Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-09-18
THE STATE TICKET.

I'LL O1h46 44OA0As
A Brief Sketch of the Men Who Will
Fill the State Offices Next Year.
On another page will be found the
proceedings OF the state democratic and
republican resubmission conventions,
with the platforms by them adopted.
Following we desire to give brief
sketch of the men whom we ask our
readers and all voters who have the
good of the state at heart to support.
FOR GOVERNOR.
Charles Robinson the nominee of the
democratic and resubmission cOnven-
tions for governor of Kansas has been
prominently connected with the affairs
of this state since its earliest history.
Governor Robinson crossed the plains
to California with the first wave of
immigration that rolled into the new
Eldorado in 1S49.
Robinson and his band were all from
Massachusetts, where the subject of
this sketch was born IN 1918. LII their
journey across the western wilds the
little colony camped one night near the
present site of Lawrence and Charles
Robinson claimed the hill afterward
christened Mount. Dread and on which
he afterward built his first home in
Kansas. When Charles Robinson
returned from California to his home
in Massachusetts in 1857 his letters to
the press describing Kansas attracted
wide attention. Hence when the emf
grant aid society was organized for the
purpose of securing homes for the
homeless, and with the greater object
of ultimately making Kansas free
state, Charles Robinson was selected
by the society to lead the emigrants to
the promised land. He thus became
one of the heralds of free state immi-
grafton to Kansas. He established a
colony at Lawrence, September 6, 1854.
Since that time the life and services of
this good old Kansan forms a con-
spicuous chapter in the history of Kan
sas. He has always been identified
with the people and against the
oppressors of the masses. In the
battles fought for freedom on the
plains of Kansas during her early his
tory, Charles Robinson bore a cour
ageous and conspicuous part. He was
the first governor chosen under the
Topeka constitution, and the first COM
mander-in-chief of the free state mil
tia and with this band of patriots
around him, Charles Robinson ''stood
as the bulwark against which the
assault of foes from Without and
enemies within, beat with unavailing
force until the final victory was won.
He was also chosen the first governor
under the Wyandotte constitution and
organized under the laws the military
forces upon war basis for the final
struggle in which Kansas troops won
fresh laurels and imperishable
renown." This Charles Robinson, who
''for the cause of freedom in Kansas
suffered imprisonment, destruction of
property, defamation of character and
all the minor annoyances which hatred
of merit, political ambition or inter-
necine party strife could engender,'' is
today the standard bearer of the demo-
cratic and resubmission parties. The
same loyal and patriotic impulses that
caused him to risk his all for the cause
of the early settlers in Kansas, today
moves him to become the standard
bearer of a movement that will again
redeem this state from the blight of
political ring rule and make the real
lovers of Kansas her rulers. This
grand old patriot has been called from
his retirement on Mount Dread to head
a movement by the people to again
redeem Kansas. When the men who
have redeemed these prairies from
natures wilds and BY their honest toll
have made Kansas what she is today
sit around their iresides when the first
days of November come and calmly
review the history Of their state and
become inspired with patriotic hopes
for the future, they will resolve in
their hearts to vote for grand old
Charles Robinson. And then in the
years to come democrats and republi-
cans alike will congratulate themselves