Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-06-18

| Cal influence Is more and more at 1ts
command. Applause.
"Gentleman and ladies, the Woman's
| Republican Association has prepared
plans of work, with suggestions of details
| which we have presented to every dele
gate and alternate of the various state
headquarters. We are with you to help
and we are there to stay. We don't seek
recognition in the party in the interest OF
any one of the many reforms In which as
individuals we are part; We believe
moral reforms should be carried on out
side of party lines in the broader domain
of humanitarian, of philanthropic and OF
Christian effort.
"Not every one who cries reform is q
reformer. When a would-be reformer
declares that he will inaugurate political
chaos or help enthrone political wrong in
order to bring individual opinions, OF
even convictions, into greater prominence
that man or that woman follows neither
the teachings of philosophy nor the com.
mands Of Scripture. A man who fails to
vote or who ignores the present harm
which his vote may do, can find no
warrant for his course in reason or in
morals. Applause. He who does not
stand for the greatest present attainable
good is helper of the bad.
Righteousness in government comes
by evolution sooner than by revolution
Revolution is a gate through which a
people energies to larger liberty, the gate
as opened by the assaults of the bad, not
by the hands of the good.
'John Browns methods failed, and in
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Browns soul is marching on. Applause.
The aggressions of slavery brought on
the war; on its crimson chariot the
African slave was carried to liberty.
(Applause.) Therefore, let woman weave
their laurels and sing their glories to the
robust political action of the republican
party which accepts the condition as it is
found, but out of it builds great boule-
wards of human progress.
"Gentleman, in our service of republic
canism, we know no personal preferences
or factional strife. we wear upon our
breasts, the name of none of the honor
able men who may be your choice; but
on our hearts are carried and from
prayerful lips will soon be uttered the
name of our nominees.
1--WE love our state and we love the
nation. Not Caesar less, but Rome more.
[ love my mother state. Massachusetts,
is a great state; from the sands and rocks
of her Atlantic coast consecrated by
Plymouths pilgrim band; through the
gardens of her river valleys to the bord-
ers of her empire state, she is full of
only real forces in civilization; great in
power to apply these ideas in the COM
mon walks of life; in trade; in commerce;
in industries; economies; in reforms and
in the science of government.
"Iowa, my adopted state, thou art the
beloved daughter of New England's
queen and thou dost honor thy royalty.
Iowa was quick to respond to the nation
al call in the time of civil strife; she was
first to respond to the cry of starving
Russia, the sight of her corn made the
hearts OF dying men and women and lit
tie children glad; she even sent seven of
her good children along to set the table.
(Applause.)
'Iowa's corn will feed millions, but by
constitutional law her people have de-
creed that not one kernel shall be made
into poison. (Applause.)
Massachusetts is great; Iowa is the
flower of her greatness, but there sits up
on this floor the representatives of
greater state; a etate of rocks and rivers,
of plains and mountains; state the peer
of any other In natural resources and in
power of development, but peerless in the
crown its civilization wears; peerless in
free men and free women-Wyoming,
thou art the land of promise. Applause.
"Women of Wyoming, who gave you
the lead? hear you answer, the free
men of our households who thought il
not robbery to themselves to make You
equals before the law. (Applause)
"Who placed your star in the proudest
flag in the world, the most beautiful
emblem that the sun shines upon except
the cross Of the worlds Redeemer? (Ap-
plause.e
by whose votes was Wyoming made
state? Current history answers. His
By the votes of republicans in the fifty
first congress, Wyoming came into the
Union. Applause)
"The republican party In congress was
practically solid for the admission of this
first free state. (Applause) The demo-
cratic party was practically solid against
it. (Hisses) God bless the republican
party in the Fifty-frst congress. Zap
plause)
''Gentlemen, the republican party is
nothing If not progressive. It is party
OF action; its breath is progress. Its
speech is the language of the world; its |
dialect is the rhetoric OF the |
home, the farm, the shop. Its |
might be written on the
white walls Of any church. it holds in |
the ranks the armies of all reforms; its |
arc the living, moving vital
elements OF American life. lApplause