The advocate., 1890-07-23


and nature-and he Is beginning 10 make
demands from this rapidly progressiye age.
But / hear farmers constanllg say, 20, /
have been brou1hbeup under that law OF
God which says mhBt earn mp bread by
the sweat Of my face. That man stands
aloof from all. organizations. / want 10 say
to that man that / have read another law
BOmewhere, perhaps you can find 10, and that
N ihis: "No mQp iivBthto himself alone" !
si IL was a laR of God. Brothers of Kan
ai Visitors OF Kansas, whethbr you believe
40 N not, whetAer you will aid each other
or uA WhethergOu will Join In Mis- frater,
nal in Which IL Is intended yop should
join W.. pr yOIfbelieye IL or not, wanttO
tell yOu of Kansas here to-day That the
farmer y fth Cafolina Georgia, Texas,
South Gard a your brother, whether you
want II 80 or rnl lApplause)
Thank God bA no stand on thig plat
form this aftemoUr thOut being inter
you your destiny. tApplduse.) Tell
you that you are my brother. Tell you that
there is common interest between us.
Tell you that we are bound by common
peril. Tell you that we have o common in
terest and must make common cause In
spite Of all that sectional feeling. Tell you
we must acknowledge but one name and
one flag, (applause) and one common
country, and the struggle 10 not between the
north and the south. Thank God, mol Gap
plause.) And 80 long as we live there will
never be north and south. (Applause.)
Some peOple have stirred up sectional feel
ing and have kBpt as apart for twenty-five
years, toll you that believe in my heart
Of hearts that the man, north or south, who
urged ON the war, care not what his name
may be, or what position he may hold; that
man who helped To light the fame OF war
and when IL was ablN2e all around the
horizon, fired your minds and sent you 10
the front and then skuked out OF 10 himself,
and who in 1866 found out that we had
war, got mad and has been mad ever since
that man who was INVISIBLE in war and in
vinCble in peace, the man who never
smelt gun powder or heard n minnie ball,
the man who has 10 tse the sacred dust Of
the grave and has scattered II 30 the winds,
and tried TO work upon our passions, the
man who has waived the bloody shirt, the
man who has taught his children the poison
Ous doctrine OF hate, | say, and ! have de-
clared IL before, / believe him to be the
worst Of our enemies on the face OF the
earth (Applause.) No sirl Tie politicians
would keep you and me apart, and by 30 do
ing they have chained us hand and foot.
They have placed upon as manAcles that
are worse than those that have fallen from
the African slaves. They know that IL we
get together and shake hands and look each
other in the face and feel the touch of kin
ship, their doom is sealed. (Applause).
/ stand here to-day, commissioned by
hundreds of thousands Of southern farmers,
TO beg bhe farmers Of Kansas 20 stand by
them, and they assure you that they will
utsaN gVlu VA
prominence TO any man who stirs up this
question which was settled by Lee and
Grant mt AppOmRttOX. / point these men
to a man whose name will last when theirs
have been forgotten. None other in this
country was braver than Ulysses s, Grant.
He WIS great general, and M true to his
flag as ever man was. l want TO take
these men, when they are Haunting the
bloody shirt, 60 the bedside at Mt. McGregor
and let them hear his last parting word.
When / returned from the st. Louis con-
vention told my family how our northern
brethren had received us, and they reiOiced.
AfterwaTd spoke in Metropolitan hall in
Raleigh TO q large gathering of people, the
most OF whom were eX-rebel soldiers. l
told how the six alliances, or the alliances
from six northern states had received us,
and there was not dry eye in the house
when got through. They received IL with
tears Of Joy and shouts of exultatiOn. ! told
the same thing at n strong democratic gath
ering in Kentucky last week, and IL would
have done your hearts good to TO have heard
the shouts of applause. have told tamOng
union soldiers, and il is the same. The
spirit of love and fraternity is growing.
Thank God, Brother Clover, the day has
come when a man from the south and aman
from Kansas, Kentucky or the eastern states
are permitted TO stand on the same plat
form. (Applause.) SO long as they can
contrive 10 keep us apart, they will succeed
in keeping us down. Some fellows say, 81
told you he is going into politics" know,
nothing but small political fry. (Laugh-
teri Getting into politics! Over half Of
them don't know the difference between