Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-01-19
THE INAUGURAL.
At High Noon Governor John A. Martin
Delivered the Great Seal Of State
to his Successor. Hon. L..
man q. Humphrey,
Having Been It's Custodian for Two
Terms Of Two Years Each. Mr..
Humphreys Address in
Full. Read It.

When the hour fixed by tie constitution o.
Kansas for that ceremony arrived, noon OF
he second Monday in January, the newly
elected state officers wers inangurated.
Governor Marlin, in opening the ceremo-
mics OF the occasion, made brief address,
in which he said he was grateful to the citi-
zens of Kansas for twice homo: ing him, but
that he surrendered his honors and authority
without regret, to resume his old station
among them with satisfaction and pride.
In introducing his successor he used well
framed eulogistic sentences.
GOVERNOR HUMPHREYS INAUGURAL.
Mr.. Chairman, and Lad and Gentlemen:
In the presence of these witnesses, one
public servant, AFTER duty done, but "putteth
off the harness." and, in the same presence,
''girdeth 1t on
With The just approval of q people one has
served SO long and well, he Eere surrendets
up to them the SETS of his official trust,
which in turn, by the voice of that same
forms of law, are confded to me. AS by
the livery of seizen. under the feudal law,
the transfer of possession, essential TO the
complete inve5titure of an estate IN lands,
was publicly evidenced by the delivery of
the twig of a tree, or patch of the turf, so
this ceremony here Is but sort OF livery OF
eeizen, testifying the meIe change IN pos
session of pub Ic office-the Office itself be-
ing perpetuity, the incumbency changing
from time to time, according to the popular
will, as lawfully expressed and ascertained.
standing thus at the threshold of great
public trust, the very contemplation of its
responsibilities quickens keen sense of
f1v1fv init n r. N
the measured task lying before me.
In estimating the impoi lance of the ex-
ecutive Office, as one of the coordinate
branches of government, the growing great
ness of our commonwealth cannot be ex-
cluded from view, SO rich in the hallowe0
memories that hang over and about her early
days; in the marvellous strides that have car
ried her forward, whereby she has overtaken |
eighteen OF her sisters and vaulted into the |
fifteenth place in rank among the states; |
and still richer in the boundless possibilities |
of the years thas shall round out the period |
of the nineteenth century.
Kansas. in her career thus far, covers |
what has been aptly characterized focal
period in history, toward which the lines
OF progress have converged, and beauti-
fully exemplifes, in her present condi-
tions, the philosophy of De Tocqueville,
that the growth of states beans some
marks Of their origin; that the circum-
stances of their birth and rise affect the
whole term of their being. In Kansas this
may be observed in the liberal spirit of her
laws and in the genius of her institutions;
ikeH Use in the prevailing ideas that have
dominated and prope led her with the gath
ering 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-
clared by the great Frencnmen, having its
root in the influence of the early history and
settlement of the state-an influence and q
force that runs like q golden thread through .
out our later experience. at once charming,
fascinating and yet powerful, to which
Kansas owes more than has ever been duly
For free Kansas was but the
first born child of the republican supre-
macy on American soil; the triumph of an |
idea; the idea of the Pilgrim as against that
OF the Cavalier; the idea of the founders of
Lawrence over the idea of the settlers of Le-
compton. 1t was this conflict of ideas that
made "bleeding Kansas" seem like the last {
effort of Divine Providence in behalf of hu- I
man liberty, the history of which has be- {
come CLASSIC, and reads like an epic poem, I
and in which the early settlers of Kansas, {
bravo men and heroic women, dared and en-
courage and sublime unsefshness, little
that they were thereby to make
tho name of Kansas luminous, q synonym
for liberty and progress; or laying the foun-
1ations of q commonwealth whose subse-
luent career and history should bear the i'm
press of their character and courageous q
Struggles, so clearly reflected in every
of the Kansas of to-day.
But 40 it was, and the idea which thus
in a free Kansas, and the inf1u.
NOES going out from our early settlement, I
IRE living, energizing force in all our 6
moral, social and material progress. It has
beaten back the buffalo and the Indian in v
hlo0l fha ninth faY at <Hsvyr l.,
ion; it has reclaimed barren waste, and =
made the great American desert q fugitive
Nd vagabond on the face of the earth. a
just rebuke to those geographers, of whom 4
wen Plutarch speaks, who "crowd into the
,dges of their maps parts of the world they 9
margin that beyond lies nothing but dreary .
deserts"
By this force, of which / speak, have we ?
ven reversed Buckles Law that great wealth u
NUT precede the highest civilization; for in e.
II that constitutes true civilization, the
liberty and education of the masses as L
gainst the classes, in the elevation of wo. A
'olitical rights, in the recognition of the
ignity of honest labor, in legislation,
harding the sancity of the home, the pur-
ty of the ballot, the health and morals of
be people. in the application Of the rule of re
the greatest good to the greatest number" CT
Fu1Cl EleStiy uoCAdteS w Uo VIC tOUnuA- q
lon of morals and legislation. In all these "
lAnsas presents the highest type of civlliza- %
on ever seen in any state. among any peo- 70
b. since civil government was instituted pr
mouQ the sons of men. It 10 q civiliza- th
on at once unique and Ia advance of q
reat wealth among our people. OF its own tn
ind it boast not of splendid state where de
ealth accumuIates and mea decay" but Of ar
happy state, where laws restrain cupidity
id greed; q civilization that breeds neither
lroos nor beggars, nor luxury nor destitu-
On; whose prime factors are the railroad,
. school house, the church and the press; DIR
befsy within the Law; wherein happy 10
,mee, contented fresidee, intelligent. inde- Nv
,ndsnt, honest men and women are the n
def end and glory Of the state. For, after Ia,
|. the state OF which We speak and are 30 iii
oud Is not the soil We tread upon, nor the pc
Z We breathe, but the people. - they 60 m,
,out their daily walk aud assemble nightly OF
their homes, By the sacred hearth-st0nes, mi
. pillars Of society, the affairs Of the no
lbiic.
Is il 10 this Kaneas, of whose early infu-
eee have briefly spoken, that millions