Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-05-20

twenty years; who do not adopt platforms and
fail with Sinking glee when the legislature
meets TO redeem pledges l have always lived
in the holy sunlight of truth. defy any man
to find broken promise of mine in the state.
have never tainted my hands with a dishon-
est dollar and with the ability have, with all
my heart and with the appoval of noble wife
and my bright-eyed children / go with glad
some hope into the ranks of the independent
party. have stood here ali winter and seen a
band of braved. true men from the sod house
and the farm stand In solid phalanK irresista
BILE, poor in purse but rich in honor. have
seen them with ali the Establishment of the
rich aud powerful thrown around them and
yet resist all these temptations and 20 home
to the beaming, blessed wife and bright-eyed
maiden and the steadfast boy clad in all the
glory of stainless manhood and with honor as
pure as the glitterng rays of the stars have
watched them come from the valley and f1elds
of golden grain, from the midst of the rustling
corn stirred by the breeze of heaven and hail
them as the safeguard mainstay and conserva
tive, loyal hope OF more than million hopeful
sons. join them gladly; [ will stand by them
with all my manhood and truth, and never
leave them in distress and 6ispair. May God
crown all our effort with hosannah OF victory
and glory.
am eligable for membership and a person
al statement will show it. / was born in a log
house with CREASED paper for windows. We
lived in the woods under the leafy trees and
heard the winds of the winter in their wi d
scream OF agony whistle through the forests
We saw the early violet and felt the sweet sun
SHINE and reveled in the springtime and the
morning. We were famed with the warm
wave of summer. watched the budding of the
rose, glor1ed In the rays of the sunlight and
preathed the blossoms sweet perfume NY
father with hands blistered toiled early ana
late. My mother in daylight and in darkness
She had no joy. She bore her children and
worked her fingers TO the bone in the flicker
ing light of she tallow candle. have no edu-
cation save from the books borrowed i'll early
life and the thousands have since read. /
went to war at the age of Is and was captured
and lived one year in the camp of Bell Isle
with my comrades freezing in the trenches
was in the he'll of Anderson, Savannah and Mi
Ian, and came home tottering skeleton and
lived for three pears without a glimmer of
nope and In the bitter waves of disprir. have
oeen true to friends, loyal TO my party and
tried to never let day go by without doing
good, but all my life 1 have been abused
trampled on and insulted, and if [ had true
ANO AOSoAs NOAhllLS anu Miller Tley
died when needed them most. 1 have tried to
be happy and make others SO, but my career
has been laden with dispaIr, and 1 have been
pursued with malignant venom inspired by
the darkest chambers of hell. / have warned
the leaders OF my party, have urged them to
separate from their allegiance with the rotton
rlotous, democratic, putrid corpse, but for
Gays nave seen them stand with solid front
with the democrats to recognize aa alien gov
ernor, when man can land at Castle Garden
III the spring and vote for president in the fall.
nave seen them stand with unbroken ranks
Ior DAYS when the senate was in hot pursuit
OF boodlerl to defeat the will of an unpur
chased majority.
appeal to my comrades for whom / have
laDored all my life, who have won all the vic
tories for the republican party, who stood nv
them with as loyal devotion as in the day when
with iron hands and nerves of steel. they held
the shining musket and flashing saber in the
red front OF battle on all the fields of carnage:
who have forgiven promises and seen rewards
given to those who battled In the lines of tbe
gray. to come out and join hands with the
rising glory of the new party and to tramp tn
the music of the union in unbroken ranks "a
with steadfast step they march together I'm a
last effort in the seer and yellow leaf of life to
show the promise-breakers that the men who
wore the uniform blue still live and have the
same firm determination that gave them the
power to save the nation and purify the flag.
appeal to the heroes of the olden time TO
snake on the shackles of party and join in glad
song with the tuneful voices, with those who
live to do good, to redeem pledges to deal in
all honor and justice by the poor and lowly.
and stop the tide of ignorance and vice, with
hands mailed with iron to hold back the wave
OF anarchy and misrule of corporations and
dishonesty that is sapping the very heart of the
republic.
Let US light our campfires on the broad
prairies, in the valleys, upon the mountain top
In cloudland and under the radiant folds of
the flag we saved with its dazzling stars, march
TO victory under the banner of the indepen- |
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