The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-02

best political history in paragraph:
that fill pages of the Ell Dorado Republi
can. The most perfect historian has
made his peace with newspaper files
and installed young man, Mr.. w. w.
Admire, of Topeka, as his successor.
Out of the dates he puts into type his
tory will grow. for the coming historian
| will read between the lines and imagine
what is untold.
Lawrence is secure in history.
The child who goes there will remem-
Der the buffalo and deer in Bismarck
park and the one little, two little, three
little Indians-there are hundreds OF
them-at the Haskell institute. The
youth will carry away school day mem
cries and the cry of the Kansas State
University Rock chalk, Jay-Hawk, K
u" The stranger will be shown the
ravine where the Lawrence people hid
when Quantrell came to ask if it was hot
enough for them. He will be shown
tree that marks where several citizens
fell, cruelty shot down as they ran
for their lives. He will ascend the
University hill and see the old fort
He will be taken on top of the main
college building and behold, looking in
any direction, the prettiest view in Kan
sas-a scene that would make immortal
the painter who could put it on canvass.
Over to the north is Old college-the
place where the big BOYS graduated. To
the northwest the windmill from the old
country, not bit of iron about it-all
wood, even the bolts-a priceless curio
and big plaything for hospital patients,
foI it belongs to the hospital society.
Beyond are fields of green, and here and
there one of gold, and the Kaw river
not fine body of sand, but of water, he
cause of the dam TO the south, the
handsomeSt country road in the world
the one the despoilers took when they
were making history. And one breathes
pure air and sees all about fine farm
houses, low hills. valleys.
To the east is the burial ground. They
take you there after you have seen the
living. And the talk is about two men,
the quick and the dead-RObinson and
Lane.
The Lane monument is not snowy
affair. 1t is tall, plain shaft. On the
side facing the grave is the inscription,
''Genl James H. Lane" The date of his
death is not given. His wife and daughter
sleep by his side, and their names. birth
and death dates are cut in the marble
Mrs. Lanes name was Mary-how very
often one sees the name in graveyard.
Mary, wife, MARY, child" or MARY,
well beloved mother" Sweet Marc, who
wept at the tomb of Christ. The Lane
Graves are well tended. All the year
around there is an evergreen tree on
guard. A few flowers are kept on the
graves, and the coverlet of grass is
tucked tight over the dead leaders bed.
The leaves that fall when the wind rocks
the trees, are carefully raked aside and
carried away. Leaves were meant only
to hide the babes in the wood.
Does the grim chieftain sleep well! He
has slept long enough to.
"Yet in that sleep Of death what
dreams may Gomez?
The Robinson monument does not exist
vet in marble-but it is often in print.
1t is written that Governor Charles Rob
inson was one of the three most prom
nent Free State men in the early day.
1t was Brown, Lane and Robinson then;
it is Robinson, the ion-hearted, now.
Robinson did more to make Kansas free
than the other two. He was more
ilplOHalic, less lnpulSlVe, cooler. NO
man has possessed truer courage. Great
men have great weaknesses, and be-
cause of them fair and full pen picture
IF the three has never been given and
never will be.
Lane and Robinson were blinded by
political hate and never could see the
great qualities of each other.
The fight they began will not end even
when the living of today are dust. 1t is
The legacy the dying Kansas sire-who
is for one or the other-bequeathes his
son.
"Kings forget that they are men.
And men that they are brethren"
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