the period OF the nineteenth century.
has been aptly characterized a focal period in
history, toward which the lines of progress have
conyeTged. aad beautifully eXempIiies in her
present conditions the philosophy OF De Tocque-
vile that the growth of States bears some marks
OF their origin: that the circumstances of their
birth and rise affect the whole term of their be-
ing In Kansas this may be observed in the
liberal spir1to of her laws and in the genius of
her institutions: likewise in the prevailing
IDEAS that have dominated and propelled her
with the gathering momentum of a falling body.
In a Word, the high social and moral plane and
the intelligent aspirations OF her people are
traceable in a marked degree to the law de-
elsTed by the great Frenchman, having
Its root II the influence OF the early
history and settlement of the State
an influence and force that runs
like golden thread throughout our later ex-
perience. al once charming, fascinating and yet
powerful 10 which Kansas owes more than has
ever been duly acknowledged For free Kan
sas was but the first born child of Republican
supremacy on American soil; the triumph OF an
idea; the idea of the pilgrim against that OF
the cavalier; the idea OF the founders of Law
rercc ove- The idca Of tho settlers Of Leconp-
toG. Ii Was this conflict OF ideas that made |
"blec1ing Kansas seem like the last effort OF
Divine Providence in behalf Of human liberty.
tile history Of which kas become cl ssic and |
reads like IN epic poem, alG in which the early
women dared and endured fer great princi- |
pie. With n lofty courage ana sublime unset |
fshness, little dreaming that they were
thereby to make the name of Kansas
luminous, synonym for liberty and
progress, or laying the foundations |
OF commonwealth whose subsequent
career and history should bear the impress Of
their character and courageous struggles. SO
clearly reflected in every monument OF the |
Kansas Of to-day. But SO il was. and the idea |
which thus triumphed in free Kansas, and
the influences going out from our early settle |
ment are a living, ecergizing force in all our
moral, social and material progress 1t has
beaten back the buffalo and the Indian in |
blazing the pathway for a better civilization:
il has reclaimed barren waste and made the |
great American desert a fugitive and a vaga |
bond on the face Of the earth"-a just rebuke |
to those geographers OF VIII N even Plutarch |
speaks, who crowd into the edges of their |
maps parts Of the world they know nothing |
about adding notes in the margin that |
beyond lies nothing but dreary wastes-sandy |
deserts" |
BY this force OF which speak have we even |
reversed Buckles law that great wealth must |
precede the highest civilization; for in all that
constitutes true civilization the liberty and ed |
ucation Of the masses against the classes, IN |
the elevation Of woman by the enlargement OF |
her legal and political rights in the recognition
OF the dignity OF honest labor in legislation re-
garding the sanctity OF the home, the purity Of |
the ballot, the health and morals OF the |
people, in the application OF the rule of |
1.-The greatest good to the greatest num-
ber." which Priestly declares TO be the
foundation OF morals and legislation
lin all these Kansas presents the highest type
OF civilization ever seen in any State. among
any people, since civil government was insti
luted among the sons Of men, lApplause.l 1t
is a civilization at once unique and in advance
OF great wealth among our people. OF its own
kind, 1t boasts not OF splendid state
''wh.re wealth accumulates and men de-