The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-14
The dalrhita aIY Eaee day g1ornnu tt0ber "a. 1882
great speech at Topeka last Saturday

great speech at Topeka last Saturday
night:
Il have never been, ladies and gentle
men, an idolator of President Harrison.
/ am under no personal obligations or
| official obligations to him. In that great
struggle waged against the combined
hosts of iniquity and disloyalty, in which
| went down, had never even the as
surance of personal sympathy from the
administration. Therefore, / have no
occasion for idoatry But [ affirm that
the administration of President Harrison,
for the wisdom of his administration of
the nffairs of the nation at home and
abroad, is without parallel or peer in the
whole history of American citizenship.
Applause. He is the only man who
has sat in the presidential chair for
the last half century that could
take every department himself
| and run it without assistance.
[AppIause]. lie is an eminent lawyer,
and he was a gallant and heroic soldier.
| He has been an efficient and a trained
| legislator. 1t is not often that man
grows after he is 30 years old Ordin-
arily, by that time man is gagged and
scrutinized and weighed, SO that his
specific gravity and cubic contents are
known. as they will continue to be to
| the end of time President Harrison is
distinctly greater i'll intellectual stature
and in mental vigor since he has passed
from the senate than he was before, and
he stands today immeasurably higher in
the estimation Of the American people
than he did when he was first sworn in to
office nearly four years ago. [Applause].
1.-The series of speeches that President
Harrison made in the campaign proceed
ing his election, and the series of
speeches that he has since made in his
tours across the continent i'll response to
the invitation of the people, and that he
has made at various gatherings to his
comrades upon various occasions, have
never been surpassed at any time in po-
litical literature. / affirm that for versa
ulity, for lofty patriotism. for beauty and
grace of diction, force end vigor they
have never been excelied, and l believe
he has no superior in the compass of po-
litical oratory, either ancient or modern.
He is a courageous man. he Is not afraid
to do right; he is patriotic man; he be-
Aeves In the American people, and he
spells the word ''nation' with the big
gest letter N there is in the alphabet.
1.-The state paper that he wrote i'll reply
to the objections of Lord Salisbury to the
continuation of the modus vivendi, in
the sealing difficulty with Great Britain,
is, in my judgment, one of the finest and
one of the ablest and one of the strong
est state papers of this century. He
wrote it himself. He had no secretary
of state, aud he is just exactly as COM
petent to conduct negotiation with one
of the foreign powers of Europe as
he is competent and willing to look
over the private papers in the case of a
pensioner applying for pension. APP
plause. And l hope | do not trench
upon the prophecies of this time and this
place and this occasion when say be-
lieve there is no American citizen, what
ever may be his political affiliations, that
does not feel, as he sits in the shadow of
that most direfui calamity that can
darken the energies of a mans soul, that
it is something to have in this day of
tribuiation and danger chief magis-
trate who is neither afraid nor ashamed
in this age of anarchy and communism,
of materialism and agnosticism, who
has faith and belief in that Supreme Be-
ing who is the arbiter alike of the des-
TIMES of nations and of the faith and
fortunes of men. l know that in this
great crisis that he can be relied upon
by entire faithfulness and fidelity"