The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-03-20
A rev 1IiIIiona vented


ton of that introduced by Mr.. Hayes in
the Fifty second congress, which proposed
to appropriate a few million dollars for
commission TO collect facts and report on
the material, mental and industrial prog
ress of the c0l0red race ia the United
States. Still another proposes to incorpO-
ratethe National Society of Colonial DANES
of America There was q bill introduced
bv Henry Cabot Lodge to provide elabO-
rate maps of the principal battlehelds Of
the civil war for the use of the common
schools, but since Mr.. Lodge reached the
senate be has in the regular order become
much more conservative and doesn't care
SO much about his bill. The proposition
to establish one or more national univ ersi-
ties comes up, Of course, ia great many
shapes. The committee assure us they
VIII take great pleasure in Strengthening
all such bills, and it is dollars to dough
nuts that they viii not have more than
two regular meetings and VIII not report
fav0rably more than one OF two bills.
The Youngest Congressman-
On the subject Of education Hon. Thorn
as Settle, who enjoys the double dlstInc-
ton of being the youngest man in the
house and the only Repu blican from the
cotton states proper, tells your correspond
ent that his principal grievance against
the Republican party is that it has SD CONF
pletely neglected the political education of
his section. Mr. Settle was elected to this
congress at she early age Of ~ and is
strongly built ruddy and blue eyed youth
Of the pronounced blond type SO common
lib the central or highland south
lie says since President Hayes traded
off Packard Is Louisiana we southern Re-
publicans have been made u commodity
by both parties in the uorth-a make
weight and Z might say sort Of fuIerum
for their levers to rest upon NJ 0vF, North
Carolina is naturally Republican state
AIT the beginning it was strong Federal
ist state. and afterWard the ~ hIg party
was very strong there. Ituever was, strict
ly speaking, a proslavery state and never
was in favor of secession i am certain
that on the LIST of April, 1861, straight
vote on secession would have shown an
Overwhelming majority against it. The
state never did secede ina strictness eff lam
guage- When, however, it found that it
had to fight enc way or the other IT went
with the south. Now. with amy kind Of
active work 10y the Repu blicans. it might
have been made at the start p Republican
state and kept SO. and in spite of all the
discourse cement we have thrown the Dem
ocrats into a minority OF about 600 in
the state. ana this when 80. 600 men were
disfranchised-
Party Encouragement.
ssThey didn It have very big majority
over us in 1SSs. when the EOpulist party
had not fairly started. ana in 1892 that
party cast 41 600 votes. IF. as now appears
likely. a union can lie made Of the opposi-
ton elements, we can beat them to NOR
al certainty this year. let the national Re
publican party do as it Will WE do think,
however. that as matter of justice, to
say nothing of policy. we ought to have
some kind OF recognition and help. Why
shouldn it be a Republican states The
western half Of it is essentially manufac-
tui1ng country, and my district especially
has exactly the same elements which con-
stitute the strength Of the Republican par
tv ii the northwest. Take those Quakers
cd
county and the progressive elements in the
new and thriving settlements that extend
up into the hills, and they are, as we think,
natural Republicans There is one pre-
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